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South East Queensland [SEQ] Birding Destinations – Lady Elliot Island.

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On Lady Elliot Island in our southern Barrier Reef, where I visited in late 2020, the Black Noddies began breeding recently in 1985. Lady Elliot Island (LEI) was clearly a wonderful seabird breeding island as attested by the huge reserve of guano. The reason for their initial absence also explains their return.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Owls live and migrate from Arctic circumpolar to Colorado prairie to South American rainforest to Southeast Asian islands, Galapagos islands, Canary islands–many many islands–to coastal Australia and onward. The chapters on courtship and breeding and roosting and migration are the longest, which isn’t surprising.

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