Aus Bird Study Assoc

AOC this year is online so check out the fantastic line up and get registered!

Dusky Woodswallows are such cool birds. #birdbanding #ornithology

#SuperbParrots nesting late at approx. 30% of their typical annual effort in #Canberra. Incubating females looking a little worse for wear, but good to see decent clutches among active nests. #threatenedspecies

Fun fact - some kid superb parrots have colours that look just like their dads - BUT colour is a bad predictor of sex in juveniles! About half of ‘male coloured’ kids are actually female 🎨👀 superb parrots aren’t worried about binaries

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/43794949621875…

A Brown Thornbill ready for release after being banded as part of a long-term study of avian communities at Munghorn Gap. #birdbanding #ornithology

King parrot @WombatRidgeResv #WildOz

Do you ever wonder why Australia has so many partially migrant birds? Find out at this week’s #HBOC Club Night. Wednesday 7pm in person at the @HunterWetlands Centre or on Zoom. #birds #HunterBirdObserversClub #birdwatching

@SandyHorne61 @gretje @ParrotOfTheDay Yes striated pardalote 🙂

@gretje @ABSAbirds @ParrotOfTheDay Striated pardalote, I think 🙂

Can anyone identify this bird for me please. A new one to me. Smaller than an Eastern Spinebill. ⁦@SandyHorne61⁩ ⁦@ABSAbirds⁩ ⁦@ParrotOfTheDay⁩ (Yes, I know it’s #notaparrot but thought you could help.

I was super excited to band my first Rainbow Bee-eater yesterday! Just look at those colours! This bird is a male, btw. Females are duller and have shorter tail streamers.

Cheeky Eastern rosella foraging or weeding!🤭😁🌼 #TwitterNatureCommunity @ABSAbirds @BirdlifeOz @BirdLife_Melb @CanonAustralia @WildMelbourne @ParrotOfTheDay @ParrotTrust @worldbirds32 @UrbanBirdsOz

Brightening up Wednesday with this golden whistler male 🌞✨🌻

We have just completed our annual Gouldian finch count around Wyndham. The STGF team & volunteers have been surveying here since 2010 using a subset of the same count locations & a well validated survey protocol. This year we had 23 counters! 👏 Report & pics Gary Fitt

Swift parrot brood in their nest

This #ThreatenedSpeciesDay2022 remember the swift parrot - a species on the brink of extinction because of relentless politicisation of forest protection and shameless pillaging of critical habitat

Just Published: On the Trail of the Plains-wanderer tells the story of one of Australia's most critically endangered birds. The Plains-wanderer is one of a kind – and farmers and researchers are working together to help this unique bird survive. Ages 5–9. publish.csiro.au/book/8005/

Just Published: Swoop is a story about a charming, cheeky magpie with one very important job: KEEP THE EGGS SAFE. Written by @NicGodwin and with gorgeous illustrations by @SusannahCrispe, this picture book is perfect for ages 5–9 to learn about magpies. publish.csiro.au/book/8054/

A new bittern conservation booklet has just been produced. It has all the latest info on their ecology, distilled for the general public. “Saving the Endangered Australasian Bittern: A Guide to Wetland Management and Bittern-friendly Rice Farming” bitternsinrice.com.au/new-booklet-sa…

Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died on this date in 1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo. Before going extinct, they were described as darkening the skies. Numbering in the billions, it could take hours for a flock to fly overhead.

Regent honeyeater belly

Eastern spinebill with pollen in its nose