A Birdwing At Last

In early afternoon, our yard was lit with the electric-blue of Ulysses swallowtails winging erratically among  rustling palm leaves. Never have I managed to photograph one of these exquisite lepidopt...

Devils Marbles – Karlu Karlu

In 1872, during the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line in the central Northern Territory, John Lewis wrote of the presence of rounded granite boulders of astonishing size and arrrangement, wh...

Crested Pigeons’ Warning Whistle

While researching spinifex for yesterday’s post, I stumbled across two reports describing findings which indicate that Australia’s crested pigeon (one of two pigeons having crests in Austr...

Spinifex

In February, I listened to an ABC radio documentary about the Simpson Desert, in which Dr. Chris Dickman of Sydney University discussed the pivotal role spinifex – a spiky, slow-growing, clump-formi...