downunder update

Crocodiles may be the ultimate survivors but their existence becomes more precarious each year. Over 200 million years of succesful adaptation and outlasting the dinosaurs doesn’t weigh much when people are involved. Australian crocodiles are protected. The freshwater crocodile is found nowhere else and the threatened estuarine crocodile has a chance to survive [...]

The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is a large white parrot with a distinctive sulphur-yellow crest and a yellow wash on the underside of the wings.
The sulphur-crest is the noisiest of all the noisy cockatoos, with a distinctive loud screech, the keyword being loud. All cockatoos will screech, but the sulphur-crest seems to screech for the sheer [...]

Australian Parrots
Parrots are found only in the southern hemisphere and equatorial regions, for they originated in the ancient continent of Gondwanaland.
Australia, Africa, South America, India and Antarctica were once part of one very big land mass, referred to as Gondwanaland. About 100 Million years ago the land mass broke up, the countries separated and [...]