At 09:50 AM 10/7/97 +1000, you wrote:
>I will be attending a conference in Perth next week and will have some free
>time, (probably most of one day and a half day). Does anyone know good
>birding sites in or near Perth. I may hire a car for one day, otherwise I
>will be restricted to public transport.
First I'd go to Allan Burbidge's web pages and then others from there -
http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~austecol/birds.html
Kings Park - central Perth
Lots of wildflowers at the moment
Singing, brown & New Holland ± white cheeked honeyeaters
Red wattlebirds, ± little wattlebird & western spinebills
28 parrots, ± Carnaby's cockatoo
Perry Lakes..... Herdsmans Lake etc
Call in at the RAOU office and purchase "Birding Sites Around Perth"
Perry House
71 Oceanic Dr
Floreat.
ph 9383 7749
Bibra Lake - Southern Perth Suburb
A southern suburbs of Perth
About a 12 km drive along the Kwinana Freeway.
(Take the Farrington Rd exit)
A good mixture of bush and water birds
Rottnest Island
You cannot come to Perth without visiting Rotto !
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Shane Raidal BVSc PhD MACVSc Avian Health
Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology
Department of Veterinary Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Murdoch University phone: +61 8 9360 2418
Perth,WA, 6150 fax: +61 8 9310 4144
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