At about 7.15 yesterday evening I walked out my front door. A male Grey Butcherbird flew up from the drive and perched on the fence. I found it had been feeding on a Spotted Dove. The Dove’s head was missing and the breast had been eaten. The innards had been eaten out from inside . . . → Read More: Grey Butcherbird kills Spotted Dove
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A different sort of birder … www.audubon.org/news/welcome-birdpunk-subculture-subculture 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 hi Mike, with the relatively cooler air predominating up here along the lowlands of the Cairns region since the 3rd week of Feb 2019, there has been a paucity of needletail and swift records. (this obviously excludes our local Aust Swiftlets). the reason I’ve also included this note onto Birding-Aus this time Mike is . . . → Read More: WTNT & Fork-tailed (Pacific) Swifts, FNQ Interesting to see peregrines have taken to hunting at night and goshawks moving into cities … see www.earth.com/news/raptors-city/ 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 The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, March 11, 2019 to Sunday, March 17, 2019: Area: SA Location: Diekman Ave, Felixstow Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis) (1) A single bird preening with a couple of Australian White Ibis in the top of a pine tree just west of the . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest From the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/science/wingspan-board-game-elizabeth-hargrave.html She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off. How Elizabeth Hargrave turned . . . → Read More: Birding board game Today at 5.40 pm two hours before sunset there was a group of four brown heade honeyeaters sitting close together, for all the world like white breasted woodswallows. Behind them and a couple of feet higher in the tree were another two. They were all facing the same direction. It was two hours before . . . → Read More: brown headed honeyeater behaviour Wilmington SA Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report – 3rd March 2019 Participants: Ruth Brozek, Helen Cunningham, Karen Dick, Darryl Eggins, Sonja Frei, Mona Loofs-Samorzewski (report compiler), Lauren Roman, Richard Taylor, Carolyn Upston and Els Wakefield. Paul Brooks, the trip organiser, was unable to attend, with Karen and Els . . . → Read More: Eaglehawk Neck pelagic trip report 3rd March 2019 This month’s speaker will be Karen Rowe PhD Hugh D.T. Williamson Research Fellow, . . . → Read More: BirdLife VIC Public Talk – Melbourne Re ‘More Pork’. In 2017 the English Names Committee recommended ‘Tasman Morepork’ for the species on Norfolk Island, because ‘Morepork’, the New Zealand name, was used on Norfolk. A species name was needed for N leucopsis, a separate species on the Australian list (WLAB), and ‘Tasmanian Boobook’ was chosen. ‘Morepork’ then comes back . . . → Read More: Fwd: 40 Spotted Pardalote |
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