Australia: Beautiful to barren, in fewer than 10 years
By | Published: June 30, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald: ‘I was amazed at the magnificent spectacle; there were egrets nesting in tall trees, birds by the hundreds of thousands," says George Boland, remembering one of the most famous breeding events in NSW, less than a decade ago, on the farm he managed with his son in the Gwydir Valley near Moree. With the great egrets, there were straw-necked ibis, night-herons, royal spoonbills and even jabirus, in numbers so breathtaking that friends and neighbours, government bureaucrats and …
Australia: Beautiful to barren, in fewer than 10 years
Sydney Morning Herald: ‘I was amazed at the magnificent spectacle; there were egrets nesting in tall trees, birds by the hundreds of thousands," says George Boland, remembering one of the most famous breeding events in NSW, less than a decade ago, on the farm he managed with his son in the Gwydir Valley near Moree. With the great egrets, there were straw-necked ibis, night-herons, royal spoonbills and even jabirus, in numbers so breathtaking that friends and neighbours, government bureaucrats and …
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