Just a walk in the Outback!
We travelled some 1100 kilometres to Outback Queensland and never saw one emu, always an indication of getting well into the west. The devastating drought in much of Australia is impacting wildlife in a major way and there is even less roadkill. It wasn’t until we crossed into the state of New South Wales that despite being even drier than Queensland did we come across emu’s (Pronounced eam-you, there is no ooh about it!) and we saw several large flocks just wandering along dusty paddocks beside the highway. They didn’t even take fright and run away as they often do.
The dead grass in the foreground is just that along the roadside, all that’s left. The paddocks are mostly dust, the trees dying.
Here’s a note from Wikipedia, the full link is below.
“The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. The emu's range covers most of mainland Australia, but the Tasmanian, Kangaroo Island and King Island subspecies became extinct after the European settlement of Australia in 1788. The bird is sufficiently common for it to be rated as a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.”
Here is the link with full details
That’s all for now. Just a little teaser. The government is rolling out our broadband network to the furtherest reaches and customers are having difficulty. So Flickr and email etc. is suffering. Bye for now. Be back soon!
Just a walk in the Outback!
We travelled some 1100 kilometres to Outback Queensland and never saw one emu, always an indication of getting well into the west. The devastating drought in much of Australia is impacting wildlife in a major way and there is even less roadkill. It wasn’t until we crossed into the state of New South Wales that despite being even drier than Queensland did we come across emu’s (Pronounced eam-you, there is no ooh about it!) and we saw several large flocks just wandering along dusty paddocks beside the highway. They didn’t even take fright and run away as they often do.
The dead grass in the foreground is just that along the roadside, all that’s left. The paddocks are mostly dust, the trees dying.
Here’s a note from Wikipedia, the full link is below.
“The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. The emu's range covers most of mainland Australia, but the Tasmanian, Kangaroo Island and King Island subspecies became extinct after the European settlement of Australia in 1788. The bird is sufficiently common for it to be rated as a least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.”
Here is the link with full details
That’s all for now. Just a little teaser. The government is rolling out our broadband network to the furtherest reaches and customers are having difficulty. So Flickr and email etc. is suffering. Bye for now. Be back soon!