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So proud!

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But it has paid dividends with as many as a dozen bird species breeding or attempting to breed in my overgrown wasteland. As it waited for a parent to return with some food, it picked through the leaf litter to see if it could find something for itself. Lady Helen teased me for being so puffed up about my breeding sucess.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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They diverged at approximately the same time as the rockjumpers (two quite unique bird species endemic to Southern Africa and now in their own family), and as a result for a while were even placed in the same family. Forest cover in both species’ ranges is being destroyed at an unsustainable rate and these birds’ populations are dwindling.

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Willie Creek

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The first creek to the north is Willie Creek and we often visit it on the south side when we monitor the breeding pairs of Pied Oystercatchers. We have previously called these birds Beach Thick-knees , but as with so many species around the world in recent years they have had their names changed. There were some rather nice specimens.

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Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan

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We also had Eastern Whipbirds hopping along the edge of the road tossing the leaf litter about in search of food. We encountered several species on different flowering plants including the Wanderer Butterfly. There are 70 species that are known to breed in the park. Satin Bowerbird -female. Satin Bowerbird bower.

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White-throated Robin & Nighthawk Food

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A 1st-summer female initially misidentified as a Red-flanked Bluetail, a mistake swiftly corrected, it became the first ‘twitchable’ individual of this species ever and the first one for 21 years, providing an opportunity for almost every British birder to get a British tick. Beautiful Golden Y Dark Spectacle a.

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Singapore’s Red Junglefowl

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Red Junglefowl are under threat in Singapore due to habitat loss and inter-breeding, but we observed them most days on our hiking trips around the island and also on Pulau Ubin. It appears that the Red Junglefowl had been breeding this year around February, because we encountered many a family of them rustling around in the leaves in March.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. Seeing this giant, awkward yet majestic bird walk through the densely littered landscape was a surreal experience. (4) 3) Greater Adjutant. 4) Small Pratincole. 6) Garganey.

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