Dear All,
Can someone point me in the direction of the definitive list of Australian
birds. It seems that the Field Guides have different numbers of species in
them, the Birds Australia checklist on the web seems out of date ( or has
birds like the SIPO and Spotted Whistling Duck not been officially accepted
yet) and Christifidis and Boles is now 8 years old.
Can someone from Birds Aust keep the rest of us upto date with BARC
deliberations (or does this already happen, if so where???)
regards
John Harris
From: Andrew Taylor <>
To: John <>
CC: "Birding-aus (E-mail)" <>
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Jack's 700th
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:24:57 +1000 (EST)
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, John wrote:
> I am short, however, of reliable site specific information for the
> following species: .... Chestnut-backed Button-quail
I recently (7/4) saw CBBQ on the Kakadu Highway ~2km E of Jim-Jim
creek, sadly this was just before it hit the grille of our vehicle.
A post-mortem photo is at:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewt/images/CBBQ.jpg
I took the photo because I was worried about the ID. The only book
I was carrying was Slater and it incorrectly, depicts CBBQ (and BBBQ)
with red eyes, not yellow.
> Red-chested Button-quail
On the same trip I saw a road killed button-quail which was probably
Red-chested (it wasn't in great condition). Didn't note the location
but it was on the Kakadu highway between Mary River and Cooinda.
Another sad (but inevitable) event of this trip was seeing for the
first time Cane Toads in Kakadu. They were breeding in Kambolgie creek
(on the Gunlom road), pictures for those interested at:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewt/images/toad_tadpoles.jpg
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewt/images/toad_metamorph.jpg
and at the same spot a no doubt worried local (Litoria meiriana,
a top end endemic):
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewt/images/litoria_meiriana.jpg
Andrew Taylor
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