Tag Archives: Tanami Track

Camp Dog of the week: “Ding” the Dingo Pup

October 29, 2009 – 9:56 am

He must have been a lot more relaxed being held by me because he started eating like crazy and nearly ate my fingers as I was holding the chicken neck! He was very skinny, with bones showing through his skin and I could count all of his ribs..

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Roadkill of the week – Yinkardakurdaku, Spotted Nightjar

September 16, 2009 – 8:45 am

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.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Birds, Birds and people, Roadkill, Some places I've been | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Song poetry about birds from the Pilbara

September 8, 2009 – 10:22 pm

I’m sitting here in the “Balgo Hilton” waiting for someone to come back from where I’ve just been.
We most likely passed each other on the road sometime yesterday as I struggled up the 530 kilometres of the torture that is known as the Tanami Track from Yuendumu up here to Wirrimanu – formerly known as [...]

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, The Arts, Writing and writers | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Roadkill of the week – carnage on the Tanami Track

July 9, 2009 – 5:18 pm

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.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Roadkill, The Arts | Also tagged , | Comments (3)