I spend many many restorative hours tramping over this wide brown land chasing as many of Australia’s 850+ bird species as I can. And if I don’t see them, I think of all the wonderful places that I’ve been anyway. That aside, I have seen over 620 species and I haven’t been to any of the offshore islands such as Norfolk, Lord Howe, Christmas, Macquarie etc.
I speak about birds and birdwatching and I lead tours of amateurs and afficianados alike, locally and to India, a country I’ve visited many times. Check the tabs here and see things that I’ve written about birds, musings on birdwatching and bird activities.
Ranger Clifford Sunfly has just joined the exclusive night parrot club Madison Snow and Ben Collins ABC Kimberley Sat 27 Nov 2021 Rangers Clifford Sunfly and Samuel Galova installed automatic audio recording …
As a stage in the evolution of safe and successful methods of reproduction, there’re a few issues with eggs. There are also many strategies that birds have adopted to negate …
The night parrot was spotted by John Young in 2013, much more than 3 years ago. Were sightings unconfirmed and even falsified? Hmmm? There’s much to like about this sighting …
Night parrots, slothful dreaming and our Diamantina trip My old school song, sung lustily by we small boys at Shepparton High School, supplied me with many words of inspiration, including : “No thing of …
A Naturalist With a Checkered Past Rediscovered a Long-lost Parrot . . . Then Things Got Interesting When John Young, Australia’s “Wild Detective,” proved that the Night Parrot hadn’t gone …
I was sent this article via The Ecological Society of Australia, which is publishing a series of good news stories to counter the doom and gloom so many of us …
On his Facebook pages and exactly as is written, John Young follows the adage that attack can be the the best form of defence. THE CURSE OF FINDING THE …
Search for john Young on Facebook for the whole story of the find of his fourth site. There’re bonus species too. Hi all, an update before the next trip in …
New recordings of critically endangered night parrots music to ears of Kimberley rangers, scientists Ben Collins ABC Kimberley 27 May 2021 This photograph of a night parrot was captured in 2015. Supplied: …
Night parrot found to have poor vision, keeps running into things in the dark Kemii Maguire ABC North West Qld 12 June 2020 Night parrots have similar eye size to other parrots, …