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  • Alice Springs Birding (at a glance) August 24, 2017
    Alice springs has many great sites for birding, with a large variety of arid zone species to be found here (if you know where to look), and the local birders are more than willing to point you in the right direction. There are also a few guided tour operators that can definitely save you much […]
    Peter Rowland
  • Photographing Whales June 8, 2016
    Hi, I am Chris Farrell, one of the team members here at Australia’s Wildlife. Given that the Australian whale season is now upon us, I wanted to give our readers an insight into my passion for photographing whales, and other marine mammals, and how this passion is helping to identify, track and even save whales here […]
    Chris Farrell
  • Parrots and Cockatoos of Australia June 4, 2016
    Australia was once referred to on early navigational charts of the region as Terra Psittacorum, which means Land of Parrots, but it was not the only “Land of Parrots”, as the name Terra Psittacorum was also given to the south-west coast of Africa. Australia does however have two-thirds of the world’s Cockatoos and around one-eighth of the […]
    Peter Rowland
  • The Murray River May 26, 2016
    The Murray River is Australia’s longest river, and the third longest navigable river in the world (after the Amazon and the Nile). It stretches for just over 2500 kilometres from Kosciusko National Park in New South Wales to the Indian Ocean at Lake Alexandrina in South Australia. The Murray River forms the border between New South Wales […]
    Peter Rowland
  • Photographing Birds in Flight May 10, 2016
    Capturing images of birds and other fast moving animals is very difficult, but capturing birds in flight (or BIFs, as they are often referred to as) is extremely challenging indeed. While today’s digital SLR cameras make things a little easier, the biggest advantage of the digital cameras is the large number of pictures you can […]
    Chris Farrell
  • Bowerbirds of Australia May 3, 2016
    Back in 2008 one of our team, Peter Rowland, wrote a book on the Bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea. Part of the book-writing process involved sourcing images of the different species and the various types of bowers that the males build to attract their potential mates. While images of most of the Australian species proved to […]
    Peter Rowland
  • Pelagic Birding March 1, 2016
    While we have, so far, focused mostly on the birds that are found on Australia’s land areas, this blog would not be complete if we did not tell you about some of our trips out to Australia’s Pelagic zones. Where are the Pelagic zones (I hear you ask)? The Pelagic zones are the areas of […]
    Peter Rowland
  • South-West Western Australia January 18, 2016
    In January 2016, the opportunity arose for us to spend 6 days in the south-west corner of Western Australia, and it was an awesome place to go! Of the 15 declared biodiversity hotspots in Australia, eight of them are in Western Australia and, of these, three of them are in the south-west. We concentrated our time in […]
    Peter Rowland
  • Visit to the Victorian Coast November 10, 2015
    In the first week of November 2015, we decided to head to perhaps the two best birding areas in Victoria. In just a few days of birding we managed to clock up huge list, but one of the most exciting places was on the Victorian Coast, just west of Melbourne. On our way to the coast […]
    Peter Rowland
  • Outback New South Wales October 7, 2015
    The Outback is synonymous with Australia, but where, and what, is it? Every state in mainland Australia, and the Northern Territory, has an outback, and it refers to the vast open country that is so remote you can travel for several hours, and, in some places, days, without seeing another human being. While the New […]
    Peter Rowland

Tag: Monotreme

Platypus Pools

We found some pools where your are virtually guaranteed of a good view of a Platypus
Our first good glimpse of a Platypus

On our way back from the New South Wales south coast, we called through Canberra to see some of the wildlife that can be found there. We were delighted to find a great place to see one of the only three monotreme (egg-laying mammal) species in the world today – the Platypus.

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Posted on March 17, 2014June 19, 2016Author Peter RowlandCategories Australian Capital Territory, MammalsTags Monotreme, Platypus
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