Hi all had one of my best seawatches for about 20 years today off North Head i seen a Bulwer’s Petrel a Tahiti Petrel 13 Streaked Shearwaters and 2 Sooty Terns all flying north close in with thousands of Wedgetail and Flesh footed Shearwaters. Cheers Michael. Sent from my Samsung GALAXY S5 on the Telstra … Read more

Over the last 12 days a single Regent Honeyeater has been observed by many watchers on the fringes of Canberra’s ‘inner north’.   As one commented to me ‘ it has brought a lot of joy to birdos during this terrible time of fire and drought and now hail storm’.  The weight of expert opinion is … Read more

Following a great paper by Lloyd Nielsen last year in AFO, IOC has accepted the split of what is now called Cryptic Honeyeater from Graceful Honeyeater, which occurs further up Cape York  from N of Cooktown on and into S. New Guinea. Thus we have a new FNQ endemic, the split also adopted by BirdLife … Read more

I have been doing some work for iGoTerra the very useful data listing site (not just for birds but mammals, insects, herps and plants), compiling state checklists for Queensland, WA, NT and Tasmania which only had generic country-wide versions before, and lacked subspecies. I know there will be errors and omissions, I keep finding and … Read more

A Baillon's Crake on the Sunshine Coast this week died after flying into a barbed wire fence. Large numbers of native birds and mammals are killed by barbed wire fences, especially the top strand. Yet extensive areas of barbed wire fence remain standing in our national parks. More here: https://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com/2020/01/death-by-barbed-wire.html   Greg Roberts friarbird.roberts@gmail.com Blog: http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/