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Gang gang overload!The boys have red heads and the girls are all grey. I never knew that the feathers on the females' bellies are tinted till now. They always look happy too :] [Read More]

I have a group of friends interested in parrots and they wouldn't forgive me if there were no photos up - so here they come! I'll clearly title all parrot posts as such, so, if you are not mad like we are, you can easily skip them.How can anyone resists... [Read More]

The vast majority of male superb fairy-wrens moult into an eclipse plumage for the winter - they go brown (except for their tails). Now that spring has come they are moulting back! It takes them a while to turn fully blue.I thought I'd show you a few photos, so you... [Read More]

If you know me, you are probably aware that I'm a huge parrot geek. As you can imagine I'm pretty excited to be in Australia where wild parrots roam free!There are several species occurring locally here that I can see every single day, pretty much whenever I'm outside. It puts... [Read More]

This is a tiny bit of my fieldsite. Not too shabby, right?In case you were wondering this is how the superb fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) look like.The females are brown, with orange beaks and loral stripes.   Say hello to young MOnoMales in breeding plumage are striking blue and black. The males in... [Read More]