Tag: Photos from the field
The ‘Ringo Starr’ of birds is now endangered – here’s how we can still save our drum-playing palm cockatoos
Palm cockatoo breeding pair at the nesting hollow. Female on left, male on the right. Christina N. Zdenek
Australia’s largest parrot, the palm cockatoo,...
Headphones, saw blades, coat hangers: how human trash in Australian bird nests changed over 195 years
This, if you can believe it, is part of a magpie nest. Kathy Townsend, Author provided
When we opened a box supplied by museum curators,...
Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer
The banjo frog, Limnodynastes dumerilii Jodi Rowley, Author provided
Frog calls are iconic sounds of summer in Australia. There are more than 240 species native to Australia, almost all...