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This post is a summary of what I know about members of the Parrot family which occur or might occur  naturally  in the Mallacoota area.  It thus excludes any obvious escapees (which seem to be an unavoidable consequence of aviculture)! I have defined the Mallacoota area by an somewhat arbitrary rectangle including Genoa Peak, Shipwreck Creek and Gabo Island. According to the Birdlife Australia (BLA) checklist there are 43 members of the Parrot, Lorikeet and Rosella family found in Australia.   11 species in this family have occured in the Mallacooota area and 1 further species has been reported to eBird elsewhere in East Gippsland and has been included as possibilities. . Sources of material Within each family I have listed the species in the order in which they appear in the BLA checklist.  That  checklist is also the source of the scientific names, many of which have been changed recently as taxonomists change their minds about the meaning o...

I had been planning to try to drive to Dowell Creek today but I got unenthusiastic about driving to and from Genoa for the fourth time in 7 days!  Frances had recently  suggested that we do the walk from Bucklands to Captains Creek Jetty so we decided that was a go for today. This report will be thematically organised again beginning with general stuff about the outing, followed by fungi, flowers and ferns, birds and animals.  This grab from eBird shows the route. I had previously done the first 2km and advised Frances it was rocky, but flat.  That lasts for about another 1km until we got to Captain Creek.  Then the track became less rocky but headed uphill.  From looking at my topo map the several uphills and downhills were about 4 contour lines each.  So it was a reasonable workout.  By the time we got back to the car I was more like Captain Creak! The Parks people had cleared a couple of large fallen trees off the track but this one had ...