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Dipping into the Murray-Darling wetlands

Dipping into the Murray-Darling wetlands

by Paula Peeters | Feb 2, 2017 | Wildlife illustration

River Red Gums, raucous with white corellas screaming from their upper branches, their gnarled trunks splashed grey-and-cream, rise up out of a flooded wetland. The water is strewn with green wetland plants, and smeared yellow with floating pollen. Ducks and moorhens...
Is an aboriginal woomera like a heron’s neck?

Is an aboriginal woomera like a heron’s neck?

by Paula Peeters | May 16, 2015 | Tales of science, Wildlife illustration, Writing

This post is co-authored by Gordon Sanson.¹ Early dawn light is creeping across a glassy-still wetland, as wreaths of mist curl upwards. A large white egret stands still, poised ready. Nearby an aboriginal man is waiting for kangaroos to venture onto the lush grass...
Egrets? I’ve had a few…

Egrets? I’ve had a few…

by Paula Peeters | Apr 22, 2015 | Tales of science, Wildlife illustration, Writing

  Over the last couple of months four species of egret have been frequenting Dowse Lagoon. Sometimes I see them together in the same muddy corner near the bird-hide. They are the great egret Ardea alba, plumed or intermediate egret Ardea plumifera, little egret...
Why is the ibis often grubby, and the egret always clean?

Why is the ibis often grubby, and the egret always clean?

by Paula Peeters | Mar 26, 2015 | Tales of science, Writing

Lifestyle choices or better beauty products? The Australian white ibis often looks grubby, but the white plumage of egrets always looks freshly laundered – with a purity and glow that the makers of clothes detergents would die for. Both birds start out with...

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