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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 […]

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Birding Cape York in Far North Queensland – Cairns

We have been away up Far North Queensland on a tour of the Cape York Peninsula right to the very Tip of the Australian mainland. We even went further to the Torres Strait Islands with a premium touring company called Outback Spirit which we have toured with on previous occasions. My wife was hoping to see the Palm Cockatoo, which […]