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Windjana Gorge in 2020

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As we all well know there is something very different about 2020. Following on from our first camping trip for 2020 we took another camping trip a bit further afield. Having observed the Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at the Derby Poo Ponds on June 19th we found ourselves at Windjana Gorge first thing the following morning.

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

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Greeney, also part of the Helm Identification series, it focuses on two avian families, combining the information necessary for identification with the latest research on taxonomy and behavior, particularly breeding behavior, and the latest conservation news and status. Introduction.

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

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Surrounded by coral reefs filled with fish, sea turtles of three species plus the common visits of Manta Rays: it is a pretty exciting place for anyone who likes to skin dive. The most common two species here are the Black Noddy – a kind of tern and the Bridled Tern. Each entry will offer new species, new colour and new delights.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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I’ve been fortunate to see two Penguin species in the wild (African and Galapagos) and have dreamed of seeing more–maybe even all!–especially The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.”

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

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And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is “Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.

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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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” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). The chapters on courtship and breeding and roosting and migration are the longest, which isn’t surprising.

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Latham’s Snipe

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It has been strange being away from our home in Broome, Western Australia, at this time of year. If we had been at home and we had all day to bird we would have expected to reach over one hundred bird species on the first day of the year. We decided to go to Toora to look for some other bird species despite it being high tide.

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