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Farewell to 2024!
I've now established this as an annual tradition, a review of our year as represented by one photo - occasionally two where necessary - from each month. (As sometimes happens, at least one month passed...
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Queensland's Channel Country
I've mentioned here before my love affair with south-west Queensland, a vast and varied area which is somehow noticeably 'different' from adjacent NSW and South Australia. An important reason for this...
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Queensland's Channel Country#2: some animals
Last time I offered an introduction to south-west Queensland's Channel Country, one of our (many) favourite destinations, a vast arid and semi-arid area of wide plains and braided stream channels that...
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Animals Drinking; more to it than meets the tongue
All vertebrate life (and probably all other life) needs water, and the simplest way is seemingly just to drink it. However it's not always that simple actually and in fact quite a few animals,...
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An Alphabet of Less Usual Birds
I'm putting this together amidst a bit of a whirl of preparing to go away for five weeks - and to the Northern Hemisphere! In all our travelling over the past decade and a half or so (mostly through my...
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Wild Singapore
We're just back from a near-six week overseas trip, which started with five nights in Singapore. Shortly before we left a friend, to whom I'd commented that one of my aims was to try to see some birds,...
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Borrowed Bird Names
I've been toying with the idea of this post - comparing the Australian birds whose names have been 'borrowed' from European birds with the 'originals' - for quite some time but without the illustrative...
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