Owlet Nightjar in rainforest near Lamington National Park
I was surprised to see an owlet nightjar in a hollow in the rainforest near
O'Reilly's guest house last week - I've been visiting O'R for almost 30 years
now and it's the first time I've seen one there (which isn't to say they
haven;t been there all along)
Cheers
Ronda
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:19:29 +1000
> From: "Greg Roberts" <>
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] sunshine coast pelagic
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> We have a couple of spots to fill before we have the required numbers for
> the inaugural Sunshine Coast pelagic, which had to be postponed from last
> week. Cost $120. Greg Roberts
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:19:40 +1000
> From: "Andrew Thelander" <>
> To: "'Tom Tarrant'" <>, "'Birding-aus'"
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Rare bird alert
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> Tom
>
> The Red Cross is an excellent idea. Perhaps in due course the Wild Bird
> Society of Japan & others will seek funding for some conservation
> restoration work on Honshu.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Rare bird alert
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>
>
> OK, sorry I lied but I know you will forgive me, SE Australia has had
> record unbelievable floods, Christchurch was torn-down by an earthquake but
> what has happened in Japan defies description....
>
> Most Australian birders have contacts with their counterparts in
> Japan.....what can we do to help? We've all seen images of homeless people
> with nowhere to sleep, no food and no fuel to escape the freezing conditions
> but to cap it all their nuclear power-stations are threatening to make their
> regions uninhabitable.....I'm sure that we can do something to help,
>
> C'mon Birding-Aus, ideas? let's get our heads together...I know we can do
> do something!
>
> Tom
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> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:10:13 +1000
> From: Jill Dening <>
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Needletails in Caloundra, SEQ
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> To Mike Tarburton, about 20 Needletails over the Caloundra Sandbanks
> this morning at 09.40am.
> S 26.810314
> E 153.129950
>
> They sure work well as an alarm. I looked up from counting shorebirds,
> having just finished. Needletails were quartering the intertidal
> sandbanks just about ground level, then sweeping higher for another run.
> My kayak was covered in little insects, no doubt brought down low by the
> atmospheric depression. I saw the black clouds, realised the Needletails
> were running in front of them, and said, "Let's get out of here." We
> just got the kayaks on the car roofs as the heavy rain began at 10.00am.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jill
> --
> Jill Dening
> Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
>
> 26? 51' 41"S 152? 56' 00"E
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:59:21 +1000
> From: Kath_Dave <>
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Gull-billed affinis in NT
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> Just to confirm Denise's comments re this subspecies in NT.
> I just checked the Leanyer/Lee Point, Darwin records, which are
> continual records from 1974. First record of affinis is in November
> 1978, thereafter, they occur each year.
> (Records ceased at end of 1986.) Although principally seen during the
> wet season months, there were also some records in July and August.
>
> Kath Shurcliff
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:56:23 +1000
> From: "Brian and Meg" <>
> To: <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Binoculars
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> Hi all. Does anyone know where in Australia I can purchase Barr & Stroud?
> Thanks. Brian
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:58:24 +0000
> From: Vader Willem Jan Marinus <>
> To: birding-aus <>, "Ebn "
> <>, birdchat <>
> Cc: "" <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Three weeks in Thailand 3. Shorebirds
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>
> THREE WEEKS IN THAILAND 3. SHOREBIRDS
>
>
>
> After our return to Bangkok the next day would be the day of the shorebirds.
> We drove SSW out of Bangkok, close to the Gulf of Siam, through an area that
> now primarily seemed to be in use as salt-fields. Lots of people worked on
> the field, their most colourful clothes giving a bit of colour to the
> otherwise mostly black and white scenery; the people carried heavy loads of
> salt, seemingly just from A to B, often from a myriad of smaller piles to a
> much larger one. It was a hot day, and it must have been exceedingly hot and
> heavy work. Black-winged Stilts were very common here; their long legs allow
> them to exploit lagoons with more water than the other shorebirds.
>
>
>
> initially, at our first stop, I was somewhat disappointed, as most of the
> shorebirds here were far away, and we had to look at them throught the
> telescope. A new swiflet, German's Swiftlet, overhead, compensated: birders
> are never downhearted for long! But later when we walked along the narrow
> dams, and in to the area ourselves, we got much much better views, in the
> afternoon also in wonderful light. And this is a paradise for shorebirds!
>
>
>
> Large numbers of dainty Marsh Sandpipers, and the somewhat confusing Greater
> and Lesser Sandplovers dot the lagoons, Curlew Sandpipers stand to their
> bellies in the water, while Red-necked Stints dribble around and Kentish
> Plovers run around, often along the dikes. We had the great pleasure here of
> the assistance of local guru Mr Tee, who knows these lagoons like the back of
> his hand, and he knew also a place where we could find and admire one of the
> grand prizes of any Thailand trip, the enigmatic and rapidly decreasing
> Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Somehow I had expected these birds not to be quite so
> small as they turned out to be; but we could see them well, and admire their
> strange spoonbill at length. In my youth I have participated in Holland in
> annual camps studying 'Shorebirds and Bottom fauna' (where I was the
> bottomfauna specialist while my bird observations always were received with a
> cetain scepticism by my ornithologist colleagues), and I tried therefore hard
> to see
,
> whether these birds used their very specialized-looking bill in any special
> way---but I could discover nothing of the kind: the birds seem to obtain most
> of their food by surface picking and very shallow drilling.
>
>
>
> Nor were these the only shorebirds here. I have never seen so many
> Broad-billed Sandpipers in one place, Great Knots were present in some
> numbers, somewhere a large flock of Eurasian Curlews flew in, and a little
> later a smaller flock of Terek Sandpipers whistled past. Common Greenshanks
> were indeed quite coomon., but Common Redshanks few and far between, even
> outnumbered by the still winter-pale Spotted Redshanks, as usual foraging in
> quite deep water. Here and there a Grey Plover, looking dispirited as always,
> a small group of the long-billed Barred Godwits, a lone Dunlin, already with
> its summer black-belly patch, and a few Ruffs, those still in full winter
> plumage. We also found one or two Turnstones and even a single Sanderling,
> far from its beloved sandy beaches
>
> Of special interest for me were the Long-toed Stints, which I only ever had
> seen on their breeding marshes in Siberia; they turned out to be quite easy
> to identify, darker and 'more upright' than the Red-necked Stints. And a
> completely new bird for me was Nordmann's Greenshank, a very light-coloured
> bird, and clearly different from the larger and sturdier Common Greenshank.
>
>
>
> Whiskered Terns and Brown-hooded Gulls were the common larids here, but there
> were also a few Little and Common Terns, and mr Tee found us even an
> immaculate Slender-billed Gull. White-throated and Collared Kingfishers
> hunted from the wires, and of course the salt ponds also hold the usual
> herons, egrets and pond-herons; here we saw our first Javan Pond Heron in
> almost summer plumage, and a Black-crowned Night Heron in one of the few
> mangrove stands left; these also held the sweet-voiced little songbird that
> one can call either the poetic Golden-bellied Gerygone or the definitely more
> prozaic Flyeater. A very dark Peregrine flew lazily overhead.
>
>
>
> We proceeded to an excellent seafood restaurant, where a dream came true for
> me, as they had a large tank with horseshoe crabs. I have since found that
> this is Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, the Mangrove Horseshoe Crab, one of the
> only 4 species of extant horseshoe crabs, a group that are true 'living
> fossils', the rests of a once mighty and dominant animal group in the seas.
>
>
>
> We had still another adventure to come this day, a boat trip to the by now
> famous sandspit of Laem Pak Bin. We started through the mangroves, not
> finding any rails, but in an area full of fiddler crabs, large mangrove crabs
> and mud skippers. As soon as we came out of the mangrove, we found many
> egrets on a mudbank, one of them an unmistakable representative of the quite
> uncommon Chinese Egret, again one of the birds everybody had hoped to see
> here. A lone Whimbrel also added to the impressive day list of shorebirds. We
> motored on to the sandspit, where a large group of loafing terns contained
> both Crested, Lesser Crested and Caspian Terns. Crested Terns followed our
> boat and hunted the small fish (probably Halfbeaks Hemirhamphus, that
> skittered over the surface in the shallower areas). On the sandbank itself,
> where I as always was heavily distracted by all the shells, Sepia-shields and
> other marine animals (Once a marine biologist , always a marine biologist),
> all attention
o
> therwise was on the famous plovers of this sandspit, the uncommon Malaysian
> Plover and the only recently rediscovered White-faced Plover Charadrius
> dealbatus. These were duly found, and we could admire them in peace.
> Sanderlings ran along the waterline, and a few Eastern Reef Herons completed
> our heron list.
>
>
>
> A very rich and long day, ending at the most luxurious hotel of the entire
> trip, in Hue Bin (Even so, we all got a present in our rooms, with the
> cmanagement's excuses for not having us in an even more luxurious place!)
>
>
>
> The last bit will be about the Kaen Krachang park, our last experience.
>
>
>
> Wim
> Vader, Troms? Museum
>
>
> 9037 Troms?, Norway
>
>
> <>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:02:41 +1100
> From: Graham Buchan <>
> To: Vader Willem Jan Marinus <>
> Cc: birdchat <>, ""
> <>, birding-aus <>,
> "Ebn
> " <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Three weeks in Thailand 3. Shorebirds
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Great stuff as always, Wim!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham Buchan
>
> On 19/03/2011, at 9:58 PM, Vader Willem Jan Marinus wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> THREE WEEKS IN THAILAND 3. SHOREBIRDS
>>
>>
>>
>> After our return to Bangkok the next day would be the day of the shorebirds.
>> We drove SSW out of Bangkok, close to the Gulf of Siam, through an area that
>> now primarily seemed to be in use as salt-fields. Lots of people worked on
>> the field, their most colourful clothes giving a bit of colour to the
>> otherwise mostly black and white scenery; the people carried heavy loads of
>> salt, seemingly just from A to B, often from a myriad of smaller piles to a
>> much larger one. It was a hot day, and it must have been exceedingly hot and
>> heavy work. Black-winged Stilts were very common here; their long legs allow
>> them to exploit lagoons with more water than the other shorebirds.
>>
>>
>>
>> initially, at our first stop, I was somewhat disappointed, as most of the
>> shorebirds here were far away, and we had to look at them throught the
>> telescope. A new swiflet, German's Swiftlet, overhead, compensated: birders
>> are never downhearted for long! But later when we walked along the narrow
>> dams, and in to the area ourselves, we got much much better views, in the
>> afternoon also in wonderful light. And this is a paradise for shorebirds!
>>
>>
>>
>> Large numbers of dainty Marsh Sandpipers, and the somewhat confusing Greater
>> and Lesser Sandplovers dot the lagoons, Curlew Sandpipers stand to their
>> bellies in the water, while Red-necked Stints dribble around and Kentish
>> Plovers run around, often along the dikes. We had the great pleasure here of
>> the assistance of local guru Mr Tee, who knows these lagoons like the back
>> of his hand, and he knew also a place where we could find and admire one of
>> the grand prizes of any Thailand trip, the enigmatic and rapidly decreasing
>> Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Somehow I had expected these birds not to be quite
>> so small as they turned out to be; but we could see them well, and admire
>> their strange spoonbill at length. In my youth I have participated in
>> Holland in annual camps studying 'Shorebirds and Bottom fauna' (where I was
>> the bottomfauna specialist while my bird observations always were received
>> with a cetain scepticism by my ornithologist colleagues), and I tried
>> therefore hard to se
e
> , whether these birds used their very specialized-looking bill in any special
> way---but I could discover nothing of the kind: the birds seem to obtain most
> of their food by surface picking and very shallow drilling.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nor were these the only shorebirds here. I have never seen so many
>> Broad-billed Sandpipers in one place, Great Knots were present in some
>> numbers, somewhere a large flock of Eurasian Curlews flew in, and a little
>> later a smaller flock of Terek Sandpipers whistled past. Common Greenshanks
>> were indeed quite coomon., but Common Redshanks few and far between, even
>> outnumbered by the still winter-pale Spotted Redshanks, as usual foraging in
>> quite deep water. Here and there a Grey Plover, looking dispirited as
>> always, a small group of the long-billed Barred Godwits, a lone Dunlin,
>> already with its summer black-belly patch, and a few Ruffs, those still in
>> full winter plumage. We also found one or two Turnstones and even a single
>> Sanderling, far from its beloved sandy beaches
>>
>> Of special interest for me were the Long-toed Stints, which I only ever had
>> seen on their breeding marshes in Siberia; they turned out to be quite easy
>> to identify, darker and 'more upright' than the Red-necked Stints. And a
>> completely new bird for me was Nordmann's Greenshank, a very light-coloured
>> bird, and clearly different from the larger and sturdier Common Greenshank.
>>
>>
>>
>> Whiskered Terns and Brown-hooded Gulls were the common larids here, but
>> there were also a few Little and Common Terns, and mr Tee found us even an
>> immaculate Slender-billed Gull. White-throated and Collared Kingfishers
>> hunted from the wires, and of course the salt ponds also hold the usual
>> herons, egrets and pond-herons; here we saw our first Javan Pond Heron in
>> almost summer plumage, and a Black-crowned Night Heron in one of the few
>> mangrove stands left; these also held the sweet-voiced little songbird that
>> one can call either the poetic Golden-bellied Gerygone or the definitely
>> more prozaic Flyeater. A very dark Peregrine flew lazily overhead.
>>
>>
>>
>> We proceeded to an excellent seafood restaurant, where a dream came true for
>> me, as they had a large tank with horseshoe crabs. I have since found that
>> this is Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda, the Mangrove Horseshoe Crab, one of
>> the only 4 species of extant horseshoe crabs, a group that are true 'living
>> fossils', the rests of a once mighty and dominant animal group in the seas.
>>
>>
>>
>> We had still another adventure to come this day, a boat trip to the by now
>> famous sandspit of Laem Pak Bin. We started through the mangroves, not
>> finding any rails, but in an area full of fiddler crabs, large mangrove
>> crabs and mud skippers. As soon as we came out of the mangrove, we found
>> many egrets on a mudbank, one of them an unmistakable representative of the
>> quite uncommon Chinese Egret, again one of the birds everybody had hoped to
>> see here. A lone Whimbrel also added to the impressive day list of
>> shorebirds. We motored on to the sandspit, where a large group of loafing
>> terns contained both Crested, Lesser Crested and Caspian Terns. Crested
>> Terns followed our boat and hunted the small fish (probably Halfbeaks
>> Hemirhamphus, that skittered over the surface in the shallower areas). On
>> the sandbank itself, where I as always was heavily distracted by all the
>> shells, Sepia-shields and other marine animals (Once a marine biologist ,
>> always a marine biologist), all attentio
n
> otherwise was on the famous plovers of this sandspit, the uncommon Malaysian
> Plover and the only recently rediscovered White-faced Plover Charadrius
> dealbatus. These were duly found, and we could admire them in peace.
> Sanderlings ran along the waterline, and a few Eastern Reef Herons completed
> our heron list.
>>
>>
>>
>> A very rich and long day, ending at the most luxurious hotel of the entire
>> trip, in Hue Bin (Even so, we all got a present in our rooms, with the
>> cmanagement's excuses for not having us in an even more luxurious place!)
>>
>>
>>
>> The last bit will be about the Kaen Krachang park, our last experience.
>>
>>
>>
>> Wim
>> Vader, Troms? Museum
>>
>>
>> 9037 Troms?, Norway
>>
>>
>> <>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:27:42 +0000
> From: Vader Willem Jan Marinus <>
> To: birding-aus <>, "Ebn "
> <>, birdchat <>
> Cc: "" <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Three weeks in Thailand 4
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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>
>
> THREE WEEKS IN THAILAND 4. KAEN KRACHANG NP
>
>
>
> The last days of our VENT trip we spent in Kaen Krachang NP, a large forested
> area with only 2 roads and also quite few tracks. We stayed at a
> countryclub-like place outside the park, where our rooms were so far from the
> reception and restaurant, that we had to be transported by golf carts.
> Interesting rooms, as they contained a small zoo, it turned out: in my room
> there were three frogs of two different species, a very large flat spider,
> the usual small gekkos, and their predator, the tokeh, who announced his
> presence now and then with a loud 'gekko' (or 'tokeh'). In a loudspeaker in
> he restaurant a Hoopoe nested and had two small, but already crested young,
> and close to our room a nightjar sat on its eggs (?); more thorough studies
> showed that it was not the Large-tailed Nightjar that we heard a lot around
> here, but an Indian Nightjar.
>
> Also outside the park proper is Ban Nok San, a place where a retired
> school-teacher has created a bird paradise by constructing a few pools and
> feeding regularly. There is a lee-screen from behind which one can observe
> the birds. Easy birding, this: one sits on a stool and peers through the
> holes, and lots of birds come and show themselves. There were Greater and
> Lesser Necklaced Laughing Thrushes, Siberian Blue Robin, Tickell's Blue
> Flycatcher, Abbott's Babbler, Buff-brested Babbler, and both Large and
> White-browed Scimitar Babbler. Red Jungle Fowl was a common visitor, and even
> the otherwise so shy Bar-backed Partridge could here be watched at leisure.
> There were also mammals here, Indochinese Ground Squirrel and Northern Tree
> Shrew, all clearly habituated to this place.
>
>
>
> The park itself was a wonderful and wild place, full of colourful
> butterflies. One had to leave own transport at the gate, and we were within
> the park transported in open 'bakkies', a bit of a problem now and then, as
> we had several thunderstorms; fortunately things dry out quite quickly in
> these temperatures. We entered the first day through the one road, and found
> two bull elephants. Otherwise also here there were various squirrels, and the
> constant gibbon song, but this park also had two species of leaf monkeys, the
> common Dusky and the rarer Banded, and we watched both in their very
> hazardous-looking 'long jumps' from tree to tree. A very large fruit tree
> that we had found the first afternoon, and which we hoped would be full of
> fruit-eating birds the next morning, was instead full of monkeys. There still
> were many leafbirds, fairy bluebirds and barbets, but the hornbills were
> clearly not willing to land there, as long as there were so many monkeys, and
> there were also
f
> ewer pigeons than usual, although we did find the uncommon Yellow-vented
> Pigeon (besides the often common Thick-billed Pigeon), and had close ups of a
> calling Mountain Imperial Pigeon.
>
>
>
> Kaen Krachang was also the area for the broadbills for us this time. Earlier
> we had had several chances to admire the Long-tailed Broadbill, but here we
> found first the exquisite Silver-breasted Broadbill, and the next day the
> chunky Dusky Broadbill, almost a caricature of a bird. On the last day we
> chased also the Black-and-Yellow Broadbill for a long time, but although we
> heard its very characteristic 'boiling kettle' call all around us, we never
> got to see the birds themselves. But we did succeed in seeing the Green
> Magpie (A bird I missed so often during an earlier trip to Buthan, that I
> started doubting that it really existed), as well as the very
> uncommon-looking Ratchet-tailed Magpie, living here in an isolated local
> population. And of course also here we had a new flycatcher and a few more
> bulbuls, as well as the nice Spot-necked Babbler and lour first
> Orange-bellied Leafbird.
>
>
>
> All in all this has been a wonderful trip, and I have seen many more birds
> than I ever could have found by myself. Many thanks Dion and Mike, and also
> Jane, Linda, Pamela, Sharon, David, Jim and Mike, who all showed me birds I
> had not found by myself and who also were such good company!
>
>
>
>
> Wim Vader, Troms? Museum
>
>
> 9037 Troms?, Norway
>
>
> <>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:08:08 +1000
> From: "Greg Roberts" <>
> To: <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Sunshine coast pelagic
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> In my recent post I neglected in put in the date for the inaugural Sunshine
> Coast pelagic trip - it is next Saturday, March 26.
> Greg Roberts
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:42:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Cheryl Ridge <>
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] RFI - Western Australia, mainly south west
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Hi folks
>
> We are at a loose end about what to do with some leave coming up
> end of March (yes, soon!). I had wondered if Perth (fly/drive)
> might be a good option, even though we would miss whales and
> wildflower season.
>
> I have had a quick look at Frank O'connor's site but to me it
> is all just place names at the moment and I have no idea about
> the roads/conditions (sealed versus unsealed etc).
>
> We are not diehard "twitchers" but I do love nature/wildlife
> photography and therefore would need to look at the
> trip for general sightseeing as well as some birding!
>
> Would love to hear people's thoughts on a sample itinerary
> for 7-8 days. And some honest opinions on whether we would
> need to hire a 4wd/camper to enable access to certain areas
> or whether a normal small hire car + motels/cabins would be the
> way to go. Hire companies don't seem to allow cars onto
> unsealed roads??
>
> In addition to Perth and south-west we would love to take
> a drive to the Pinnacles Desert and Lake Thetis too.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Cheryl Ridge
>
>
>
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