Common Loudmouths Twitch Report 2012
Common Loudmouths Twitch Report Sunday November 18, 2012 Twitching joins the Twittersphere Never let it be said that the Loudmouths are anachronistic old coots. We were one of the tweeting …
Common Loudmouths 8 hour Twitch 2011
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Dear Loudmouth Supporter 2010
Dear Loudmouth Supporter, Thank you for coming on board in supporting the Common Loudmouths in the 8 hour Twitchathon this year. Unfortunately, we chose the wrong weekend to compete. It …
Common Loudmouths Twitch List 2009
Common Loudmouths Champagne Twitch 2009 Duck, Blue-billed Duck, Musk Swan, Black Goose, Cape Barren Shelduck, Australian Duck, Australian Wood Duck, Pacific Black Shoveler, Australasian Teal, Grey Teal, Chestnut Duck, Pink-eared …
Common Loudmouths in the medals again! 2008
The Twitchathon for 2008 has been run and won – and the loudmouths emerge triumphant. Medallists in 2006 and 2007, the team of stalwarts equalled those last two years with …
Harrier harrying
Why are they called harriers? Our twitchathon team, the Common Loudmouths, had just seen the clock tick over 4 pm and we were glum. We’d counted 133 species in the …
We saw Princess parrots
Toby was driving, I was in the front passenger seat, Philip was in the back of the Toyota troop carrier. The other car was way in front so we didn’t …
Satin bower-birds and dud males
There’s a lot to think about when you think about birds. They’re always there. Mammals, you only see at night, reptiles you only see in summer. Frogs – you have …
Flotsam, jetsam or just not thinking?
I spent a few days over Easter on an island off Wilson’s Promontory, a glorious wild place with those lovely feelings of isolation and not a Man Friday footprint on …
Overcoming tragedy and rethinking for the environment
Humans face environmental challenges as never before, in many cases through our own deliberate actions. We didn’t intend this to be the result however. The environmental crises we now face stem fundamentally, I argue, from the way we perceive the environment. We act individually rather than collectively, we simply do not understand that environments can different and so call for different perceptions and experiences and we look for simplistic responses. We must change the ways we think about our environment, away from being exploitative, hostile and reductionist, as a prerequisite to changing the way we interact with our environment.