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Hi all, Bill here I’m preparing a Facebook post about how LBCs dig into hard packed dirt, and I discovered that I don’t have a photo of one at hand (I know I’ve taken some quite decent ones before but they’re … somewhere) Does anyone have a photo of a Long-billed Corella, preferably on the . . . → Read More: Photo of a Long-billed Corella? All that opinion is fair enough. The Jabiru is an interesting story. I think we all know it but here it is again. The point being that the Jabiru is one species of bird, only from South America. The name comes from a TupiGuaraní language and means “swollen neck”, a feature not shared with our . . . → Read More: Turkey Talk and Jabiru The beauty of the English language is its flexibility. If a word or name is commonly understood it can be used. Ornithology has it’s own Scientific Names which are only changeable through Scientific process and publication. These are generally accepted world-wide so readers know precisely which bird is referred to. (Pardon the grammar). Birdwatchers, in . . . → Read More: Turkey Talk G’day I’ve been coming across some odd holes in the bush tracks in my neighbourhood. They are about 30 cm across and 15 cm deep [not your average bandicoot or pig excavation]. I came across a female looking bush turkey sitting in a fresh hole, dug about 100 metres from the nearest active mound. It . . . → Read More: Turkey dust bathing At least 7 White-throated Needletails over Kedron (northern suburbs of Brisbane, near corner of Gympie and Rode Roads) at about 10:45 am this morning. BIrds seemed to be flying ahead of a small rainstorm – we've had a couple this morning. New addition to the Balcony List, but I've only been here a couple . . . → Read More: Needletails The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, February 25, 2019 to Sunday, March 3, 2019: Area: SA Location: Gregory St Port Elliot Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus) (6) Birds came over my house very high and heading East. Reported by: Winston Syson on Monday, February 25, 2019 ——————————————— Date: . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Really? HANZAB and field guide drawings match colour (or shade) for Common Diving Petrel as dark grey above and pale grey below. Not “black & white”, although at sea I guess they could look black & white. I have only ever seen Common Diving Petrel on one day and not recently but they . . . → Read More: Help please, seabird On evening 5/2/2019 I picked up a small seabird dead less than 24 hours but beginning to smell. Rubicon Estuary beach, Hawley Beach , just 10 km east of Devonport NW Tasmania . Weight 77g , damp but no fat at all, Wing length 160 mm and tail 60 mm bill length 27 m , . . . → Read More: Help please,seabird 4 over Hawley Beach , Tasmania, clear weather no fronts in the offing . 22/2/2019. Geoff Shannon Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org I have heard of a couple of recent records of Koel chicks being fed by Red Wattlebirds at Mallacoota. There is only one record (from Feb. 2017) of Koel breeding in East Gippsland on eBird so I ma getting the observers to submit reports. Martin Martin Butterfield http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/ . . . → Read More: Koel breeding |
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