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...
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Potts, Roger
Roger.Potts@...
Mar 3, 2003 7:30 am
Ex Tropical Cyclone Graham moved inland and brought some welcome rains to the
Tanami
Also pushed many birds inland..
Yesterday/Today
Fork-tailed Swifts...
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Heather Ryan & Max Mace
budji@...
Mar 3, 2003 8:47 am
Hi Robert I'm the Secretary. budji@... Heather ... From: Robert Read To: ntbirds Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: [ntbirds] RFI...
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Richard Noske
richard.noske@...
Mar 3, 2003 9:17 am
Not that I want to take away from the amazingness of Palearctic swallows in darwin, but is this the first record of TREE MARTINS for the year???? I have been...
Richard I have recorded them in small numbers at the sewerage ponds since 10 Jan. Big numbers only in the past few weeks. bruce ... From: Richard Noske To:...
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Potts, Roger
Roger.Potts@...
Mar 4, 2003 12:24 am
Hi all,
Fantastic morning session today at a small waterbody included
Australian Spotted Crake - white undertail barred flanks and some slight
spotting at...
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Maria.Bellio@...
Mar 4, 2003 12:55 am
Pottsie!!! fantastic news about the Freckled ducks....keep an eye on them...I still have not found time to finish that note but I keep you updated. ciao...
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Peter Wilkins
peterwi@...
Mar 4, 2003 4:10 am
Gday Pottsie, Always interested in your desert reports, sounds like you have had good rains in the recent month or so, will be interested to see if any...
Possible sighting of Princess parrots flying over Alice Springs. The only other possibility for a large long tailed parrot that is not a an Australian Ringneck...
I would say that the number of Tree Martins has increased in the last week or so from tens to over a hundred at the sewage works. The tip is another place...
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Robert Read
rread@...
Mar 4, 2003 12:50 pm
I have had a reliable report of a Princess Parrot, almost certainly and aviary escape a few years ago. I have seen what I took to be the same bird, but now...
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Robert Read
rread@...
Mar 5, 2003 8:31 am
Does anyone know of someone who may have recordings of Dusky Grasswrens in Central Australia. I have done some asking around without any success, but it seems...
The bird might have paired up? I saw two. They did not appear to be residents. The hight of their flight and direction suggested they were in transit to...
Hi all There were over 200 Tree Martins at the sewage works this afternoon, so clearly birds are arriving en mass as we read. No Red-rumped Swallows, but one...
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Heather Ryan & Max Mace
budji@...
Mar 5, 2003 11:30 am
Here is one of the photos of the Pied Heron seen at Fogg Dam. Would be interesting to hear if anyone else has seen this or similar coloration. Max & Heather ...
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jestbergs@...
Mar 5, 2003 11:33 pm
Hi there, back in the early 80's or late 70' s .. there were a few pied heron at the leanyer sewrage works with this plumage. One Keith Fisher and wife...
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Peter Wilkins
peterwi@...
Mar 5, 2003 11:39 pm
Gday All, Regarding the LB Corella's, yes they were there when I first arrived in Alice which was in 1990, I am unaware of how long they had been there before ...
Hi All I had another birdwatcher's report on the heron at Fogg Dam today. Clearly a distinctive bird. The ones at the sewage works years ago were never in my...
On the heron again... I talked myself into going to Fogg Dam to look for "the heron", but couldn't find it. There were 3 or 4 clean looking adults around but ...
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Don Franklin
eucalypt@...
Mar 6, 2003 10:12 am
Hi, I checked, and there's no reference to this juvenile plumage form in HANZAB. Which means, I think, that if anyone can clinch the case that it is a...
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Richard Noske
richard.noske@...
Mar 6, 2003 10:17 am
may be worth asking Ray what he knows about juvenile plumages since he's probably seen hundreds. ... From: Don Franklin [mailto:eucalypt@...] Sent:...
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Heather Ryan & Max Mace
budji@...
Mar 6, 2003 1:01 pm
Thanks for the effort Niven. When we saw it (Sunday), it was on the right hand side just before the trees started at the end of the flood plain track heading...
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david donato
ddonato@...
Mar 6, 2003 11:21 pm
Wilko/Roger This is not the first time that large numbers turn up with the onset of rains. I always assumed that they disperse after rain. But for the first ...
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david donato
ddonato@...
Mar 6, 2003 11:39 pm
Robert Roger, Andrew Ley and myself have seen Long-billed at the Sewerage work in August last year. I saw a bird in 1988/9 regularly on the lawns at the Gap ...
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david donato
ddonato@...
Mar 8, 2003 12:30 am
Chris I read somewhere that Princess Parrots were in the Todd in 1962. It might have been in an early edition of Forshaw and Cooper Parrot of Australia. By ...
