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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

10,000 Birds

Contrary to alleged preferences among humans, the golden-headed cisticola has a shorter tail during the breeding season ( source ). “She monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot.” It breeds in tree holes, presumably explaining the more commonly used name for it.

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Fish Creek to Buffalo

10,000 Birds

There was a Koala doing…nothing! Koala doing…nothing! The Koala then had an itch, so there was a little bit of action! They had good breeding plumage, although that is not clearly apparent when the photo was taken from so far away! I suddenly noticed a distant shape in the trees that was large and round!

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