Hi Greg Hopefully, you can make sense of the below,,,, Referring to your question about ISO here: http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/2010-07/msg00379.html I am definitely no authority on photography but can recommend always choosing the fastest shutter speed possible for flying birds to freeze motion (which is probably what most people would want me thinks). Getting the fastest speeds … Read more

Hi, Does anybody have malleefowl expert Joe Benshemesh’s contact details? Thank you, Daniel. ___________________________________ Daniel Gilmore Senior Zoologist Mobile: 0428 108 379 Email: DGilmore@biosisresearch.com.au Biosis Research Pty. Ltd. Natural and Cultural Heritage Consultants 38 Bertie Street (PO Box: 489) Port Melbourne VIC 3207 ph: (03) 9646 9499 fax: (03) 9646 9242 www.biosisresearch.com.au ___________________________________ * The … Read more

Fascinating … http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/ebird-gets-a-supercomputing-kick-from-teragrid “eBird gets a supercomputing kick from TeraGrid August 16, 2010 Thanks to your continued participation the data analysis potential of eBird is growing rapidly. Through collaboration with partners in the DataONE network at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, eBird was recently awarded 100,000 hours of supercomputing time on the National Science Foundation’s … Read more

It is interesting to discover famous people’s passions for birding. Reading the obituary of Stephen Schneider (1945–2010), the Nobel Prize winning climate scientist (Science 13 August 2010: Vol. 329. no. 5993, p. 776) we learn that: “His interest in the effects of climate disruption brought him together with Terry Root, a leader in studying its … Read more

Dear All, The article on counterfeit anti-malarials is in BirdingASIA (Vol 1), not Forktail. Close, but no cigar. My apologies to all. Cheers, Carl Clifford =============================== 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 http://birding-aus.org ===============================