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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 6:08 pm
G'day everyone, The Hillarys pelagic trip of Perth in September 2010 recorded a single 'pale' Wedgie, similar in plumage to Mick's bird, just north of Rottnest Island. We described it as an intermediate morph, but as I say, it was similar in plumage to Mick's bird, with pale underbody and underwings. Unfortunately the bird didn't come into the boat and the only photos I know of are very distant. I didn't take them, but I'll see if I can get[…]
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 4:27 pm
Austral Fisheries has a PR promotional advertisement in the latest Weekend Australian magazine:- "At Austral fisheries our constant focus is on the sustainable catching of fish,not wild birds. Our operational standards are set so high that if an Austral fisheries boat catches a single protected seabird off Macquarie Island, our entire season of fishing has to be abandoned at enormous financial cost to us. We don't fish by longline when seabirds are breeding or feeding their young chicks." etc etc.
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 4:03 pm
Victorian birders are invited to help save native waterbirds when the duck hunting season starts on March 17. Information meetings will be held 29 February, 5 March and 8 March at 7.30pm on the top floor of Kindness House, 288 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. You may like to help prevent birds being shot on the wetlands or collect the dead and wounded birds which are taken to the mobile veterinary unit on shore. But there are plenty of other jobs. Volunteers[…]
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 3:56 pm
Hi Jeff, Thanks for your comment. I totally agree. I was actually also trying to say that Mick's is a pale/"intermediate" morph bird (especially if you "lump" pale and intermediate), in contrast our cafe-au-lait and white-bellied birds are just weird dark morphs (e.g. "retained extremely worn belly"; and yes, I've seen this in Providence Petrels, too).
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 3:40 pm
Hi All, I have been sorting out my bird book collection and have a number of duplicates that I thought I would offer to the B-A community first of all, rather than ebay. The list of books is below:- How to identify Native Birds of the Grampians, Ken Woodcock, pp 52. (Excellent condition - brand new)
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 3:27 pm
We had a pale morph wedge-tail on the Sydney pelagic of March, 11, 2006, the only one that I have seen in 200+ trips off Sydney. David Stowe got a picture of it which I have in my files but I'm not sure of the copyright situation so haven't included a link. Maybe David could send copies to interested parties?
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 1:57 pm
It was also on the news bulletin in Canberra, Friday or Saturday night. Philip -----Original Message----- [mailto:birding-aus-boun...@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Debbie Lustig Sent: Sunday, 5 February 2012 12:06 AM To: birding-aus On Friday night, ABC TV in Tasmania screened the following items - the first
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 1:45 pm
G'day Nikolas, Mick's bird appears to have a typical pale morph body but with a slightly darker under-wing. However the only image that shows the darker than typical under-wing also shows an almost completely dark hood which we know isn't real from other photos of the bird on the water where it looks like a normal
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 12:38 pm
Sorry, I have not only seen cafe-au-lait coloured ones but also birds that I believe are dark morph but with aberrant pale bellies, such as this one in Raja's collection: [link] So this again makes Mick's, Steve's and Lucas's find so interesting! Cheers,
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birding-aus Google Group
5 Feb 2012 | 12:25 pm
Hi Mick & Birding-aus, The bird looks certainly interesting! The only "pale" WTSWs I have seen in Australia were overall cafe-au-lait coloured. Mick's bird, however, looks "normal" from above and has clear white areas underneath (belly and underwing - but not extensive enough for a "perfect" pale
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