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Sunshine Coast Game On (notwithstanding that global pandemic)
Powerful OwlThere's plenty of doom and gloom about right now with the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc around the globe. The virus is believed to have originated in the so-called wet markets of central...
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Yandina Creek Wetland Open to the Public
BirdLife Australia's Ken Cross and Greg Roberts on the new bridgeThe Yandina Creek Wetland is finally open to the public, eight years after efforts began to protect one of the Sunshine Coast's...
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Torresian Imperial-Pigeon, Barking & Sooty Owl as the Sunshine Coast avian...
Torresian Imperial-PigeonIt's been something of a grim year with Covid-19 but birds are helping to keep us sane. Before the pandemic hit in March, good birds seen locally included Australian Little...
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In Memory of Judith Wright
On this day 20 years ago – June 25, 2000 – Judith Wright died. She was one of Australia's great writers, poets and activists who made a huge and profound contribution to literature and environmental...
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Imbil State Forest rainforest plan update – the Government response
Charlie Moreland Park, Imbil State ForestThe Queensland Government has left open the possibility of embracing a plan to stop the logging of hoop pine plantations in the 21,000-hectare Imbil State...
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Sunshine Coast Winter Observations: White-browed Crake, Superb Fruit-Dove,...
Superb Fruit-DoveA flurry of decent observations in the Sunshine Coast region, most notably a way-out-of-range Torresian Imperial Pigeon, continued in the form of another pigeon. A female Superb...
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John Young responds to Night Parrot critics
John Young has responded to critics of his work on the Night Parrot and other wildlife in the following report by prominent North Queensland naturalist Lloyd Nielsen.Penny Olsen’s ongoing vendetta...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – Red Goshawk at the nest
Red Goshawk attacks a Whistling KiteA lengthy encounter with a pair of Red Goshawks was the highlight of a just-completed 40-day road trip to north Queensland, including southern Cape York. The...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – Theresa Creek Dam: Rufous Bettong,...
Overseas travel plans for 2020 were cancelled to the Covid-19 virus and travel interstate continues to be limited. Fortunately we’re able to continue to travel in Queensland. We’ve just returned from...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – Chambers Lodge & Malanda
Following our visit to Theresa Creek Dam (following post) we continued north, overnighting in the quaint hamlet of Greenvale before moving on to the caravan park at Malanda Falls on the Atherton...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – Northern Bettong & Northern Quoll at...
Northern Quoll (above). After visiting the Malanda area of the Atherton Tableland (see following post) we spent time exploring the surrounds of Lake Tinaroo. The Cathedral Tree, a huge fig, is a...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – Southern Cape York
Black-breasted Buzzard (above). After visiting Lake Tinaroo (see following post) we headed north to Cape York, stopping to admire the vast tracts of savannah woodland from a lookout near Lakeland. We...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – Golden-shouldered Parrot
After checking out Red Goshawks and other goodies around Musgrave Roadhouse on Cape York (see following post) we headed 25km south along the Peninsula Development Road to Artemis Station, a sprawling...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – Mt Lewis & Julatten
Daintree River Ringtail, Southern Boobook (lurida subsp), Lesser Sooty Owl, Bassian Thrush (cuneata subsp), Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo and my namesake reptile (Grey-bellied Sunskink, above) were the...
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North Queensland Road Trip Winter 2020 – The home stretch: Cairns to Gin Gin
Following a visit to Julatten (next post) it was time to head for Cairns and the journey home. The coastal drive from Port Douglas to Palm Cove was magnificent as usual; I’ve done this drive many...
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Spotted-tailed Quoll - first confirmed Sunshine Coast record for 70 years
A Spotted-tailed Quoll has been photographed on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast – the first confirmed record of this endangered species in the region for more than 70 years. The image above is of the...
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Sunshine Coast Spring Sightings: Red-backed Buttonquail, Barn Swallow,...
The latest flurry of excellent sightings from the Sunshine Coast-Cooloola region in recent weeks includes Red-backed Buttonquail, Barn Swallow, Large-tailed Nightjar, Southern Emuwren, Lewin’s Rail...
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Eastern Ground Parrot found dead at Noosaville
A dead Eastern Ground Parrot (above) has been found at Noosaville on the Sunshine Coast. The bird is one of just a handful of this threatened species that survives in Queensland outside of the...
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Ground Parrots Galore
The Eastern Ground Parrot is generally a difficult bird to see well, and even more difficult to photograph. Most of us have had to make do with ordinary flight images as a flushed parrot flies swiftly...
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Twitching Nordmann's Greenshank in Cairns
The avian New Year started with a bang when Cairns birder Adrian Walsh photographed a Nordmann’s (Spotted) Greenshank on the Cairns Esplanade. This is a rarity worldwide with as few as 1000 birds...
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