Sep 13, 2009

Birds on campus

I haven't been to that many university campuses in my time, but UQ St. Lucia is definitely one of the nicest. Similar to UBC, it's on a peninsula, but here the surrounding water is the Brisbane River rather than the ocean. There are a whole pile of random animals that live on the campus, from ducks and swans to tiny parrots to 3 foot long water lizards to my personal favourite, the brush turkeys.

Google Maps link to UQ


Me and Jackie (my supervising professor's wife who has helped me find my way around the city) in the Great Court in the center of campus at UQ


A brush turkey scratching around at the bottom of Mt. Coot-Tha


A rainbow lorikeet (basically a mini parrot a little bigger than a sparrow) - image from NRPG

Lots of cool stuff around here.

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