Greetings, fellow home-birders. Just now I'm reading a reprint of Heatherley's 1913 "Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie" (also viewable at— https://archive.org/stream/cu31924084757206/cu31924084757206#page/n51/mode/1up ). Records by observers of this breeding pair report the tiercel as the main carer of the nest-young. (Odd & instructive characterisations of the falcon also appear, inconsistently, & in line with the confused . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus
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Your message already came through yesterday. Maybe you have got no response and so you think it didn’t come through. Not everyone knows the word “tiercel” as meaning male, or the odd use of “falcon” as meaning female.
I think your question is very narrow and detailed, there would . . . → Read More: Fwd: “bold tassel hawk—” UK Trying this again… ———- Forwarded message ———-From: Jla <jlukin01@gmail.com> Subject: "bold tassel hawk—" UK peregrinesTo: "birding-aus (E-mail)" <birding-aus@birding-aus.org> Greetings, fellow home-birders. Just now I'm reading a reprint of Heatherley's 1913 "Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie" (also viewable at— https://archive.org/stream/cu31924084757206/cu31924084757206#page/n51/mode/1up ). Records by observers of this breeding pair report the tiercel as the main carer of . . . → Read More: Fwd: “bold tassel hawk—” UK A single Pacific Baza seen on Mayfair Drive ( Mulgpa NSW ) yesterday, sending local Ravens crazy. Would twitching it would be an essential activity in the days of C19 ?Walking solo or in a pair up the hill would be Exercise, which is OK, Michael Sent from my iPhone Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org . . . → Read More: Baza On another tangent, I do kinda miss the old days of moderating the insane conversations on Birding-Aus between Unca Tones And John Gamblin… On 29 Mar 2020, at 10:20 am, Tony Russell <pratincole08@gmail.com> wrote: This may be an interesting curiosity but in the present circumstances I find it nothing to get too excited about. OK . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg This may be an interesting curiosity but in the present circumstances I find it nothing to get too excited about. OK as a temporary mental distraction I suppose, nothing more. On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 18:14, Penny Brockman <penny@pennydb.org> wrote: Are there any jackdaws in Australia? ——————– Penny Brockman On Sat, 28 . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg I think that Euan Moore has hit the nail on the head with his suggestion of Common Myna. The bill is too short to be a Magpie, the whole bird is the wrong shape to be a Blackbird and it is too small to be a Magpie or a Raven. It even has the bare . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg As Philip has noted, the white bird near Manyana is not a Bali Starling. Which has unmistakable blue around its eyes and a crest, Michael Sent from my iPhone 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 Are there any jackdaws in Australia? ——————– Penny Brockman On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, at 3:27 PM, David Clark wrote: It looks like a Magpie to me; shape, bill and attitude are right. Cheers David Sent from my iPad On 27 Mar 2020, at 1:32 pm, Penny Brockman <penny@pennydb.org> wrote: Difficult one. Common Blackbird? . . . → Read More: Fwd: IMG_4886.jpg An interesting suggestion Euan. There is an All white Bali Starling which we saw years ago, a sought after cage bird in Indonesia and only really surviving thanks to semi-captive breeding (on an island other than Bali) Subject to Isolation restrictions I will follow this up, but perhaps someone out there knows the Bali Starling . . . → Read More: White bird |
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