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Papua New Guinea Huon Peninsula Extension 26Th June to 1St July 2018 (6 Days) Trip Report
Papua New Guinea Huon Peninsula Extension 26th June to 1st July 2018 (6 days) Trip Report Pesquet’s Parrots by Sue Wright Tour Leader: Adam Walleyn Rockjumper Birding Tours View more tours to Papua New Guinea Trip Report – RBL Papua New Guinea - Huon Peninsula Extension I 2018 2 Tour Summary This was our inaugural Huon Peninsula Extension. Most of the group started out with a quick flight from Moresby into Nadzab Airport. Upon arrival, we drove to our comfortable hotel on the outskirts of Lae City. After getting settled in, we set off on a short but very productive bird walk around the hotel’s expansive grounds. The best thing about the walk was how confiding the birds were –they are clearly not hunted much around here! Red-cheeked Parrot, Coconut Lorikeet, Orange-bellied Fruit Dove, Torresian Imperial Pigeon, White-bellied Cuckooshrike, Yellow-faced Myna, and Singing Starling all vied for our attention right in the parking lot. As we took a short wander, we added Hooded Butcherbird, New Guinea Friarbird and look-alike Brown Oriole, and Black and Olive-backed Sunbirds to our growing tally. A Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot zipped overhead providing just a quick view, but the highlight of the walk was clearly the Palm Cockatoo that sat out feeding contentedly on fruits – admittedly a bit of a surprise to find this species so close to a major urban centre! We were relieved when Sue had arrived and Pinon’s Imperial Pigeon by Markus Lilje joined us for dinner to complete the group! The real adventure began early the next morning, with a drive back to the airport where we were to board our flight into the Huon. -
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Mastozoología Neotropical ISSN: 0327-9383 ISSN: 1666-0536 [email protected] Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos Argentina Miranda, João M. D.; Brito, João E. C.; Bernardi, Itiberê P.; Passos, Fernando C. BAT ASSEMBLAGE OF THE MARUMBI PEAK STATE PARK, BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC RAINFOREST Mastozoología Neotropical, vol. 25, no. 2, 2018, July-December, pp. 379-390 Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos Argentina Available in: https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=45760865010 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System Redalyc More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Journal's webpage in redalyc.org Portugal Project academic non-profit, developed under the open access initiative Mastozoología Neotropical, 25(2):379-390, Mendoza, 2018 Copyright ©SAREM, 2018 Versión on-line ISSN 1666-0536 http://www.sarem.org.ar https://doi.org/10.31687/saremMN.18.25.2.0.24 http://www.sbmz.com.br Artículo BAT ASSEMBLAGE OF THE MARUMBI PEAK STATE PARK, BRAZILIAN ATLANTIC RAINFOREST João M. D. Miranda1, 2, João E. C. Brito3, Itiberê P. Bernardi1, 4 and Fernando C. Passos1, 5 1 Laboratório de Biodiversidade, Conservação e Ecologia de Animais Silvestres, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. 2 Biology Department, Midwest Paraná State University, Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil. [Correspondence: João M. D. Miranda < [email protected]>] 3 Prominer Projetos Ltda., Brazil. 4 Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. 5 Zoology Department, Federal University of Paraná. Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. ABSTRACT. The great biological diversity found in tropical forests has intrigued scientists for a long time. -
Whistler3 Frontcover
The Whistler is the occasionally issued journal of the Hunter Bird Observers Club Inc. ISSN 1835-7385 The aims of the Hunter Bird Observers Club (HBOC), which is affiliated with Bird Observation and Conservation Australia, are: To encourage and further the study and conservation of Australian birds and their habitat To encourage bird observing as a leisure-time activity HBOC is administered by a Committee: Executive: Committee Members: President: Paul Baird Craig Anderson Vice-President: Grant Brosie Liz Crawford Secretary: Tom Clarke Ann Lindsey Treasurer: Rowley Smith Robert McDonald Ian Martin Mick Roderick Publication of The Whistler is supported by a Sub-committee: Mike Newman (Joint Editor) Harold Tarrant (Joint Editor) Liz Crawford (Production Manager) Chris Herbert (Cover design) Liz Huxtable Ann Lindsey Jenny Powers Mick Roderick Alan Stuart Authors wishing to submit manuscripts for consideration for publication should consult Instructions for Authors on page 61 and submit to the Editors: Mike Newman [email protected] and/or Harold Tarrant [email protected] Authors wishing to contribute articles of general bird and birdwatching news to the club newsletter, which has 6 issues per year, should submit to the Newsletter Editor: Liz Crawford [email protected] © Hunter Bird Observers Club Inc. PO Box 24 New Lambton NSW 2305 Website: www.hboc.org.au Front cover: Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis – Photo: Ann Lindsey Back cover: Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva - Photo: Chris Herbert The Whistler is proudly supported by the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority Editorial The Whistler 3 (2009): i-ii The Whistler – Editorial The Editors are pleased to provide our members hopefully make good reading now, but will and other ornithological enthusiasts with the third certainly provide a useful point of reference for issue of the club’s emerging journal. -
Common Birds in Tilligerry Habitat
Common Birds in Tilligerry Habitat Dedicated bird enthusiasts have kindly contributed to this sequence of 106 bird species spotted in the habitat over the last few years Kookaburra Red-browed Finch Black-faced Cuckoo- shrike Magpie-lark Tawny Frogmouth Noisy Miner Spotted Dove [1] Crested Pigeon Australian Raven Olive-backed Oriole Whistling Kite Grey Butcherbird Pied Butcherbird Australian Magpie Noisy Friarbird Galah Long-billed Corella Eastern Rosella Yellow-tailed black Rainbow Lorikeet Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Cockatoo Tawny Frogmouth c Noeline Karlson [1] ( ) Common Birds in Tilligerry Habitat Variegated Fairy- Yellow Faced Superb Fairy-wren White Cheeked Scarlet Honeyeater Blue-faced Honeyeater wren Honeyeater Honeyeater White-throated Brown Gerygone Brown Thornbill Yellow Thornbill Eastern Yellow Robin Silvereye Gerygone White-browed Eastern Spinebill [2] Spotted Pardalote Grey Fantail Little Wattlebird Red Wattlebird Scrubwren Willie Wagtail Eastern Whipbird Welcome Swallow Leaden Flycatcher Golden Whistler Rufous Whistler Eastern Spinebill c Noeline Karlson [2] ( ) Common Sea and shore birds Silver Gull White-necked Heron Little Black Australian White Ibis Masked Lapwing Crested Tern Cormorant Little Pied Cormorant White-bellied Sea-Eagle [3] Pelican White-faced Heron Uncommon Sea and shore birds Caspian Tern Pied Cormorant White-necked Heron Great Egret Little Egret Great Cormorant Striated Heron Intermediate Egret [3] White-bellied Sea-Eagle (c) Noeline Karlson Uncommon Birds in Tilligerry Habitat Grey Goshawk Australian Hobby -
Bird Species List for Mount Majura
Bird Species List for Mount Majura This list of bird species is based on entries in the database of the Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG). The common English names are drawn from: Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. (1994) The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Monograph 2, RAOU, Melbourne. (1) List in taxonomic order Stubble Quail Southern Boobook Australian Wood Duck Tawny Frogmouth Pacific Black Duck White-throated Needletail Little Black Cormorant Laughing Kookaburra White-faced Heron Sacred Kingfisher Nankeen Night Heron Dollarbird Brown Goshawk White-throated Treecreeper Collared Sparrowhawk Superb Fairy-wren Wedge-tailed Eagle Spotted Pardalote Little Eagle Striated Pardalote Australian Hobby White-browed Scrubwren Peregrine Falcon Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Brown Falcon Speckled Warbler Nankeen Kestrel Weebill Painted Button-quail Western Gerygone Masked Lapwing White-throated Gerygone Rock Dove Brown Thornbill Common Bronzewing Buff-rumped Thornbill Crested Pigeon Yellow-rumped Thornbill Glossy Black-Cockatoo Yellow Thornbill Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Striated Thornbill Gang-gang Cockatoo Southern Whiteface Galah Red Wattlebird Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Noisy Friarbird Little Lorikeet Regent Honeyeater Australian King-Parrot Noisy Miner Crimson Rosella Yellow-faced Honeyeater Eastern Rosella White-eared Honeyeater Red-rumped Parrot Fuscous Honeyeater Swift Parrot White-plumed Honeyeater Pallid Cuckoo Brown-headed Honeyeater Brush Cuckoo White-naped Honeyeater Fan-tailed -
Birding Oxley Creek Common Brisbane, Australia
Birding Oxley Creek Common Brisbane, Australia Hugh Possingham and Mat Gilfedder – January 2011 [email protected] www.ecology.uq.edu.au 3379 9388 (h) Other photos, records and comments contributed by: Cathy Gilfedder, Mike Bennett, David Niland, Mark Roberts, Pete Kyne, Conrad Hoskin, Chris Sanderson, Angela Wardell-Johnson, Denis Mollison. This guide provides information about the birds, and how to bird on, Oxley Creek Common. This is a public park (access restricted to the yellow parts of the map, page 6). Over 185 species have been recorded on Oxley Creek Common in the last 83 years, making it one of the best birding spots in Brisbane. This guide is complimented by a full annotated list of the species seen in, or from, the Common. How to get there Oxley Creek Common is in the suburb of Rocklea and is well signposted from Sherwood Road. If approaching from the east (Ipswich Road side), pass the Rocklea Markets and turn left before the bridge crossing Oxley Creek. If approaching from the west (Sherwood side) turn right about 100 m after the bridge over Oxley Creek. The gate is always open. Amenities The main development at Oxley Creek Common is the Red Shed, which is beside the car park (plenty of space). The Red Shed has toilets (composting), water, covered seating, and BBQ facilities. The toilets close about 8pm and open very early. The paths are flat, wide and easy to walk or cycle. When to arrive The diversity of waterbirds is a feature of the Common and these can be good at any time of the day. -
Growing a Wild NYC: a K-5 Urban Pollinator Curriculum Was Made Possible Through the Generous Support of Our Funders
A K-5 URBAN POLLINATOR CURRICULUM Growing a Wild NYC LESSON 1: HABITAT HUNT The National Wildlife Federation Uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world Through educational programs focused on conservation and environmental knowledge, the National Wildlife Federation provides ways to create a lasting base of environmental literacy, stewardship, and problem-solving skills for today’s youth. Growing a Wild NYC: A K-5 Urban Pollinator Curriculum was made possible through the generous support of our funders: The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation is a private foundation that supports the arts, housing, basic needs, the environment, and education including professional development and school-day enrichment programs operating in public schools. The Office of the New York State Attorney General and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. Written by Nina Salzman. Edited by Sarah Ward and Emily Fano. Designed by Leslie Kameny, Kameny Design. © 2020 National Wildlife Federation. Permission granted for non-commercial educational uses only. All rights reserved. September - January Lesson 1: Habitat Hunt Page 8 Lesson 2: What is a Pollinator? Page 20 Lesson 3: What is Pollination? Page 30 Lesson 4: Why Pollinators? Page 39 Lesson 5: Bee Survey Page 45 Lesson 6: Monarch Life Cycle Page 55 Lesson 7: Plants for Pollinators Page 67 Lesson 8: Flower to Seed Page 76 Lesson 9: Winter Survival Page 85 Lesson 10: Bee Homes Page 97 February -
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Subscribe Past Issues Translate RSS Newsletter of the Australian Bird Study Association View this email in your browser HOME ABOUT ABSA OUR HISTORY CONTACT US NEWSLETTER 130 Share Tweet Forward Editor: Stein Boddington ISSN 2202-297X (Online) <[email protected]> December 2017 C o n t e n t s 2018 Conference and Annual General Meeting Fund for Avaian Research - call for applications Bird in the Hand Uploads Renewal of Memberships Birdfair 2017 Trip Report - Herdsman Lake, WA Trip Report - Ungarie, NSW, 15 October 2017 Trip Report - Charcoal Tank Trip-Report - Weddin Mountains National Park Call for Action on Christmas Island E d i t o r i a l Book the date - ABSA’s Conference and AGM will be held on Saturday March 17th, at Yarramundi Conference Centre in Western Sydney. Details will be passed on as they become available. Great fun was had picking The Guardian’s Australian Bird of the Year. In the end, the Magpie just pipped the inglorious ‘bin-chicken’ aka the Australian White Ibis, for first place. Why did so many vote for the White Ibis? Was it the inner city people who only ever notice a bird when it lands in their smashed avo? Is there something funny about the readership of The Guardian? Or is there a genuine affection for this brash intruder into our cities? Yours truly was one of seven people who voted for the Rufous Fantail - I bet all of them have had this exquisite bird in their hand. Jenny Macklin and Benjamin Law got a vote each, as did Big Bird, the Australian Raincheck, the Dodo, the Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ozzie Ostrich and Plucka Duck, and a host of mis-spellings, of which the Wondering Albatross stands out! Many thanks to the people sending in a stream of trip reports! Keep them coming. -
Eurylaimides Species Tree
Eurylaimides ⋆Velvet Asity, Philepitta castanea Schlegel’s Asity, Philepitta schlegeli ⋆ Philepittidae Common Sunbird-Asity, Neodrepanis coruscans Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity, Neodrepanis hypoxantha ⋆Grauer’s Broadbill, Pseudocalyptomena graueri ⋆Long-tailed Broadbill, Psarisomus dalhousiae ⋆ Eurylaimidae Dusky Broadbill, Corydon sumatranus Visayan Broadbill, Sarcophanops samarensis ⋆Wattled Broadbill, Sarcophanops steerii ⋆Silver-breasted Broadbill, Serilophus lunatus ⋆Black-and-red Broadbill, Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos ⋆Banded Broadbill, Eurylaimus javanicus Black-and-yellow Broadbill, Eurylaimus ochromalus Gray-headed Broadbill, Smithornis sharpei Rufous-sided Broadbill, Smithornis rufolateralis Smithornithidae ⋆African Broadbill, Smithornis capensis Hose’s Broadbill, Calyptomena hosii ⋆Green Broadbill, Calyptomena viridis Calyptomenidae Whitehead’s Broadbill, Calyptomena whiteheadi ⋆Sapayoa, Sapayoa aenigma:0.1 Sapayoidae Blue-banded Pitta, Erythropitta arquata Garnet Pitta, Erythropitta granatina Graceful Pitta, Erythropitta venusta Black-crowned Pitta, Erythropitta ussheri Erythropitta Whiskered Pitta, Erythropitta kochi Philippine Pitta, Erythropitta erythrogaster Sula Pitta, Erythropitta dohertyi Sulawesi Pitta, Erythropitta celebensis Sangihe Pitta, Erythropitta caeruleitorques Siao Pitta, Erythropitta palliceps South Moluccan Pitta, Erythropitta rubrinucha North Moluccan Pitta, Erythropitta rufiventris Louisiade Pitta, Erythropitta meeki ⋆Papuan Pitta, Erythropitta macklotii Bismarck Pitta, Erythropitta novaehibernicae Pittidae -
A Comprehensive Species-Level Molecular Phylogeny of the New World
YMPEV 4758 No. of Pages 19, Model 5G 2 December 2013 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution xxx (2013) xxx–xxx 1 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ympev 5 6 3 A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World 4 blackbirds (Icteridae) a,⇑ a a b c d 7 Q1 Alexis F.L.A. Powell , F. Keith Barker , Scott M. Lanyon , Kevin J. Burns , John Klicka , Irby J. Lovette 8 a Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, and Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 9 55108, USA 10 b Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA 11 c Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA 12 d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14950, USA 1314 15 article info abstract 3117 18 Article history: The New World blackbirds (Icteridae) are among the best known songbirds, serving as a model clade in 32 19 Received 5 June 2013 comparative studies of morphological, ecological, and behavioral trait evolution. Despite wide interest in 33 20 Revised 11 November 2013 the group, as yet no analysis of blackbird relationships has achieved comprehensive species-level sam- 34 21 Accepted 18 November 2013 pling or found robust support for most intergeneric relationships. Using mitochondrial gene sequences 35 22 Available online xxxx from all 108 currently recognized species and six additional distinct lineages, together with strategic 36 sampling of four nuclear loci and whole mitochondrial genomes, we were able to resolve most relation- 37 23 Keywords: ships with high confidence. -
Increased Understorey Causes Demise of Mixed Species Flocks at Green Wattle Creek
Mixed species flocks The Whistler 9 (2015): 63-64 Increased understorey causes demise of mixed species flocks at Green Wattle Creek Mike Newman 72 Axiom Way, Acton Park, Tasmania 7170, Australia. [email protected] I published an article titled “Mixed foraging flocks mobile honeyeaters appeared to be transient rather in a Woodville woodland” in the Hunter Bird than constant members of the group. Observers Club Newsletter October/November 1997. The article was based on observations made The third flock frequented intermediate habitat, during my monthly bird survey at Green Wattle combining open areas with some scrub Creek (32.661°S 151.649°E) on 12 July 1997 understorey. In this flock the seemingly inevitable (Newman 2009). On that date I came across three Speckled Warbler shared the understorey with separate foraging groups. Speckled Warbler White-browed Scrub-wren Sericornis frontalis and Chthonicola sagittata and Jacky Winter Microeca Silvereye Zosterops lateralis together with fairy- fascinans were conspicuous members of these wrens. Thornbills and honeyeaters, including groups and the scolding calls of the former species Lewin’s Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii, were often drew attention to the groups. present in the lower foliage of the trees together with an immature Rose Robin Petroica rosea. My newsletter article indicated that while each of the flocks had Speckled Warblers as core The formation of these flocks was seasonal at members, there were subtle differences in the Green Wattle Creek, primarily occurring in autumn composition of the flocks, possibly as a and winter. During these seasons other species, consequence of variations in the habitat they including Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus frequented. -
Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change
Australia’s Biodiversity and Climate Change A strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia’s biodiversity to climate change A report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council commissioned by the Australian Government. Prepared by the Biodiversity and Climate Change Expert Advisory Group: Will Steffen, Andrew A Burbidge, Lesley Hughes, Roger Kitching, David Lindenmayer, Warren Musgrave, Mark Stafford Smith and Patricia A Werner © Commonwealth of Australia 2009 ISBN 978-1-921298-67-7 Published in pre-publication form as a non-printable PDF at www.climatechange.gov.au by the Department of Climate Change. It will be published in hard copy by CSIRO publishing. For more information please email [email protected] This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the: Commonwealth Copyright Administration Attorney-General's Department 3-5 National Circuit BARTON ACT 2600 Email: [email protected] Or online at: http://www.ag.gov.au Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Government or the Minister for Climate Change and Water and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Citation The book should be cited as: Steffen W, Burbidge AA, Hughes L, Kitching R, Lindenmayer D, Musgrave W, Stafford Smith M and Werner PA (2009) Australia’s biodiversity and climate change: a strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia’s biodiversity to climate change.