10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2017
Our plan was to head north for a few days and observe the concentrated bird-life around the remaining ephemeral lakes and observe some of the birds that had arrived in the north of Australia over the past few weeks. It remained in the area until 7th October 2006 and was accepted by the Birds Australia Rarities Committee as Case no.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
The last record of an Orange Chat in the Broome area was in 2006. We have encountered Orange Chats before in Western Australia, but also in the Northern Territory at the Tennant Creek Poo Ponds. Some years we encounter Crimson Chats around Broome too and even less rare is the Orange Chat.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 25, 2011
Throw in the completely different climate we are experiencing in northern Australia and we seem to be absolutely worlds apart… but are we?! I had Tropical Cyclone Clare in January 2006 and due to it’s intensity my name has been removed from the list.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
It did not take too long to discover that the project has been running since 2006 and has enabled the research team to find out a lot about the Black Swans in the Melbourne area. Black Swan L07 was originally banded 21st June 2006 at Albert Park and is over 9 years old. She was also given her neck band in 2006, but on 12th October.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2013
Various governments have forced us to trial it in Western Australia in 1975, 1984, 1992 and 2006 and we have then had to vote on it and it has been rejected. They inhabit the north of Australia and look like an over-sized kingfisher. Birding Australia Broome Kookaburras' Blue-winged Kookaburra on our fence.
Critter News
JULY 7, 2009
This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
Another good place to locate the Pied Heron in Western Australia is the Kununurra Poo Ponds. Our only records of Pied Herons in the Broome area since we moved here permanently in 1999 are on 24th June 2006, 22nd February 2011, 6th July 2013 and this week on 6th September 2017.
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