Esther Beaton

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Happy Feather’s Day!

Male emu with eggs

Here’s something to make all fathers think. Be thankful you weren’t  born an emu. Your lot in life would have been tending all the eggs – a dozen  or more at a time (some even fertilised by rival males!)  – no time to lubricate your parched throat and you would suffer dramatic weight loss. And […]

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Outback birds take to nesting

The Outback when it is wet is amazing. When it floods and takes human lives, and livestock, then it is truly terrible. The damage caused by the recent Queensland floods was so so extreme because it mainly hit the heavily populated coastal towns. Further inland, the Outback towns are used to the river channels breaking

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