Also fierce and protective parents, the black-fronted dotterel are known to fake injury in order to lure animals and humans away from nesting sites.

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A hardy wader this plover can be found in waterways around Australia and isn't scared of a storm drain or sewerage farm.

Constantly

Beautifully captured 🥰

Obsessed by the birds 🥰

Stunning!😍

There are many ways we can do our part to conserve the threatened Red-tailed Black Cockatoo and its habitat – from planting native food trees, controlling wild cat populations, advocating for protected areas and stopping illegal birding.

Imagining a world without these chilled beauties in our sky is heartbreaking.

Seen as spirit guardians, the karrak are believed to be guides for family members on their journey to rest amongst the Ancestors.

Nesting in old-growth hollows, these excellent birds are under enormous pressure due to forest clearing, lack of food, wildfire and illegal birding.

Fortunately, efforts are being made to protect the Cape Barren Goose by providing improved habitat protection and conservation management.

It's important that we continue this work to ensure the continued survival of this remarkable species.

Long live the Cape Barren Goose!

The Cape Barren Goose is a very important symbol of conservation in Australia.

It is listed as a vulnerable species facing threats from the usual suspects; habitat destruction, invasive species and overgrazing of grasslands by livestock. Sigh...

Many names have been given to the Stone Bush-curlew by First Nations including Weeloo, Willaroo, Wayayi, Wirntiki and Ngamirlirli.

So chilling, in fact, that police have received calls reporting the screams of a woman.


First Nations Dreamtime stories refer to the Bush Stone-curlew as the messenger of death, crying for lost souls or the loss of something significant.

These birds are mostly nocturnal, with their high-pitched wailing heard across the night as they try to contact each other. The eerie ‘weir-loo’ call gave them the nickname ‘screaming woman bird’. If you’ve never heard it, you should search it up. Chilling.

What a cutie 🥰

The Magpie was given various names by different First Nations groups, such as the kurparu (Pitjantjara), durrowturrow (Burarra), gumurlawurda (Bilinarra),
kumurlawurta (Gurindji), kumurlawurru (Djinang), narrarti (Iwaidja), kurrpanyji (Martu Wangka), kumarlawurru (Warlpiri) and Koolbardi (Noongar).

The Magpie is also a significant bird in Dreamtime stories including one tale of how they were present at the very first sunrise, singing in the new day as they still do today.