Australian_Geographic_-_October_2015_
High f lier L ONG-TIME twitcher David Stowe is keenly aware of wingbeats; the sound, feel and pressure changes as a bird’s downw ...
The small f lowers and ramshackle form of many wattles belie the impact these plants have on the Australian environment. WAT T L ...
BLAKE’S WATTLE Acacia blakei Common in the northern NSW tablelands and southern QLD, Blake’s wattle grows in soils derived from ...
24 Australian Geographic Ninety years ago, a valuable international contract called for some inventiveness, and even a little co ...
September–October 2015 25 A fishy tale. Ethel King adds the finishing painterly touches to a large specimen of groper in prepara ...
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September–October 2015 27 I T’S UP THER E. Again. The US Air Force’s ultra-secret X-37B robotic space shuttle was launched into ...
28 Australian Geographic T HERE WAS a time when a vast eucalypt wilderness, forming the backbone of a complex ecosys- tem, stret ...
September–October 2015 29 regent honeyeater, swift parrot and plains-wanderer and the vulnerable striped legless lizard. An army ...
GET AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC FOR YOUR IPAD Terms & Conditions: Digital edition available for your iPad. *Savings based on singl ...
September–October 2015 31 Farewell, Bill Cooper, portrait painter to the birds. I N THE 1970s David Attenborough was leaving the ...
The dawn chorus was surprisingly loud — loud enough to wake me from a deep sleep. The chirps, whistles and hoots of dozens of un ...
COMMENTARY September–October 2015 33 ILLUSTRATION BY BEN SANDERS; PHOTO: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS a direct result of the fact ...
Early riser. Rev Colin Gordon readies his Cessna 182Q for take-off from Umbearra Station, one of the NT’s southernmost homestead ...
September–October 2015 35 Story by Glenn Morrison Photography by Barry Skipsey PA D R E ...
S CATTERED CLOUD provides an unusual backdrop to the Alice Springs Airport, where blue skies usually reign. With the new day bar ...
Men's business. Station-owner Angus McKay, left, and Colin have a yarn as they collect firewood to cook steaks for lunch. Septem ...
Service in 1928, which was destined to become the familiar Royal Flying Doctor Service. But it was not until 1977 that a fledgli ...
“I’ll jump on a tractor... go mustering, sharpen chainsaws. People respond because they trust you.” September–October 2015 39 on ...
40 Australian Geographic I ’VE BEEN FASCINATED by pigeons since, as a small boy, I inadvertently frightened a near-fledged commo ...
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