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Rain is falling at Gluepot and that is welcome… unless you happen to be a Butcherbird… https://www.ararelitus.com/blog/welcome-rain-at-gluepot-reserve Regards Chris Shaw seashore@internode.on.net+61 409 675912www.ararelitus.comAfter the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box. – Italian proverb . . . → Read More: Rain at Gluepot and the Butcherbird 'Sorry, can't help with your Melbourne list, but I'm locked down in Sydney and have a suggestion if you get extended. I've been working on my COVID cold cases from old photo ID problems. I won't go into the ethics of ticking from a photo but will say I've added 3-4 ticks since the Sydney . . . → Read More: Running out of species I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge. I'm based in Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood. Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would then still need 4 more to get . . . → Read More: Running out of species Re Peewees. Lockdown research indicates that large flocks of Magpie larks seasonally migrate to the North of Australia and back, probably accounting for the Townsville mangrove mob. But not for the Bellarine Peninsula nighttime roost. Doesn’t seem to be like the grouping of single young male Magpies but a real group behavioural trait. . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 93, Issue 4 Just found this tucked away in the section about new books on Birdforum, from Harrison’s new Seabirds Guide (Lynx), quite amazing news: From satellite tracking data of 14 individuals of the critically endangered seabird from Reunion, it was found to be dispersing in the Arabian Sea to NW Australia (Saunier et al 2021) and the . . . → Read More: Mascarene Petrel in Australian waters Roasting Aggregation of Magpie Larks I don't remember what time of the year but at least 6 years ago I saw hundreds of Magpie Larks come into roost in Mangroves at Rowes Bay in Townsville. Joan Wharton On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:00 AM <birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org> wrote: Send Birding-Aus mailing list submissions to birding-aus@birding-aus.org . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 93, Issue 3 Re roosting Magpie larks. Were these Seasonal roosts ? Alan suggests that they are. Any sex bias ? Thanks Michael Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Jul 2021, 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 . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 93, Issue 2 I'm looking out my study window at the gathering of Magpie Larks that occurs around this time every day on our property on the Bellarine Peninsula. There are usually two pairs of Magpie Larks on our property and last summer one pair fledged three young so we could see up to five quite regularly. A . . . → Read More: Roosting aggregation of Magpie larks The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, July 5, 2021 to Sunday, July 11, 2021: Area: SA Location: Port Elliot Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus) (1) 70+birds were flying low in a Westerly direction towards Middleton along Port Elliot Rd Reported by: Winston Syson on Monday, July 5, 2021 . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Hi brains trust, Bill here My sister is a crossing guard at a primary school in the mornings in Melbourne. She’s just moved to a new crossing, and apparently there’s a very swoopy Magpie there that terrorises the kids in Soring. Swooping season is coming up and my sister was wondering if it might . . . → Read More: Magpie swooping advice |
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