Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, February 27, 2017 to Sunday, March 5, 2017:

Area: SA

Location: Gregory Street Port Elliot 5212

Black-chinned Honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis) (1) Single bird foraging in a South Australian Blue Gum.Bird was constantly calling.

Reported by: Winston Syson on Saturday, March 4, . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

photographic index books

Hi birding aus’s, anyone looking for Photographic Index volumes to complete there set I have five volumes that may help you, I don’t have Honeyeater, Seabirds Shorebirds Robins and flycatchers. Please contact me direct. Keith Brandwood the beautiful Hawkesbury 60km N/W Sydney

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RFI please UK visitors

We will be making a visit to Alice Springs soon and I was wondering if anyone has any recent (2017 ideally) observations for Spinifex Bird, Rufous-crowned Emu-wren and Dusky Grasswren at any of the regular sites please.

If necessary I can be contacted via e-mail on m.rodgers377 ‘at’ btinternet.com

Thank you

Matthew

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Frigatebird

Hi all, Sorry for the delay in replying to your requests for help. In my opinion this is a Great Frigatebird, most likely of the western Indian Ocean subspecies Fregata minor aldabrensis. An illustrated explanation of my reasons is attached in a word document. Cheers,David James,Sydney ==============================

From: Friedemann Vetter < friedemannvetter@gmail.com> To: Neil . . . → Read More: Frigatebird

Pratincole

If Anyone is traveling to Newcastle to see the Pratincole I have an overseas visitor who would like to see it also please let me know. Keith Brandwood the beautiful Hawkesbury 60km N/W Sydney

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committee overseeing the renaming of bird species

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Duck hunting in Victoria

Duck hunting does more than destroy native waterbirds. It also sees Victorian wetlands polluted with plastic shotgun shells, bottles, cans and human waste. Perhaps worst of all, hunting makes some wonderful wetlands inaccessible for birdwatching three months of the year.

An example is Lake Murdeduke, current home to a large assemblage of migratory waders (including . . . → Read More: Duck hunting in Victoria

Roadkill

Travelling from Strathalbyn to Victor Harbour, SA, we picked up a roadkill which looks like a Southern Boobook. From Morcombe has a red dot in this area for halmaturina. Just wondering if this could be a significant find.

While the bird was fairly damaged, wer’e pretty sure it was a boobook. If anyone wants to . . . → Read More: Roadkill

Spine-tailed swifts

20 swung over as this inner west Sydney morning for a couple of hours from at least 8.15 till at least 10.30. Cloudy but no rain since just before dawn. The seasonal migration north is well under way now the heat wave has broken.

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Rufous Fantail

11.30 am in my hedges in this misty Sydney Saturday.

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