Hi Chris, your are excused, raptors can be difficult to separate. This one is a Hobby. I believe it is a juvenile judging by the underbody, which is missing the adult’s ‘arrowheads’. The head pattern is striking, no other Australian bird of prey has it. Nevertheless the Hobby may be confused with a Peregrine, but . . . → Read More: whatever your hobby, this is a Hobby
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My mystery bird for Christmas is this raptor I photographed above the Stuart Highway on my way to Newhaven back in 2011. I have made a wild bet (usually wrong) but I would appreciate your views and reasons so I can label it correctly… just in case it is something else… https://www.ararelitus.com/birds-1 Regards Chris Shawseashore@internode.on.net+61 . . . → Read More: Christmas Raptor Wrap I jotted down a few notes about the birds I saw at Birdlife Australia’s Gluepot Reserve while doing a little bit of volunteering over a week during early December. Lot’s of Woodswallow’s continue around the Mallee and a few of their high flying aerial foraging confederates that are associated with weather fronts made an appearance . . . → Read More: Gluepot Notes “Cat among the pigeons “. Very appropriate re Oz bird vulnerability Phil. Hope that going to Columbia doesn’t put you into the endangered category. ? Best. Michael Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Dec 2020, at 4:00 am, birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org wrote: > > Send Birding-Aus mailing list submissions to . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 86, Issue 8 Hi all, to my knowledge, which might be outdated, the following three main categories of THREATENED are international standard, i.e. are used in the IUCN Red List, Action Plan for Australian Birds, and others: critically endangered endangered vulnerable Near threatened appears to me to be what it says, i.e. nearly but not quite threatened. ‘Not . . . → Read More: 3 categories of THREATENED ;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px”> Phil Gregory oreornis@gmail.com ornithological writer/tour leader/tour facilitator Field Guides / Sicklebill Safaris / Cassowary ToursPO Box 597MalandaQLD 4885Australia Ph: +61 7 4096 8063 Email: info@s2travel.com.auWebsite1: http://www.sicklebillsafaris.com OR www.birder.travel Website 2: http://www.cassowarytours.com.au <HR> <BR> Birding-Aus mailing list <BR> Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org <BR> To change settings or unsubscribe visit: <BR> http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org </HR> <HR> <BR> Birding-Aus mailing . . . → Read More: Fwd: Threatened Birds in Australia I am preparing a talk for the Colombian Bird Fair and urgently need some data on the total of species in each conservation category, which seems to be remarkably opaque on the BirdLife sites and Threatened Bird Network sites. All I need know is how many in each category How many Critically Endangered CR? How . . . → Read More: Threatened Birds in Australia It's just occurred to me that the Dollarbird migrates from north of Australia to south-eastern Australia to breed, but also migrates from SE Asia to northern China, Korea and Japan to breed. Are there any other birds that migrate both north and south of the tropics to breed? — John Leonard . . . → Read More: Dollarbird migrations I have just had a few days in Lightning Ridge N S W and found that the drought has decimated several varieties of birds, but there were an enormous amount of Diamond Doves, White-winged Trillers, Mallee Ringnecks, and hundreds of Rufous Songlarks, they were everywhere in groups of dozens, with the . . . → Read More: Lightning Ridge. Might be of interest to some. Last Thursday, 3rd Dec, at Flat Rock, Ballina, far northern NSW, there was an unusual Sanderling, in breeding colours. Don’t know if a photo that I’ve attached will get thru birding-aus, but you can see a few more photos on my eBird list. https://ebird.org/australia/checklist?subID=S77005718 . . . → Read More: Sanderling in breeding colours. Ballina NSW |
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