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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).

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Many Animals Dying in Australian Wildfires

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Hundreds of burned, stressed and dehydrated animals — including kangaroos, koalas, lizards and birds — have already arrived at shelters across the scorched region. 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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Lake Eacham, Mt Hypipamee and Mount Molloy

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The Australian Brush-turkey ( Alectura lathami ) is a common sight in the rainforests of Australia. A quick walk netted me some Atherton Scrubwrens , an endemic, as well as a Yellow-throated Scrubwren , a species that mostly occurs in southern Australia but has a small disjunct population around the Tableland.

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