Did you know that licenses are being issued willy nilly to cull various native beasts including Swans and Wombats? (Swans? WTF?) It’s true! Apparently native animals are enormously inconvenient to those of us who like to eat meat and wear wool etc. so people who I have not met in Rural and Regional Australia will [...]
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Category Archives: birds
Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus)
September 25, 2008 – 3:51 pm
The marvellous bird shown in the photograph below is apparently a Pheasant Coucal (also known as a Swamp Pheasant). You would think, at least from the perspective of a nominative determinist that it would be a pheasant, and yet it is not. It is in fact a member of the cuckoo family.
Unlike a cuckoo however, [...]
A bird we saw this morning…
September 24, 2008 – 3:19 pm
Here we are on Magnetic Island. Dad has a place. It is hot and I am on holiday. Blogging continues of course.
Today’s animal is a bird we saw this morning.
As big as a small loaf of bread with feathers and a long tail.
It landed on the front fence, flapped a bit and jumped onto the [...]
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