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  1. Rose Fletcher

    Common Bronzewing or Spotted Turtledove chick?

    This little one was picked up injured on a road in Willunga, South Australia, by my son. Because of the difficulty in rearing pigeon/dove chicks, and the fact that I didn't know where my recipe for pigeon milk was, I took it to a wildlife care organisation. The problem, however, is this...
  2. Rose Fletcher

    Regent Honeyeaters to be released into wild

    Copied and pasted from this morning's edition of the Melbourne Age, Victoria, Australia:
  3. Rose Fletcher

    Black Bear den cam

    Do other Birdforum members know about Lily the bear? Lily lives in Eli, Minnesota, and a den cam has been set up for some time at the entrance to her den, using infra-red light. You can watch Lily and her cub 'live' at any time, doing what bears do in the den during winter. Not for long...
  4. Rose Fletcher

    Sam the bushfire Koala not yet out of the woods...

    Sam the Koala found by a fireman during the February bushfires in Victoria, Australia, now faces another battle on her long road to recovery and return to the wild: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25887443-661,00.html
  5. Rose Fletcher

    Good news from Australian bushfires

    Following the Victorian bushfires, it was feared, during the first days when accurate information was difficult to obtain and the situation could not be properly assessed, that the critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops, might have been extincted. A captive breeding...
  6. Rose Fletcher

    D60 Issues

    Hello, it's Rose's son here (Macanleister) using her computer. Four months after the purchase, my D60 appears to have given up the ghost. No matter what I try, all I get are blank white images (I've checked with the magic wand tool in photoshop, it's all flat white). I've tried three...
  7. Rose Fletcher

    Neophema Female? Juvenile?

    The only ideas I have are: juvenile male Red-rumped, Psephotus haematonotus, or female Scarlet-chested, Neophema splendida. I would have expected a juvenile Red-rump to be showing some red, however, and the paler yellow-green flash on the upper wing coverts doesn't seem to fit with the...
  8. Rose Fletcher

    South Australian Mallee Bird

    I just returned from a four-day canoe trip around some of the smaller anabranches of the Murray river, in the Chowilla region, close to where the South Australian, Victorian and New South Wales borders intersect. This is dry inland mallee country, with extensive river red gum woodlands, and an...
  9. Rose Fletcher

    Bird-eating Spider

    We have some very big orb-weaver spiders in Australia, but I didn't know they could do this, even in the tropics where things tend to be exaggerated. This is one of the birds on my wish list - sob... :-C http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24540667-5005962,00.html
  10. Rose Fletcher

    Fishercl's Bare-throated Tiger Heron

    This shot struck me immediately because of the clarity of the bird's patterning against a natural background, the splendid exposure and colouring and the natural pose - just an all-round superb image! :t: Thanks Christine. http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=215129
  11. Rose Fletcher

    Corellas shot in South Australia

    It's almost 3.00 AM, and I can't get off to sleep, after the terrible events of this afternoon. Well, I suppose I ought to start at the beginning. At the bottom of my post is a photo of a Little Corella, Cacatua sanguinea. The bird pictured is a member of a local flock which ranges around...
  12. Rose Fletcher

    Grey Fantail, [I]Rhipidura fuliginosa[/I] - or what?

    I photographed this bird yesterday, on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. I thought it was a Grey Fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa, but I have never seen one with this colouring before. Usually, they have a white eyebrow, and they don't have that rufous colouring elsewhere. Could this be...
  13. Rose Fletcher

    Can anyone help with ID?

    My apologies for the poor quality, but I couldn't get close to this species. I saw many of them in the distance, as I hiked the Bogong High Plains in North-Eastern Victoria, but I'm having trouble identifying the bird. These are the best shots I got, but I would still love to know the bird's...
  14. Rose Fletcher

    Wetlands Cleared

    On top of the longest drought on record, today we are faced with this bad news for Australian birds: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/bulldozed-a-vital-wetland/2007/05/20/1179601244335.html The main problem here is the inadequacy of the fines imposed for this sort of behaviour on...
  15. Rose Fletcher

    The Coorong - news is all bad

    For some time I've been meaning to post an update on South australia's Coorong, where conditions have for some time been getting progressively worse, due to lack of water. The lack of water is due to over-use upstream, throughout the entire Murray-Darling river system, which runs through four...
  16. Rose Fletcher

    Antarctic Terns

    To anybody who may be in South Australia at the moment (11/9/2006): The "Adelaide Advertiser" reports that a flock of Antarctic Terns are currently at Cape Couedic, on Kangaroo Island. These birds have never before been seen alive in Australia, although two dead birds have been found during...
  17. Rose Fletcher

    Ibis Pride

    He is as proud as a bird can be. Standing regally at his full height, holding his black leather head high. The other fellow has better breeding colours, beautiful yellow feathers at his rump, brilliant deep red patches on the back of his neck...but this male has a stick. A fine stick, an...
  18. Rose Fletcher

    Hello Everybody

    Hello to everybody. :hi: I've just joined you, from the southern coast of Australia. From where I sit to type this, I can see Australian Pelicans (Pelicanus conspicillatus) whose lives are dedicated to sitting on posts looking picturesque. They must eat some time, but they don't let it...
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