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

I’ve just returned to Sydney from my mozzie dome in the campground of Broome Bird Observatory, on the shores of Roebuck Bay, North Western Australia. During my time in Broome I witnessed tens of thousands of shorebirds preparing for their annual migratory journeys to Asia and, for many, well within the Arctic Circle on Northern [...]

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Shorebirds, physiology by Ricki