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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:00:01 +1000
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Today's Topics:
1. Eastern Osprey, Wedgetailed Eagle and others (Geoffrey Jones)
2. re golden bower bird (neil mcfarlane)
3. Emperor Penguin Taken into Captivity (Simon Mustoe)
4. Re: Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos in Collingwood/Greater
Melbourne (michael norris)
5. Re: re golden bower bird (martin cachard)
6. Emperor Penguin Taken into Captivity (Robert Inglis)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:46:14 +1000
From: "Geoffrey Jones" <>
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Eastern Osprey, Wedgetailed Eagle and others
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Good Afternoon Everyone
I have nearly finished my
photos from my recent trip up to Cape York to photograph the
Golden-shouldered Parrot and two of the highlights from this trip were a
pair of Ospreys which had built their nest 3 times before succeeding in
not
breaking a limb. Also an old adult Wedge-tailed Eagle who just sat in a
tree
while we got out of the car and let us take heaps of shots as he had a
full
crop as you can see in the photos. On another note I stayed at Kingfisher
Park at Julatten, to and from my Cape York trip and photographed some
really
quality birds there, as well as seeing a Red-necked Crake. Things are
pretty
quite up in that neck of the woods at the moment and anybody
contemplating a
trip into that area could do far worse than to stay at the Lodge as
Keith
and Lindsey are fantastic hosts.
Anyway here is my usual link but also have a look at my homepage as we
have
just put up a slideshow which still needs a bit of fine tuning and I
would
be interested in any comments
http://barraimaging.com.au/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup
<http://barraimaging.com.au/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0>
&cat=0
Kindest Regards
Geoff Jones
Barraimaging
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:58:07 -0700
From: "neil mcfarlane" <>
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] re golden bower bird
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I?m up in north qld ticking off so many birds from a list I have yet to
see, but can not seem to find a golden bower bird. Can someone suggest a
location
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:54:22 +1000
From: Simon Mustoe <>
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Emperor Penguin Taken into Captivity
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Hi,
No sooner had we got SMS, Twitter and other messages out about the
Emperor Penguin and ash clouds had cleared, it seems that perhaps the
biggest potential rarity of the year for ANYWHERE in the world, has been
taken into captivity.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/5185989/Ailing-Kapiti-emperor-penguin-rescued
Read about the bird's find on Bird-O:
http://bird-o.com/2011/06/23/why-penguins-are-one-seventh-as-popular-as-the-weather/
Regards,
Simon.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:43:27 +1000
From: "michael norris" <>
To: "Tim Dolby" <>, <>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos in
Collingwood/Greater Melbourne
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Thanks, Tim, for getting all those records off the computer.
With my Councillor duties I am struggling to keep up the Bayside Friends
of
Native Wildlife database - let alone forward them to the Atlas etc. (I
know,
I know, I should). Maybe that's why there are none from here in your
list.
Anyhow I've had a look at the records and, excluding YTBCs flying over
(some
more in 2003):
- there was one record in 2003
- 32 records in 2009 from 10 of the 18 areas into which we have divided
Bayside (with a maximum count of 40)
- 19 records in 2010 from 9 areas (max 28)
- 4 so far in 2011 from 3 areas (max 30)
I think these generally support what you and Peter Menkhorst wrote with
perhaps a lessening of numbers as conditions improve post-fire.
June was by far the peak month (18 out of 57 records) with Jan and Feb
the
only months without records. The Reader's Digest book gives the breeding
season in the south as being from July to Jan and the species might have
been breeding here/nearby (I had no clue that there were two pairs of
Long-billed Corellas nesting 400m away in Canary Island Palms until I
heard
they were disturbed by tree work!).
Pines were associated with 4 of the 22 records of feeding association
with
trees, the rest relating mainly to gums and wattles, with one on hakeas.
But, as you say, there is observer bias. 7 of the 57 records are from my
Hampton home (in a Major Activity Centre near the station) and they have
probably been to the nearby Sugar Gums and certainly to a big wattle
(from
the Otways I am told) over our drive on 6 occasions.
One got a huge grub 3 weeks ago. Small branches falling ever since.
Michael Norris
Bayside Friends of Native Wildlife
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bayfonw/ and on Facebook
