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BIRD NERD with Peter Rowland BACKYARD BIRDING

OCIAL-ISOLATION has stopped birding trips for now. But we can still enjoy birds that visit our gardens and local green spaces. It’s even allowed me to expand my own backyard bird list, which includes species that have either visited, or been seen from, my garden in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. My list now stands at 51, thanks to three gang-gang cockatoos that

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