How do Sand Dunes Build Up?
How do Sand Dunes Build Up? A clump of rotting seaweed can start the whole process of dune buildings as sand forms around them....
White-fronted Honeyeater (Phylidonyris albifrons)
Living in Australia’s arid zone, with its erratic rainfall, White-fronted Honeyeaters (Phylidonyris albifrons) are nomads. White-fronted Honeyeaters arrive in large numbers where nectar-rich shrubs...
Rufous Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)
The nocturnal habits and chunky, cinnamon-toned form set the Rufous Night Heron apart from other Australian herons. There is a higher percentage of them-up...
Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)
Behavior and Habitats: In the underparts of the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii), there is a faint but evanescent rosy coloration that gives the species its...
White-fronted Tern (Sterna striata)
Habitats & Behaviour: In Australia, the White-fronted Tern is an endemic marine species, never found inland; in contrast, in New Zealand, where it breeds, the...
The White-winged Dove Call
The white-winged dove call observed as a hhhhHEPEP poou pooooo, seems to be the word "who cooks for you.". They also make a pep-pair...
Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo zeachii)
The closest relative of the Laughing Kookaburra, the Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo zeachii) lives in the northern and northeastern coastal fringes of Australia as well...
Red-backed Button-quail (Turnix maculosa)
The female of Red-backed Button-quail is, as with other buttonquail, polyandrous, mating with itinerant males each breeding season and never pairing with any. She...
The fire-tailed Myzornis
The fire-tailed myzornis (Myzornis pyrrhoura) is a bird species formerly placed in the Old World babbler family (Timaliidae). Its genus Myzornis is monotypic and...
Hume’s wheatear: A Rare Enigmatic Beauty In the Wild
Family: Hume's wheatear (Oenanthe albonigra) is a member of the Old-World flycatcher family Muscicapidae in the genus Oenanthe that a French ornithologist, Louis Vieillot,...