I found this French book of the American bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes in a second-hand book stall at the summer Sunday street mar...

When I was a kid, my mother, knowing about my passion for drawing and nature, got me a book which I regard now as one of those few tha...

With this painting I wanted to focus on the variety of different expressions that I could notice in the Bush-stone Curlew, Burhinus grallar...

Queensland houses or 'Queenslander' have some architectural features which are just perfect for birdwatching: timber stumps tha...

The Lamington National Park is approximately 100 km south of Brisbane, declared in 1915 after Lord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland a...

From left: Barn Owl, primary; Laughing Kookaburra, primary; Masked Lapwing, tail feather; Figbird, secondary, Laughing Kookaburra, ta...

I was surprised to observe the behaviour of this family of Australian Magpies, Gymnorhina tibicen . The young one, in the middle with a sti...

In Australian English (for non-Australian readers), a person may be called 'galah' when acting silly, probably because these ...

Last October the 16th was this blog's first birthday, I am amazed by the wonderful community of people it has gathered so far, to all t...

It is no wonder that when the 1500s Portuguese explorers, mapping the coasts of Australia, named it Psittacorum regio , the Latin for 'L...