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2020 Dodgy Drongo Twitchathon Report the Drongos Last Won the 30Hr Race Back in 2017 and It Was Great Getting That Team Back Together Again
2020 Dodgy Drongo Twitchathon Report The Drongos last won the 30hr race back in 2017 and it was great getting that team back together again. Maxie the Co-pilot and Simon ‘The Whisperer’ joined the Capt’n for a week of birding out west before heading to our starting point in the mulga. It is here I should mention that the area is currently seeing an absolute boom period after recent rains and was heaving with birds. So with this in mind and with our proven ‘golden route’ we were quite confident of scoring a reasonably good score. We awoke to rain on tin and it didn’t stop as we drove to the mulga, in fact it got heavier.As we sat in the car with 20min until start time we were contemplating if this would kill our run. But as we walked around in the drizzle we soon realised the birds were still active. Simon found a family of Inland Thornbill (a bird I always like to start with), Max had found a roosting Hobby and I’d found some Bee-eaters and Splendid Fairywrens. As the alarm chimed we quickly ticked up all those species as well as Red-capped Robin, Masked and White-browed Woodswallow, Black Honeyeater, White-winged Triller and Budgerigar. The Little Eagle was still on it’s nest and a pair of Plum-headed Finches shot past. We then changed location within the mulga and soon flushed a Little Buttonquail!! Common Bronewing, Owlet-nightjar and Mulga Parrot soon fell and after 20min we were off. -
Eastern Australia: October-November 2016
Tropical Birding Trip Report Eastern Australia: October-November 2016 A Tropical Birding SET DEPARTURE tour EASTERN AUSTRALIA: From Top to Bottom 23rd October – 11th November 2016 The bird of the trip, the very impressive POWERFUL OWL Tour Leader: Laurie Ross All photos in this report were taken by Laurie Ross/Tropical Birding. 1 www.tropicalbirding.com +1-409-515-9110 [email protected] Page Tropical Birding Trip Report Eastern Australia: October-November 2016 INTRODUCTION The Eastern Australia Set Departure Tour introduces a huge amount of new birds and families to the majority of the group. We started the tour in Cairns in Far North Queensland, where we found ourselves surrounded by multiple habitats from the tidal mudflats of the Cairns Esplanade, the Great Barrier Reef and its sandy cays, lush lowland and highland rainforests of the Atherton Tablelands, and we even made it to the edge of the Outback near Mount Carbine; the next leg of the tour took us south to Southeast Queensland where we spent time in temperate rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests within Lamington National Park. The third, and my favorite leg, of the tour took us down to New South Wales, where we birded a huge variety of new habitats from coastal heathland to rocky shorelines and temperate rainforests in Royal National Park, to the mallee and brigalow of Inland New South Wales. The fourth and final leg of the tour saw us on the beautiful island state of Tasmania, where we found all 13 “Tassie” endemics. We had a huge list of highlights, from finding a roosting Lesser Sooty Owl in Malanda; to finding two roosting Powerful Owls near Brisbane; to having an Albert’s Lyrebird walk out in front of us at O Reilly’s; to seeing the rare and endangered Regent Honeyeaters in the Capertee Valley, and finding the endangered Swift Parrot on Bruny Island, in Tasmania. -
Brookfield CP Bird List
Bird list for BROOKFIELD CONSERVATION PARK -34.34837 °N 139.50173 °E 34°20’54” S 139°30’06” E 54 362200 6198200 or new birdssa.asn.au ……………. …………….. …………… …………….. … …......... ……… Observers: ………………………………………………………………….. Phone: (H) ……………………………… (M) ………………………………… ..………………………………………………………………………………. Email: …………..…………………………………………………… Date: ……..…………………………. Start Time: ……………………… End Time: ……………………… Codes (leave blank for Present) D = Dead H = Heard O = Overhead B = Breeding B1 = Mating B2 = Nest Building B3 = Nest with eggs B4 = Nest with chicks B5 = Dependent fledglings B6 = Bird on nest NON-PASSERINES S S A W Code No. NON-PASSERINES S S A W Code No. NON-PASSERINES S S A W Code No. Rainbow Bee-eater Mulga Parrot Eastern Bluebonnet Red-rumped Parrot Australian Boobook *Feral Pigeon Common Bronzewing Crested Pigeon Australian Bustard Spur-winged Plover Little Buttonquail (Masked Lapwing) Painted Buttonquail Stubble Quail Cockatiel Mallee Ringneck Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Australian Ringneck) Little Corella Yellow Rosella Black-eared Cuckoo (Crimson Rosella) Fan-tailed Cuckoo Collared Sparrowhawk Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo Grey Teal Pallid Cuckoo Shining Bronze Cuckoo Peaceful Dove Maned Duck Pacific Black Duck Little Eagle Wedge-tailed Eagle Emu Brown Falcon Peregrine Falcon Tawny Frogmouth Galah Brown Goshawk Australasian Grebe Spotted Harrier White-faced Heron Australian Hobby Nankeen Kestrel Red-backed Kingfisher Black Kite Black-shouldered Kite Whistling Kite Laughing Kookaburra Banded Lapwing Musk Lorikeet Purple-crowned Lorikeet Malleefowl Spotted Nightjar Australian Owlet-nightjar Australian Owlet-nightjar Blue-winged Parrot Elegant Parrot If Species in BOLD are seen a “Rare Bird Record Report” should be submitted. SEASONS – Spring: September, October, November; Summer: December, January, February; Autumn: March, April May; Winter: June, July, August IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ONLY BIRDS SEEN WITHIN THE RESERVE ARE RECORDED ON THIS LIST. -
2015 QUEENSLAND TWITCHATHON 18 - 28 September 2015
2015 QUEENSLAND TWITCHATHON 18 - 28 September 2015 IOC Alphabetical Checklist of the Birds of Queensland: Source http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist. Team Name: Race Category: Total Number of Species: Photographic Category Only. Photos vetted by: Results (number of counted species) must be received by phone (0488 636 010) by 8pm Monday 28 September. Results (this list with counted species marked) must be received by email to [email protected] by 8pm Friday, 2 October. Column1 Column2 Column3 1 Albert's Lyrebird 2 Apostlebird 3 Arafura Fantail 4 Atherton Scrubwren 5 Australasian Bittern 6 Australasian Darter 7 Australasian Figbird 8 Australasian Gannet 9 Australasian Grebe 10 Australasian Shoveler 11 Australian Brushturkey 12 Australian Bustard 13 Australian Crake 14 Australian Golden Whistler 15 Australian Hobby 16 Australian King Parrot 17 Australian Logrunner 18 Australian Magpie 19 Australian Masked Owl 20 Australian Owlet-nightjar 21 Australian Painted-snipe 22 Australian Pelican 23 Australian Pied Cormorant 24 Australian Pipit 25 Australian Pratincole 26 Australian Raven 27 Australian Reed Warbler 28 Australian Ringneck 1/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 29 Australian Shelduck 30 Australian Swiftlet 31 Australian White Ibis 32 Azure Kingfisher 33 Baillon's Crake 34 Banded Honeyeater 35 Banded Lapwing 36 Banded Stilt 37 Banded Whiteface 38 Bar-breasted Honeyeater 39 Bar-shouldered Dove 40 Bar-tailed Godwit 41 Barking Owl 42 Barn Swallow 43 Barred Cuckooshrike 44 Bassian Thrush 45 Beach Stone-curlew 46 Bell Miner 47 Black Bittern -
Coos, Booms, and Hoots: the Evolution of Closed-Mouth Vocal Behavior in Birds
ORIGINAL ARTICLE doi:10.1111/evo.12988 Coos, booms, and hoots: The evolution of closed-mouth vocal behavior in birds Tobias Riede, 1,2 Chad M. Eliason, 3 Edward H. Miller, 4 Franz Goller, 5 and Julia A. Clarke 3 1Department of Physiology, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona 85308 2E-mail: [email protected] 3Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712 4Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador A1B 3X9, Canada 5Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, Utah Received January 11, 2016 Accepted June 13, 2016 Most birds vocalize with an open beak, but vocalization with a closed beak into an inflating cavity occurs in territorial or courtship displays in disparate species throughout birds. Closed-mouth vocalizations generate resonance conditions that favor low-frequency sounds. By contrast, open-mouth vocalizations cover a wider frequency range. Here we describe closed-mouth vocalizations of birds from functional and morphological perspectives and assess the distribution of closed-mouth vocalizations in birds and related outgroups. Ancestral-state optimizations of body size and vocal behavior indicate that closed-mouth vocalizations are unlikely to be ancestral in birds and have evolved independently at least 16 times within Aves, predominantly in large-bodied lineages. Closed-mouth vocalizations are rare in the small-bodied passerines. In light of these results and body size trends in nonavian dinosaurs, we suggest that the capacity for closed-mouth vocalization was present in at least some extinct nonavian dinosaurs. As in birds, this behavior may have been limited to sexually selected vocal displays, and hence would have co-occurred with open-mouthed vocalizations. -
Native Animal Species List
Native animal species list Native animals in South Australia are categorised into one of four groups: • Unprotected • Exempt • Basic • Specialist. To find out the category your animal is in, please check the list below. However, Specialist animals are not listed. There are thousands of them, so we don’t carry a list. A Specialist animal is simply any native animal not listed in this document. Mammals Common name Zoological name Species code Category Dunnart Fat-tailed dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata A01072 Basic Dingo Wild dog Canis familiaris Not applicable Unprotected Gliders Squirrel glider Petaurus norfolcensis E04226 Basic Sugar glider Petaurus breviceps E01138 Basic Possum Common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula K01113 Basic Potoroo and bettongs Brush-tailed bettong (Woylie) Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi M21002 Basic Long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus Z01175 Basic Rufous bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens W01187 Basic Rodents Mitchell's hopping-mouse Notomys mitchellii Y01480 Basic Plains mouse (Rat) Pseudomys australis S01469 Basic Spinifex hopping-mouse Notomys alexis K01481 Exempt Wallabies Parma wallaby Macropus parma K01245 Basic Red-necked pademelon Thylogale thetis Y01236 Basic Red-necked wallaby Macropus rufogriseus K01261 Basic Swamp wallaby Wallabia bicolor E01242 Basic Tammar wallaby Macropus eugenii eugenii C05889 Basic Tasmanian pademelon Thylogale billardierii G01235 Basic 1 Amphibians Common name Zoological name Species code Category Southern bell frog Litoria raniformis G03207 Basic Smooth frog Geocrinia laevis -
Supplementary Methods S1
1 Validation methods for trophic niche models 2 3 To assign links between nodes (species), we used trophic niche-space models (e.g., [1]). 4 Each of these models has two quantile regressions that define the prey-size range a 5 predator of a given size is predicted to consume. Species whose body mass is within the 6 range of a predator’s prey size, as identified by the trophic niche-space model, are predicted 7 to be prey, while those outside the range are predicted not to be eaten. 8 9 The broad taxonomy of a predator helps to predict predation interactions [2]. To optimize 10 our trophic niche-space model, we therefore tested whether including taxonomic class of 11 predators improved the fit of quantile regressions. Using trophic (to identify which species 12 were predators), body mass, and taxonomic data, we fitted and compared five quantile 13 regression models (including a null model) to the GloBI data. In each model, we log10- 14 transformed the dependent variable prey body mass, and included for the independent 15 variables different combinations of log10-transformed predator body mass, predator class, 16 and the interaction between these variables (Supplementary Table S4). We log10- 17 transformed both predator and prey body mass to linearize the relationship between these 18 variables. We fit the five quantile regressions to the upper and lower 5% of prey body mass, 19 and compared model fits using the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). The predator body 20 mass*predator class model fit the 95th quantile data best, whereas the predator body mass 21 + predator class model fit the 5th quantile data marginally better than the aforementioned 22 interaction model (Supplementary Figure S2, Supplementary Table S4). -
The Evolution of Closed-Mouth Vocal Behavior in Birds
ORIGINAL ARTICLE doi:10.1111/evo.12988 Coos, booms, and hoots: The evolution of closed-mouth vocal behavior in birds Tobias Riede,1,2 Chad M. Eliason,3 Edward H. Miller,4 Franz Goller,5 and Julia A. Clarke3 1Department of Physiology, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona 85308 2E-mail: [email protected] 3Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712 4Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador A1B 3X9, Canada 5Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, Utah Received January 11, 2016 Accepted June 13, 2016 Most birds vocalize with an open beak, but vocalization with a closed beak into an inflating cavity occurs in territorial or courtship displays in disparate species throughout birds. Closed-mouth vocalizations generate resonance conditions that favor low-frequency sounds. By contrast, open-mouth vocalizations cover a wider frequency range. Here we describe closed-mouth vocalizations of birds from functional and morphological perspectives and assess the distribution of closed-mouth vocalizations in birds and related outgroups. Ancestral-state optimizations of body size and vocal behavior indicate that closed-mouth vocalizations are unlikely to be ancestral in birds and have evolved independently at least 16 times within Aves, predominantly in large-bodied lineages. Closed-mouth vocalizations are rare in the small-bodied passerines. In light of these results and body size trends in nonavian dinosaurs, we suggest that the capacity for closed-mouth vocalization was present in at least some extinct nonavian dinosaurs. As in birds, this behavior may have been limited to sexually selected vocal displays, and hence would have co-occurred with open-mouthed vocalizations. -
Biology and Conservation of the Andalusian Buttonquail (Turnix Sylvaticus Sylvaticus Desf
Biology and Conservation of the Andalusian Buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus sylvaticus Desf. 1789) Carlos Gutiérrez Expósito PhD 2019 A mi familia A Raquel “Almost throughout the higher sections of the animal kingdom you have males fighting for the females, the females caring for the young; here, in one insignificant little group of tiny birds, you have the ladies fighting duels to preserve the chastity of their husbands, and these latter sitting meekly in the nursery and tending the young. It is, to our ideas, a very odd arrangement, because we have become so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the opposite one; but it answers apparently just as well, so far as the interests of the race are concerned, as that one with which we are so familiar, and on which we pin our faith; and in this and many similar cases it has often seemed to me that nature mutely warned mankind against dogmatism and against the foolish, though all too prevalent, belief that only what we know and are used to can be good, and that neither government nor society can get along equally well under any laws and forms but just those which we are become accustomed.” Allan O. Hume & Charles H.T. Marshall 1879 The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon Recommended citation: Gutiérrez‐Expósito, C. (2019) Biology and Conservation of the Andalusian Buttonquail (Turnix sylvaticus sylvaticus, Desf. 1789). PhD Thesis. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Sevilla ‐ Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). This PhD project has been funded by the grant BES‐2015‐074938 of the Severo Ochoa support program to Centres of Excelence in R + D + I (SEV‐2012‐0262‐01) of Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades of the Spanish Government and has been conducted in the Conservation Biology Department at Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). -
Arrival Dates of Migrant Bush Birds in the Strathalbyn District: a 45 Year Collaborative Study
58 South Australian Ornithologist 39 (2) Arrival dates of migrant bush birds in the Strathalbyn district: a 45 year collaborative study JOHN ECKERT Abstract PREAMBLE A collaborative community-wide record of arrival Andrew Black and Graham Carpenter times (first seasonal records) of 18 bird species over 45 years in the Strathalbyn district established a pattern Over a period of forty years John Eckert indicating migration or partial migration in 12. Such published notes on birds of the Strathalbyn a pattern was not excluded in the others but data were district in the weekly newspaper Southern less conclusive, generally being too few. In the Little Argus under the pen name ‘Robin’. Of particular Button-quail, Cockatiel, Budgerigar, Rainbow Bee- interest were his reports of the first arrivals of eater, White-winged Triller and Masked and White- migratory birds – a local equivalent of letters to browed Woodswallow a regular spring arrival was The Times of claims to hearing the first cuckoo documented but its timing varied among the species, in spring. In 2004 he submitted a paper on the being least variable in the Rainbow Bee-eater (25 days records for publication in the South Australian variation 17 September to 14 October) but ranged Ornithologist. It was accepted for publication through September to November in most others. The subject to further analysis in order to identify Rufous Songlark showed a similar pattern but with factors that might be responsible for the variation occasional arrivals as early as May. The Horsfield’s in arrival dates from year to year. Bronze, Pallid and Fan-tailed Cuckoos arrived earlier during late autumn and early winter (April to June). -
Australia's Grea Dates
TRIP REPORT: AUSTRALIA’S GREAT CHANNEL COUNTRY DATES: SEPTEMBER 2010 Photos: Nick Leseberg and Iain Campbell The Australian Outback. W he n most people hear these words, their mind s are filled with visions of an arid and desolate landscape. They imagine the soft greys and browns of the sparse vegetation, seemingly interminable blue skies, and the rare slash es of green marking the few great rivers that wend their way across the vast red plains. At first glance this incredible place can seem bereft of life, but closer inspection wil l reveal an environment positively teeming with a variety of birds and animals , all eking out an existence in this tough land. Tropical Birding’s Great Channel Country tour offers birders a chance to visit the south-western corner of Queensland, and experience first -hand the fabled Australian Outback, while also seeing some of the rare and beautiful birds which call it home. In late 2010, we conducted our first run through of this fantastic trip , focussing on inland birds that are difficult to see on other Tropical Birding tours . It was incredibly successful, and we saw a host of amazing birds. We were lucky to hit Central Australia in the middle of a boom year following record rainfalls, and it seemed that everywhere we went there were birds singing, nest -building, breeding and feeding young. The undoubted highlight of the trip was the famous Bowra Station, which served up a smorgasbord of sought after endemic species. Overall the trip produced 20 species of parrots, 1 6 species of raptor and a fantastic 228 species in total, comp letely exceeding our expectations. -
Checklist of Birds of WA 2021
Checklist of the Birds of Western Australia Clutch of Banded Stilt eggs R.E. Johnstone, J.C. Darnell and K.J. Travouillon Collections and Research, Western Australian Museum, Kew Street, Welshpool, WA 6106 †June 2021 ____________________________________ The area covered by this Western Australian Checklist includes the seas and islands of the adjacent continental shelf, including Ashmore Reef. Refer to a separate checklist for Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Criterion for inclusion of a species or subspecies on the list is, in most cases, supported by tangible evidence i.e. a museum specimen, an archived or published photograph or detailed description, video tape or sound recording. Amendments to the previous checklist have been carried out with reference to both global and regional publications/checklists. The prime reference material for global coverage has been the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) World Bird List, The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, the Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volumes 1 and 2 (Lynx Edicions, Barcelona), A Checklist of the Birds of Britain, 8th edition, the Checklist of North American Birds and, for regional coverage, Zoological Catalogue of Australia volume 37.2 (Columbidae to Coraciidae), The Directory of Australian Birds, Passerines and the Working List of Australian Birds (Birdlife Australia). The advent of molecular investigation into avian taxonomy has required, and still requires, extensive and ongoing revision at all levels – family, generic and specific. This revision to the ‘Checklist of the Birds of Western Australia’ is a collation of the most recent information/research emanating from such studies, together with the inclusion of newly recorded species.