There’s a gigantic lake in Western Australia encompassing an impressive 1,000 square kilometers. As with most lakes nowadays, it was created when a nearby river,
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Author: budgetbirders
Onward! To the Mitchell Plateau!
I love that the pursuit of birds can take you to some pretty incredible places. I especially love when those places coincide with natural spectacles such as canyons, unique rock formations, or waterfalls.
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Birding the Wild West: A Journey through Western Australia
I think we were in Cheynes Beach when I looked over to Ross and said “I’m just not feeling inspired,” which was odd because we
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Remote and Remarkable: Exploring the Australian Outback
Ross told me I hadn’t seen the middle of nowhere yet until I’d seen the Gibber Plains.
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How to be Happy
This post is more about birds than it is how to be happy, but the two definitely go hand in hand…
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Scarlet-Chested Parrot Appreciation Day would NEVER be cancelled!
We jokingly made a plan to celebrate ‘Crested Pigeon Appreciation Day’ as we drove off to Murray Sunset National Park to search for our real
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To Tasmania, And Beyond!
There’s an island off the coast of Southeastern Australia known as Tasmania. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Geographically and biologically isolated, Tasmania is known for
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This is for the birders who love to read about a success story! (Plains Wanderer, Ground Parrot and Superb Parrot)
Ross told me this is a bird blog and people like to read about birds. But this isn’t any post about birds, it’s a post about why Ross sees more birds than me.
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Birding Adventures Down Under: Chasing Parrots and Other Australian Treasures
It wasn’t until his cargo pants had a gigantic slit in the knee (from a fall in the Barren Grounds), a slice down the backside from squeezing between barbed wire, and about 4 holes in the crotch on top of the regular holes at the bottom where he kicks his feet together, all paired with a red shirt sporting its own 8 holes, that I begged him to change his attire.
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It Was Never A Countdown to Visiting Australia – It was a Countdown to Regent Honeyeaters!
It was never a countdown on when we would fly to Australia, it was always a countdown like “nine more days those Regents need to hang” or “48 hours until we see the Regent Honeyeaters!”
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