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Saw this CAGO yesterday (Sunday) at Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake. Appears to be a USA band ... where can you report this info? Ted Goshulak Langley, BC

Good morning everyone, The Birding Committee of Nature Vancouver coordinates the Vancouver Christmas Bird Count. This year its on Saturday December 17, sunrise to sunset. 28 of the 29 areas have an Area Leader, but we still urgently need one for 'AREA V' in northeast Richmond. Attached are 2 maps, one of the entire 24km-diameter CBC Circle and one of AREA V. For the CBC, being the leader is quite easy. It just means getting a few fellow birders together and deciding as a team how to best cover the area, based on number of volunteers, weather conditions, vehicles available, accessibility of productive spots, etc. Then at the end of count-day, when you get home, you enter your teams' results into an Excel file (which we provide in the 'Leader Package'), then save and email it to our Compiler. That's it! So it would be greatly appreciated if you could help us out and participate in one of the biggest citizen-science projects on the planet! If you can, then please email me at my Nature Vancouver email: colin@... Thanks very much, Colin Clasen

We’ve just finished a long 2-month birding trip to Indonesia, the remote West Papuan Islands and Tasmania. Our travels took us to Jakarta where we started the trip birding the Jakarta Bay and Mount Haliman Salak NP. We then flew to bird West Timor and Rote Island before flying up to Sorong in West Papua to join the boat for the remote West Papuan Islands. Our tour took us to Waigeo and other Raja Ampat islands and on to Kofiau Island, Obi Island, Seram Island, Boano Island and Ambon Island before heading down to spend the last part of the trip in Tasmania. This was an opportunity to bird in rarely explored Islands such as Kofiau for some of the planet’s rarest and least known species. These included some extraordinary birds such as Wilson’s Bird-of-paradise, Red and King Birds-of-paradise, Kofiau and Red-breasted Paradise Kingfishers and Kofiau Monarch. We then crossed the Lydekker’s Line and headed to the North Moluccas exploring little birded waters in addition to visiting Obi Island. Then on south to the Central Moluccan islands of Seram and Boano ending up in Ambon for the endemic Salmon-crested Cockatoo, Purple-naped Lory, Seram Boobook and Boano Monarch to mention a few! We spent the last part of the trip in Tasmania where we managed all of the endemics except one – the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot which we had arranged to try for by flying in from Bruny Island but the weather was stormy with high winds and limited visibility which the pilot wouldn’t fly in as there was no line of sight, and when we saw the size of the single engine prop plane we were due to fly in decided that dying was probably too high a price to pay for a single life bird!! It was a fantastic trip with so many memorable birding highlights – some of which were: A pre-dawn landing on Waigeo to hike in to hides to wait with bated breath for Wilson’s Bird-of-paradise – simply described as one of the most beautiful birds on earth and a very special moment! A slightly sketchy ride on a tiny boat out to the island of Haraku where we waited until dusk for the rare and extremely localized Moluccan Scrubfowl (Megapod) and were rewarded with up close and personal views of this amazing bird as it came to the beach to lay its eggs in the sand at night. The journey back in the boat in the pitch dark was also an experience! A 4 hour near vertical hike on Buru for the Madanga, initially thought to be a white-eye of sorts but now included with the pipits and wagtails even though it behaves more like a nuthatch! It was virtually unknown as a living bird until it was first found in 2016 – and after all that effort we didn’t get it!! It was a fantastic experience though and we were rewarded with two other endemics, Buru Honeyeater and Buru Thrush. Standing in a rookery on Bruny Island at night as hundreds of Short-tailed Shearwaters returned from the ocean to their burrows – they appeared out of nowhere in huge numbers and were flying right past our shoulders to land close to their burrows. It’s going to take some time to sort photos and compile the trip report which we will post on our birding website (www.worldbirdtraveler.com) with information on the itinerary, accommodations, guides and bird list etc., and as always, happy to help and provide more information for anyone thinking of planning a trip there. Derek Derek J. Matthews Chairman, Director Communication NABC Certified Trainer Vancouver Avian Research Centre Registered Canadian Charity #82118 2656 RR0001 4115, East Braemar Road, North Vancouver, BC, V7K 3C9 T: (604) 218-1191 E: Derek@... W: www.birdvancouver.com

Radical new findings on the origins of modern birds: Fossil overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds phys.org Perry Edwards North Vancouver

This article made me think of the presence of scrub jays here, and implications for range shifts, assisted migration and the continued ripple effects of climate change, and what role BC will play in all of this. “These dusky blue birds once roamed the West in huge flocks, with hundreds alighting on pi?on pines to glean nuts in the winter months. Now it’s uncommon to see flocks of more than 100. In the last 50 years, the population of pinyon jays has declined by an estimated 80%” https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-birds-the-pinyon-jays-predicament? Pamela Zevit RPBio | Biodiversity Conservation Planner T 604.590.7254 Check out how we are conserving biodiversity in Surrey I am privileged to work on the shared traditional territories (tém:éxw) of the s?myám? (Semiahmoo), sq??c?iy?a?? (Katzie), K?ik?????m (Kwikwetlem), q??ɑ:n????n? (Kwantlen), Qiqéyt (Qayqayt), Sc??waθ?n (Tsawwassen) and x?m?θk??y??m (Musqueam).

Reposted from the Association of Field Ornithologists. “While interesting in itself, understanding where different dialects occur can also provide tools to study important aspects of a species’ natural history. For a species that sings both on the breeding grounds and in migration or during winter, one can use the location and timing of these dialects to understand how and where certain populations migrate between breeding and wintering areas. This sort of migratory connectivity information can be extremely helpful to conserving a declining species by revealing whether key challenges are occurring in the breeding area, wintering grounds, or at migratory stopover points.” https://afonet.org/2022/06/song-dialects-of-the-ruby-crowned-kinglet/? Pamela Zevit RPBio | Biodiversity Conservation Planner T 604.590.7254 Check out how we are conserving biodiversity in Surrey I am privileged to work on the traditional territories (tém:éxw) of the s?myám? (Semiahmoo), sq??c?iy?a?? (Katzie), K?ik?????m (Kwikwetlem), q??ɑ:n????n? (Kwantlen), Qiqéyt (Qayqayt), Sc??waθ?n (Tsawwassen) and x?m?θk??y??m (Musqueam).