Birding Australia's Islands
Sue Taylor
Taylor hasn’t attempted to include every one of the 8,371 islands of Australia, but she has visited the country’s most extreme islands: the most southerly (Macquarie), the most northerly (Boigu, which just pips Christmas by one degree), the most westerly (Cocos) and the most easterly (Norfolk). Her aim in selecting the islands was very simple: to include those where she’s
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