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Another Quacker for the NT List! Australasian Shoveler at Alice Springs 28 Jul 2013 | 05:18 pm
Burn Buffel, Burn! Big doings this morning for the ASFNC quarterly wader count at the sewage ponds. Access was arranged through the folks at Power & Water due to some burning off that was due to be h...
The Night Parrot Saga Continues... 27 Jul 2013 | 01:51 pm
Night Parrots - they've definitely been found in one spot, and there's plenty of reasons to believe that we will find them elsewhere; as long as we make sure there is still plenty of "elsewhere" to lo...
John Young's Night Parrot - interviews released this morning 3 Jul 2013 | 04:51 am
Former Night Parrot habitat near Alice Springs. I've contributed to the finding of live birds by establishing that there are definitely none at this site. More exciting Night Parrot news is filtering...
The Shock of the Everyday - Grey Fantail 1 Jul 2013 | 03:36 pm
Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa albicauda - this one's cauda- was not so albi- as is usual in the Centralian race. Night Parrot finally photographed in Queensland; Princess Parrots reported in the m...
Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis), photographed alive for the first time in history. 29 Jun 2013 | 01:01 pm
This isn't it. This is my crappy photoshopping of an artists's rendering (in the public domain) of a Night Parrot onto a background. The image that I have seen, appears to be high res, up-close, and a...
White Noisy - A Case of Aberrant Plumage Colouration from The South 31 May 2013 | 04:00 pm
A white Noisy Miner - photo with permission, Anna Matilda. She can sing, she can knit, and she can whip up a mean preserve or chutney, but it seems she also has a knack for turning up unusual birds. ...
Forest Wagtail Update - Day 5, Still Showing Well 8 May 2013 | 07:59 pm
The most watched bird in Australia? It seems he has now taken to watching us! It's become known as the "Willy Wagtail" - as in Will 'e stay or Will 'e go? By Anne and Will's most conservative recolle...
Forest Wagtail Update - Now With Added Video! 7 May 2013 | 03:13 pm
The furrows at the edge of the garden beds where it meets the lawn seems to be a favoured foraging spot. At the close of play today, Australia's first mainland Forest Wagtail put in a very brief appe...
Forest Wagtail Update - Day Two 6 May 2013 | 07:07 am
The Alice Springs Forest Wagtail seems to be making itself at home among the back yard paraphernalia . The most famous Forest Wagtail in the country, seems to be happy to play the game and stick arou...
Forest Wagtail Update - The Twitch Begins 6 May 2013 | 07:06 am
The diminutive Forest Wagtail is easily lost among the rocks of the terraced garden - but it has been pretty reliable through much of the day today. The first day after the identification of this meg...
