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27 April update (species count 533)

Just back from a quick run up to Lamington NP in SE Queensland. The highlight was Albert’s lyrebird, and several less difficult but spectacular temperate rainforest specialists. A surprise encounter...

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4 - 19 May - with Tim Faulkner, Scott Ryan and John Weigel

INLAND GRASSWREN EXTRAVAGANZA Day 1     Rock Parrot    A single Malleefowl greeted us at roadside clearing and provided prolongued viewsAfter arriving in Adelaide we set out for the first location of...

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20 May - 9 June – Tropical Queensland: unfinished business

Zen Birding 101After dropping Tim and Scotty off at Alice Springs airport on 20 May, I prepared for the drive to north Queensland to target a few remaining Cape York endemics, and hopefully a few wider...

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10 - 20 June – Queensland Gulf Country to Darwin and beyond

Immaculate completionPictorella MannikinsWith all of my Cape York boxes ticked, I was becoming increasingly excited about the prospect of what would be my last potential mainland ‘tick-fest’: the Top...

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21 – 27 June – Finches and Grasswrens, East and West Kimberley

West to the KimberleySince I’d failed to find Gouldian Finches and Yellow-rumped Mannikin (YRM) at any of the well-known Katherine sites, I headed west with renewed hope. Although stops at Victoria...

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28 June - 3 July – Darwin again

After refuelling the Jeep and restocking the tuckerbox from one of Kununurra’s two 24 hour supermarkets (the wild-west pioneer nature of this working-town sure has softened since my first visit in the...

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7 - 16 July – from Paluma to Palmdale: La Nina sucks

Continuing eastward, I detoured to little-known Moorrinya NP south of Hughenden following a recent report on Birdline of Plum-headed Finch at ‘Dam Paddock Dam’ near the entry to the Park. It proved to...

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28 October Update (very abbreviated!)

 721  A Big Year record for Australia!The 'big one' - Semipalmated Plover, a day or so after its return from who-knows-where,just in time for a BIG YEAR record twitch: 721After a tipoff from Broome...

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 End of Big Year Tally: 745   Beautiful Lord Howe Island, with the twin peaks – Mt Lidgbird (left) and Mt Gower in the distance.The final eventful chapters of my Birding for Devils Big Year have...

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