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Where to now for the Night Parrot?
Night Parrot (Image by John Young)Management plans to bring the Night Parrot back from the brink will need to be revamped and the birding community is set to be deeply divided after Australia's biggest...
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Sunshine Coast Pelagic March 2019
Common NoddyWe departed Mooloolaba Marina at 6.45am on Sunday March 24, 2019 with a degree of trepidation as the forecast of a 10knot north-westerly did not bode well. We soon encountered good numbers...
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Time to double the size of Yandina Creek Wetland
Red Fox at Yandina Creek WetlandIt has been close to 12 months since Unitywater reopened some floodgates connecting the Yandina Creek Wetland to the tidal of waters of Yandina Creek and the Maroochy...
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The travesty that is Toondah Harbour: Queensland Labor's environmental crime
Eastern Curlew, Grey-tailed Tattler & Great KnotThe foreshore of Raby Bay on Moreton Bay, a short distance from Brisbane, was a magical place. Thousands of migratory shorebirds of many species...
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Oriental Cuckoo + Sunshine Coast bits & pieces
Oriental CuckooOriental Cuckoo was the only bird in the Sunshine Coast region that I hadn't managed to photograph, so this last summer I was keen to bag it. I found an Oriental Cuckoo in open forest on...
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Night Parrot restrictions to stay in place as John Young speaks out
John Young in Diamantina National ParkThe Queensland Government has pledged to continue locking up indefinitely hundreds of thousands of hectares of Diamantina National Park in the Channel Country in a...
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Taiwan 2019 Part 1 – Mountains of Dasyueshan
Swinhoe's PheasantWe spent two weeks doing a self-drive trip around Taiwan with the aim of seeing all the country's endemics and specialties, with plenty of time for relaxing and sight-seeing. This was...
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Taiwan 2019 Part 2 – Southern Taiwan, Lanyu Island & Fairy Pitta
Fairy PittaAfter our productive visit to the mountains of Dasyueshan, we moved on to the hot springs resort town of Guguan for a two-night stay on April 19. Across the suspension bridge from Hotspring...
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Birding Palau in Micronesia
Palau OwlPalau is a remote island nation in the south-west Pacific that is not easy to get to but boasts the biggest number of endemic birds of all the Micronesian states and territories. It also has...
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Peach Trees & Jimna State Forest, May 2019
Diamond FiretailPeach Trees camping ground near Jimna is one of our favourite retreats and this week we had two nights there, our first visit since April 2016, when Masked Owl and Powerful Owl were...
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Four Masked Owls in one night, Black Falcon & new Fuscous Honeyeater colony
Masked OwlImbil State Forest, with its mosaic of open forest, Auracaria pine plantation and lowland rainforest (vine scrub) is always worth a look. I surveyed for owls along 6km of Derrier Road and...
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Blue-winged Kookaburra on Sunshine Coast
A Blue-winged Kookaburra has turned up at Yandina Creek on the Sunshine Coast. I was alerted to the bird yesterday by Jonathan Westacott, who told me that his wife Marguerite saw what she thought was a...
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Central-Southern Queensland trip - Winter 2019
Barking OwlWe headed off for a three-week road and camping trip through Central Coastal and South-East Queensland on June 24, 2019. Good birds included Barking Owl, Zitting Cisticola, Yellow Chat,...
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Winter wanderings in Yandina Creek Wetland
Pied StiltsA BirdLife Australia Sunshine Coast survey of the Yandina Creek Wetland on August 11 was productive, with decent numbers of waterbirds and bush birds about.Black Swan youngIt was encouraging...
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Pine plantations to rainforest
Ken Cross and friends, Charlie Moreland Park. Pic by Lyndon MichielsenThe following is a transcript of my news story and feature in today’s Weekend Australian. IMBIL STATE FOREST – NEWSThousands of...
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Imbil State Forest - a plan to to save endangered lowland rainforest
Black-breasted ButtonquailThe Queensland Government is considering an unusual proposal to stop logging pine plantations and grazing in a Sunshine Coast hinterland state forest to create a major reserve...
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Birds in the pine plantations of Imbil State Forest
Paradise Riflebird, Imbil State ForestFollowing the submission of a proposal to the Queensland Government last week to convert Imbil State Forest in the Sunshine Coast hinterland to a conservation...
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Imbil State Forest: A response to critics in pictures
Rainforest stream in Imbil State ForestQueensland's Liberal National Party opposition is in the forefront of criticism of a plan I proposed recently to protect and propagate subtropical lowland...
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Hiking in Mapleton National Park
White-eared MonarchI did a 20-kilometre hike yesterday through Mapleton National Park in the Sunshine Coast hinterland's Blackall Range. I started on Delicia Road at the trailhead for the track to...
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Barking Owl in Conondale Range
Barking Owl (m)It was a delight to catch up with a pair of Barking Owls in the Conondale Range in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland. The owls were discovered several weeks ago by a resourceful...
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