Deaf birds

Each time I attend a motor racing Grand Prix I wonder at the persistence of the local birds in living normally while surrounded by horrendous noise and chaos. The French Grand Prix was no exception. Welcome swallows challenged the conditions…

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Killer kookaburra

My baby dove was outside in a cage. I put him on the top of the cage to feed him and out of the corner of my eye I saw a darting movement. I grabbed baby as a kookaburra brushed…

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Mother brushtail and her growing family

Brushy mum had a nasty hip injury. But with a flat furred baby in her pouch she was kept as comfortable as possible in a small aviary. Mum didn’t move or eat for 4 days but baby was more adventurous…

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Australian Magpie – a Stupid story

Australian Magpies belong to the same family as the Butcherbirds and Currawongs. They are found in areas in which there are trees (used for shelter, nesting and roosting) and bare ground or grassy areas in which to feed. Magpies are…

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Spur-winged Plovers or Masked Lapwings

Of the many species of plovers the masked Lapwing is the most commonly encountered. They live in the country, in the suburbs and even on high-rise buildings. They drive their name from the yellow mask on their face. This mask…

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Bandicoots in care escape

I released two juvenile long-nosed bandicoots in my garden and put a group of four young ones into the “rabbit hutch”. A few days later one of the released juveniles came indoors and I found it in the bedroom. So,…

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Ringtail mum and her expanding family

Ringtail mum had a back injury and could not climb. However she looked after her two babies really well in a nest box on the floor of the cage. Two weeks later I got into care a ringtail baby that…

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White-faced heron rescue

My White-faced Heron story is one of those instances that make all our hard work worthwhile. I was called to a Sydney waterfront home in whose gum tree white faced herons nest each year. This year they raised four young,…

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Penguin covered in oil

Somewhere, somehow this Little Penguin swam through a slick of heavy bunker-type oil, and was covered from head to toe when found by a little girl with a passion for penguins. Her room, she told me as she handed him…

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"Scratch" the baby brushtail possum

The mother of this 75 gram brushtail baby was killed by a cat and furless baby was covered in scratches. Hence his name “Scratch”. Because of the infections from the cat scratches, and the fact that he was very young…

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