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G’day Michael, I saw a flock of ~20 Needletails wheeling around North Maleny (Sunshine Coast hinterland, SEQ) at 6:45 am this morning. Weather was hot and clear. Regards, Laurie 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 The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, November 9, 2020 to Sunday, November 15, 2020: Area: SA Location: On our Rockleigh property Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica) (1) Grey shrike-thrushes are often skulkers in the foliage, and hard to see. Our bird sat in a sparse sheoak right behind . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Not an Australian bird story, but it is so bizarre that I thought it was worth sharing. At least it has an Australian connection where comment was sought from John Pogonoski, ichthyologist at CSIRO.
Alien-like photo shows snake eel dangling out of heron’s stomach in midair https://www.livescience.com/snake-eel-bursts-out-of-heron.html . . . → Read More: Alien-like photo shows snake eel dangling out of heron’s stomach in midair https://www.theage.com.au/world/oceania/new-zealand-bird-of-the-year-voter-fraud-scandal-has-kiwis-in-a-flap-20201111-p56di6.html The present subspecies are taken from the 2-volume BLI/HBW Checklist.
Birdlife Australia regards them as important for Birdlife Australia conservation purposes. From BLA website:
However, defining all Australia’s bird taxa (species and subspecies) does matter for conservation; it is difficult to monitor and protect birds if they . . . → Read More: All The Birds of the World: Review Today on Mt Franklin Road (Brindabella Ranges, ACT), about 2.5 km beyond the final locked gate I heard two male Olive Whistlers calling at each other using the call the various field guides describes as 'tu WIT tu', but prefacing it with three even notes: 'tu tu tu, tu WIT tu'. One male was calling . . . → Read More: Interesting Olive Whistler behaviour If Birdlife Australia makes no independent taxonomic judgments and BLI does no deal with subspecies how come BLA lists them? On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 12:21, Geoffrey Dabb <gdabb@iinet.net.au> wrote: Yes. We are talking about the strange and shifting world of global lists. Noel mentioned different global lists, and Phil commented . . . → Read More: All The Birds of the World: Review I was indeed referring to BirdLife International (BLI), and their is used by various legal and conservation bodies so it is still quite significant, though now somewhat in need of an update. Unfortunately their taxonomy will be shoe-horned into the Clements version by Cornell / E-bird, a great pity but there we are, presumably HBWAlive . . . → Read More: All The Birds of the World: Review Yes. We are talking about the strange and shifting world of global lists. Noel mentioned different global lists, and Phil commented on different taxonomic approaches, including ‘Birdlife’. This must mean Birdlife International (BLI), as Birdlife Australia makes no independent taxonomic judgments. Until version 9.1 in 2017 BLI offered a checklist (no subspecies), stating . . . → Read More: All The Birds of the World: Review But BirdLife Australia does do subspecies! On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 08:41, Geoffrey Dabb <gdabb@iinet.net.au> wrote: Birdlife by itself did not do subspecies. Cornell Lab has now swallowed HBW but the digestion process has its difficulties. Look at the jumbled entry for ‘Grey Whistler P. simplex’. Has it been counted as . . . → Read More: All The Birds of the World: Review |
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