The fundamental importance of teaching
Teachers are the builders of the nation, and we can all probably recall a favourite, and/or respected, builder. But what made them so? Builder of the nation By Greg Hunt …
Greg Roberts celebrates one of the most beautiful of our birds, sadly one that is no more. This article appeared in a recent Weekend Australian and is on his sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com He has updated his article with further information too.
There’s passing reference to the enigmatic and likely fabulist John Young, claiming yet another rediscovery. Greg Roberts The Weekend Australia, 21-22 December, 2024 Paradise Parrot – lost, found, lost again: …
Rare Bird King, featuring Young John Exotic, the fig-parrot, the button quail and Night parrots
Journo and bird blogger Greg Roberts has been on the trail of puzzling claims around three of our critically-endangered species. What are we to make of these claims and …
Introduction to birdwatching
We were all new once, however long ago that was. There’re some basics to the past-time and I’ve set out a few here. If it’s useful, you’ll read it and …
Indigenous people need a louder Voice – and we must listen
The forthcoming referendum is potentially a game-changer for Australia. For too long we’ve told First Nations people where and how to live, We’ve applied white fella thinking to them and …
Life as a Twitcher
Once I came out of the closet and self-described as a twitcher, I felt strangely liberated. I was out and proud. The usually unkind descriptor ‘nerd’ is still applied to …
You simply cannot beat an egg
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 …
Learning from birds
it is said that it’s a man’s world, but that is not always the case. Here’re two examples from the bird world that show the benefits of being female. What …
Jindabyne, BPPV and 3 Grasswrens
Giving Jindabyne a miss I don’t know if you have seen the movie Jindabyne about four fellows going on their much-planned annual blokes’ fishing trip. They are in high spirits …
Innuendo and birdwatching; a not-so-rare double
Sexual innuendo linked with bird-names is not too hard to find. Tits and shags are all too obvious and couple this with a largely male pursuit, add in lashings of post-adolescent humour and the article here is an almost inevitable consequence. I was sent this article by someone some time ago and I post it here in case someone finds it titillating or perhaps provocative of a behind-the-hands snigger.