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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Grey Goshawk ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 5-24-12 * Here is an uncommon and beautiful raptor, the Grey or Variable Goshawk. It is usually called the Grey Goshawk in Australia but the moniker Variable is more accurate as it occurs in both grey and white morphs. The first [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Black-winged Petrel ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter – 5/14/12 Three weeks ago we had the Cape Petrel. Here is the Black-winged Petrel, another species, like the White Tern and Grey Ternlet, that I had seen twenty years ago on Lord Howe Island and was keen to photograph on Norfolk [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – (Norfolk Island) Golden Whistler ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter: 5-4-12 My apologies for a belated bird of the week. When I was in Eungella recently chasing the so-named Honeyeater, I encountered a very obliging male Golden Whistler, below, so I’ve chosen it to introduce this week’s subject. It’s one of [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Eungella Honeyeater ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter – 4/22/12 Well, team, many thanks, your moral and spiritual support have done it again: here is the Eungella Honeyeater, photographed last Friday after some diligent searching. The field guides say: ‘noisy, wary, elusive’ and that I would agree is a good [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Cape Petrel ~ by Ian Montgomery My records show that no Petrel and only one Shearwater (Buller’s) has ever featured as bird of the week. That’s partly because, until recently, I didn’t have many photos of members of this family of seabirds (Procellaridae) but that has been largely corrected [...]

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Bird of the Week – Grey Ternlet ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 4/10/12 Last week we had the (Common) White Tern or White Noddy. Here is its counterpart the Grey Ternlet, often called the Grey Noddy. It is also an island species but is restricted in range to the Western and South Pacific. In [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Common White Tern ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter – 4/2/12 Another species on my photo list on Norfolk Island was the (Common) White Tern. I’d admired on Lord Howe Island more than twenty years ago, before I got seriously into bird photography. They’re only Common if you’re on a [...]

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