Louise and I recently returned from a birding trip to eastern Turkey which was a fantastic experience. We had a target list of 51 potential life birds and managed to see 48 of them – and we had a very interesting time doing it as it is a fascinating country with breathtaking scenery. I have … Read more

For Sydney birdos who find it hard to get out on a Saturday pelagic, this is a heads up to let you know that we are trying to organising a trip for Friday 5 November, 2010 in addition to the scheduled trip on Saturday 13 November. If you think you might like to make this … Read more

Gooday Dean, Happy to be of assistance. Jon Wren =============================== 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 ===============================

Hi, Continuing on (and as promised), a quick video of Cassowary. I’ll be putting something more substantial together later. http://bird-o.com/2010/07/01/cassowary/ I had a question about the Canon 550D from Russell. Yes, a great bit of kit. Nice to have digital video in an SLR and to all intent and purpose, just as good as the … Read more

Geoff McDonald, who was with Clive Minton & Susan Taylor when this plover later ID’d as a Semi-palmated was discovered, advises that it was not seen when he was banding there on Monday 28 June. I suspect that the banders were concentrating on catching the waders on the isolated sand bar rather than looking for … Read more