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Mitchell Plateau charter for Black Grasswren 6 June 2018 As per previous years, including the successful 2017 excursion, Australian Ornithological Services will run a one-day charter to the Mitchell Plateau at the end of our 2018 Top End tour. It involves fixed-wing to the Mitchell Plateau airstrip and then helicopters to the campground. The plane . . . → Read More: Mitchell Plateau charter for Black Grasswren 6 June 2018 advertisement Recently Pew Charitable Trusts and NT Natural Resource Management ran a forum on gamba grass on which I was a panel member. According to Garry Cook, a CSIRO research scientist at the forum, gamba grass is out of control, meaning that ‘Balanda grass’ as Bininj (Aboriginal) rangers call it, may well realise its potential to . . . → Read More: update on gamba grass threat Hi all. Any ideas for the above? A fairly lightweight paperback if possible. I plan to purchase the Helm Field Guide to Birds of Sri Lanka also. We’ll be there in the new year including Delhi, Keoladeo NP, Bund Baretha Wetlands & Ranthambore NP, so lots of migratory birds. Cheers, Sue Sent from my iPhone . . . → Read More: Field Guide for Birds of North India on the Galapagos Islands, of course … see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171124084320.htm 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 visit an industrial estate here on the Gold Coast regularly. In one particular street there are always a small group, up to 10, White-Breasted Woodswallows flying around in what you’d say is not a particularly Woodswallowly spot. Last week I found out why noticing a nearly fledged brood poking their heads out the gap . . . → Read More: Unusual Woodswallow nest site. Hi All, Re Expensive Central Tablelands birding; Catering to well heeled aliens in particular, good value if they see all the birds listed, which they should, seasonally adjusted perhaps for a couple of spp. We spent the weekend in Mudgee, at the fabulous Huntington Music Festival, occasionally drowned out by Wattlebirds and Galahs. . . . → Read More: expensive birding. Putta Bucca Wetlands. Dear all, Our Thailand tour in Feb/Mar next year has a couple of vacancies. Led by Steve Potter and local guides, it’s going to be an exciting trip with lots of good birds, great food and camaraderie.. www.bellbirdtours.com/calendar/thailand-north-central-birding-tour/ Thailand’s superb network of reserves contains a great diversity of habitats, from lowland rainforest to montane evergreen . . . → Read More: Thailand tour vacancy (ADVERTISEMENT) I am parked off in the bucolic bliss of Barraba for a week and in the course of wandering the town I came across a brand new sign illustrating the birds that can be found on the path that follows the Manilla River. It is branded TRC and Birdlife but I would be interested to . . . → Read More: Birding in Barraba It happens all the time the other way around (Red-tailed Hawk calls dubbed into film willy nilly. Tonight I caught out another error on Attenborough’s Planet Earth on TV. A bit featuring the Sonoran desert in SW USA and him explaining how the saguaro cactus is able to absorb a lot of water. During that . . . → Read More: Attenborough got the wrong bird We visited Jerrabomberra Wetlands in Fyshwick ACT this morning and were surprised to see a Freckled Duck happily foraging and preening.We are from the Blue Mountains and I wondered if this is a common sight there? Julie Neumann 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: Freckled Duck |
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