Tall tiger tales

"If you need to answer the call of nature," said my Indian wildlife guide, "you'll have to go behind that shed. But keep your...

King parrots

My visitor was keen for me to show him the birds of Sydney. Finding and identifying the various species, even with the powerful binoculars...

Frogmouths

It had been a long, bonejarring drive over the corrugations and through the dust of the gravel highway leading up the Cape York Peninsula....