I'd have loved to have visited Tassie.
Sadly, Adelaide was too backwards to offer a direct flight to Hobart and we did three days' birding in south-west WA instead.
Worth it for the photos:

www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk/abirds/scarletrobin.htm
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 24 Mar 2013, 11:32, 1 reply)

I went to an Oil and Gas conference the other week, and was chatting to a bloke who maps all the fauna in the Gas fields that needs to be avoided (I do a lot of mapping for that purposes, it's a surprisingly big issue with the Gas companies)).

We were talking about the near-extinct Orange Bellied Parrot of Tasmania. Apparently it migrates to South Australia each year to nest and breed. That's a hell of a flight for a tiny Parrot. The habitat is slowly being removed in South Australia (natural salt marshlands), hence they have virtually stopped breeding.

Quite sad. Feral cats probably account for the few that actually make the journey, breed and return to Tasmania.
( Ken Oath, Sun 24 Mar 2013, 11:57, closed)