Cute Stuff

Birds

• Indian Mynas — pushy and invasive
• Noisy Miners — aggression in the suburbs
• Noisy Miners, Indian Mynas — Here’s how to tell the difference
• Starlings — another feral pest, or not?
• Australian White Ibis — conservation takes a twist
• Common water birds around Sydney
• Masked Lawpings — Or should we be calling them Spur-winged Plovers?
• Pacific Black Ducks
• Geese teeth — do birds have teeth?
• Birds’ knees — Do they bend forwards or backwards?
• Rainbow Lorikeets — raucous and colourful
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoos — beautiful birds with an awful call
• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos — beautiful birds with a beautiful call
• Glossy Black Cockatoos — Casuarinas’ seed crackers
• Are they Crows or Ravens in Sydney?
• Black Swans — bird emblem of Western Australia
• Brush Turkeys — cool birds, huge nests
• Darters — comfortable on land, in the air and water
• Australian Pelicans
• Black and white birds — identifying from a bunch that is easily confused
• The Australian Magpie — buddies in the back yard

Plants

• Lantana — tough, invasive and widespread
• A few big Australian trees
• Unusual and beautiful Australian trees
• Why Australia’s giant trees might never return

Insects and spiders

• One of the longest insects in the world — (photos)
• Bulldog Ants — insects with attitude
• Some common Australian orb-weaving spiders
• Hunstman Spiders
• Fear of Huntsman Spiders
• Golden Orb Weaver Spiders
• How many eyes do spiders have?
• How many eyes do insects have?
• How I catch spiders — (to take them outside)
• The amazing net-casting spiders
• Commensal spiders — eating the leftovers
• What is a spider? — no, seriously, what makes a spider a spider?
• Jumping spiders

Reptiles

• Lizard bite — getting more than you bargained for

Nature words

• So what’s a feral species, really?
• What’s the real meaning of the word ‘bug’?
• Venomous or poisonous — what’s the difference?

Other stuff

• Book review: Back from the Brink
• Camouflaged critters — blending in to a scene near you
• Critters in the city
• Fire and the Australian bush
• Cute stuff — critters sure can look cute when they’re little
• Feeding wild animals — is it a good idea?
• Photo Sales — I might have that Australian nature pic you’re looking for
• The Latest Pics — archive of my latest nature photos