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Dear Fellow birders, So, I am starting to produce videos on nature and birding. I made a short one on Carleton University — it’s a University campus in Ottawa, Canada: I feature a few birds with some video. This is my first attempt at a ‘nature documentary’ and I’m still acquiring some gear that . . . → Read More: short video on some Canadian birds What I sent last night appears to have not gone through yet. Maybe best just to call it sunning when that is what it is and leave the word anting to when there are ants. Easy. But they may be connected. This sunning behaviour (and certainly not just magpies) often has the birds . . . → Read More: Australian Magpie “anting” or what? For years I’ve been watching magpies in Blackheath, regardless of the temperature, mild or red-hot, lying down in a sort of trance-like state. But they are alert. Someone somewhere mentioned that they are “anting”. Any published papers and evidence available on what they are actually doing?
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. . . → Read More: Australian Magpie “anting”or what? The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, October 19, 2020 to Sunday, October 25, 2020: Area: SA Location: Barrage Goolwa Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (1) single bird in water dept land behind barrage Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) (60) birds were feeding with other shorebirds near the second pull . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Hi all, A friend of mine just told me the following occurred on Castle Cove Golf Course in Sydney: “Walking on golf course. Thought they were mating but one bird had the other by the neck and was slamming it on the ground (like they kill snakes) took 10 mins for the victim to . . . → Read More: Killer kookaburra (NSW) Hi All, For those wishing to enter the NSW Twitchathon this year (being run by BIGNET), or if you want to get behind one of the teams, please see details on the website: www.twitch24nsw.org/ Rules and other details are found here. The fundraising target is $20,000 for the Origma Enigma, a bushfire relief effort . . . → Read More: NSW Twitchathon information Dear Fellow Birders, So, a few people asked me to write out my comments on the book “All the Birds of the World” Edited by del Hoyo and published by Lynx. Here they are: Wow, it’s a huge book! The customs receipt lists it as 5kg. Also, it is very well-packaged in a pretty much . . . → Read More: All The Birds of the World: Review |
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