She and her mate are bush songsters. Their melodious whistling reverberates among the eucalypts each morning and reminds me, as I lie in bed, that I have come home....
Tag: Australian birds
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Bird week round-up: our team’s favourite Aussie birds
Here in Australia we are so blessed to have an incredible range of colourful, interesting and unique birdlife. Each year, National Bird Week gets us all a-flutter at Remember The Wild...
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The farmer’s friend: a friend in need
The paddocks near my place in Porcupine Ridge are busy with visitors. Almost a hundred Straw-necked Ibis may be seen there each day, first on one paddock then in the other; busy probing the soil with long bills and stalking through the grass tussocks...
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A Smile from a Swoop
Australian magpies are renowned swoopers, but there are several other species that strike fear into the hearts of passers-by...
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Listen up and you will never look back
There are few sounds so intrinsically linked with Australia as the chortle of a magpie first thing in the morning. Yet, despite this early foray into call recognition, few people add more than a handful of other species to the list of birds that they can recognise by call...
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Plover Diaries: The Tale of a Territory
The hooded plover (aka ‘hoodie’) is a local beach-nesting bird, battling to survive on the Mornington Peninsula...