Only counting resident species : 1. Western Ground Parrot 2. Buff-breasted Button-quail 3. Plains Wanderer (without Phil Maher) 4. Grey Falcon 5. White-throated Nightjar 6. Superb Fruit-Dove 7. King Quail 8. Chestnut-breasted Whiteface 9. Red Goshawk (apart from Mataranka) 10. Australasian Bittern _________________________________________________________________ Frank O’Connor Birding WA http://birdingwa.iinet.net.au Phone : (08) 9386 5694 Email : … Read more

Have just completed a trip up the Pacific Highway to Coffs Harbour/Woolgoolga, Tweed Heads and then Bundaberg, catching up with friends and catching a few birds on the way. Bird highlights were Yuraygir National Park, near Wilson’s Point – hundreds of honeyeaters in the flowering banksias, and a Lewin’s Rail in a small patch of … Read more

This afternoon in a small patch of lowland rainforest on the Sunshine Coast near my home it was nice to find at least three White-eared Monarchs and two pairs of Logrunners holding territories. There had been some doubt about whether the monarch was a summer visitor to southeast Queensland and northeast NSW or a resident; … Read more

Hi Fellow Birders Driving from Emerald through Boulia along Plenty Hwy to Alice (17-20 Sep). Would appreciate any info re recent sighings and good spots to stop for birds. Returning via Mt Isa (1-4 Oct). I am not going out to twitch the Princesses but would love to go birding in and around Alice with … Read more

Dear All, A new group on Raptors has just gone on line. You can find it at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Raptor_conservation/ 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 ===============================