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    Corellas are distinguished from Cockatoos by the flesh around their eyes.
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  • Outside of the two or three small averies, most birds in the park were free flying, and apparently happy to…
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  • I noticed that the Wikipedia article didn't have a photo, so I just added the one above.
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  • When do we get to see the rest of your trip photos? I think an illustrated travel-log is in order.
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  • The Swamp Gums are nowhere near as big around as Redwoods, but awe inspiring none the less. You actually see…
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  • Phoenix is a hard place to love.  I'm sure someone does, but between the army base, the retirees and the…
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  • Or, how about a tree you can walk around inside of.
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  • I always just thought of it as a lot of dust and rocks. Blasphemy! Desert beauty is a beauty like…
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  • Water and the desert are always a magical combination.  I think I see a bit of Desert Paintbrush in there,…
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  • with a rain forrest in the Fall. This is nothofagus gunnii, usually just called "Fagus." It only grows in very…
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  • Lovely photo Andi.
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  • Actually, the "trick" here is being played by the flower, which if assigned some sort of sex would come closest…
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  • When Martina Navratilova parted with her partner of seven years, Judy Nelson, she let her lawyers use a similar stunt.…
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  • We found our first Autumn Bird Orchid a few weeks ago. Since then I've done a bit of web surfing…
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  • Most of the insects, and lots of other critters, there are nocturnal.  
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  • Their barb wouldn't actually puncture human skin, so no one's too interested in how poisionous they are.   We're fortunate…
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  • We mis-identified these. We thought they were Hare's Ears, but further delving changed our classification to Parson's Bands Orchids.  We…
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  • I didn't actually handle the scorpion, if that's what you mean.  I generally don't handle wildlife, poisionous or otherwise.  Except…
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  • Where you were, there's two types of scorpians - the big yellow ones that are not too poisionous, and the…
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  • were more than a centimeter across.   Autumn Bird Orchid
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