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5. For info: two waders and Needletail now listed in Vict.
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6. Re: East Kew Cockatiel (Tony Russell)
7. Emu (Phil Gregory)
8. HBW Passerine Checklist (Phil Gregory)
9. Re: Emu (Stephen Ambrose)
10. Adani Carmichael mine - an unprecedented threat to birds
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11. Phuket Birding Tours/Guides
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:10:59 +1100
From: Bill Stent <>
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Subject: East Kew Cockatiel
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There was a Cockatiel calling from a pine in the Harrison Reserve opposite
Kew High School (in Melbourne) this morning. I assume it's an escapee.
Bill
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:03:01 +1030
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Why so Bill? They are known to be nomadic and move towards the coast in dry
seasons inland.
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There was a Cockatiel calling from a pine in the Harrison Reserve opposite
Kew High School (in Melbourne) this morning. I assume it's an escapee.
Bill
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:51:52 +1100
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Subject: East Kew Cockatiel
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G'day tones
I'm basing that purely on the fact that they're so unusual here, and that
they're reasonably commonly kept as caged birds.
Bill
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Why so Bill? They are known to be nomadic and move towards the coast in dry
seasons inland.
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There was a Cockatiel calling from a pine in the Harrison Reserve opposite
Kew High School (in Melbourne) this morning. I assume it's an escapee.
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:56:12 +1100
From: Martin Butterfield <>
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Also, it hasn't been a dry season inland!
Martin
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On 9 December 2016 at 08:51, Bill Stent <> wrote:
G'day tones
I'm basing that purely on the fact that they're so unusual here, and that
they're reasonably commonly kept as caged birds.
Bill
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Why so Bill? They are known to be nomadic and move towards the coast in
dry
seasons inland.
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Subject: East Kew Cockatiel
There was a Cockatiel calling from a pine in the Harrison Reserve
opposite
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Bill
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:56:24 +1100
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Dear all, some conservation legislation news from Victoria.
The Eastern Curlew, Curlew Sandpiper and White-throated Needletail have
now been formally added to the 'Threatened List' under the Flora and Fauna
Guarantee Act (FFG Act).
If anyone would like to obtain a copy of the FFG Act Scientific Advisory
Committee recommendation reports for any of these items then let me know.
cheers
Martin
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Executive Officer Flora and Fauna Guarantee Scientific Advisory Committee
Biodiversity Division - Environment Programs
Energy and Climate Change
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
8 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 09:55:59 +1030
From: "Tony Russell" <>
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Maybe it?s a contrary bird and is being nomadic during a wet inland, or maybe
it?s annoyed that the East/west expressway got cancelled. Perhaps it should
have gone to Specsavers.
From: Bill Stent
Sent: 09 December 2016 08:22
To: Tony Russell
Cc:
Subject: East Kew Cockatiel
G'day tones
I'm basing that purely on the fact that they're so unusual here, and that
they're reasonably commonly kept as caged birds.
Bill
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Tony Russell <> wrote:
Why so Bill? They are known to be nomadic and move towards the coast in dry
seasons inland.
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Sent: 09 December 2016 07:41
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Subject: East Kew Cockatiel
There was a Cockatiel calling from a pine in the Harrison Reserve opposite
Kew High School (in Melbourne) this morning. I assume it's an escapee.
Bill
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 09:07:15 +1000
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Sadly Emu has become just another avenue for prospective scientists to build
their careers by publishing socio-biology papers, and widening the scope away
from Australia was I think a very bad idea, one of the reasons I am not going
to resubscribe from 2017. Ditto for Ibis in the UK where the BOU has been taken
over by career bureaucrats and some of the founding motivations such as
reviewing the British List are no longer considered worthwhile. The more
general readership has been progressively excluded in both publications as
statistics and socio-biology take over everything. Still, the money I save can
go to some of the more toothsome bird books now emerging.
Phil Gregory
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 09:20:48 +1000
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I am just reviewing the galley proofs for my forthcoming Field Guide to the
Birds of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago for Lynx Edicions, and I was
lucky enough to get a preview of some of the relevant passerine texts in the
forthcoming Lynx Passerines Checklist. Now this promises to be a very
stimulating treatment, with many poorly known taxa reviewed and elevated to
species rank, though as expected they have ducked the really hard ones like the
break up the (Not so) Little Shrike-thrush, Island Thrush and Trumpet Manucode,
where the Tobias morphological criteria simply don?t work or it?s in the too
hard basket.
Still, here in Australia we can look forward to seeing White-quilled
Honeyeater, Golden-backed Honeyeater, Brown Whistler and quite a few regional
splits. I am very pleased to see the splitting of Eastern Hooded and Biak
Hooded Pitta, Morotai Pitta, The break up of Red-bellied Pitta into 7 in the
New Guinea region (ours is Papuan by the way), Rennell Gerygone, the retention
of Biak Gerygone (yay!), Biak Myzomela,, Biak Fantail, the resurrection of the
venerable Djaul Monarch, Long-billed Myzomela and Obi Paradise Crow. The
special offer is open until Dec 15 so I?d have a look at the Lynx website and
go from there.
Phil Gregory
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 12:43:37 +1100
From: "Stephen Ambrose" <>
To: "'Phil Gregory'" <>,
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Subject: Emu
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Personally, I'm not too worried about the current thematic content of the
Emu or other ornithological journals. Scientific journals often reflect
dominant or popular research fields at the times of publication. Journal
editors also influence the themes by encouraging the publication of papers
in their own field of interest or expertise. Examples of dominant themes
that have been published in the Emu in the past include taxonomy and
systematics, evolutionary ecology, community ecology, habitat requirements
of species, ethology, ecological responses to environmental changes, bird
conservation, just to name a few. Sociobiology is just one of the latest
themes to feature in the Emu (which I personally find interesting). There
will be other dominant themes in the future as directions in ornithological
research change over time and one journal editor passes the baton onto
another.
However, I do share the concern about widening the geographical scope of Emu
to research beyond Australasia. It dilutes ones opportunity to learn about
Australasian ornithology. Supporters of the current format may argue that
there are so many more journals available internationally in which to
publish the results of Australian ornithological research compared with 20
or 30 years ago, so it does not matter if it is not published in the Emu or
elsewhere, but not everybody has the time or resources to follow this
literature, or even know where to look.
Kind regards,
Stephen
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde, NSW
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Sadly Emu has become just another avenue for prospective scientists to build
their careers by publishing socio-biology papers, and widening the scope
away from Australia was I think a very bad idea, one of the reasons I am not
going to resubscribe from 2017. Ditto for Ibis in the UK where the BOU has
been taken over by career bureaucrats and some of the founding motivations
such as reviewing the British List are no longer considered worthwhile. The
more general readership has been progressively excluded in both publications
as statistics and socio-biology take over everything. Still, the money I
save can go to some of the more toothsome bird books now emerging.
Phil Gregory
<> ornithological writer/tour
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/ Cassowary Tours PO Box 387 Kuranda QLD 4881 Australia
Ph: +61 7 40 937 318
Email: <>
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<http://www.sicklebillsafaris.com/> OR www.birder.travel
<http://www.birder.travel/> Website 2: http://www.cassowary-house.com.au
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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 20:36:28 +1100
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Hi BA
The enormous, polluting Adani Carmichael coal mine proposal is possibly the
biggest threat to our birds and wildlife that we have yet seen.
The emissions from this mine will cancel out all our emissions reductions.
Basically, everything you've ever done to reduce your carbon footprint will
be a waste if this mine goes ahead.
It is predicted that the emissions from this mine will send global
temperature over 2 degrees above normal. Read more here:
http://envlaw.com.au/carmichael-coal-mine-case/ This is an impossible
scenario for many of our birds.
Luckily, Get Up are involved. As are just about every environmental
organisation in Australia including ACF, 350 Australia, Greenpeace and
traditional owners. We will need every bit of help from everyone to win
this. You can donate to Get Up here:
https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/great-barrier-reef--3/adani-war-chest/fund-the-fight-against-adani
or ACF here: https://www.acf.org.au/donate
Thanks, Janine
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 17:57:18 +0800
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G?day everyone,
We?ve got a week?s holiday booked in Phuket next June and I wanted to sneak in
a day?s birding with a local guide while we?re over there.
Does anyone have any recommendations for local guides to use?
Also, any recommendations on a good Field Guide for Thailand?
It will be our first time birding over there so we have no targets, would just
like to see as much as we can fit in in a day.
Cheers,
Ross
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