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Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report – March 4th, 2018 Participants: Ruth Brozek, Devon Bull, Ross Crates, Helen Cunningham, Karen Dick, Rob Hamilton, Mona Loofs-Samorzewski, Carolyn Upston, Els Wakefield and Paul Brooks (report compiler) Boat: The Pauletta, skippered by John Males, with deckhand Hugh Smith. Notes: A day of peaks and troughs in terms of both birding . . . → Read More: Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report, March 4th 2018 (belated) I had a quick visit to Anglesea Victoria overnight last week and took a quick walk along the beach to the point in the drizzling rain in the evening. I came across the signs telling about the rare Hooded Plover nesting in the area and how dogs etc weren’t allowed past this point, I was . . . → Read More: Hooded Plover and a Tabby Cat Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of “The status of Australia’s seabirds” edited by Graham Ross, Karen Weaver and John Greig published by Environment Australia in 1996? I’ve just spent an hour searching the internet with no luck. It’s not even mentioned on the Environment Australia website! I’d be happy to buy . . . → Read More: The status of Australia’s seabirds Try to describe the call of a Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike. I did once in my book “Common City Birds”. When I read it now I think it’s awful! The bird call descriptions in the field guides are so subjective. That’s why we have the apps. According to my stats page, about a third of the visits . . . → Read More: How we hear birds www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/australian-magpies-can-understand-other-bird-calls-study-finds 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 This thing is doing the rounds of Facebook, etc, at the moment – a recording of a voice that sounds like it’s saying either Laurel or Yanny depending on how good your high frequency hearing is. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-16/laurel-or-yanny-what-you-hear-could-depend-on-hearing-loss/9768478 If different people can hear such different things from one recording, is it any wonder the bird call . . . → Read More: How we hear birds Surely one Wedge-tailed Eagle observed flying over somewhere in a city is not that strange. Inner Melbourne and Sydney probably. I don’t wish to sound too privileged but on average, I have a Wedge-tailed Eagle observed from my home, flying over at least a few times a year. Admittedly Canberra is rather special and they . . . → Read More: Fwd: Wedge-tailed Eagle SPRING AT LAST IN TROMSØ; ONCE MORE AROUND THE BALSFJORD I have lived in Tromsø, N. Norway, for 45 years now, and every spring I drive at least once ‘around the Balsfjord’, the fjord penetrating southwards from Tromsø for some 100 km’s; I must have reported about this trip many times to you already, so . . . → Read More: Once more around the Balsfjord)) If planned burns have occurred in the Kedron brook wetland complex (or Boondall / Tinchi Tamba wetlands), may be investigating? These areas are not that far from forested foothills to the west, ‘as the eagle flies’. Also possibly a juvenile moving around? ________________________ Stacey McLean email: ninox44@iinet.net.au phone: 0468413810 ____________________________________________ Aquiring and managing land . . . → Read More: [Birding-Aus] Birding-Aus] Fwd: Wedge-tailed Eagle Interestingly, Debus says the Wedgie is an “eagle of most terrestrial habitats except intensively settled” areas, with “intolerance of human activity”. Notably, we are at the beginning of the Wedge-tail’s breeding season. Judith SEQ 500m jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au Begin forwarded message: > From: Judith L-A < jlukin01@gmail.com> > Date: 11 May 2018 at 2:08:20 pm AEST . . . → Read More: Fwd: Wedge-tailed Eagle |
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