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From Bauple to Bribie – The Game & The Big Year
Barking Owl - Sheepstation CreekBirdLife Australia Sunshine Coast, our local birding group, has for some time been running a game on its Facebook page organised by its leader, Ken Cross. One objective...
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Grey Falcon & Diamantina National Park
Grey FalconIn April last year I visited Lark Quarry and other sites in the channel country of western Queensland with Scott Baker and Bernie O'Keefe in search of Night Parrots and other goodies. The...
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Letter-winged Kite, Birdsville Track & Flinders Ranges
Letter-winged Kite roost at sunriseFollowing our visit to Diamantina National Park, we (myself, Bernie O'Keefe and Scott Baker) headed west towards Boulia, turning south at Springvale Station towards...
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Red-lored Whistler, Murray-Sunset & Werribee
Red-lored WhistlerFollowing the visit with Bernie O'Keefe and Scott Baker to Diamantina National Park and our travels down the Birdsville Track and through the Flinders Ranges, we moved on to the huge...
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Sunshine Coast Pelagic August 2018
Providence PetrelWith a forecast wind direction of W-NW - about as bad as it gets - following several days of westerlies, we had some challenges ahead of us as we left Mooloolaba Marina at 7am on...
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Australasian Bittern, Regent Honeyeater, Lesser Crested Tern & Big Year Update
Australasian BitternPlenty of avian activity hereabouts in recent weeks. An Australasian Bittern was reported by a Sunshine Coast Birds Australia outing to Garnett's Lagoon at Hervey Bay. This is a...
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Night Parrot - New book stirs fresh controversy
The following are transcripts of my news story and feature in the 11-12 August, 2018 edition of The Weekend Australian about Penny Olsen's new book Night Parrot.News - Night parrot on brink of...
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Night Parrot: More bits and pieces from the new book
Night Parrot - pic by John YoungI wrote about Penny Olsen's new book, Night Parrot, in The Weekend Australian of 11-12 August, 2018, highlighting research issues between Bush Heritage Australia and...
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Red-legged Crake, Blue-winged Pitta in Singapore
Red-legged CrakeWe had a 3-day stopover in Singapore en route to Africa, staying at the Robertson Quay Hotel. The first morning we hooked up with Martin Kennewell, a well-known local birder, who took...
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ETHIOPIA PART A – Addis Ababa to Melka Ghebdu
Abyssinian Ground-HornbillThe first day of our 23-day sojourn to Ethiopia was one of rest after a nightmare early morning flight from Singapore. We met our guide for the trip, Abiy Dagne of Ethiopian...
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ETHIOPIA PART B – Gelada Baboons to Awash National Park
Gelada maleFollowing our twitch of the restricted Ethiopian endemic, the Ankober Serin (see following post) at Gemessa Gebel, we chanced upon three fair-sized troops of Gelada Baboons on the edge of...
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ETHIOPIA PART C – Lake Langano and the Rift Valley
Black-winged LovebirdFollowing our visit to Awash National Park (see following post) we continued south to the very nice Harro Langano lodge on the south-east shore of Lake Langano for a two-night...
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ETHIOPIA PART D – ETHIOPIAN WOLF & BALE MOUNTAINS
Ethiopian WolfAfter Laker Langano (see following post) we again headed east, this time towards the Bale Mountains - where some of Africa's finest scenery is on display. As we ascended the mountains we...
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ETHIOPIA PART 5 - The dry southern thornbush country, Nechisar National Park...
Eastern Paradise-WydahWe continued south to the dusty town of Negelle for a two-night stay in the Maareg Hotel. Early in the morning we headed eastalong the Bogol-Manyo Road to the famed Libano Plain –...
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SOUTH AFRICA PART 1 – Suikerbostrand & Kruger's Pretoriuskop Lodge
LeopardFollowing our 23-day trip to Ethiopia (see following five posts) we flew to Johanesburg for another 23-day trip, to South Africa. We booked into the nice Airport Inn Suites in Kempton Park....
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SOUTH AFRICA PART Part 2: Lower Sabie and Satara in Kruger National Park
White lion near SataraFollowing our stay at Pretoriuskop Lodge in Kruger National Park (see here) we moved on the Lower Sabie Lodge for a 2-night stay. We left early in the morning, seeing a troop of...
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SOUTH AFRICA PART 3: Kruger's Olifants & Orphen lodges plus Taita Falcon
African Elephant bullFollowing our stay at Satara (see here) we headed north to Olifants Lodge, known for beautiful views atop cliffs across the Olifants River towards the Mozambique border. Olifants...
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SOUTH AFRICA PART 4: Cape Town to Honeywood: Victorin's & Knysna Warbler,...
Victorin's Scrub-WarblerFollowing our visit to Kruger National Park and Johannesburg, we flew to Cape Town, surely one of the world's finest cities. As usual, the imposing Table Mountain behind a...
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SOUTH AFRICA PART Part 5: Swellendam to West Coast National Park
Southern Black KorhaanFollowing our stay at Honeywood Lodge (see here) we headed north-west to Paternoster on the coast north of Cape Town for a 3-night stay, in another nice lodging booked through Air...
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA PART 1 – Cervantes to Dalwallinu: Copperback & Western...
Copperback Quail-thrushI've returned from a 19-day sojourn (October 14-November 2, 2018) through southern Western Australian with my American/Panamanian birding friends Dodge and Lorna Engleman. Many...
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