There is good evidence that both domestic and feral cats have a serious adverse impact on avifauna. Birds Queensland has produced a brochure that encourages people to better manage their cats. This brochure may be found and downloaded here: https://birdsqueensland.org.au/cat_safety_brochure.php Please download and use wisely. We feel that it is important not to be seen as … Read more

Please note that my email address and that of Hinterland Bush Links, has changed from wilderness@hotkey.net.au  to  sduncan@hinterlandbushlinks.org . The former address will expire shortly so please amend your records.   Best wishes Susie   Susie Duncan Coordinator, Hinterland Bush Links Inc. P.O. Box 31, Maleny QLD 4552 100 Wells Rd, Maleny 0448 447322 SKYPE … Read more

Indian Mynahs are a pestilence on much of Sydney’s suburbia. They can be virtually totally eliminated by blocking their nesting cavities, which are invariably under the eaves of houses, often via gutters. Trapping and wringing their necks (“euthanising”) is never ending, stopping them from breeding is permanent. In Suburbia it would be a big deal … Read more

Sorry about the escaped start of a message! Towards the end of a bird poor year​           12.30 in Tromsø on 16 November, grey and drizzly and daylight is already fading; in a week’s time we’ll enter the ‘mørketida’, the 2 months that the sun does not rise above the horizon. … Read more

White-throated Needletail 15 on Nov 14 at 1730 flying rapidly about over paddocks in humid cloudy conditions at Old Boonjie Road, Topaz, FNQ, our first of the season. Pacific Swift one two days earlier Nov 12, belting eastwards and in Innisfail before I had time to call it out!  3 over Nerada Tea Estate Nov … Read more