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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Stephen Moss

DARK SECRETS: Birdwatch missing breakfast to meet a copperback quail thrush in australia - The Real Truth

A copperback quail-thrush
A copperback quail-thrush. Photograph: imageBROKER.com/Alamy

Few things beat breakfast in the bush. We were in the Mallee forest near Lake Gilles, about five hours north-west of Adelaide, and more or less halfway across Australia.

But although I am famous for enjoying my food, I love birds even more. And so when my guide Steve Potter detected a repetitive whistling call in the distance, our coffee and cornflakes had to wait.

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