Noisy Miner

Hi   I am not sure who to get in touch with, maybe you could point me in the right direction.  I just found a baby noisy miner in my shoe outside the fron door.  It’s late at night and I am not able to look for a nest althought I am not aware of … Read more

Brolgas, crows, and a dead cormorant…

Had a great drive down from Tennant Creek Today. At the large dam on the western side of the Stuart Highway opposite the railway overpass at the Ali-Curung turn off there were three Brolga standing by the water’s edge. Of course I pulled over for a look as I have never seen anything of note … Read more

Great Bowerbird Behaviour

I’ve been watching a new bower (Gt Bowerbird) here at BBO where the male has decorated with the usual white shells and picking a few fresh green bauhinia leaves to lay out at the entrance. Then, when the female comes to inspect and starts to enter the bower, he hops around to the other end … Read more

Fight Sequence of Channel-billed Cuckoos

Hi Geoff Great photos! I witnessed a similar altercation between two Channel-billed Cuckoos this time last year in my local patch, on the Prince Henry Drive circuit in Toowoomba, Qld, and was equally amazed. In that instance there were three birds in a fig tree on the edge of the escarpment, two fighting, and another … Read more