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Australian Magpie2007 Australian Capital Territory trip report #10

During our visit to the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra earlier this year we took a little time out from our wanderings around the gardens in order to have a picnic lunch. For places where people gather to eat, you can be almost assured of plenty […]

Last week I was travelling through Callington on my way home from Strathalbyn here in South Australia. The day was hot - around 40 degrees Celsius mid-afternoon. The wind was still quite hot and obviously the birds were feeling it.
Just south of Callington I observed - with a little amusement - some Little Ravens […]

I’ve always known that crows and ravens were clever birds. They can be downright cunning at times. From a very early age growing up on a farm I was aware of their sneaky habits of flying into the chook yard to steal the eggs.
Over the years I’ve read further examples of these clever birds using […]

Hackles: long, prominent feathers on the throat or neck, as in ravens and crows.
In the Australian Raven, our largest species of corvids, the throat feathers, or hackles, are quite prominent. In fact, this can be very helpful when identifying this species. I do not yet have a photo of an Australian Raven. In the Little […]

Anthea is a regular contributor to the Birding-Aus forum. She has given me permission to quote her intriguing encounter with a Little Raven that had a very interesting taste for the unusual. And as with all the bloopers featured on my blog, Anthea thought the bird was eating something completely different.
I was on the […]