Hi Everyone, Just finishing my stint at Etadunna Station on the Birdsville Track. Birds every where and most of them breeding. Great to see the desert in bloom – even the gibber has a carpet of flowers and is very spongy to walk on! A few people asked me to send contacts for Cowarie (pronounced Cowrie) Station. Sharon Oldfield is the owner and can be contacted oncowarie@activ8.net.au. She welcomes enquiries, but she just left here today and expects the access track from Mungerannie to Cowarie (and Kalamurnia) to be in a very bad state4 for quite a while as the roads people give priority to the main tracks, especially the Birdsville Track. More rain will make access around the place difficult again and some is possible tomorrow (Wednesday) or later this week so check the road conditions before heading this was. I took a flight on the helicopter to Lake Eyre from the station (usually from the punt) along the Cooper. It was a fantastic sight, but not many birds visible from the air. We saw a probable Little Buttonquail as we were trying to land at one spot. Next stop Mt Skinner Station, NT. Cheers Elizabeth
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Hi James, We have never met. I only know you through your birding activities. You have shared with us a long list of negative things about your recent life. Clearly there are positives. You are obviously very talented in a number of areas, including birding. You are obviously very industrious and have made important contributions, in particular to birding in your home state. These cannot be taken from you. If you really enjoy birding, then you will have much to offer in coming years. With respect to your VicTwitch attempt. Your honestly achieved score still remains as your actual score. If you want to attempt to better that at some time in the future, then you should – perhaps when you get your licence back. Best wishes, Carl Weber —–Original Message—– Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2015 6:49 PM Cc: birding-aus@birding-aus.org Thank you for posting that and putting an end to the matter James. You must feel like crap right now, but hopefully things will get better from here on. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad
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Thank you for posting that and putting an end to the matter James. You must feel like crap right now, but hopefully things will get better from here on. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad
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Apparently cane toads are poisonous through out their life, but small toad, small amount of toxin. http://australianmuseum.net.au/cane-toad
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I have seen the demise of the House Sparrow at Gorokan, NSW Central Coast. There used to be quite a few around the little shopping centre here, up to some 20 years ago. Their numbers declined, as the numbers of Common Myna increased. Now there are none to be seen. Carl Clifford
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this note of Peter Boyd’s pretty well sums up my feelings about this…every single word of it too!!! cheers, martin cachard, cairns
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Maybe they got lots of ticks Sorry that is awful. And awkward for the bird observer who is innocently going by with binoculars and maybe cameras. Yes many of us would have stories like that. —–Original Message—– david robertson Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2014 10:53 AM Minnie and I remember searching the mangroves at the northern end of Cairns beach and wondered what all the men were doing coming in and out of the mangroves. Only later did I realise that it was a meeting point for homosexuals. David Robertson _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Sorry, Graham. Birding Aus can’t handle pictures. John Tongue Ulverstone, Tas. On 28/10/2013, at 4:50 PM, vickigraham@skymesh.com.au wrote: =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Hi Greg, Most smart phones will do the same thing more than adequately. I regularly use mine while conducting our standardised bird surveys, not so much for describing birds (there’s rarely a difficult ID), but for recording extra sounds that the birds are making. For instance, last week I was in quite strong wind in the Desert Uplands, watching a mixed flock of LBJs and noticed the Inland Thornbills doing some unfamiliar calls. My phone (iPhone) adequately picked up the sounds for future reference. I was watching the birds at the same time with binoculars so I could dictate which species was making which call. Smart phones are generally more expensive than cheaper sound recorders, but you can’t load apps onto the recorder, or brag to your your mates about the crippler you’ve just seen. On the downside, my iPhone crashed last year through no fault of mine and it took a forensic data analyst to recover my phone, which had a nice recording of a fawn-breasted bowerbird imitating a Hylarana daemeli (water frog). Cheers, Eric On 10/07/2013, at 10:01 PM, “Greg Little” < greg@gff.com.au> wrote: =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Greg, I have an oldish Sony ICD-B16 recorder. I have wondered how it would go for recording notes while birding. Must give it a go. My Sony only weighs about 80gm with batteries and could be easily attached to bins with a couple of elastic bands. It even has a curved back to allow it to easily on the bin barrels. Must give it a go. Thanks for the heads up. Carl Clifford On 10/07/2013, at 21:52, “Greg Little” < greg@gff.com.au> wrote: =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Hi Kirri,
It sounds like you are having a great time around Darwin… it’s a wonderful region isn’t it!!
I’m very interested (as I’m sure plenty of others are on here) in your sighting today of an Oriental Reed Warbler at Fogg Dam. I do know that Luke Patterson has recorded the species there very recently, but I’m very curious as to what made you think that your sighting today wasn’t of the very commonly occuring Aust Reed Warbler… It would be nice to hear a little more from you about this…. Thanks in advance.
Cheers for now,
Martin Cachard Cairns
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The subspecies kept as pets in Australia is /polychlorus /or Red-sided Eclectus//from New Guinea. In Queensland a license is needed to keep this and any other non-native subspecies of Eclectus. In other states I believe no license is needed to keep non-native subspecies but a license is needed for the Australian subspecies.
The Australian subspecies is very rare in Australian aviculture – a typical price for a young aviary bred /macgillivrayi/ is around $3000, while a typical price for a hand raised /polychlorus/ is about $550.
Mike Sunshine Coast
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hello! http://gurunkew.com/welcome.php?ywjqeh
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The IOC have similar rules (http://worldbirdnames.org/rules.html – make sure you follow all the links for full details). Probably more relevant to us as they are slightly biased in favour of British rather than US spelling and also IOC has I understand been adopted as the new “standard” by BARC.
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I saw Rufous Treecreepers when I was in WA over Christmas/New Year. They are beautiful birds! Elizabeth Shaw Phillip Island Victoria
I emailed Mark via the website (and copied it to Birding-aus) and he confirmed that it was done by Balangara as “crowd-funding” – which I guess is the new term for illegal activities!
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I emailed Mark via the website (and copied it to Birding-aus) and he confirmed that it was done by Balangara as “crowd-funding” – which I guess is the new term for illegal activities!
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Wow, thanks for all the replies – for those who haven’t answered yet, please take the time to do so – it is interesting to hear what they are/were called colloquially in “border regions” of NSW/Vic…I’ll tally up soon Cas
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Most people post on http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=1&BirdlineShowHighlights=0so that is probably the place to look
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