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Dear all, Steve Debus’ comment about the injured owl. Regards Shirley Shirley Cook Secretary/Treasurer Birds Australia – Northern NSW Group

Hi all, I’m sure others may turn out to have heard one earlier, but I heard my first Eastern Koel for the season early this morning at Bondi Junction, appropriate for the first day of Spring if not somewhat early! Cheers, Frank Frank Hemmings Curator John T. Waterhouse Herbarium School of Biological, Earth and Environmental … Read more

Hello Akos and Peter I’ve had similar experiences to Peter with reed-warblers over the winter of this year. On the 27th July one was recorded at a local wetland near Adelaide, and then from around the middle of August they began to be seen and heard much more regularly. The unusual thing about this is … Read more

I am heading to Cairns later this week (have some time free on Thursday afternoon) and would like look for Sarus Cranes Does anyone have any current reliable sites regards Gavin O’Meara ============================== 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 … Read more

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 … Read more