A flock of Rainbow Lorikeets darting and calling each other in the sky. You can't get more Australian than this. I was no...

I'm glad I was able to gather enough material to work on another Avian Faces Series painting dedicated to an owl, the Boobook Owl, ...

The Latin name of this bird, Strepera graculina , means 'noisy jackdaw', and the common name Currawong is Aboriginal and is de...

I was invited for lunch at some friends' place in a northern Brisbane suburb and there I was surprised once again to see how wild...

Garden Visitors: Dainty Swallowtail, Papilio anactus above and Orchard Swallowtail, Papilio aegeus, the latter shows the difference betwee...

From left: feather of a Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides ; Rhinoceros Beetle, Xylotrupes ulysses ; skull of a Pied Butcherbird, Cracti...

  Journal #8, page 4, Crested Pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes The whole eye appears to be bigger than it really is, thanks to a patch of b...

Low Tide, watercolour on paper, 23x36cm, 2012 © Matteo Grilli A stretch of coastline relatively untouched, hidden and primeval lies w...

Journal #8, page 3 The colour of the bare skin around the eyes of the adults is a rich and intense mix of shades of blue, a colour t...

Avian Faces Series available here . Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are full of personality, it doesn't take long to recognize their cog...