BBC Wildlife Magazine

King of birds

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

“DESPITE THE FACT IT WAS autumn, the sun was shining, something it hadn’t done much that very cool and wet Sydney summer. I was determined to enjoy every last minute of it, but the birds had different ideas. First, the currawongs started calling

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