July 12, 2009
LONG REEF is the best place on Sydney’s Northern Beaches for a migratory shorebird encounter. It’s a brilliantly fascinating and vibrant intertidal, ecological hotspot: a real nature lover magnet! So it’s not unusual to find me stalking about the reef with scope and bins and magnifying glass, as I was yesterday, during a brief break [...]
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Birding, Ruddy Turnstone study, Shorebirds by Ricki
July 7, 2009
YOU’D HAVE TO BE out of town to not be aware that there has now been two events at the Manly Little Penguin rookery this week where dogs have attacked and killed penguins. The death toll is now seven.
This is seven Little Penguins too many. These events highlight a convergence of problems that we have [...]
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Conservation, Shorebirds by Ricki
July 7, 2009
THERE’S STACKS of bird books on the market these days. Some highly technical, some basically informative and some are just good old fashioned coffee table celebrations. Every now and again one shows up which combines all of these elements and when it is full of images taken by one of the world’s great avian photographers [...]
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Conservation, Shorebirds by Ricki