Archive for the 'Birds in the News' Category

Our local Police Station here in Murray Bridge has had to close its doors this week. They have had a lice infestation caused by too many Feral Pigeons (Rock Doves) nesting and roosting on the premises. The station was closed so that fumigation could be undertaken. A temporary station was set up nearby in […]

In January 2004 I spent nearly four weeks in Nepal. Part of this time was spent on a trek towards Mt Everest. After that I visited Chitwan National Park. The remainder of the time was spent in and around Kathmandu. While I didn’t deliberately visit Nepal to go birding, I did get quite a nice […]

Hard on the heels of the BIGBY (The Big Green Big Year) where a group of birders is going carbon neutral for at least some of their birding, I find out about ….
…..“THE BIGGEST TWITCH.“
Two Welsh birders have teamed up to break the world record of recording the most birds in a single calendar year. […]

The latest edition of Birds in the News #96 has been posted here.
A bonus - as usual - was a truly wonderful photo of a Bald Eagle at the beginning of the article.
There are the usual links to interesting articles about birds in the news from around the world. Two features of particular interest to […]

I’ve always known that crows and ravens were clever birds. They can be downright cunning at times. From a very early age growing up on a farm I was aware of their sneaky habits of flying into the chook yard to steal the eggs.
Over the years I’ve read further examples of these clever birds using […]