May Indoor Meeting
4:52pm Tuesday 26th May 2009
At our monthly indoor meeting on 13 May Jill Carey gave a very amusing illustrated talk about her trip across the north of Australia in search of birds, many of which have similar names to ours in
Britain but may be quite different. Magpies are black and white but have many different patterns. The fairy wrens are tiny and are very colourful. The sulphur crested cockatoos and rose and grey
galahs are special to Australia, as are the flocks of wild budgerigars. The white-breasted sea eagle has a 2 metre wing span and the wedge tailed eagle is even larger A large family of birds are
the honey eaters which are the key to the pollination of many trees and shrubs. A most unusual bird is the frogmouth which spends the day sitting motionless in a tree looking like a branch, feeding
at dusk on moths and other insects which it collects in flight in its huge bristly mouth. During their trip Jill and her party managed to see some 500 different species out of Australia’s 800 or so
bird species.
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