The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, December 9, 2019 to Sunday, December 15, 2019: Area: SA Location: Adelaide botanic garden Little Grassbird (Megalurus gramineus) (1) The little grassbird has been calling from the rushes surrounding one of the storage ponds next to First Creek wetland for a … Read more

Hi all there were 2 female Australian Shelducks at Pitt Town Lagoon this morning a fairly rare bird for Sydney. Cheers Michael. Sent from my Samsung GALAXY S5 on the Telstra Mobile network

Anyone have a copy of “Peregrines of the World” (Lynx) that you might be ready to let go of ? Judith  SEQ 500m — JudithLA

I would like to suggest what is probably happening. Firstly it would be very strange and hard to imagine how it can ever happen that two juvenile Pallid Cuckoos are being fed by the same individual foster parents. The cuckoo chicks could be siblings (same actual parents – or not) but raised in separate foster … Read more

———- Forwarded message ———From: Gary Wright <gary.wright.email@gmail.com>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 09:34Subject: update pallid cuckoosTo: <birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org> both fledgings are spending time within 10 metres of each other.  There appear to be 3-4 spiny cheeks in attendance.  Not possible to tell if they are feeding both birds or just their 'own'. One bird appears younger … Read more