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Domestic Cat Monitoring in Alice Springs

The domestic cats involved in this study roamed to neighbouring properties, road verges, adjacent bushland and some cats were observed to impact the local wildlife through predation. The results of the study show that even the domestic cats that do not leave their property boundary often, still have the capacity to negatively impact native wildlife. This suggests that the management of the domestic cats could do with improvement.

By Bob Gosford|2017-08-29T17:50:01+09:30August 29th, 2017|Animals, Australian politics, Birds, Birds and people, Indigenous land management, Northern development, Northern Territory politics, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Butterfly of the Week: Double-spotted Line Blue, Nacaduba biocellata

This isn’t the sharpest pic I might be able to get of this delightful little fella that is most likely the most abundant life-form (apart from the ubiquitous Buffel Grass) around Alice Springs right now—in numbers if not in weight. I first noticed these Double-spotted Line Blue butterflies Nacaduba biocellata when I was out at Hidden [...]

By Bob Gosford|2017-01-17T18:52:11+09:30January 17th, 2017|Animals, Bug of the week, Fun stuff, Photography, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Why the chicken crossed the road. And how.

On Chickens: Chickens have the capacity to reason and make logical inferences. For example, chickens are capable of simple forms of transitive inference, a capability that humans develop at approximately the age of seven

By Bob Gosford|2017-01-07T18:14:28+09:30January 7th, 2017|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Bird of the Week: Willy Wagtail – “where’s my dinner Mum?”

The local pair of Willy Wagtails have taken advantage of the great season we are having in the centre this year and so far have raised two clutches, and I'll expect that, as prime examples of avian opportunism in the desert, they may raise another couple yet in this season.

By Bob Gosford|2017-11-20T20:26:20+09:30January 2nd, 2017|Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology, Photography, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Bird Hide of the Week: The Buffalo Hide, Darwin

Is it not too much to ask that if we are going to the effort of building something from which the public will gain great pleasure that such structures should not also be beautiful as well?

By Bob Gosford|2016-12-22T17:25:18+09:30December 22nd, 2016|Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Northern development, Photography, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Bug of the Week: Termites – the rise and fall of the alate kings and queens

Northern Australian and Central Desert languages have numerous words for insects that are eaten, used as medicine, or that indicate important phenomena in the immediate environment: Aung Si & Myfany Turpin, 2015.

By Bob Gosford|2016-12-22T11:36:41+09:30December 22nd, 2016|Animals, Bug of the week, Ethnoornithology, Indigenous land management, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|2 Comments

Word of the Week: Burrmarlarla – the shimmering of half light and half shade on kangaroo fur

Karlwardba ka-keyo ka-yo Burrmarlarla kalaba karndakarndayh, karrarangkan yiman njale delek kandakidj dakbameng ka-yo ka-warre: Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek

By Bob Gosford|2016-12-17T11:52:38+09:30December 17th, 2016|Animals, Indigenous land management, Some places I've been, The Law, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Birds of the Week: Little Crow and Willy Wagtail: best of enemies

The other week I came back from town on one of those 40C+ days to a mad flurry of wings and panic calls that can only signal interloper ... or predator. This Little Crow Corvus bennetti was trying to cool down in the water but was being harried by the adult Willy wagtails

By Bob Gosford|2016-12-17T11:04:50+09:30December 17th, 2016|Animals, Bird of the Week, Birds, Photography, The Northern Myth|1 Comment

Bat of the Week – Ghost Bat, Macroderma gigas

Help decipher the whispers of our most iconic and mysterious flying mammal--the Ghost Bat--by throwing a few dollars the way of a worthy research project. In an all too familiar story for Australia's native mammals, the Ghost Bat--our only carnivorous bat--has all but vanished from most of its former arid zone haunts and is now restricted to a few known populations in the tropics and the Pilbara and needs your help.

By Bob Gosford|2016-11-13T14:23:39+09:30November 13th, 2016|Animals, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments

Dust

Some photos from the Santa Teresa races on the weekend of 29 and 30 October 2016.

By Bob Gosford|2016-11-02T17:50:56+09:30November 1st, 2016|Animals, Photography, Some places I've been, The Northern Myth|0 Comments