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Ravensbourne

Ravensbourne in Queensland is an elevated area just north of Toowoomba in the Darling Downs. The Ravensbourne National Park is considered the best remaining example of the rainforest that originally covered this part of the Great Dividing Range. Ferns, elkhorns and fungi cover the forest floor amongst tall trees and Bangalow palms. A three day stay in the area result...

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The Western Downs in Queensland is a fertile flat agricultural district to the west of Brisbane. It covers an area of 38,000 square kilometers, an area just smaller than Switzerland, and is part of the Darling Downs region. The black vertosols (cracking clay soils) support farming aided by water from the great artesian basin. The Condamine River flows through the are...

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A single Black Bittern was recorded at the Byron Bay Wetland many years ago. The Byron Bird Buddies regularly take part in the national Bittern Surveys, listening many times across the wetlands on the evening of the full moon in late spring, but without success. So local birders closely examined the recording below and compared it to others on birding apps and at the...

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Bunya Mountains

The Bunya Mountains emerge from the plains of the Western Downs, some 200 km north west of Brisbane, Queensland. Sub-tropical rainforests top the mountain range, dominated by Bunya Pine, a tall and spectacular evergreen tree of the conifer family. We stopped at the Russell Park Picnic area and a short walk around the picnic area revealed 16 species of bird including ...

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Setting off on the Brisbane Rail Trail Cycle Track we saw many cyclists with long silver streamers trailing from their helmets, an ominous sign of magpies ahead. About five miles north of Esk the sign below appeared on the trackside, warning of imminent magpie attack. Only another hundred metres and the attacks began. Five magpies lined the trail, making continual sw...

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