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CHRISTMAS ISLAND 2025
Christmas Island BoobookI was last on Christmas Island as a working journalist in 2007 in May – the wrong time of year for summer vagrants from south-east Asia, as well as the endemic Christmas Island...
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COCOS & KEELING ISLANDS 2025
White TernFollowing our visit to Christmas Island we flew to West Island in the Cocos-Keeling group for a 5-day stay. This was reduced from the planned 7 days due to our flight from Christmas Island...
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Transformation of Yandina Creek Wetland (+ Australian Little Bittern influx)
Australian Little BitternThis morning at Yandina Creek Wetland on the Sunshine Coast, I recorded three Australian Little Bitterns at widely separated sites. Two birds were heard only, while an adult...
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NSW Road Trip 2025 Part 1: Snowy Mountains to Kandos
Mainland Dusky AntechinusWe headed off for a 19-day autumn road trip through eastern NSW on March 5, 2025. Kicked off with the first night in Grafton as Cyclone Alfred threatened to flatten our...
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NSW Road Trip 2025, Part 2: New England National Park Region
Eastern Pygmy-PossumFollowing our visit to the Snowy Mountains and other southern NSW sites, we headed north to the New England National Park area. We had originally planned to stay at the National...
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Plumed Frogmouth – Lost and found
Marbled Frogmouth male, Booloumba CreekThis is the transcript of my article published in current (Autumn 2025) edition of the Australian BirdLife magazine. The evening of October 28, 1976 was...
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Night Parrot man in jail after bush bolthole bid
John Young during a visit to the Sunshine CoastHere is the transcript of my story in today’s edition of The Australian newspaper.One of Australia’s best-known naturalists hid in dense rainforest in...
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