In a way, kingfishers may be the poor man`s pittas – almost as colorful and exciting, but much easier to observe. Here are some...
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I’m on a family trip to Australia at the moment. It’s not a dedicated birding trip, but I’m picking up a few good ones....
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All the way back in 2011 I wrote about the confusing taxanomic enigma that is the Collared Kingfisher, a species that ranges from the...
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Events have been eventuating with great speed since my last poorly worded post and update from the Antipodes. Here in New Zealand our shambolic...
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Around Broome we have several members of the Kingfisher family, with the most common being the Sacred Kingfisher and the Red-backed Kingfisher. They are...
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After spending a couple of days at Parry’s Lagoon Nature Reserve on our recent camping and birding trip we headed to the town of...
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We have recently done another camping and birding trip just to the north east of Broome. It is perfect weather for camping at the...
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Broome’s famous Cable Beach, named after the telegraph undersea cable that was laid in 1889 to enable communication with England via Singapore, stretches about 23...
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