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Happy National Tree Day Australia! [Early this morning on the Garawarra Trail in Royal National Park]

Yesterday I stood for over half an hour in the most stunning of wet sclerophyll forests surrounded by five male Golden Whistlers in stunning peak plumage, locked in territorial battle in glorious song and rapid flybys and pursuits. I watched mesmerised, immersed in the beauty of the moment and /1

This young lyrebird came to within 5 cms of my phone yesterday but when she saw her reflection in the case, her curiosity turned to surprise and, with crest up, she beat a hasty retreat. #birds #nature

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The state of Variegated Fairy-wrens around Sydney right now. I'm going to launch a YouTube channel in a few weeks were I will be taking a deep dive into the fundamentals of how and why we see plumages of male fairy-wrens evolve through their lives and seasons, and why fairy-wrens are fairy-wrens!

It's very odd that even if we live in political democracies we don't live in economic democracies and we never seem to question this. We're enmeshed in a capitalist system where very few control capital and the means of production, so we've little choice in how we live and our environmental impact.