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Letter-winged Kite on the Brink?
Letter-winged Kite - Pic by Peter McDonaldOne of Australia's iconic raptors may be seriously at risk of extinction. The fate of the Letter-winged Kite appears to have escaped the notice of the...
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Airport, Cars Threaten Ground Parrot on Sunshine Coast
Ground Parrot hit by motor vehicle, Sunshine Coast. Pic Richard Maguire.A combination of plans for a new airport runway and motor vehicle collisions threatens to exterminate the Sunshine Coast...
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Little Bittern, Spotless Crake at Coolum Industrial Estate
Magpie GooseAustralian Little Bittern and Spotless Crake have been seen in the recently created wetlands on the Eco Industrial Park near Coolum on the Sunshine Coast. Two small wetlands in the...
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Sunshine Coast Pelagic Trip January 2016
Tahiti PetrelWhite-tailed Tropicbird, White Tern, Sooty Tern, Tahiti Petrel and Pomarine and Arctic Jaegers were seen on the Sunshine Coast pelagic off Mooloolaba, Queensland, on Saturday January 9,...
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Yandina Creek Wetlands Drained Again
Yandina Creek Wetland this week: a scene of desolationThe campaign to protect the Yandina Creek Wetland on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has taken a turn for the worse, with the entire 200-hectare site...
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A Feast of Feathers: Seeing All the World's 234 Bird Families
Hypocolius - Greater Rann of Kutch, India: Family Hypocolius (1 spp)It didn't exactly take the breath away, but there it was. A drab, olive-green bird sitting motionless in a heavily forested gully in...
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Avian Joys of Jondaryan: Where West Meets East
Black-eared CuckooBirding highlights of a couple of days in the Jondaryan-Oakey area of the eastern Darling Downs included Black-eared Cuckoo, Painted Honeyeater at 4 sites, Red-chested Buttonquail,...
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Parklakes: Another Wetland Down the Drain
Newly "renovated" Parklakes wetlandThe Parklakes Wetland near Bli Bli on Queensland's Sunshine Coast had rightly been hailed as a model for private sector environmental responsibility and good...
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Hervey Bay, Maryborough & Great Sandy Strait
Greater Sand PloverThree Asian Dowitchers, 150+ Grey Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Brolga, loads of Greater Sand Plover in breeding plumage and Beach Stone-Curlew were the highlights of birding around Hervey...
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Previously Undisclosed Night Parrot Sighting
A previously unpublished report of a Night Parrot indicates that an extensive tract of spinifex country extending south-west of Winton in outback Queensland may be harbouring a greater population of...
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Brush-tailed Phascogale, Bush-hen Babies, Marbled Frogmouth and more in...
Brush-tailed PhascogaleBrush-tailed Phascogale is one of our more secretive, uncommon and difficult-to-find marsupials. So it was something of a surprise to learn that one had taken up residence in a...
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Yandina Creek Wetland Update
Yandina Creek Wetland this week looking towards Mt CoolumThis time last year, thousands of waterbirds of many species were frequenting the Yandina Creek Wetlands on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Among...
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Sunshine Coast Pelagic Trip March 2016
Pomarine JaegerIt was with a sense of foreboding that we departed Mooloolaba Marina at 6.45am (a late start due to lost souls) for the March 19, 2016Â pelagic trip off the Sunshine Coast. The weather...
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Red-backed Buttonquail, Grass Owl, King Quail on Sunshine Coast + Tackling a...
Eastern Grass OwlUPDATED 24/04/2016Red-backed Buttonquail, Eastern Grass Owl, King Quail and Spotted Harrier were among the birds seen during two mornings in the Maroochy River canelands of the...
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Powerful Owl & Masked Owl at Jimna
Masked OwlExcellent views of Masked Owl and Powerful Owl were the highlights of a three-day camp at Peach Trees camping ground near Jimna, in the northern Conondale Range, south-east...
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Sunshine Coast Pelagic Trip May 2016
Flesh-footed ShearwaterWe departed the Mooloolaba Marina on Queensland's Sunshine coast at 6.45am in the morning of Saturday May 7, 2016. The forecast was good and hopes were high as we embarked on a...
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Night Parrot on Brighton Downs
Night Parrot - pic Steve MurphyThe following news and feature were published in The Weekend Australian of 14-15 May, 2016. I reveal that the cattle property Brighton Downs is where John Young...
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More Night Parrot Notes
Night Parrot on Pullen Pullen - Pic Steve MurphyRangers in Diamantina National Park in south-west Queensland flushed birds they believed to be Night Parrots on several occasions in the 2000s but...
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Queensland Road Trip 1: Yandina to Belyando Crossing
Red-backed KingfisherThe first day of our sojourn to North Queensland was a long drive through the Upper Burnett for an overnight stay in a forgettable caravan park in Biloela, with Emus seen north of...
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Queensland Road Trip 2: Savannah & Undara - Squatter Pigeon, Two Rock...
Allied Rock-WallabyFollowing our overnight stay at Belyando Crossing (see following post) we headed north to Charters Towers for a two night stay in a caravan park. Apart from a fine collection of...
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