In South Gippsland (Fish Creek) at the moment and over the past few days have
seen what appears to be a lone White Throated Needletail on three occasions.
Only feeble bins with me and its quite high, so ID not 100% Doesn't appear to
be a Hobby (Pizzey and Knight suggest this as a possibility). I can't recall
seeing a lone specimen before - any suggestions/comments (other than always
take the good bins with me).?
Cheers
Pat
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Today's Topics:
1. Tassie Birds and Rufous Bristlebird (Geoffrey Jones)
2. Buff-rumped Thornbill (Geoffrey Jones)
3. Bird Flu (Wendy)
4. Re: Bird Flu (Denise Goodfellow)
5. Re: Bird Flu (Tony Keene)
6. Re: Bird Flu (Carl Clifford)
7. Re: Bird Flu (Jeremy O'Wheel)
8. Ash Island Fire (Roger Giller)
9. Ash Island Fire (Roger Giller)
10. Do Blue-billed Ducks creche their young? (Dimitris Bertzeletos)
11. "Predicted" Message from John McGowan Possible Virus
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12. Re: "Predicted" Message from John McGowan Possible Virus
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13. Re: "Predicted" Message from John McGowan Possible Virus
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:40:38 +1100
From: "Geoffrey Jones" <>
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Subject: Tassie Birds and Rufous Bristlebird
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Good Afternoon Everyone
Nicked down to Western
Treatment Plant last Friday Afternoon to look for Banded Stilts but they
were a fair distance off so I took some photos of a lovely Australian
Spotted Crake near the bird hide. I stayed with a mate of mine on Friday
night and headed down to Point Addis early Sat morning and managed some nice
shots of Rufous Bristlebird as well as a group of Buff-breasted Thornbills.
I have also posted some more photos of my Tassie trip in Nov with 3 Robins
being seen Flame, Scarlet & Pink as well as Scrubtit. Here is my usual Link
http://barraimaging.com.au/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup
Kindest Regards
Geoff Jones
Barraimaging
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:41:29 +1100
From: "Geoffrey Jones" <>
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Subject: Buff-rumped Thornbill
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Been a long day, meant to say Buff-rumped Thornbill not Buff-breasted
Regards
Geoff Jones
Barraimaging
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:24:35 +1000
From: "Wendy" <>
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Subject: Bird Flu
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Hi all,
If you are feeling a bit hot, with today's warm weather, here is a way to make
your blood run cold, have a listen to the ABC Radio National Health Report
story about Bird Flu research.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/health-report-23-january-2012/3785124
Not only could this lead to the massive loss of wild and domestic birds, that
has already been the risk, now some bright sparks have worked out, and all but
published, HOW TO make the virus air transmissible in mammals with, I think
they said, SIXTY PERCENT mortality - FAR higher than the post WWI flu pandemic
had. This research was also undertaken in not highest safety labs.
I am all for free exchange of scientific knowledge, this is VERY scary.
Thankfully world scientists have taken action to try to keep this genie in its
bottle.
Wendy
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:59:12 +0930
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
To: Wendy <>, Birding Aus
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Subject: Bird Flu
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Just listening. Given the number of misbehaving scientists I've known or
know about I'm not as hopeful as you Wendy, on attempts to keep the genie in
the bottle.
Denise
on 23/1/12 5:54 PM, Wendy at wrote:
> Hi all,
> If you are feeling a bit hot, with today's warm weather, here is a way to make
> your blood run cold, have a listen to the ABC Radio National Health Report
> story about Bird Flu research.
> http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/health-report-23-jan
> uary-2012/3785124
>
> Not only could this lead to the massive loss of wild and domestic birds, that
> has already been the risk, now some bright sparks have worked out, and all but
> published, HOW TO make the virus air transmissible in mammals with, I think
> they said, SIXTY PERCENT mortality - FAR higher than the post WWI flu pandemic
> had. This research was also undertaken in not highest safety labs.
>
> I am all for free exchange of scientific knowledge, this is VERY scary.
> Thankfully world scientists have taken action to try to keep this genie in its
> bottle.
>
> Wendy
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:51:15 +0100
From: "Tony Keene" <>
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Subject: Bird Flu
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Personally, I would worry much more about H5N1 making the jump between birds
and mammals in China of its own accord. It's a fairly common practise there to
keep pigs and chickens in the same farm. Pigs are often receptive to avian flu,
but are also close enough to us that it allows any mutation in pigs to have a
high chance of being able to infect humans too.
Thankfully, we have considerably better healthcare systems in place than were
about in the 1918-19 epidemic, both in terms of containment and treatment.
Something also worth noting is that while a high percentage of cases of H5N1 in
people have resulted in mortality, the majority of those who contracted it were
immune-deficient in the first place, not only making it easier for them to
become infected, but also to succumb to it.
As for the risible claim that 'terrorists' can use this information (which the
US have been bandying around), they often tend to struggle in obtaining the
level of competitive funding needed to be able to do that level of lab work.
I'd say the US are more worried about a state player getting their hands on the
info.
Cheers,
Tony
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