WORLD BIRDS YOU MUST SEE – COSTA RICA & ECUADOR
Thu, 12 Aug
|Malanda
Join Martin Willis for a talk on some of the extraordinary species of birds from central and south America.
Time and location
12 Aug 2021, 7:30 pm AEST
Malanda, 12-20 English St, Malanda QLD 4885, Australia
About the event
Martin believes that there is no better way to brighten your day than to observe beautiful birds.
"When it comes to beautiful and interesting birds Australia has been dealt a pretty good hand. What other country can boast to be the origin of all songbirds, or to have the finest array of spectacular parrots. We are also home to the Gouldian Finch arguably, the most spectacular and popular of all aviary birds. However, we don’t have toucans, macaws or secretary birds.
In fact, world-wide there are approximately 11,000 species of birds, of which Australia has a mere 830. Some industrious individuals attempt to see and identify every world bird. For me this is an impossible task, so I have formulated a fall-back position which for want of a better description I call ‘bucket list birding’. This list is of the most spectacular or interesting world birds that I would…