Hi Martin,
You could contact Birds Australia (Check out their website) and use one of
their images of their nesting WBSEs from Sydney Olympic Park. They have an
eagle cam which they take stills from. It's a great way to see the breeding
progress of the pair.
Cheers,
Amanda
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1. Northern Pintail at Erskine Lakes WA (Frank O"Connor)
2. Scarlet-chested Parrot
3. Biodiversity appears to be inversely proportional to seasonal
variation (Laurie Knight)
4. cetaceans eating birds (Laurie Knight)
5. Ashmore Reef 2010 (jenny spry)
6. Double-barred Finches, Alice Springs (Christopher Watson)
7. Re: Double-barred Finches, Alice Springs (bob gosford)
8. RFI sea-eagle
9. RE: [ozbirdpix] Barbary Doves Adelaide - message from Steve
Mannix (Tony Russell)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:41:16 +0800
From: "Frank O\"Connor" <>
Subject: Northern Pintail at Erskine Lakes WA
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Several people have been to see the bird this morning (Wed 21st). It
flushed and Alan Collins got a good photo of it in flight to confirm
that it is a female Northern Pintail.
Directions. Head down to Mandurah (about 1 hr south of Perth) and
take Mandurah Road over the new Mandurah Estuary Bridge. You will see
the lakes on your left but you can't turn left until about 1km at
Sticks Boulevard. Then turn left at Abbotswood Parkway and continue
until the end where you will see the lake.
This morning the bird was first located on the island to the right (I
walked left about 90% of the way around before I found it of
course!!). It then flew into that corner of the lake. Then it flew
away to the south. We walked over to a smaller lake with typha and
relocated it in the back corner behind the typha reeds.
It is quite nervous. It doesn't hang around with the other birds.
When black ducks swam close, it moved away.
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:42:24 +1000
From: Laurie Knight <>
Subject: Biodiversity appears to be inversely
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see: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720162314.htm
Temperature Constancy Appears Key to Tropical Biodiversity
ScienceDaily (July 20, 2010)
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:47:53 +1000
From: Laurie Knight <>
Subject: cetaceans eating birds
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Orcas, like humans are picky eaters
see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8828000/8828570.stm
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:58:35 +1000
From: jenny spry <>
Subject: Ashmore Reef 2010
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Hi all,
With all the talk about going to the outback this year, including mine, I
want to remind people of the Ashmore Reef trip. This year it is 16th
to 23rdOctober (I believe) and 2 of my birding friends are booked on
it. But it
seems there are still a couple of places available.
I did the trip last year and only wish I could do it again (other birds to
see this year). The boat is large, comfortable and you can either sleep in
an air-conditioned cabin or in one of four bunks on the main deck. I chose
the main deck because it was closer to the action. The food was brilliant
and the company better.
The other thing that never gets mentioned is the snorkelling. I have been to
Malaysia and the Great Barrier Reef and the lagoon at Ashmore leaves them
both for dead. Huge, brightly coloured corals, turtles, fish, giant clams
etc etc etc. It is superb! Take a mask and snorkle - flippers too if you
want but I didn't and found I didn't need them. It is all so compact that I
just drifted from place to place on the tide and didn't miss a thing.
Do I have shares in the boat or a commission on sales? No, I just want to
make sure the trip goes ahead and my two friends get to experience it all.
Oh, and like the outback at the moment ? the sea birds are in flocks of many
many thousands.
Cheers
Jenny
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:48:52 +0930
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Subject: Double-barred Finches, Alice Springs
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Just spoke to a local aviarist who has informed me that an entire aviary
full of Double-barred Finches numbering 26 individuals escaped from her
property in Gillen on the weekend. Given the conditions of the grasses
around town I'd say there is a good chance we may soon have a resident
population of these finches living alongside the Zebbies. Keep your eyes
peeled.
Chris Watson
Alice Springs
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:55:52 +0930
From: bob gosford <>
Subject: Double-barred Finches, Alice Springs
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Well, a few listers about town will get a free (out of range) tick...and the
resident Goshawks & Sparrowhawks will get a free feed!
On 22 July 2010 08:48, Christopher Watson <>wrote:
> Just spoke to a local aviarist who has informed me that an entire aviary
> full of Double-barred Finches numbering 26 individuals escaped from her
> property in Gillen on the weekend. Given the conditions of the grasses
> around town I'd say there is a good chance we may soon have a resident
> population of these finches living alongside the Zebbies. Keep your eyes
> peeled.
>
> Chris Watson
> Alice Springs
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:29:14 +1000
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A request for bird photographers.
I have been asked to provide/source an image showing a White-bellied
Sea-Eagle on a nest. The image would not be published and is for
conservation reasons only (in Victoria).
Would anyone who has such an image please send them to me with appropriate
acknowledgment advice.
cheers, Martin
Martin O'Brien
Wildlife Biologist - Threatened Species & Communities Section
Department of Sustainability and Environment
2/8 Nicholson St.,
East Melbourne 3002
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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:21:19 +0930
From: "Tony Russell" <>
Subject: RE: [ozbirdpix] Barbary Doves Adelaide -
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I was in the area on Monday and also saw a large number of Barbaries in the
Elizabeth Dove Tree at the back of the house. I reckon they are breeding up
nicely in the absence of anyone doing anything about them.
I didn't linger long as the tenant of the rental house looked a bit fierce,
probably well fed up with crazy birders gazing at his house and garden.
Tony
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Of Alistair McKeough
Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 9:56 AM
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Subject: [ozbirdpix] Barbary Doves Adelaide - message from Steve Mannix
Steve asked me to post the following for him:
I was in Adelaide for work on Wednesday 21st July, and with a little forward
planning and an early start I managed to get up to Sampson Road, Elizabeth
Grove to see the Barbary Doves. Normally I wouldn't trumpet such an
"ignoble tick", but for the fact that at one point, I counted 21 individual
Barbary Doves in the bare branches of the dead tree behind house number 30,
and there may have been several more. My search of the archives puts the
highest number to date at this location as 12 by Mike Carter in April 2009,
with just 6 recorded by Dion Hobcroft earlier this month. Observations were
made at 8:15 in the morning, with 15 Crested Pigeons, 6 Spotted Doves and up
to 10 Rock Doves also present in the same tree, which at one stage was
almost covered with pigeons and doves. I agree with Mike Carter's
observations from 2009 that all these birds appeared to be assembling as if
about to be fed.
Cheers,
Steve Mannix
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