10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. ’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

This year one pair of Pied Oystercatchers has once again proven to be able to raise young. They are one of the older pairs and they have raised several young over the years, but only ever one has been fledged each year. Family of five Pied Oystercatchers- quite well disguised-also in the header photo!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

There are few families of birds as bewitching as the birds-of-paradise. There are, however, two species that are more accesible than the rest of the family. I’ve written before about how satisfying I find locating new families , and this was a pretty sweet new family to get. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGongXYDGo

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

We have never had a pair succeed in raising all of their chicks and even to succeed in raising one takes a lot of effort because they are so dependent on their parents. Pied Oystercatcher family. We were in a privileged position this week when we were able to sit with the Pied Oystercatcher family.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2017

There had been a grader along the fence-line many years ago leaving a lower area that was very flooded and the raised dirt it had left behind was the perfect location for a pair of nesting Australian Painted Snipe. The more brightly coloured female bird remained at the back of the family group as they swam to shore.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

Over the next few days we expect the Pied Oystercatcher family to make the trek two kilometres down the beach to Gantheaume Point. Last year they were successful at raising one chick, so we just have to hope they are this year too.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2019

We continue to have egg predation at many of the nest sites and chick loss, but one pair of Pied Oystercatchers is being successful in raising two chicks so far. I introduced you to this Pied Oystercatcher family four weeks ago. Five years ago there was one big exception to the rule, which I wrote about here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

First published in November of 1843 the tale of a baby swan, or cygnet, being raised among ducks strikes a chord with many people, but in Denmark the works of Hans Christian Andersen bring feelings of national pride. Corey Mar 5th, 2011 at 7:28 am @Clare: Does Australia have a national bird for the whole country?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Each of these species is an amazing bird and ones that can only be seen, observed, and enjoyed here in Australia. Bowerbirds are a unique family of birds found only in Australia and New Guinea. Bowerbirds are a unique family of birds found only in Australia and New Guinea. The first two species are related.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2016

Channel-billed Cuckoos have now left the Broome area and have headed north, but are the largest of the cuckoo family to visit the Broome area. Pheasant Coucals are also a member of the cuckoo family, but are unique because they do actually raise their own young. Pallid Cuckoo.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Whilst observing the Southern Emu-wrens a White-fronted Chat flew into view and landed on some raised vegetation! All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! It was a beautiful male bird and we then realised there were female birds on the other side of the wide trail that he was communicating with.

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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. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

The Masked Lapwing raised her body just enough over the nest for us to observe that there were two unhatched eggs, one very recently hatched wet chick and another chick that would have hatched a few hours earlier. Masked Lapwing protecting a nest. Second Masked Lapwing protecting a nest beside the road.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

There was little movement by the family during the heat of the day except to fly to the shoreline for a drink and to cool their feet. They then suddenly called and I realised it was time for the family to move again. I observed them from a distance with binoculars and it was interesting to see the eagerness of the chicks to explore.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

She successfully raised a chick in 2007, which has been living in a large flock to the south of Broome. Three day old Pied Oystercatcher chicks I have returned to observe this family from a distance and they are keeping themselves on higher ground this week due to the 10 metre tides we are experiencing.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I mentioned last week t hat the large Pied Oystercatcher family that had successfully raised three chicks this year for the first time may soon become a smaller family group. They were wandering further apart and I knew that it would not be long before the family group became smaller. Juvenile Pied Oystercatcher feeding.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. The quacker in question was named Ripper, a drake Musk Duck raised at the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near Canberra.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2023

The other duck species that we observe often is the Pacific Black Duck and this duck is one of the most versatile ducks in Australia and can be found in most places. Pacific Black Ducks lay up to 16 eggs and sometimes two clutches are raised in a year. The stripe around their eyes makes them quite a distinctive duck.

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Ducks Australia Eggs Raised 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

I will continue to remind you to check the Main Roads Travel map if you are travelling around Western Australia, because there are still many road closures. Australian Pelican Glossy Ibis Most of the Magpie Geese families have moved away from the highway now, but there are still some close to the fence-line.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. Paul’s family noticed that whenever he was about to have an attack, Tinker would get agitated. Caledonian crows live in small family groups and youngsters learn to fashion and use tools by watching adults.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As the story goes, the family that first planted the vineyard that became Dancing Crow were working their land in the shadow of Mount Konecti in the 1850s, painstakingly marking the spacing and orientation of their future vine rows using straws stuck into the earth. Three out of five stars (Good). Birds and Booze News.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

With the large distances between towns in the remote north of Australia you are limited to where you can stay if you are not camping, which we normally do. The decision was made to continue with the trip list and then just before we reached Western Australia we would make a detour. Birding Australia northern territory'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There are antwrens of South America, wren-babblers of South East Asia, the New Zealand wrens and the multitude of scrubwrens, heathwrens and fernwrens of Australia. But there is one exceptionally brightly coloured exception to this, the fairy-wrens of Australia. The female has a duller blue tail and red around the eye.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Another good reason to write in advance is if you are going on a break to see family and you don’t know if time will allow you to write. We were to spend a few days with my sister and family that had travelled from Sydney and my parents, who had not been able to travel to Australia this year. Little Egrets and ducks.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2022

Nowadays we don’t see Crested Pigeons in our garden very often at all, but there is a new family that have recently nested in Brolga Park. Our weather is starting to change and the Torresian Crows that have been silly enough to raise Channel-billed Cuckoos over recent months are now free of their responsibilities.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Also common is the White-browed Scrubwren , a member of the Australasian warbler family. White-browed Scrubwren ( Sericornis frontalis ) This being Australia there are parrots too. It reaches the edge of its range at Sydney, but I have seen it in this park a few times, including youngsters being raised by currawongs.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Australasian Grebes will take advantage of good conditions and raise up to three clutches of eggs and by the numbers of birds currently around the Broome area now it does appear that they took advantage of the big rain even early this year. Adult Australasian Grebe.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It is a little tradition we started when we were not both working on Christmas Day and a great way to pass the day when you don’t have family in the same state or time zone! Birding Australia Broome ducks parrots shorebirds' Whenever possible we make Christmas Day a day to bird together all day and make a list.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

The Australian Brush-turkey is far enough removed from the American Turkey’s Phasianidae family to not even get considered for wedding and funeral invitations. It belongs instead to the Megapodiidae branch of the Galliformes family tree. Incubation at the higher end of the range produces a greater percentage of female offspring.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. This is a great summer read.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This outstanding member of the wattlebird family is unique among songbirds in having different shaped beaks for each of the sexes. We’ll also keep our eyes open for several members of the New Zealand wren family. Also on the ground you’ll see your first Finsch’s Duck. Well, unique bar its Australian relative.

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New Zealand Ducks Mountain Goats Australia 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Clare went a chose a first for Australia. Do the same pairs return, if possible, to the same nests after their long winter migration?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

The studies range from reconstructing the penguin evolutionary tree from fossil bones to development of technology for tracking penguin movements underwater to surprising discoveries about the character and function of penguin coloration to an analysis of how Little Blue Penguins recovered from the crash of the sardine stocks in Australia.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Once I am moderately successful, I often find such photos quite pleasing. One puzzle solved. I can see their point.

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