grey fantails and the oncoming big dry

For those interested in this kind of thing, I’ve seen three subspecies of grey fantail around the Brisbane region this week, including an albicauda at John Oxley Common, Murrumba Downs and at one of my study sites in Kuraby. It pays to look at the common birds! On related note, in a recent set of surveys in the Lake Eyre region we consistently noted far fewer birds than last year. Kestrels and robins which were ubiquitous last year were notably absent this time. Still some good birds out there, including 17 letter-winged kite on the Strezlecki track, though none left at last year’s breeding sites on the Birdsville track. Claire Claire Runge PhD Candidate Environmental Decisions Group School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia Email: c.runge1@uq.edu.au Website: http://www.fullerlab.org/category/people/ =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================