…and it seems this wasn’t posted on April 1…

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/environment/bird-that-went-extinct-136000-years-ago-comes-back-from-the-dead-after-evolving-again/ar-AABbnvo?ocid=sf

Visiting from California and a Short stay in Darwin and wondering if anyone wants to go birding

Hi Folks: On my own here and have a day and a half in Darwin and wondering if anyone wants to hang out with a fellow from the US and do some birding. Love to hook up with some Northern Rosellas but other species would be great to see. Cheers and thanks! Don Kimball (the . . . → Read More: Visiting from California and a Short stay in Darwin and wondering if anyone wants to go birding

Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, May 13, 2019 to Sunday, May 19, 2019:

Area: SA

Location: Newland Head C/P Northern Area

Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang) (2) Male and Female perched on wire fence between private property and park.

Reported by: Winston Syson on Monday, May 13, . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

Fwd: [OB] Re: Now! we can buy a land for Spoon-billed Sandpipers

From: kaset sutasha . . . → Read More: Fwd: [OB] Re: Now! we can buy a land for Spoon-billed Sandpipers

Crow school

Here the Torresian Crow fledglings are loudly out-&-about now. Driving down the mountain today, I came around the top bend of a long-S shape in the road, densely weedy either side. At the further end of my view was a cluster of crows on the road near the centre line, several of them pecking at . . . → Read More: Crow school

Re Bruny Island Bird

Thanks everybody for the ID of the Immature Golden Whistler. Great pool of collective knowledge and experience.

Regards Ken

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African Olive

Hi All.

I was woken predawn at Avoca Beach NSW on Sunday by a remarkable chorus of contented whistles, chortles, clicks, snaps, rasps, hiccups, short songs and other bird noises emanating from a huge old African Olive outside the bedroom window. It was laden with small fruit, unripened green and ripe black.

I identified Satin . . . → Read More: African Olive

More sunny days, but Arctic air in Tromsø

 A SETBACK TO SPRING IN tROMSØ, N. NORWAY

In Norwegian we have an expression: "How long was Adam in Paradise?" which we use in cases of somewhat unexpected setbacks after a promising development. Last time I wrote to you we had temperatures in . . . → Read More: More sunny days, but Arctic air in Tromsø

Bruny Island Bird

Jamaican Birding Report

Dear Birding-Aus Members,

Just thought I’d share a blog post I just wrote:

badbirding.jpolak.org/2019/05/05/bad-birding-goes-to-jamaica/

It is about the trip my wife and I just took to Jamaica, in case anyone is interested in going there (there is relatively little information on Jamaica compared to Australia). We went unguided for 9 days, and had a great . . . → Read More: Jamaican Birding Report