Pardalote Parade – Australia’s Smallest Birds
The Spotted Pardalote is Australia’s smallest bird with a body length of only 8-10 cm (3.1-3.9 ins) and is one of the most difficult birds to observe since it feeds […]
Birding Between Weather Changes – Crimson Rosella
Praise the Lord ! I finally had a day that was worthy of birding for both me and the birds, however the bird numbers were not great for this time […]
Hooks on Beaks – Intelligent Design III
Another interesting aspect to Intelligent Design in bird morphology is the appearance of hooks at end of particular species of birds and what they are used for. As is the […]
The World’s Best Mimics – The Lyrebirds
Australia is blessed with some of the world’s best mimicry birds. Many of our endemic birds have the ability to mimic and understand the language of other bird species that […]
Purpose Built Nests – Intelligent Design 2
As the weather has not been the best for birding I thought it good to continue my thread on Intelligent Design, only this time with nesting variations among species. We […]
Purpose Built Bills – Intelligent Design
This week, after last weeks bizarre anti-birding weather, our focus is on the Intelligent Design variations in the bills of some of our fresh water waders . The feature photo […]
Reflect and Project – Clearing Our Heads for 2026
Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve we just wanted to get out of the house and be out in the fresh air again, so my wife and I took off […]
The Last Post 2025 – Australian Magpie Family
With Christmas gone and the New Year looming, it is time to play the last post for 2025, and what better way than to have a family tribute to my […]
Christmas Blessings – New Family Additions
Last week I featured some of the new seasons bird babies. Today’s post features some more we saw on our walk through the Nasho a few days ago. Firstly, the […]
Summer Babies Everywhere – In The ‘Nasho’
Taking a quiet walk in my local Nasho park, It was interesting that most of the birds I saw on the walk were juvenile, or at least they were being […]
Birdbath Babies – Crested Pigeon Surprise
Our backyard has become a nursery for three of our local native bird species that frequent our birdbaths. In the last few days we were surprised to find two juvenile […]
The ‘Kidnapping Birds’ – White-winged Chough and Apostlebird
Firstly I want to thank those who visited me at my pre-Christmas book signing event at Harry Hartog Bookstore – Miranda last Saturday. It was a wonderful time of sharing, […]
Riparian Birds of the Royal National Park – Azure Kingfisher
After a peaceful walk by the Hacking River in our local Royal National Park, fondly known as the ‘Nasho‘, I decided to feature the birds we saw today and have […]
The Black-necked Stalk – Endangered in NSW
In the last post we saw Endangered bird species from the west in Perth WA, this week we focus on an endangered bird in rapid decline in the east, meaning […]
Endangered Western Australian Birds – Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo
My wife and I recently took flight to the west coast of our vast continent to Perth WA (currently 3 hours behind our east coast time), to visit my son […]
Growth Progress – Young Grey Butcherbird
We have been away this week on the other side on the west coast of Australia in Perth WA to visit family and also to photograph the occasional bird, so […]
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