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Recent Posts:

  • Children in nature’s wonderland
  • Tide turns for threatened albatrosses
  • Yellowthroats highlight the north-south divide
  • A welcome sight emerges from the heat haze
  • Hunt is on for swift resolution
  • ‘Devil bird’ sets its sights on Tasmania
  • Love flies high on St Valentine’s Day
  • ‘City wrens’ claim common ground
  • Reed all about it, coots rule
  • Magpie ‘minder’ keeps sparrows at bay
  • Resolution consigned to history
  • Something to crow about during pandemic
  • Home or away, emu’s top of pecking order
  • Birds fly high on the school curriculum
  • Sea eagle stirs ripple of fear
  • Birdsong the call of the wild
  • Secretary bird losing ground
  • ‘Villain’ starling takes centre stage
  • The ‘freeloaders’ are back in town
  • Avian superstar flies 13,560 kilometres nonstop
  • Our birds surviving on a wing and a prayer
  • A song and dance over birds
  • When magpies swoop, it’s personal
  • Butcherbird in tune for bird count
  • Gangsters of the bird world
  • Striated pardalotes arrive at last
  • Migratory birds hit a wall of light
  • Humans and cockies battle it out
  • ‘Forest bathing’ with pink robin a reward
  • Needletails top of the class
  • Spring arrives on the wings of a swallow
  • Migrants in the record books
  • Seeker of freedom out of her cage
  • Blue gum seen in a new light
  • The Eagles come to town
  • A link in the chain of Tasmanian history
  • A goldrush comes to the river
  • Chipping away for a free feed
  • ‘Court jesters’ put on a show
  • Masked owl’s future clouded in fear
  • Swift action need on migratory parrots
  • Butcherbirds win out in the turf wars
  • Drawn to a mountain bathed in soft sunlight
  • ‘Tip turkey’ gives up on life in the city
  • Happy birders prove to be golden whistlers
  • Storm clouds carry a silver lining
  • Birdsong at quarry echoes from the past
  • ‘Diamond birds’ find their voice
  • An ancient mariner feeds between the tides
  • Bird of peace defies Putin’s horror
  • Menace in the air for pooches
  • ‘Hot coals’ burn through the mist
  • Ducking for cover over black mark
  • Chilling reminder of change
  • Long-haul travel with silver lining
  • Absent ‘swifties’ may be a portent of things to come
  • Tide turns for Sandy Bay Rivulet
  • The swallows’ flight tilts at the winter
  • The kangaroo grass sways to Missy’s rhythm
  • Where humankind and nature’s worlds meet
  • Bullyboys flex muscles in the ‘hood
  • Cockie love is in the air
  • A bronze medal for beauty
  • Passport to birdland
  • Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney finds his “wings”
  • Eccentric plovers rule the roost
  • Cuckoos fall silent in the woods and fields
  • Hobart – the blue wren capital of Australia
  • Changing seasons make for a wild ride
  • Birds hit a high note in pop charts
  • Owls a vintage solution to rodent plague
  • A fatal gift of beauty
  • A special place in our hearts
  • Winds of change embrace the white goshawk
  • Godwit clocks up the air miles
  • Starlings no match for ‘bully boy’ miners
  • A turbo-chook in search of love
  • Spring arrives on summerbird wings
  • A vintage day of bird-watching
  • ‘Pandemic bird’ steals the show
  • Fanning the flames of passion
  • Migrants keep the birders waiting
  • Magpie ‘terror’ stalks the suburbs
  • Resilient ‘crows’ a dark wonder
  • Swallows lose their summer home
  • US veterinarian makes his mark
  • Forget the Olympics, cuckoo has record of its own
  • Forget the Olympics, cuckoo has record of its own
  • Netherworld beneath the rushing traffic
  • Nature awakes from its slumber
  • City dwellers cast into the urban wild
  • Where the birdsong has fallen silent
  • Pointers on the stubble quail scent
  • ‘Fart bird’ debate purely hot air
  • Love is in the air for regent honeyeaters
  • Whistler’s song signals end to winter
  • Counting the way gulls mirror our lives
  • Students tackle citizen science
  • Forty-spots can now rest assured
  • Rat poison poses danger to raptors

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The Shy Mountain

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The Falconer of Central Park

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Riding the Devil’s Highway

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Dancing on the Edge of the World

Dancing on the edge of the World by Donald Knowler

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Recent Posts

  • Children in nature’s wonderland
  • Tide turns for threatened albatrosses
  • Yellowthroats highlight the north-south divide
  • A welcome sight emerges from the heat haze
  • Hunt is on for swift resolution
  • ‘Devil bird’ sets its sights on Tasmania
  • Love flies high on St Valentine’s Day
  • ‘City wrens’ claim common ground
  • Reed all about it, coots rule
  • Magpie ‘minder’ keeps sparrows at bay

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