Photographer’s incredible images of budgie bonanza
Budgies are in abundance in the Red Centre this year thanks to good rainfall over the summer.
Budgies are in abundance in the Red Centre this year thanks to good rainfall over the summer.
A comprehensive history of Australia’s most well-known bird.
A sneak peek of some of the photographs that will be included in Leila Jeffreys’ upcoming exhibition High Society, which is dedicated to Australia’s native budgies.
Whether seen in flocks resembling large green tornadoes in central Australia, or in your home as a family pet, budgies are Australia’s most ubiquitous bird.
During the hot, dry summer months, Alice Springs is often beset by a beautiful plague – flocks of thousands of green budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) in search of increasingly scarce sources of water. Photographer Steven Pearce says that there was around 4000 birds congregating around the waterhole just after dawn.
UK-based photographer Paul Williams used Google Earth to find and photograph these flocks of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) around a waterhole near Alice Springs.
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