Where (and how) to see Kookaburras & Kingfishers in Australia
Our eyes are part of our brain. You discover this when you try to see Azure Kingfishers. An Azure Kingfisher is tiny. If you held one in your hand they wouldn’t fill your palm. Yet, traveling by boat along the broad Mary River Billabong in Australia’s Northern...
Learning from Nature: Tawny Frogmouth Brood Patches
Someone asked me the other day: “How do Wildlife Guides know so much?” The Australian Bush is our workplace, and learning on the job is continual and infinite. You can never learn everything nature has to teach, but it is tremendous fun to try. During a walk on a...
Finding birds in the Outback: Black-tailed Native-hen
by Janine Duffy Somewhere in the Australian Outback, right now, a boom is happening. Rain is falling and birds are breeding – fast – as they must. Most of Australia is desert. There is no ‘rainy season’ in the Outback. Rain comes rarely, in thunderous torrents that...
Colourful Parrots of Mungo Outback
The Australian Outback is a hotspot for colourful parrots and cockatoos. The Mungo region is home to 15 species including the Mallee Ringneck, Mulga Parrot, Bluebonnet, Regent Parrot – we’ve grouped these parrots by colour to help with identification
