RE: [Birding-Aus] Search for Night Parrot at Skull Springs RdOriginal Message from Tim Dolby on June 15 is below. Unfortunately Tim, your data base appears to be inadequate. Reference to the paper, Davis, A.D. & Burbidge, H. (2008), ‘The Elegant Parrot (Neophema elegans) in Arid Regions of Western Australia, Amytornis 1(1): 1-5, shows that up … Read more
Bob We saw both Gibberbirds and Orange Chats almost together on gibber plains on the way out to Lake Eyre from Williams Creek, SA. Even found an Orange Chat nest in a low shrub in gibber type country near the Lake. The enlarged image of your bird also shows the bird appears to have a … Read more
Back to the future…. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From: “Alastair Smith” To: Subject: [Birding-Aus] The Biggest Life List I am presently reading ‘All things reconsidered’ a selection of essays written by Roger Tory Peterson for Bird Watcher’s Digest and edited by Bill Thompson III. I was surprised to read in a discussion written in 1984 about life lists, … Read more
On Thursday we drove down to Deni and, following Gil Langfield’s instructions, easily located the Ostrichs – 4 adults + 4 young in the first group and then 1 adult and 2 young from the main road. Those adults are surely big birds – they are taller than the cattle in the same paddock. Thanks … Read more
