by Dominic | Oct 6, 2012 | News
Coorong National Park is a place of big skies and big birds. The salty, shallow waterways play host to large numbers of pelicans, spoonbills, terns and all of Australia’s five species of cormorants. Our first appointment in South Australia was a boat cruise here...
by Dominic | Oct 6, 2012 | News
Many a visitor would admit that Australian garden birds are weird and exotic, but they might not realise that this applies to their life histories, too. You only have to go for a short walk encounter the Noisy Miner, for example. This bird lives in possibly the most...
by Dominic | Oct 3, 2012 | News
I am here in Australia on a press trip to cover the wildlife wonders of South Australia and Tasmania. Two others of the team are shown here on our stopover at Singapore Airport. Mike Unwin (left) is editor of Travel Africa magazine and a prolific wildlife author, who...
by Dominic | Oct 3, 2012 | News
Wednesday Oct 1st: Australia has garden birds, but not as we know them. For those who have never been to the Sydney area, these Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are everywhere, looking exotic, unreal and, bizarrely for a true native bird, out of place. They wander the...
by Dominic | Sep 26, 2012 | Email Newsletter
Welcome to Birdwords e-mail update for September 2012. In this message: Birding in Late September and Early October Details of forthcoming field trips Details of forthcoming lectures Brief trip reports A blog from South Australia and Tasmania Birding in Late September...
