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Re Lewins Rail family feeding chicks. Some months ago we caught an escaped blue female budgie which had been chased by a Grey Butcherbird, kept her and bought a cockbird for company, they mated, we put in a nesting box and three noisy chicks hatched. While moving them to a much larger cage, the hen . . . → Read More: Budgie house husband Gidday all, Saw three Australian Ravens being chased off by Bush Stone-curlew today in Townsville Common Cons. Park. Found two curlew eggs nearby. Ravens returned soon after and flew off with eggs. And seemingly swallowed them in flight as I tried in vain to focus and photograph the action. Certainly, two thorough sweeps of . . . → Read More: egg theft/disposal
This month’s speaker will be Leah Royle, Senior Development Executive, Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Subject “Changing the game: providing new hope for Australia’s threatened wildlife”
Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) represents an . . . → Read More: BirdLife VIC Public Talk – Melbourne Marion Halliday has reported seeing Lewin's Rails with young (at least 5, possibly 6) at Lake Hamilton via the Birdline Victoria Facebook group. She says one was seen feeding one of the young a worm "a couple of times" on the evening of 29/10/18, and posted a photo of an adult with a worm, . . . → Read More: Lewin’s Rails feeding young reported on birdline – Lake Hamilton, Vic I don’t have the reference, but after hearing a Willy Wagtail mimicking a Bulbul I researched it. Apparently 30% of Australian spp can mimic. Maybe a migrant was calling? Cheers Michael Sent from my iPhone 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 . . . → Read More: Eastern Yellow Robin call Participants: Allan Benson, Ruth Brozek, Chris Darby, Michael Duffy, Chris Escott, Andi Magnussen, Chris Sanderson, Peter Vaughan and Paul Brooks (Inala guide and report compiler)
Boat: The Pauletta, skippered by John Males, . . . → Read More: Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report – October 14th, 2018 Hello Greg Is it possible your bird might have been a white-plumed honeyeater? There have been occasions of late where I too have asked myself the same question about that "chop, chop" call, which I would normally associate with a yellow robin. I am hearing that call -or something very like it- in places where . . . → Read More: Eastern Yellow Robin call We have just returned from a 7 week trip to Fiji and Australia and I have been using birding-aus to seek help with birding sites. As always, Australian birders have excelled themselves with their kindness and willingness to help….you must be the most generous birders in the world. So, a big thank you to . . . → Read More: A big thank you Another message from Phil Gregory: We have been working on this one again and now have a smaller dive boat that is available from Sept 18-30, with an itinerary ex-Alotau and visiting Tagula, Rossel and also Normanby plus a nearby small island that has Louisiade White-eye and Louisiade Kingfisher.The limit is 6 people, so . . . → Read More: Louisiade Arhipelago SE PNG |
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