Category Archives: Roadkill

Barbeque of the week – Armadillo Veracruz style

Armadillos make common roadkill due to their habit of jumping to about fender height when startled – such as by an oncoming car.

Roadkill of the week: life & death in the Pacific Garbage Patch

Not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries.

Roadkill of the week – Jayco poptop caravan, Central Arnhem Road

This poor thing had been dragged around the countryside for the best part of 30 years until it finally expired on a dusty, corrugated stretch of road in the centre of Arnhem Land earlier this year.

Roadkill of the week – Yinkardakurdaku, Spotted Nightjar

To me the call of the Yinkardakurdaku sounds like water flowing out of a narrow-necked bottle, a beautiful succession of fluid sounds ending in an almost joyous, crazy climax.

Roadkill of the week – carnage on the Tanami Track

All about me lay the scattered, shattered remains – here the severed head, there a leg, stripped of flesh, next to the road another head, ten feet away a razor-taloned foot, wing and tail. Whatever had happened here had been brief and incredibly brutal.

Caravanners – plague locusts of the northern winter

I have a vicious occasional thought that when the get to Darwin they will all run out of road and over a cliff into the Arafura Sea.

Roadkill of the week – Feral Cat, Phillip Creek, NT

Feral cats have been in Australia since European settlement. They live independently of humans and are found in all habitats ranging from rainforest to desert throughout the Northern Territory.

Roadkill of the week(end) – Diamond Dove Geopelia cuneata

I stopped, turned and bore witness to the death of this small wonder.

Roadkill of the week – Red Fox Vulpes vulpes

Acclimatisation societies were found throughout the British colonies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US – being particularly influential in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the nineteenth century.