July 31, 2020
ALERT
For details on how to join the August club meeting by Zoom see the latest Bulletin (#157).
July 18, 2020
Regent Honeyeaters and Swift Parrots: an update from Birdlife Australia
On July 7, 2020, Mick Roderick gave his presentation on “Regent Honeyeaters and Swift Parrots – an update from BirdLife Australia” to Birding NSW via Zoom. He kindly agreed for the talk to be recorded for club members to view via the Birding NSW website (www.birdingnsw.org.au). I apologise that the initial part of the presentation is missing but the remainder of the presentation provides important information on the current status of these birds and the work being done particularly for the Regent Honeyeater to monitor and protect these birds.
A full set of slides used by Mick Roderick in this talk is available on the “What the Guest Speakers said” page.
In this video, Mick Roderick gives an update on Regent Honeyeaters and Swift Parrots.
Elisabeth Karplus
July 16, 2020
Central Coast meeting to go ahead
Robyn Price advises :
It has been decided to go ahead with our Monthly Meeting at 7.30pm on Tuesday 28th July in the Tuggerah Progress Hall, however with very restricted numbers. Christina Port will be speaking on “Birding in the Northern Territory”.
If you would like to attend the meeting, please text Michael Scobie on 0411 243 433. You will not be able to attend the meeting if you haven’t registered with Michael first.
July 12, 2020
New website for NSW ORAC
The website includes a comprehensive Index of Cases which includes all NSW reports that have been submitted to NSW ORAC and BARC both accepted and not accepted, and also includes known reports of rare species for which no submission was made. Most of these latter reports are shown at the end of the Index of Cases as not confirmed/not assessed but some have case numbers since, in the early days of NSW ORAC, case numbers were sometimes assigned when a sighting was claimed but which was not followed up with a submission. The Index of Cases can be searched by species names, dates, sites, etc and there is also a downloadable PDF version.
The latest revision of the NSW ORAC Review List is on the site as a PDF file and the URR Form is on the site as a downloadable Word document which can be used to prepare submissions to the committee.
Vist the site here: www.nsworac.org/
July 6, 2020
Annual Photo Competition applications are due by 25 September 2020
Application forms and competition rules are available here.
June 10, 2020
Alan K Morris AM is the clubs new patron
There will be an article about this in the next issue of the newsletter.