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G’day Birding Aus, Due to some confusion on my behalf, I’m going to be in Melbourne this Saturday (10th of Nov) with the whole day free. I was wondering if anybody with a pass would be interested and able to take me on a birding trip to the Werribee WTP? I’m staying in Brunswick but … Read more

Dear silent readers of birding-aus, I am writing to apologise profusely for responding to the claims of an imminent environmental collapse. I have frequently engaged in that’s-not-a-birding-email rage at my computer, and understand the annoyance. I was foolish and naïve in responding to an email that I thought (and still think) was mistaken. I also … Read more

Thanks Andrew, I was wondering about that too, and presumed the numbers would be similar to what you came up with. I also recall a talk I attended a few months ago by Charles Krebs documenting top down food-web control in Canada, where it turned out that the presence of birds of prey controlled the … Read more

G’day all, Recently I’ve been having some discussion about the differences between the Tasmanian Shy Albatross – T. cauta – and the New Zealand White-capped Albatross – T. steadi (or T. cauta cauta/steadi depending on your taxonomy). Various sources seem to indicate that breeding T. cauta have a yellow spot at the upper base of … Read more