Dear Birders, While doing some preparation for a forthcoming trip to Rondon Ridge Lodge in the PNG highlands to look for Mottled Berryhunter I noticed an error in the 2nd edition of “Birds of New Guinea”. On pages 116 and 117 the illustrations for item 7 White-bibbed Fruit- Dove and item 8 Mountain Fruit-Dove have . . . → Read More: Birds of New Guinea, Pratt and Beehler second edition
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Eaglehawk Pelagic – July 2nd, 2017 Participants: Graeme Bullock, Michael Dempsey, Karen Dick, Ian Halliday, Rob Hamilton, Carolyn Upston, Els Wakefield, Peter Vaughan and Paul Brooks (organiser and report compiler) Boat: The Pauletta, skippered by John Males, with deckhand Hugh Smith. Notes: On paper, the trip looks like an excellent day but it was a . . . → Read More: Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report, July 2nd 2017 See www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/even-tiny-amounts-oil-could-doom-seabirds 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 Hi all, For those unaware, birding super-couple David Harper & Sue Harper are currently halfway through a South Australian Big Year effort, in an attempt to beat David’s previous 1994 figure of 315 birds. As on July 3rd, the couple are cruising along very nicely indeed, having just hit the 313 (David 313 and Sue . . . → Read More: BIRDSPEAK – David & Sue Harper Interview Apparently this can happen in Australia as well see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170704093815.htm Journal Reference: • Martin Nyffeler, Michael R. Maxwell, J. V. Remsen. Bird Predation By Praying Mantises: A Global Perspective. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2017; 129 (2): 331 DOI: 10.1676/16-100.1 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: Praying Mantis’s observed preying on hummingbirds and other small bird species Finally found the lemon-bellied flycatcher! Have learnt a lot – thank you all. Robin 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 Does anyone have any experience with a bird guide in Bandung for a day’s birding (visiting there for a conference)? Or any other experience of Birding in Bandung. Please reply off line. Ian McMahon Sent from Yahoo Mail 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: Bird Guide in Bandung in Undonesia Hi all, A reminder that the next guest speaker for BirdLife Victoria is John Weigel. John has displayed extraordinary energy to hold both the Australian and North American Big Year records. On July 13 John will talk about his amazing 366 days in the 2016 North American Big Year! Guest speaker John Weigel has a . . . → Read More: John Weigel and the Biggest Year: 366 Days on the American – Melbourne, Thursday July 13th We recently moved from Box Hill in Melbourne’s east to Curlewis on the Bellarine Peninsula. The birdlife is just a little more diverse and a lot more numerous; a flock of at least 50 Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoos flew over today and it’s common to see 20-30 Australian Magpies fly over. I was walking to the . . . → Read More: Brown Goshawk eating prey on the ground I just opened P&K on my iPad, running iOS 10.3, and got a pop-up saying, that it needed to be updated, as it may not run on future versions of iOS. With iOS11.0 about to be released very soon, that is a bit of a worry. Does anyone know if there is an update to . . . → Read More: P&K update needed |
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