Hello Akos and Peter I’ve had similar experiences to Peter with reed-warblers over the winter of this year. On the 27th July one was recorded at a local wetland near Adelaide, and then from around the middle of August they began to be seen and heard much more regularly. The unusual thing about this is … Read more

I am heading to Cairns later this week (have some time free on Thursday afternoon) and would like look for Sarus Cranes Does anyone have any current reliable sites regards Gavin O’Meara ============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au … Read more

Hi Everyone, Just finishing my stint at Etadunna Station on the Birdsville Track.  Birds every where and most of them breeding.  Great to see the desert in bloom – even the gibber has a carpet of flowers and is very spongy to walk on! A few people asked me to send contacts for Cowarie (pronounced … Read more

Hi all, Starting tomorrow, Sept 1st my wife and I begin a 12 month challenge to photograph as many bird species in Australia as we can. I believe Drew Fulton, an American student has a “record” of 377 species but someone out there might have a personal best that outdoes that. It doesn’t matter, this … Read more

Hi all. Allan Benson, Alan Morris, Rob Benson and I have have just had a very enjoyable but unsuccessful search for the Princess Parrots in the Kings Canyon and Uluru areas. We travelled from Kings Canyon up the Mereenie Loop Road to around the north west extreme of the road. As has been stated, the … Read more