Bunco (noun): a swindle or confidence trick The neon cuckoo bee is one of the prettiest of our native bees. The electric blue patches seem quite inappropriate for a sensible bee’s couture. That iridescent colour is the product of branched,
Green catbirds are so named because they are green and sound like cats, although some people think they sound more like a crying human child. They tend to go quiet in winter, but come spring all hell will break loose,
Residing opposite a national park results in lots of visits from wildlife. Monitors, dragons and skinks occasionally appear in our yard, and some even decide to join us indoors. Pink-tongued Skinks are like Houdini lizards: agile climbers, they seem to
Tourists will willingly queue in their vehicles for lengthy periods on Noosa Parade and Noosa Drive, then compete for limited parking, simply to get access to Hastings Street and Noosa Main Beach. What is the attraction? It can’t be the
If you go walking in the Noosa National Park to the west of David Low Way, you will be wandering through wallum country. At first glance it may appear to be a tough, somewhat barren landscape. But the wallum is
As the Noosa Council election looms, I am reminded how wonderful it is not to be a candidate this time. I have stood in four local government elections and been elected three times. Each election presented its unique challenges. However,
The Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo is very large and very loud. It makes no bones about its whereabouts, gadding about in flocks of boisterous screeching friends. In flight these birds look like they’re flapping in slow motion. Telling males from females
Not so long ago, the so-called fairy pools near Granite Bay were a local secret. Then everything changed. Suddenly they exploded on social media, and visitors swarmed to the natural wonder, enthusiastically encouraged by the local tourism sector. The result
Australia has four species of Pardalote, and they occur nowhere else in the world. Here in Noosa, we enjoy both the Spotted Pardalote and the Striated Pardalote. They are only the size of a human thumb, around 8-10cms long and
There are numerous historical examples of how the once male-dominated world of biological sciences imposed its gender bias onto the animal kingdom. One only has to go back a couple of decades to find examples where scientists were blind to
Bunco (noun): a swindle or confidence trick The neon cuckoo bee is one of the prettiest of our native bees. The electric blue patches seem quite inappropriate for a sensible bee’s couture. That iridescent colour is the product of branched,
Green catbirds are so named because they are green and sound like cats, although some people think they sound more like a crying human child. They tend to go quiet in winter, but come spring all hell will break loose,
Residing opposite a national park results in lots of visits from wildlife. Monitors, dragons and skinks occasionally appear in our yard, and some even decide to join us indoors. Pink-tongued Skinks are like Houdini lizards: agile climbers, they seem to
Tourists will willingly queue in their vehicles for lengthy periods on Noosa Parade and Noosa Drive, then compete for limited parking, simply to get access to Hastings Street and Noosa Main Beach. What is the attraction? It can’t be the
If you go walking in the Noosa National Park to the west of David Low Way, you will be wandering through wallum country. At first glance it may appear to be a tough, somewhat barren landscape. But the wallum is
As the Noosa Council election looms, I am reminded how wonderful it is not to be a candidate this time. I have stood in four local government elections and been elected three times. Each election presented its unique challenges. However,
The Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo is very large and very loud. It makes no bones about its whereabouts, gadding about in flocks of boisterous screeching friends. In flight these birds look like they’re flapping in slow motion. Telling males from females
Not so long ago, the so-called fairy pools near Granite Bay were a local secret. Then everything changed. Suddenly they exploded on social media, and visitors swarmed to the natural wonder, enthusiastically encouraged by the local tourism sector. The result
Australia has four species of Pardalote, and they occur nowhere else in the world. Here in Noosa, we enjoy both the Spotted Pardalote and the Striated Pardalote. They are only the size of a human thumb, around 8-10cms long and
There are numerous historical examples of how the once male-dominated world of biological sciences imposed its gender bias onto the animal kingdom. One only has to go back a couple of decades to find examples where scientists were blind to