Russian hacking and Google incompentence

I haven't posted here for a while and was very annoyed to find that a Russian Hacker had somehow changed the language to Russian. This sort of mindless activity does nothing to enhance our world. It is also noteworthy that Google did not detect the alteration to the blog. Very slack maintenance of their web presence!

Resume Writing

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I intend to change this blog considerably at some stage in the future.

Nicene. (aka Richard)

The orange footed scrub fowl is prevalent in both urban and bush areas from the Daintree in Northern Queensland across to the Kimberley coast. This photograph is of one of a pair found in our street and our backyard most nights..

Orange-footed Scrubfowl

Megapodius reinwardt

Size: About 45cm. Ground bird about the size of a domestic fowl.

Dark chestnut back, underparts and back of neck dark grey. Can appear black in dimly lit rainforest. Short pointed crest on head and short, thick orange legs with large, strong feet.

Will fly when it has to or  when disturbed. Generally active at all times of the day but particularly noisy at night.

Call: Loud, deep gurgles, chuckles and screams both day and night. 

Loud territorial calls and often several birds calling.

Nest: large mound built up of plant matter from the rainforest or garden floor. May be up to 5 metres wide. Nest is worked on all year. Both sexes share building and maintaining of the nesting mound. Eggs laid singly in individual tunnels to 2m deep in the mound when temperature of mound reaches 33 ºC. Chicks hatch and make their way to the surface, as fully formed independent beings. They are ignored by the parents, and in fact, actively chased away from the area.

Food: insects, soil invertebrates, seeds, fruit

Habitat: Found throughout coastal districts of northern Australia in rainforest, mangroves, monsoon forest and other heavy vegetation as well as urban areas.

Orange footed scrub fowl

AUSTRALASIAN FIGBIRD

(Information from Wikipedia)
The Australasian Figbird has a total length of 27-29,5 cm (10½-11½ in),^[8] and a jizz comparable to that of other orioles. It is sexually dimorphic, and the racial differences are almost entirely limited to the male. Males of all subspecies have a black tail with broad white tips to the outer rectrices, white crissum, blackish primaries, a black head, distinct bright red facial skin, a black bill with a red base, and pinkish legs.^[8] In the nominate subspecies, the body is largely olive-green, and the throat, neck and chest are grey. The subspecies cucullatus, ashbyi and flaviventris are yellowish olive-green above, and bright yellow below (including throat).^[2] The last subspecies, salvadorii, resembles previous, but with a grey throat, collar and chest similar to the nominate subspecies,^[9] thereby giving it an intermediate appearance not unlike some hybrids between nominate and flaviventris in Australia.

Females are drab-coloured, being dull brownish above, and white below with strong dark streaking.^[8] They have greyish facial skin, and a greyish-black bill. Juveniles resemble females, but the streaking below is typically not as strong. The other orioles in its range, the Brown and Olive-backed Orioles, are superficially similar, but have entirely red bills when adult.^[3][8]

Australasian Figbirds make a large number of different short calls, and are also able to mimic the voice of other birds, for example parrots and other species of orioles.^[2] The song consists of a series of simple whistles.^[2

Male Figbird 

Its Banned

Its-Banned is a personal blog belonging to Richard. The concept is to provide a moderated forum for comments on things that are banned or which are subject to rules by governments and authorities in Australia that ordinary people see as beyond common sense or where a minority faction of society has created a problem for the rest of the society.
http://www.its-banned.com.au
Comment is moderated on this site.
This blog also contains information relating to healthy eating, dieting, and published works.

The Northern Territory - Australia

This blog site will contain all sorts of information about the Northern Territory of Australia, its wildlife and environment.
The image below is taken on the Barkly Tableland and shows a mob of cattle in the distance at a water hole. This is a hot an treeless environment. The temperature when the photo was taken was at least 37degrees Celcius.