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Anyone recall which guidebook described which species’ call with this word– dlip ? (Half my guidebooks are currently inaccessible!) Thx Judith 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, I’m going to the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, Switzerland and France. Rather than carry heavy field guides in my luggage, I was hoping that someone might recommend a field guide app for my iPad instead. Any advice gratefully received, Tracey Newcombe Sent from my iPad Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings . . . → Read More: RFI I am in Melbourne for the next two days and intend to travel around western Victoria for nine days – Geelong, Warrnambool, Hopetoun, Swan Hill, Echuca, Bendigo, Ballarat. I make DVDs of Australian birds (australianbirddvds.com.au) and would love to video some new species during the trip – trying to video 500 species. If anyone has . . . → Read More: RFI/Advertising Melbourne and Western Victoria The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, April 3, 2017 to Sunday, April 9, 2017: Area: SA Location: On our Rockleigh property Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) (3) 8 days previously the crested pigeon nest just outside our shed had 2 feathered but tiny chicks huddled together on the . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest These must be an April Fools day joke. Otherwise just a joke and unamusing. Cheers Michael Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Apr 2017, at 2:00 am, birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org wrote: > > Send Birding-Aus mailing list submissions to > birding-aus@birding-aus.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide . . . → Read More: Name changes Hi All, This comment has just come in from an expert in western USA……… Philip —–Original Message—–From: Kimball Garrett . . . → Read More: FW: mystery bird on YouTube. No mystery. Further info. This very distinctive form of the Variegated Fairy-wren is mainly associated with the sandstone country of Arnhem Land. To the average birdwatcher, the breeding males look much like any other Variegated F/W but females, winter males and immatures are another story. They are blue, not brown. The females in particular are quite different because they . . . → Read More: Malurus assimilis dulcis – The Sandstone Fairy-wren And who trusts things on utube? People splice in stuff from all over. Just because these stones are found in Romania does not mean only Romania. At 4:08 minutes the narrator (it is quite a strain to keep up with him), says that these stones are found elsewhere mentioning amongst other places e.g. Wyoming, that . . . → Read More: mystery bird on YouTube. No mystery. Hi all, I’ve been forwarded the below email which I thought I’d share with the group in light of recent discussion about bird names. It appears the Aust gov’t is moving ahead with adopting an updated bird taxonomy. Please remember I’m only the messenger… cheers Peter ———- Forwarded message ———- From: *Ludus, Malcolm (DEE)* < . . . → Read More: bird names – again 1.07 minutes into this video on Trovants (a peculiar form of sandstone boulders found in Rumania), there is an appearance of a bird I can’t identify. I would say it definitely isn’t a European bird and looks more like a S American sub-oscine. A screen-capture is here: www.jleonard.net/mysterybird.jpg But you might get more detail . . . → Read More: mystery bird on YouTube |
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