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RE: Hybridisation of Corella species

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Subject: RE: Hybridisation of Corella species
From: "Burgoyne, Robert" <>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 11:58:08 +0930
I reported / questioned hybridisation of Long-billed and Little at the Alice 
Springs Ponds a couple of years ago (Long-billed escapees in mixed flocks with 
Little).  Glad to see I wasn't going mad!

Rob Burgoyne
RO Birds Aust
Southern NT

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re Badleys reserve (Jill & Sue)
   2. Hybridisation - Long-billed Corella / Little Corella      ???
      (Brian and Meg)
   3. Re: The Future of Birding Technology? (Peter Shute)
   4. Re: VicTwitch 2010 - Last gasp (Peter Shute)
   5. Re: Darwin Area Trip Report 26-30th Dec 2010 (Denise Goodfellow)
   6. Darwin Area Trip Report 26-30th Dec 2010 (Mark Stanley)
   7. Bush Stone Curlew Camera (Tom Sjolund)
   8. WA Twitchathon 2010 - Final Results (John Graff)
   9. Birding in Uganda (Richard Jordan)
  10. Re: Birding tips for US visit, (Helen Larson)
  11. Re: Bush Stone Curlew Camera (Keith Brandwood)
  12. Re: The Future of Birding Technology? (Dave Torr)
  13. Re: The Future of Birding Technology? (Carl Clifford)
  14. birding northern Victoria (moses moutin)
  15. First 2011 bird in Troms? (Vader Willem Jan Marinus)


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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:08:21 +1100
From: "Jill & Sue" <>
Subject: Re Badleys reserve
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Have looked at Google Maps and UBD and found Bradleys Reserve off the complex 
of streets accessed from the southern part of Fox Valley Rd not Kissing Point 
Rd.   Is this the location or is it a differently named park/reserve off 
Kissing Point?  We're keen to see the Gang-gangs

Jill Rossiter & Sue Casson



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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:47:48 +1000
From: "Brian and Meg" <>
Subject: Hybridisation - Long-billed Corella / Little
        Corella ???
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Happy New Year to everyone. Two days ago, we noticed a group of corellas on a 
bird-feeder at a friends' house in Samford, Q. At least 3 were definite 
Long-bills while most were LC's. However, about 5 seemed to be a mixture of the 
two - with beak length intermediate, more pink between eye & bill and throat 
pink patchy & sparse - the jizz just didn't seem to fit. Could this be possible 
& if so, is it common???
Brian & Meg Johnson

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:56:25 +1100
From: Peter Shute <>
Subject: The Future of Birding Technology?
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I think the task of automatic identification of birds is far harder than the 
examples of number plate recognition and eye scanning.

In those cases the subjects are all arranged facing the same way, and are of 
similar size. They'd have a poor success rate if the subjects were all 
different sizes, shapes and colours, facing any old direction, hiding in the 
undergrowth, etc. Compare the problem to what happens to a camera's face 
recognition focusing when the subjects turn sideways.

Rather than identifying species I'd be pretty happy for now if my camera could 
at least work out which part of the scene was a bird, and focus on it.

I assume the subject is tongue in cheek, but it's interesting that the incident 
that inspired it was one where his "fuddy duddy" id skills gave him the wrong 
answer (identifying a raptor from of photo).

He complained that in the field the bird would be moving, giving him more 
clues. Perhaps that's the real lesson from his article. If one feels one needs 
to see the bird's flight style to identify it, why try from a photo?

Peter Shute


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