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JANUARY 20, 2019

The above photo of a Tufted Duck was not taken here in Australia, but in Europe by myself. However, there have been a lot of photos taken of the Tufted Duck that is currently in Australia. There have never been Tufted Ducks in zoos or other wildlife parks in Australia and so we can only assume it got completely lost.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

Last week I mentioned the Tufted Duck that had suddenly appeared in Australia and it is not the only vagrant duck to have chosen to reside in Australia at the moment. The first record of the Eurasian Hoopoe in Australia was well documented in 2011. The post Garganey in Australia appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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MAY 3, 2018

This is a continuation of the story about landing in Melbourne, Australia, and I will cover our afternoon the first day and my visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens. Australia Species 116. New Lifers from Australia 100. As of May 1st, the Little Big Year numbers are as follows: Little Big Year 388.

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MARCH 17, 2019

Over recent decades there has been a sharp decline in the population of Eastern Curlew visiting Australia during their non-breeding months each year. The Eastern Curlew is the largest of the migratory shorebirds to visit Australia and really can’t be mistaken for any other species.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

As keen birdwatchers, who just happened to have found the Night Parrots in Western Australia, they were keen to look for the Fairy Pitta at first light the next day. This was only to be the second record for Australia. Australia-wide there is a huge problem with cats taking animals and birds. They were also devastated.

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

By the time we had reached Wyndham in the north of Western Australia we had encountered Gouldian Finches , but it was not until we were at a small billabong between Wyndham and Kununurra that I was able to photograph them. Although they are distributed across the north of Australia and down the east coast they are easily overlooked!

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MAY 7, 2023

Black-eared Cuckoos – Chrysococcyx osculans are one of the smaller Cuckoos in Australia and a Cuckoo species that I have not had much of an opportunity to photograph. It wasn’t calling, which is often the giveaway for Cuckoos in Australia, but perched on a branch as we walked by.

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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.

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JANUARY 13, 2019

There is a lot of variation in the plumage of Brown Quail throughout Australia, but the female bird is generally paler than the male. The post Brown Quail in Australia appeared first on 10,000 Birds. A pair of Brown Quail were beside the track feeding and allowed me to move forward and photograph them.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The irredeemably awful and generally terrible government of Tony Abbott is flailing around and one by-election away from open war on itself, and perhaps could use a distraction to take Australia’s minds off its stances on Syrian refugees, gay marriage and war on clean energy. Is this really the nation that gave the world Monty Python?).

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MAY 9, 2018

This week finds us flying from Melbourne, Australia, to Alice Springs, in the center of this incredibly large country. This is truly the center if Australia, no matter what method you use to decided the actual location of dead center. But the diversity, that I have found to be Australia, remains.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Since we returned from Melbourne in May we have spent a lot of time in remote parts of northern Australia enjoying the bird-life. In recent weeks we have pondered over the fact that it is almost twenty years since we had a “first for Australia” and that was a Blue and White Flycatcher on 5th December 1995.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. The dog fur are used are inside lining for ugg boots.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Australia has a lot of birds. 4 ,” published by BirdLife Australia lists 2,016 birds, but that includes subspecies (add extinct, domestic, failed introduced & non-confirmed birds and you have 2,106). Australia has also been blessed with many excellent bird identification and field guides.

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JULY 20, 2014

In Australia we definitely have our fair share of invasive species and the main problem is that we are such a huge land mass with such a small population. The population of Australia is concentrated mainly around the city areas along the coast and many invasive species have been able to spread with ease.

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DECEMBER 20, 2015

Of course there has been a good reason for this, especially when we discovered the first Temminck’s Stint to ever be observed in Australia! We always attempt photographic evidence, which often does not show the engraved leg flag writing very clearly but is enough evidence of the bird’s presence in Australia!

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OCTOBER 20, 2013

This year we did the same, but this time it was Palm Springs, Western Australia! This track will lead you to the Halls Creek Poo Ponds and these are by far the best Poo Ponds in the north of Western Australia! Trips Australia' We visited Palm Springs, California towards the end of 1989 and we camped and looked for birds.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

Latham first described Grey Butcherbirds in 1801, like most people of the age he assumed Australia’s birds should be seen in the context of Old World birds and placed them with the birds he thought they most closely resembled, the shrikes of the genus Lanius.I’m

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Contrary to what many people believe, Sydney is not the capital of Australia, and even calling it the premier city in the country might elicit angry complaints from the inhabitants of Melbourne. It is also a fantastic place to watch birds, and to get an introduction to birding in Australia. The city is a very green one.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Crested Pigeons – Ocyphaps lophotes are very widespread throughout Australia and can easily be observed in Broome on the streetlights on a wintery morning. Although Crested Pigeons are quite a common bird Australia-wide you don’t always find a nest, so that you are able to observe the family grow.

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AUGUST 13, 2017

On our recent trip across the north of Australia we were lucky enough to encounter several Sarus Cranes- Grus antigone , which are incredibly tall and elegant birds. Both species inhabit the same sort of environment and every flock of tall cranes that we encountered during our drive to Karumba consisted of both species. Sarus Crane family.

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Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

There are camels in Australia? Tags: cull camels australia environment. Apparently so and they are considered feral pests. you know what that means.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. And not just deep in the bush, either, but at the beach, in urban parks – even in the country’s suburban homes.

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AUGUST 6, 2017

In Australia it is winter in July, but the weather is as perfect as you could hope for in the north of the country with daytime temperatures around 30c/86f and the night-time temperatures being around 20c/68f and rarely a cloud in the sky. Sunsets got later and we enjoyed many a beautiful evening in the bush as you can see in the above photo.

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Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2010

New Zealand and Australia are joining forces to carry out research on whales using non-lethal methods, in an attempt to challenge Japan's hunting programme. Tags: australia whales new zealand Japan. It's non-lethal. Eighteen scientists will set sail for Antarctica next month to study minke, humpback and blue whale populations.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Australian Association for Humane Research says that Australia experiments on more animals per capita than the European Union, the UK and New Zealand. Tags: australia animal experimentation animal research. They are trying to get figures for the Northern Territory.

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APRIL 24, 2022

The mud is full of aquatic insects and their larvae and the Sharp-tailed Sandpipers have joined many other species feeding along this stretch of main highway around Australia. They will breed in the short Siberian summer between June and August and they will then return to Australia.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

The American retailers are worried that Australia's ditching of its own 2010 deadline to end the practice may reignite protest: ''We are concerned about what future action PETA may decide to launch if the issue remains unresolved,'' the vice-president and international trade counsel of the National Retail Federation, Erik Autor told the Herald.

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JULY 23, 2021

It is winter here on the east coast of Australia. By the way Woodswallows are chunky little insectivorous birds found in the south Pacific, Australia and southern and eastern Asia. Australia has six species; White breasted, White browed, Dusky, Little, Black faced and Masked. So we are entitled to complain about the cold.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes – Coracina novaehollandiae are a common bird species around our home in Broome, Western Australia. They are present throughout much of Australia and as their name would suggest they have a black face! They have one very distinct feature when they land, which is that they shuffle their wings.

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DECEMBER 26, 2021

Despite all of the restrictions on our travel we are fortunate that it does not stop birds from entering Western Australia. Western Australia remains closed to the rest of Australia and the world and we do not have any Covid cases in the community, so life appears to be quite normal here. Ringed Plover and Great Knot on the mud.

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JULY 23, 2023

White-winged Choughs – Corcorax melanorhamphos are native to southern and eastern Australia and one of the bird species that is likely to suddenly make you jump when you walk through a forest. Spend time with them and enjoy their antics!

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Australia there are three populations of Little Tern. There are Little Terns that breed across the north of Australia, Little Terns that breed on the coast of eastern and south-eastern Australia and another population that visit at this time of year from Asia.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

At this time of year around the north of Australia the ephemeral lakes are drying out fast. We have encountered really good flocks of Chestnut-breasted Mannikins further north in Western Australia and also in the Northern Territory. As I have mentioned in the past we often place branches out for birds.

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MARCH 13, 2011

Carpet Shark washed up Carpet shark being returned to the sea I hope you have enjoyed this little insight into our varied wildlife here in the north of Australia. 8 Responses to “Sea Snakes of Northern Australia&# tai haku Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:15 am Awesome post Clare. I loved your post, I have to visit Australia someday.

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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?! It’s not snowing-it’s not even raining yet and it’s the Wet Season, but we do have mistletoe for the Christmas season!

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AUGUST 27, 2023

Pied Oystercatcher eggs It is Winter here in Northern Australia which means plenty of cloud-free blue sky and there are definitely worst places to be sitting for twenty eight days watching the world go by! You’ll need to ask yourself why you didn’t get to Australia yet! Maybe one day our paths will cross……

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