10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

The Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae is Australia’s largest bird standing at up to 2 metres (6 foot 6 inches) tall. They are also inquisitive, so if you observe some near the edge of the road and you want to gain their attention you can turn on your car indicators and they will often investigate rather than run off.

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Australia Investigation Family Eggs 180

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JUNE 23, 2012

The other family notorious for its excitable nomenclature is the Birds of Paradise which include among their number the Bloomin’ Gorgeous Bird of Paradise , Princess Stephanie’s Bestest Stonker and the Super-duper “Crikey! It is the male that earns the name with his superb blue head gear, mantle and tail.

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Australia Investigation Breeding Family 205

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MARCH 31, 2013

We had last experienced this cheerful family of birds in Katherine in the Northern Territory over 13 years ago, so although the population is isolated there they had the same characteristics. They roam in family groups varying from eight birds upwards and have a certain confidence about themselves as they strut around the bush.

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Investigation Australia Family Collecting 166

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MARCH 20, 2016

Brown Honeyeaters are the most common of the honeyeater family in our garden and when a goanna is present they chatter away and we have to look to see what is bothering them. Common Tree Snakes are one of the few snakes in Australia that are not venomous, which may be a bit boring for some of you!

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Reptiles Cats Investigation Mammals 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2012

It is about an hour’s drive to Lake Argyle, which is Australia’s largest artificial lake by volume. Silver-crowned Friarbird enjoying a dripping tap A family of Pied Butcherbirds were exploring the small park for anything that they could scavenge and as you can see, they do have a rather nasty looking bill.

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Investigation Australia Humane Family 103

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DECEMBER 28, 2014

Derby is approximately 225 kilometres from Broome and has had almost three times the rainfall that Broome has had so far this month and so we thought it would be interesting to go and investigate the various birding areas that we knew of from other visits during our dry months. Birding Australia Derby' Grey-crowned Babbler roost.

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Birds Ducks Investigation Australia 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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