It's all about the birds
Terry Pacey was an active birder in South-east Queensland, the Darling Downs and the Solomon Islands. He was an active participant on Birding Aus a few years ago – some birding aussers may recall that he found a Painted Snipe lurking in a wetland fed by a leaking water pipe on the Gold Coast around … Read more
Alistair is spot on. The business of we birders informing egg collectors about nests is somewhat ridiculous. I started my birding in the late 1950s in country Queensland after I left school and the only birding people close to me in those days and within a few hours driving distance were two egg collectors and … Read more
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Hi Alistair You make a very good point about some photographers. We (three others and I) have seen one photographer use calls on Regent Honeyeaters at Castlereagh NR last year when they were present for a month or so. The person did this blatantly with total disregard to others’ objections – actually this person didn’t … Read more
Birders who are helping to preserve species on the margin might appreciate the points made in an essay by Tim Flannery in today’s paper … http://www.theage.com.au/environment/to-the-ends-of-the-earth-we-must-go-20100924-15qkz.html =============================== 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 ===============================