seeing as how I couldn't get a photo of a wild one, here's a stuffed one at the Queensland Museum. Imagine it less scruffy-looking and much sleeker with a less odd look in its eye, and that's what they look like alive.
Lamington National Park June 7th 2008 "Queensland: where its beautiful one day, perfect the next". That's the tourism slogan. It was just bad luck that I arrived in Brisbane right at the same time as an unseasonable severe storm warning was announced. I left Brisbane for the Lamington National Park in the worst rain yet, monsoon-style rain.
Lamington is a couple of hours south of Brisbane just near the border with New South Wales. ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Lamington NP Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
I live in New Zealand. I started this blog when going on a 2006 trip through southeast Asia for three months to see the wildlife. Since then I've been on more trips through NZ, Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia and back to Asia a few times looking for animals. Anyone who is not interested in animals and who thinks nature is a waste of space shouldn't be reading this blog. Go back to your bars and your temples and your massage parlours; the kind of birds I'm contemplating would not excite you. ... full info