I’ve updated a few notes I put together a while back on the effects of climate change – both positive and negative – on bird populations in South-East Queensland, especially in the Sunshine Coast region. I’ve updated those notes in the light of evidence suggesting that the situation facing some bird populations may be more . . . → Read More: Climate change and bird populations in South-East Queensland.
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The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, December 26, 2016 to Sunday, January 1, 2017: Area: SA Location: Jersey Way, Strathalbyn Black-chinned Honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis) (1) Calling from Red Gums and other Eucalypts adjacent to the creek. Reported by: Nathaniel Doecke on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 ——————————————— Date: . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, December 12, 2016 to Sunday, December 18, 2016: Area: SA Location: Black Point, YP Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) (1) I watched for some time a number of Willie Wagtails attacking an immature Brown Goshawk, but the Goshawk won, flying into a . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Hi Ross Here now in Thailand. I went for a day tour last Friday with Ike Suriwong. I have birded with Ike before and had great success. His contact is ikeandrosie@gmail.com And his website is www.phuketbirdwatching.com/ Alternatively contact Games on souththailandbirding.com/Home.php Games is an accredited guide and advertises where as Ike is a good birder . . . → Read More: (no subject) G’day everyone, We’ve got a week’s holiday booked in Phuket next June and I wanted to sneak in a day’s birding with a local guide while we’re over there. Does anyone have any recommendations for local guides to use? Also, any recommendations on a good Field Guide for Thailand? It will be our first time . . . → Read More: Phuket Birding Tours/Guides Hi BA The enormous, polluting Adani Carmichael coal mine proposal is possibly the biggest threat to our birds and wildlife that we have yet seen. The emissions from this mine will cancel out all our emissions reductions. Basically, everything you’ve ever done to reduce your carbon footprint will be a waste if this mine goes . . . → Read More: Adani Carmichael mine – an unprecedented threat to birds I am just reviewing the galley proofs for my forthcoming Field Guide to the Birds of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago for Lynx Edicions, and I was lucky enough to get a preview of some of the relevant passerine texts in the forthcoming Lynx Passerines Checklist. Now this promises to be a very stimulating . . . → Read More: HBW Passerine Checklist Sadly Emu has become just another avenue for prospective scientists to build their careers by publishing socio-biology papers, and widening the scope away from Australia was I think a very bad idea, one of the reasons I am not going to resubscribe from 2017. Ditto for Ibis in the UK where the BOU has been . . . → Read More: Emu Dear all, some conservation legislation news from Victoria. The Eastern Curlew, Curlew Sandpiper and White-throated Needletail have now been formally added to the ‘Threatened List’ under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (FFG Act). If anyone would like to obtain a copy of the FFG Act Scientific Advisory Committee recommendation reports for any of these . . . → Read More: For info: two waders and Needletail now listed in Vict. (Aust) Emu has evolved into an international high-impact factor journal and will continue to grow under a new publishing contract with Taylor & Francis in 2017. For those more interested in Australian applied ecology, you can always read Australian Field Ornithology (AFO): a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original papers on a broad spectrum of Australasian ornithology, . . . → Read More: Emu |
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