Miami and Cartagena (Columbia)

Hi Birders,

A late request for any tips for day trips in Miami or Cartagena. I am heading over via New York next week.

I will check out the Florida Everglades for day. Struggling a little with Cartagena.

Key species, locations, guide recommendations would be great.

I’m unusually very unprepared for a trip.

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Bill Twiss or Robert Shaw contact, please

Hello everyone,

I will be grateful if someone could facilitate contact for me, please, with Bill Twiss or Robert Shaw. It is in relation to my Grey Falcon research. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards, Jonny

Jonny Schoenjahn Perth, Western Australia E: jonnybird@bigpond.com www.jonnybird-australia.com/greyfalcon.htm

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Has the VIC DELPW changed its email address?

I have been trying to send a message to someone in the VIC Environment area (using an address which worked last week). I get this bounce message

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Gould League Bird Study Camp

The 77th Gould League Bird Study Camp will be held at Inverary Homestead, Dthinna Dthinnawan National Park, near Yetman NSW from September 26 to October 5 2017. There are still a few spaces available for people wanting to camp either in a tent or a van or camper. If anyone is interested could they please . . . → Read More: Gould League Bird Study Camp

LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

Hi Tom,

There’s been a fair bit of residential subdivision and apartment building in the Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai Shires, over the last few years. While significant tracts of bushland still remain, human dwellings (houses and large apartment blocks) are built right up against them. It’s usually existing residential lots being carved up into smaller allotments . . . → Read More: LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE

Hi Tom,

We have been residents of Beecroft backing onto the bushland of Byles Creek for 25 years and have taken a keen interest in the local colony of Gang-gang Cockatoos over that time. Initially there was a colony of 12 Gang-gangs which we often saw, mix of males and females but always more males . . . → Read More: LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE

LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

Hi Tom, I live in Epping & I walk in the Lane Cove Valley often. I last saw a Gang-Gang Cockatoo [in fact a pair] near Day Rd in Cheltenham on the 14th March 2014. It was my first sighting for years & I did report it. At the time I was told that there . . . → Read More: LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

Hi Martin (& others who have responded) it’s not my local patch so although I visit, I am not a daily observer. However, my understanding is that the population in Lane Cove Valley was only ever small (Alan Morris – if you read this you might know more?). I agree that no reports in 8 . . . → Read More: LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

Tom

Surely an 8 month period is far too short to start thinking about “extinction” ? That isn’t even a breeding season.

Perhaps they’ve found better feed somewhere else and will be back in a little while?

Martin

Martin Butterfield franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 6 August 2017 at 15:24, Tom Wilson < wilsonsinoz@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

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LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016

Hi All Through a referral from Kurtis Lindsay as an eBird and Birdline moderator, I was recently approached by a conservation officer from Ku-Ring-Gai Council with disturbing news that the last reported sighting of a Gang-gang Cockatoo in the Lane Cove Valley (northern Sydney) was in December 2016. It has been surmised that they are . . . → Read More: LOOKING FOR GANG-GANG COCKATOOS IN LANE COVE VALLEY, SYDNEY – SINCE DECEMBER 2016