By Birding-Aus, on August 27th, 2022 Ok, so I'm going to ALice and Uluru in a week's time and have the following targets: Rufous-crowned Emuwren Grey Honeyeater Rufous Grasswren Copperback Quailthrush So the Emuwren I hope to see at either Ellery Creek, Ormiston Gorge or St Theresa Road. The Grey Honeyeater either at Kunoth Well, Alice Springs Desert Park or Olive . . . → Read More: Request for information… after looking at ebird! Alice Springs and Uluru
By Birding-Aus, on August 18th, 2022 Gooday all
Can some good person please tell me if and where Spotted Whistling Ducks can be found in the NE Qld / Cairns area. We are heading up that way soon and would like to see one if possible if someone can tell us a location for them.
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By Birding-Aus, on August 14th, 2022 While looking for something else, I came across the following list from 25 years ago. It was a trip for the legendary Phoebe Snetsinger, the first person to record 8000 bird species. What caught my eye was the record of a Buff-breasted Button-quail, in there with the 8000.
www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/australia/australia/austral.htm
Geoffrey
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By Birding-Aus, on August 10th, 2022 Hi all… I’m ready to buy a Spotting scope for shorebird watching etc… Which are the best brands for optics and that I could attach my phone too maybe to take a pic of what I see distantly?
Thanks heaps Kirri 😊 Sent from my iPhone
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By Birding-Aus, on August 7th, 2022
From: Wim Vader <wjm.vader@gmail.com> Sent: lørdag 6. august 2022 16:09 To: Willem Jan Marinus Vader <wim.vader@uit.no> Subject: Gull stories from Tromsø
Some gull stories from Tromsø
The most common gull species here in Tromsø (70*N in N. Norway) is the appropriately . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus
By Birding-Aus, on July 30th, 2022
From: Wim Vader <wjm.vader@gmail.com> Sent: fredag 29. juli 2022 17:38 To: Willem Jan Marinus Vader <wim.vader@uit.no> Subject: A sunny sommerdag in Tromsø
A sunny summerday in Tromsø
I have kept silent since the spring rush here at 70* N, as I . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus
By Birding-Aus, on July 25th, 2022 Hi all, A last-minute vacancy for 1 person, or 2 people sharing a room, has arisen on our 8-day "Savannah to Tropics birding tour", commencing on 20 August 2022. We will look for sought-after birds such as Purple-crowned Fairy-wren, Buff-sided Robin, up to 10 species of finch including Black-throated Finch; Great-billed Heron, White-breasted Whistler, . . . → Read More: Last minute vacancy on Savannah to Tropics birding tour Aug ’22 (advertisement)
By Birding-Aus, on July 24th, 2022 The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, July 25, 2022 to Sunday, July 31, 2022:
Area: SA
Location: On our Rockleigh property
Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) (1) Species number 92 on our piece of heaven ! I heard a call I didn’t recognise though it sounded raptore-ish, saw . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest
By Birding-Aus, on July 13th, 2022 Apologies if this has been posted before, but I just heard that well known Townsville and Cairns birder Rolf Jensen died in hospital in Cairns in April. He had been sick for some years with cancer of the jaw, but it was still a shock. He was originally from South Africa, worked a lot in . . . → Read More: RIP Rolf Jensen
By Birding-Aus, on July 11th, 2022 Hi all Does anyone have an area around Daintree or Cape Trib where I might see Spotted Whistling ducks without going on a river cruise? A treatment works somewhere maybe?? I’m not on ebird right now so I can’t look there at present…I’m only here today nd am not able to travel higher up the . . . → Read More: Spotted whistling duck
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