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Many Animals Dying in Australian Wildfires

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While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, {Jon Rowdon, president of the rescue group Wildlife Victoria} said. We've got a wallaby joey at the moment that has crispy fried ears because he stuck his head out of his mum's pouch and lost all his whiskers and cooked up his nose," Rowdon said.

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Petrel Paradise

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Prions are an interesting little group of procellariid, distinct from the gadfly petrels, shearwaters and fulmarine petrels, and I’ll dedicate a post to the group at some point in the future. Fairy Prions ( Pachyptila turtur ) And then there were the “true petrels&# , insofar as that group has any taxonomic meaning anymore.

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Shorebirds of Roebuck Bay

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When they depart on their northward migration it is possible to go into Roebuck Bay in the late afternoon and watch them group up, call and then take off in beautiful V-formations. The Mango Festival is 24th-27th November and there are cocktail and cook-off competitions and a chance to taste all the different varieties!

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

Environmental groups are opposed, because it is perceived as a wedge to try and open up the forests to more economic exploitation, and there are concerns about the damage such selective timber recovery might cause. It is passing through a one time bill to allow this, well, windfall to be partly used. And not everyone is happy about this.

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Campbell Park, Canberra

10,000 Birds

Australia’s capital, set in the eucalypt-studded Great Dividing Ranges, has not got a fantastic reputation as an exciting place to be, but in truth its an attractive garden city with a lot of green spaces, parks, and other pleasant paces that make it a nice place to live. Speckled Warbler by David Cook (CC). A Speckled Warbler.

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Regarding Kakariki

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The kakariki are an odd group of parakeets, particularly in terms of their distribution. The ancestor of both genera appears to have come from Australia , possibly from stock that also have rise to the rosellas, at least 20 million years ago. Let’s back up a little bit and introduce the parakeets.

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Canada’s Naughtiest Dog contest

4 The Love Of Animals

It’s unnecessary for dog owners to live with and be frustrated by their dog’s poor behaviour,” says Jeff Cooke, President, Bark Busters Canada. Bark Busters was founded in Australia in 1989 by renowned behaviour therapists Danny and Sylvia Wilson. For full contest details please visit www.CanadasNaughtiestDog.ca. About Bark Busters.

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