10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2023

It is free to enter Serendip Sanctuary and as you drive or walk up the road into the parking area there are opportunities to see kangaroos and wallabies as you can see above. Hiding in plain sight just like they are all across Australia. Lara is about 20 kilometres from Geelong or 60 kilometres south-west of Melbourne.

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Sanctuary Kangaroos Geese Transported 130

10,000 Birds

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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Australia Camels Kangaroos Hunting 121

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2018

It was completed in 1903 and it delivers water to the Goldfields area of Western Australia via a pipe that is over five hundred kilometres/three hundred miles long. The picnic area offers good opportunities to encounter Grey Kangaroos and they are particularly large animals. Grey Kangaroos at the Mundaring Weir picnic area.

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Kangaroos Australia Parrots Litter 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2015

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. A great place to wander around looking lost with binoculars!

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Stud Kangaroos Parrots Australia 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2014

We will be spending a good part of our holiday based in Mittagong as it is a central place to visit the Southern Highlands , Kangaroo Valley , the massive Morton National Park and no doubt we will head to the coast one day in search of a Hooded Plover or Double-banded Plover. Birding Australia parrots rockwarbler'

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Kangaroos Australia Parrots Experience 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2012

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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Kangaroos Guinea Pigs Turkey Guinea 164