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Hello Martin, There is am image of what I think was a Black-tailed Gull on my website. Taken many years ago at the Cairns Esplanade. Just exactly when I don’t know at present – I’ll have to do a lot of digging into past records. Cheers Graeme Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or . . . → Read More: Black-tailed Gull Hello Carol, Not much doubt about the “mystery” bird being a Golden Whistler. You can see the yellow undertail coverts. Regarding Olive Whistlers, I’d be looking for the highest point where there is regular winter snow, maybe Mount Bindo? Olive Whistlers regularly breed at Mt Ginini west of Canberra. You need dense thickets of . . . → Read More: Help with a Blue Mountains Bird At about 9:45am on Friday 09/03/18, I had a nice but brief encounter with a lone Black-tailed Gull on the western edge of the Cairns CBD. It flew in towards me from the coast (east) at about 50mtrs above ground, and as luck sometimes has it, it flew directly over the top of me to . . . → Read More: a single BLACK-TAILED GULL seen in Cairns, FNQ on Friday 09/03/18 Dear Birding Australia, I am a student from the National Film and Television School just outside London in England studying a masters in Directing and Producing Science and Natural History under Paul Reddish (nfts.co.uk/). As part of my final year, I am making a half-hour documentary on the eucalyptus forests of the Blue Mountains . . . → Read More: Student filming – wildlife documentary My cousin who lives in Tumbi Umbi on the central coast north of Gosford NSW reports: Last week I saw a Regent Bowerbird male with his very distinctive golden head and wing patches. Never seen one in last twenty years here. My bird book is 1991 vintage and tells me that southern boundary for this . . . → Read More: Regent Bowerbird on the move? For anyone interested, there is an article on frigatebirds in the latest NT Field Naturalists newsletter. In it Leilehua Yuen, an Hawaiian elder, gives an interesting cultural perspective on the bird. Regards Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow Ph.D. PO Box 71 Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841 043 8650 835 Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or . . . → Read More: frigatebirds In a couple of newspaper stories I’ve revealed that a Night Parrot in Western Australia disappeared after it was caught and fitted with a radio transmitter, and that its mate also vanished subsequently. Can these interventions be justified? More here: sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/second-night-parrot-disappears.html sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/captured-night-parrot-disappears-in-wa.html Greg Roberts friarbird.roberts@gmail.com Blog: sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/gregbirdo Twitter: twitter.com/gregrobertsqld Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunshinecoastbirds/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/gregrobertsqld/ . . . → Read More: Vanishing night parrots in WA Late to this thread, but having some interest in this topic the photo looks like a Red Bird of Paradise, presumably an immature male as it has those head bumps.They can take up to 5 years to get into adult plumage. The species is endemic to just two West Papuan islands, Waigeo and Batanta. Trade . . . → Read More: BoP identification Resending with typos fixed, how I hate autocorrect! The latest review of the complex systematics of Little Shrike-thrush confirms what some of us have long thought, that the pale NT and WA birds are Arafura Shrike-thrush, and the rusty east coast birds are Rufous Shrike-thrush ( long-established Clements name of course). You also get 5 . . . → Read More: Not so Little Shrike-thrush |
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