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We docked at the village of Pepera on the Sirets river, after 8 hours of downstream shipping on the Brazza river. Silence around. Only children playing.
The anemone fish in the middle of the tentacles of its domestic anemone.
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Dani women with carrying nets prepare a traditional Melanesian cooking pit lined with grass and heated stones of fine grain limestone. The occasion is a traditional pig feast inside the oval courtyard of a Dani compound, set high in a remote corner of West Papua's central highlands at 1600m/5200ft above sea level. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Digital film scan, semi-automatic Pentax point-and-shoot pocket camera, circa 1996.
The main steam bundle was built up with alternate layers of wet long grass, pork, a whole pig skin with its heavy layer of fat, vegetables, ferns and more heated rocks. Water was poured on the rocks from a gourd to make more steam. Banana leaves were added to several of these layers to help capture the steam.
Smaller grass-wrapped steam bundles containing sweet potatoes, vegetables and other greens from the elaborate gardens nearby were also placed in the pit. One of the small steam bundles can be seen at the centre of activity around the smoldering pit.
This preparatory process took about an hour, then another hour or more for the cooking, and several more hours for food distribution and feasting. The entire process took close to a full day that included a ritualized killing of the piglet with a bow and arrow, a gathering of materials for the earth oven (wood, grass, stones, food), making the fire, and heating the stones.
It is the men's role to kill the pig, make the fire, prepare the heated stones, undo the steam bundles, cut the pig skin into strips with a sharpened bamboo knife, and distribute the food according to a predetermined pattern of exchange and reciprocity among members from this and several other neighbouring compounds.
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Captured this Papuan pitta in the rainforest of Kutini-Payamu National Park in the Iron Range, Far North Queensland, Australia.
This is one of the key birds, and why people come to this area in the wet season.
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Another one from up the farm.
Heard some interesting and very LOUD bird noises just a few metres over my head, looked up to see these GINORMOUS birds heading for the Morton Bay Fig next to the house.
Have never seen these before and knew they weren't the right colour for eagles so thought maybe I'd finally clapped eyes on the elusive Stormbirds from whom we hear mysterious low melodic whoopings before the rains come but impossible to find and see what they look like.
Their calls were guttural as they flew past but some birds can make different sounds, can't they?
Snapped whatever I could and couldn't wait to google them.
Turns out Stormbirds are big black Koels, and these guys are Channel Billed Cuckoos, which migrate down from Papua New Guinea every sumer to lay eggs in nests of other birds to raise, then bugger off back north again.
So the poor Magpies and Currawongs get a rude surprise when their young turn out to be giants but for some strange reason, they still stick with feeding their giant offspring.
Naughty cuckoos !
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Not the best in quality, but the light was fading in the late afternoon.. and he was really high up, taken on zoom with shaking arms ;) ...sooc ...
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Papuan Frogmouth (female)
Podargus papuensis
January 1st, 2025
Lockhart River, Far North Queensland, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM lens
Canon 600EX II-RT flash
From one Podargus to another, presenting the fantastic Papuan Frogmouth, AKA "The Big Podargus!"
The Papuan Frogmouth is Australia's largest frogmouth species, reaching lengths of up to 60cm. Found in northern Australia, particularly the Cape York Peninsula & extending south into the eastern coast of Queensland to areas around Townsville, it also ranges into New Guinea. While sharing the cryptic camouflage of its more widespread relative, the Tawny Frogmouth, the Papuan Frogmouth can be distinguished by its notably larger size, striking red eyes & comparatively longer tail.
While males tend to be more silvery-grey with intricate brown-grey scalloping & marbling, females often exhibit a more rufous or reddish-brown hue. This sexual dimorphism in plumage is a distinguishing feature, with the female's colouration often being duller or less contrasting than the males.
A very exciting sighting on the Daintree River. We were lucky enough to see two groups of Papuan frogmouths, thanks to our awesome guide, Ian "Sauce" Worcester. They are much bigger than the usual Tawny Frogmouth we are used to, but still love that "I'm really a branch' pose.
No. 137 in my Birds of Australia set.
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