Ian’s Bird of the Week – Gouldian Finches

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Newsletter 10-03-09 I’m now back home in North Queensland, so it’s perhaps appropriate to select as bird of the week one photographed at the farthest point reached during the trip: Wyndham on the Cambridge Gulf in NE Western Australia. I wanted to go to Wyndham, 100 Km from Kununurra, only because it is on the … Continue reading →

Ian’s Bird of the Week – Grey-crowned Rosy Finch

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Newsletter 03-25-09 I have at last finished major changes to the website and can now look forward to turning my attention back to Australian birds. I’m planning trips soon to chase up a few Australian species that haven’t made it to the website yet. In the meantime, here is yet another bird from St Paul … Continue reading →

Ian’s Bird of the Week – Crested Tern

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Newsletter 03-20-09 Please accept my apologies for a late posting this week. At the end of January I was in Cairns and we visited Palm Cove, north of the city, to search for an immature Laughing Gull (http://www.birdway.com.au/larini/laughing_gull/index.htm), that has been spending the Northern winter there. Laughing Gulls are rare trans-Pacific vagrants in Australia and … Continue reading →

Dinosaur Protein Sequences & Dino-to-Bird Model – Tomkins

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Dinosaur Protein Sequences and the Dino-to-Bird Model by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. is in this months Acts and Fact. Here is an excerpt from it: “Evolutionists have maintained that the fossil record supports a long-ages history for earth, but material extracted from dinosaur bones is providing an interesting challenge to that theory. The recent discoveries of … Continue reading →

Ian’s Bird of the Week – African Penguin

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Newsletter – 7/16/2009 Well now, as they say, for something completely different here is the African Penguin. I was reviewing the contents of the website a few days ago, and noticed that there weren’t any penguins. Not having yet succeeded in photographing the only resident Penguin resident in mainland Australia, the Little Penguin, I rectified … Continue reading →

The Flight of Migratory Birds by Werner Gitt

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The Flight of Migratory Birds by Werner Gitt is a fairly technical, but very interesting article about the migration of birds. While thinking about yesterday’s Birds of the Bible – Migration September 2009, I came across this article. He mentions the Pacific Golden Plover in detail and some other long fliers, like: “The following equally … Continue reading →

Ian’s Bird of the Week – Red-collared Lorikeet

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Newsletter 9/3/2009 Here’s the catch-up bird of the week as promised yesterday. If you looked at the photos and said “that’s just a Rainbow Lorikeet!”, you’d be right, sort of, and if you said “that’s like a Rainbow Lorikeet but different” you’d be right exactly. This is the Northern race (rubritorquis) of the Rainbow Lorikeet … Continue reading →

Birds of the Bible – Migration September 2009

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I know that I have written about the migration of the birds before, but this is really interesting. They have been posting radar images of the Florida peninsula on BRDBRAIN, a bird-listing service. Here are the images for September 28th and 30th. The dark spots are the birds in migration being picked up on radar. … Continue reading →

Meliphagidae – Honeyeaters

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Meliphagidae – Honeyeaters Family Information Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24 KJV) The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family of small to medium sized birds most common in Australia and New Guinea, but also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far … Continue reading →