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Birding Cape York Part 4 – Lotus Bird Lodge Billabong

This week we travel further north up Cape York Peninsular through the town of Laura to the Lotus Bird Lodge where we stayed in a special retreat accommodation by the small lake known in Australia as a billabong where thousands of water birds of many species gather during the dry season and harmoniously dwell together, resting on and by the […]

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Birding Cape York Part 2 – Cairns to Cooktown.

We continue our exploration of Far North Queensland in Cairns before leaving on our journey northward. We saw juvenile and adult Nankeen Night Heron walking around at night with the Bush-stone Curlew. Click on images to enlarge them. The most common raptor we saw circling over us most of the time up here was the Black Kite and the occasional […]