10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

According to a bird guide published in 1911, “Competent authorities have proposed to divide the world, biologically, into two parts – Australia and the rest of the world, and they have considered Australia the more interesting part.” ” (quoted from Tim Low’s book “The Origin of Song”).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

The breeding season in the north of Australia starts from about July 1st and there are often several attempts if the eggs fail, are lost or the chicks don’t survive. On July 1st 2007 an egg was laid by a Pied Oystercatcher that was known to be an adult in 2002 and had been banded in nearby Roebuck Bay. Hermit Crab in lid.

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2007 Eggs 2014 2002 170

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

We travelled over 2700kms south of Broome to Albany in the south-west of Western Australia to attend the funeral last Friday. It builds a mound to incubate it’s eggs and this can be up to 4 metres across and 75cms high. Thankfully we could fly to Perth and then travel the last 400kms by car.

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Pelicans Birds Farming Emotional 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. How do I know of their Gothic moods when they have hidden them so well in an egg-white shell of conformity? Mar 10th, 2011 at 1:12 am I love it!

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 165