Niven, I am very interested in this observation you made...I am actually writing up a small note on the Freckled ducks in the NT, it is not finish so we can...
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Maria Bellio
Maria.Bellio@...
Feb 2, 2003 11:36 pm
Niven, I have this address in the contact database of the NCTWR (Natioanl Center forTropical Wetland Research). I am not sure if it is updated but try: ...
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Potts, Roger
Roger.Potts@...
Feb 2, 2003 11:54 pm
Notables for the Tanami
Another new record for the Tanami 20, 129 - 1 Curlew Sandpiper in amongst 5 Sharp-tailed Sandpipers. Would have turned up here...
I have seen Common Terns regularly at Lee Point in recent weeks. I haven't seen any this season at the sewage works....
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david donato
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Feb 5, 2003 9:26 am
Hi all, I have two Black-eared Records. Two birds on Daly River 29/06/02 with Roger Potts. One record 1993 dry season at the window on the wetlands. David D...
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david donato
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Feb 5, 2003 9:27 am
Hi all, Oriental Cuckoo is 'reasonably common' around Matarranka Hot Springs and Elsey Park at the end of the wet season particularly early April. I have seen...
Hi All If you are wondering where many great birds are - Darwin River Dam is the place to go. Great Bowerbirds, Great Crested Grebe (at least 6) and Great...
Hi all Interesting about the Great-crested Grebes at Darwin River Dam at the weekend. I've made a couple of trips there in the past few months and not seen...
Richard and I took a little trip down the Marrakai Track at the weekend. Of interest for the time of year were: Black Falcon Red-backed Kingfisher (moderately...
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Peter Wilkins
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Feb 10, 2003 8:44 am
Hello Niven, I have observed RB Kingfishers on the Surprise Falls track in Litchfield NP, only seen during the dry as it is not possible to get there during...
A friend of mine has asked me to help him find the answer to the following question: how do ducks know when it has rained hundreds - and even thousands - of...
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jestbergs@...
Feb 11, 2003 4:55 am
I am not sure about this one locally. Here is some food for thought . I heard a discussion at CSIRO some years ago where the question was asked about the...
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Richard Noske
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Feb 11, 2003 8:08 am
Hi Johnny having just quicky scanned your email, I'd have this to say (without engaging the grey mnatter too much you understand - having just listened to...
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Robert Read
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Feb 11, 2003 1:14 pm
Living in an arid area the sudden appearance of birds after rain is a perennial coffee time and campfire topic. One notable thing here is that budgerigars...
Hi all I've had a couple of interesting reports in the last day or so. One was of a Star Finch at Knuckeys, just near the carpark. I went down this afternoon...
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Richard Noske
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Feb 12, 2003 8:33 am
hi robert are you aware of ed wyndham's work on budgies, showing they are migratory, ie. make predicatable movements? richard ... From: Robert Read...
Hi all, Can anyone inform me if they have seen a Brown Goshawk take a Green Pygmy Goose, or any waterfowl / waterbird for that matter (particularly over...
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Don Franklin
eucalypt@...
Feb 13, 2003 8:42 am
Hi, Just how nomads function has intrigued me ever since the days when I discovered that the "ultranomadic" Regent Honeyeater was capable of returning to the...
Max, Heather and I went to the Leanyer sewerage works last night and saw three little-ringed plovers (two adults and one juvenile), mobs of yellow wagtails, a...
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david donato
ddonato@...
Feb 17, 2003 9:18 am
Hi all, I have a March 1992 record for 12 Star Finches at Holmes Jungle. I only saw them on the one occasion. While NT atlas vetting Star Finch was confused ...
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Richard Noske
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Feb 19, 2003 2:21 am
Niv I trapped a juvenile bush-hen in the late 1980s at Holmes Jungle, strongly indicating breeding. richard ... From: david donato...
Hi all, there was a single Red-rumped Swallow at the sewage works this evening. Quite distinctive, though at times difficult to pick from the Tree Martins. It...
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Richard Noske
richard.noske@...
Feb 21, 2003 8:14 am
well done niv. gointa coomalei tomorrow if weather ok. ... From: Niven [mailto:nivenmccrie@...] Sent: Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:04 To:...
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Robert Read
rread@...
Feb 23, 2003 4:33 am
This morning I went out to the Alice Springs sewage ponds for the first time this year. There were about 20 Freckled Duck on the ponds. I am told that there...
Hi all I saw Red-rumped Swallow at the sewage works again this afternoon. It was perched on the powerlines at the far side of the sewage works, to the left of...
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Gavin and Meg O'Brien
obrien@...
Mar 1, 2003 11:50 am
How are you Niven? The column seems to have gone a little quiet in the past few weeks. I suppose the rain is keeping us all home. Meg and I went walking...
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david donato
ddonato@...
Mar 2, 2003 12:36 am
Hi All, I saw some 2 000 Great Knots 1 000 RNStints at a beach north of Adelaide (while crabbing) and a few birds (20 %?) were showing some breeding colour on...
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Robert Read
rread@...
Mar 2, 2003 12:05 pm
Could someone please give me a contact telephone number or email for the president or secretary of the NT Field Nats. Thanks, Robert Read Alice Springs...
On the road into Fogg Dam today about 200 Glossy Ibis in waterlogged paddocks just past the aerial farm. Also an odd "pied heron" with a rufous neck- white...
There have been a few reports of those herons over the years. I saw photos taken by Mike Reed and Greg Miles (a few years apart as well as different...
