Birding

Duck, duck, Brolga, duck

Australian Politics, Environment / April 25, 2016 / 6 minutes of reading

Almost every day in October for the past 33 years, Richard Kingsford has climbed into the passenger seat of a single-engine Cessna to count the waterbirds of eastern Australia. The aircraft buzzes the wetlands from 50 metres above the ground while Kingsford, the director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of New […]

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Twitch and shout

Environment, Miscellaneous / April 25, 2016 / 7 minutes of reading

For a bird-watching exercise, you don’t see a lot of birds on the Twitchathon. If you’ve never heard of this obscure sporting event, it’s a race: teams of birders pile into their cars and tear around the state, attempting to see or hear as many species as possible within an eight or 24-hour period. Because

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