Queensland’s Disappearing Frogs

In an earlier post, I discussed the enigma of Australia’s disappearing frog species and the discovery that these disappearances were linked with an infectious skin disease called chytridiomycosi...

Burdekin Falls Dam and Lake Dalrymple, Queensland

I had read and heard that the Burdekin Dam south of Townsville is a good area for birding (particularly for sightings of emus, ground cuckoo-shrikes, and spotted bowerbirds), so I suggested to Vilis y...

Rainforest Scenes from Paluma, North Queensland

Since this was Janis’s second-last day in Australia, Vilis and I took him to our favourite haunt, the rainforest at Paluma, a tiny village set atop the Paluma Range in North Queensland, a mere 8...