Sydney’s Great Auk…. & Egg?

Sydney's Great Auk.... & Egg?

In 1999 my English friend Errol Fuller produced an extraordinary work, The Great Auk.  The book incudes  450 lavishly illustrated pages on the extinct, flightless bird, and  covers  its ecology, habits, distribution and tragic history. I treasure my signed  copy. On June 3 1844 the last two

Read more

AN ELEPHANT BIRD EGG AT ‘SHOW AND TELL’.

AN ELEPHANT BIRD EGG AT 'SHOW AND TELL'.

During the Christmas holidays in 1992, three primary school children  in Western Australia came across a giant, fossilized egg in the sand dunes  at Cervantes Beach.  Jamie Andrich  aged nine and his cousins Kelly (9)  and Michelle Rew (7)  had no idea of the importance of their

Read more