SOME HAVE BILLS for probing and gleaning, whilst others are designed for hooking, tearing and prising. However their bills come, it appears that the Australian birds which make bark foraging their speciality have one thing in common: “Intraspecific Resource Partitioning”.

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Ornithology, physiology by Ricki

THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM is not only a fantastic showplace of the amazing story of life on earth, both past and present, it’s also a centre for education, discovery and science.
Much of this science is based on work done on a vast array of specimens which are stored in what can be described as a “warehouse [...]

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Conservation, Global Warming, Ornithology by Ricki