Birds #

Birds are fascinating creatures, a huge variety of species (almost 10,000 around the world), the true surviving dinosaurs. Australia has the world’s best birds.

Links and resources #

• Vegavis, the dinosaur ancestor to all modern ducks and geese, who lived in Antartica (turns out there’s a huge fossil record on the Antarctic peninsula).
• BirdNET-Pi, an always-listening server you can install to detect birds by their calls (example).