Just wondering if anyone here has heard this call before: https://www.xeno-canto.org/613468 It's the "mir" call you can hear every few seconds. I suspect it's a Spotless Crake, and found one other similar recording on Xeno-canto labelled as such, but this call isn't described in the field guides, and isn't in any apps or the BOCA . . . → Read More: Mystery swamp call (Altona, Vic)
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2020 ended in Norway the way most of the year has been: awful. A catastrophic landslide on 30 December partly destroyed a village just north of Oslo, and killed 10 people. Just when we thought we had weathered the year not too badly (with ‘only’ 450 dead Norway escaped hitherto comparatively lightly, even . . . → Read More: Start of 2021 Hi all, Can someone please give me Mike’s email address, I have some needletail records for him. Thanks, Mark — This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. www.avg.com 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 Great to meet up with a few other birders on Cairns Esplanade this afternoon to get good views of the Nordmann’s Greenshank discovered and photographed by Adrian Walsh earlier today. His photos are on eBird and show the bird beside a Common Greenshank as well as with lifted wings. What a stunning bird to kick . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of the end of Ruth’s and my Victorian Big Year – or VicTwitch. In 2010 we saw 392 species in Victoria – a record that still stands today. Completing any sort of a Big Year requires a huge amount of commitment and planning – and, most importantly, it requires help . . . → Read More: Tenth anniversary of our Victorian Big Year! I am fairly sure I know the answer to this question but I will ask anyway. Does anyone want or know some else who wants a multiple decade collection of Birdlife/Wingspan and New Zealand Birds.
It is time to clean the shelves and I hardly read the new editions . . . → Read More: Bird Magazines Seasons Greetings folks. I hope you are enjoying the year end. We have a pair of Wood Ducks that periodically visit our back yard swimming pool. In addition to the expected the physical reminders of their visits, we also get the occasional egg left on the side of the pool. My understanding is that . . . → Read More: Wood Duck behaviour ; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space”> ______________ Gyorgy Szimuly World Shorebirds Day Founder & Organiser https://www.worldshorebirdsday.org www.facebook.com/worldshorebirdsday/ twitter.com/ShorebirdsDay https://www.facebook.com/EurasianShorebirdSurvey
— . . . → Read More: Fw: [WorldShorebirdsDay]: Promoting the Eurasian Shorebird Survey 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 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 |
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