Tim Morris Birding Auser’s Lying in bed and listening to the morning bird chorus and hoping the Kookaburra’s etc don’t wake the kids up is normally how the day starts but for the last week the morning birds have been eerily quiet here in Port Macquarie on the NSW North Coast . The large flocks of Rainbow … Read more
Hi Mick etc, With regards to the low numbers of Fleshy Footed Shearwaters off the east coast, hopefully this is just a temporary feature due to a change in feeding patterns and they will return shortly, however, there are articles online by Ian Hutton et al (2008) showing that 79% of nestlings on Lord Howe … Read more
Just to clarify a couple points regarding the Freckled Duck shootings at the Box Flat swamp. In the speech from Sue Pennicuik she refers to approximately 200 Freckled Duck being shot at Box Flat. Is that number based on the investigation by the DSE or the DPI? If it is correct that would be about … Read more
Hi all, Just trying to get my head around this new Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill 2009. Which state government department actually decided which of the species listed are now game birds? And how will the Game Council decide to allocate quota’s for certain species? Do they have a scientific department that can … Read more
After several years in Port Macquarie I have finally added an elusive tick to my garden bird list….the common Pied Currawong, or P Wong as it goes into the notebook. Despite an abundance of wet gullies with eucalypts, native figs and exotic camphor laurels or privet, the Pied Currawong doesn’t appear to have established a … Read more
