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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. Western Australia remains closed to everybody from everywhere. Green-backed Gerygones were calling and it is a species we always seek out when we visit.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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This shows the top birders, by species or checklists submitted. For 2020, the list will only contain the relevant month’s sightings to avoid huge, bulky posts as the year progresses. These are the opening stats for 2020. 17 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 28 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020. 05 Jan 2020.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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Incidentally, Uganda ( 510 ) leap-frogged Australia ( 475 ) to become the list’s fourth most prolific country behind Costa Rica ( 763 ), USA ( 654 ) and Brazil ( 555 ). They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. 02 Dec 2019.

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Zone of Happiness Birding

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Ken Cross lives with his wife Megan and their three children on the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast on Australia’s east coast. Currently he is the convenor for Birdlife Australia in his local area and, as that suggests, he loves sharing his passion for birds and all wildlife through outings and bird walks. Ken Cross].

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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 –especially when reviewing books like A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia or Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds.

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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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