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You never know when something in your possession will be of significance to others till you mention it. I had a photo of a ship my dad served on, as a bosun's mate, in the Pacific in #WorldWarII. I noticed that it was not the same as other photos posted online, so contacted navsource.net and offered them a scan, and they accepted it and credited me. Now it's the image used on the bronze memorial marker to the ship. The AKA-17 Centaurus served at, among other places, #Peleliu and #Okinawa, and landed General MacArthur at #NewGuinea.
AKA-17 Centaurus, riding at anchor, side view. Image shows the extra masts supporting radio infrastructure of #Ultra transmissions from Hawaii, which was classified at the time and often expunged from published photos. Also this camouflage scheme appears not to be shown in most other photos. My dad served aboard her as a bosun's mate and radioman at #Kwajalein, Okinawa, and China.
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Eastern Long-beaked #Echidnas are rare egg-laying #mammals 🥚🦔 They are a prehistoric fever dream with a tube-like beak and hedgehog like spines. Help them survive in #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 when you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/03/eastern-long-beaked-echidna-zaglossus-bartoni/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Victoria crown #pigeons of #NewGuinea 🕊️🦜have stunning lilac and maroon feathers that mesmerise admirers. Don’t let these #birds die out like their cousin the #dodo, help them survive. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴⛔️ when you shop! @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/12/victoria-crowned-pigeon-victoria-goura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Eastern Long-beaked #Echidnas are rare egg-laying #mammals 🥚🦔 They are a prehistoric fever dream with a tube-like beak and hedgehog like spines. Help them survive in #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 when you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife
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Eastern Long-beaked #Echidnas are rare egg-laying #mammals 🥚🦔 They are a prehistoric fever dream with a tube-like beak and hedgehog like spines. Help them survive in #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 when you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/03/eastern-long-beaked-echidna-zaglossus-bartoni/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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You hear a Papuan #Hornbill 🐦🦤before you see one, with their echoing and eerie calls 🎶🥁 in #NewGuinea's #rainforest 🇵🇬🍃 Protect these magnificent #birds when you shop! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸🧐🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect
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Grip it in his left foot and rock out, banging it rhythmically against a hollow tree trunk to impress a female. Throw the stick to the ground like a rock star smashing a guitar at the end of a set once he's finished.They each have their own totally unique drumming rhythm and instrument design preference, which they actually teach to their sons over many years.
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Drumming for love
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Male Palm Cockatoos are famous for being the rock stars of the bird world. They are the only non-human animals known to craft and use musical instruments for mating displays.The male Palm Cockatoo will:Snap a thick branch off a live tree or find a large, hard seed pod. Whittle it down with his massive beak to custom specifications (some prefer short and stubby, others like them long and thin).
#photography
#birds
#PalmCockatoo
#CapeYork
#NewGuinea
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Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise by David Attenborough & Errol Fuller, 2013
Drawn from Paradise is David Attenborough's journey through the cultural history of the birds of paradise, one of the most exquisite and extravagant, colourful and intriguing families of birds.
#books
#nonfiction
#birds
#BirdsOfParadise
#NaturalHistory
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#GoodNews #News #Wildlife #Conservation #Reefs #NewGuinea #Pacific #Oceans #Enviroment #Protected #alt
ARRON PARNAS 6/7/26
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In 1994, I visited West Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea. I was in graduate school doing thesis research. I came within 60 miles of this mountain--I was obsessed with seeing the only glacier topped mountain between the Himalayas and the Andes. But due to the insurgency, i couldn't reach it... I always told myself someday I'd return to see that glacier but it looks like I will have misssed my chance. #indonesia
#newguinea #ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/27/witnessing-the-disappearance-of-indonesia-eternity-glaciers -
I've been going through unsorted accessions in the #Australian National #Insect #Collection (#ANIC) here in Canberra to find any plume #moths (#Pterophoridae) and many-plume moths (#Alucitidae) before doing more work to revise the fauna of these two families.
Today, I found this specimen collected by David Rentz in #Kuranda #Queensland in 2007 - it's not a known named Australian species but it looks a close match for Platyptilia microbscura recorded only from #Misool, an island to the west of #NewGuinea:
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🥁🦜 Many #birds use tools, but the palm #cockatoo, a native #parrot of northern #Queensland, #Australia, and #NewGuinea, is the only animal on #Earth known to make #music with a tool.
Male palm cockatoos craft drumsticks from branches and use them to drum on their prepared tree hollows in the tops of old-growth #trees. Each male has its own rhythmic style, sometimes drumming 200 beats in a row.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/palm-cockatoos-only-animal-tool-use-drumming-video
#ornithology #wildlife #science #biology #evolution #ecology #research #animals #conservation #drums #endangeredspecies #forest #instruments #mating #nature #rainforest #sound #trees #tksst #video
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🥁🦜 Many #birds use tools, but the palm #cockatoo, a native #parrot of northern #Queensland, #Australia, and #NewGuinea, is the only animal on #Earth known to make #music with a tool.
Male palm cockatoos craft drumsticks from branches and use them to drum on their prepared tree hollows in the tops of old-growth #trees. Each male has its own rhythmic style, sometimes drumming 200 beats in a row.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/palm-cockatoos-only-animal-tool-use-drumming-video
#ornithology #wildlife #science #biology #evolution #ecology #research #animals #conservation #drums #endangeredspecies #forest #instruments #mating #nature #rainforest #sound #trees #tksst #video
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Eastern Long-beaked #Echidnas are rare egg-laying #mammals 🥚🦔 They are a prehistoric fever dream with a tube-like beak and hedgehog like spines. Help them survive in #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 when you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/03/eastern-long-beaked-echidna-zaglossus-bartoni/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐦🧬 This #Cornell Lab #video uses #NewGuinea’s #Birds of Paradise to explain speciation, demonstrating how one species splits into many through reproductive isolation and colonization.
#animals #genetics #geography #geology #history #island #migration #nature #newguinea #reproduction #science #tksst
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🐦🧬 This #Cornell Lab #video uses #NewGuinea’s #Birds of Paradise to explain speciation, demonstrating how one species splits into many through reproductive isolation and colonization.
#animals #genetics #geography #geology #history #island #migration #nature #newguinea #reproduction #science #tksst
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Reclusive and fuzzy Mountain #Cuscus of #WestPapua are cuddly #marsupials, who prefer to snooze among the tangled vines of trees rather than move around. Help them and forests of #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 to survive #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife https://wp.me/pcFhgU-6rE?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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The pygmy long-fingered opossum and the ring-tailed glider went extinct in the Pleistocene, 6,000 years ago--except they have just been found alive in New Guinea.
Summary: https://www.sci.news/biology/two-marsupials-new-guinea-14648.html
Original paper: https://journals.australian.museum/flannery-2026-rec-aust-mus-781-1734/
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Eastern Long-beaked #Echidnas are rare egg-laying #mammals 🥚🦔 They are a prehistoric fever dream with a tube-like beak and hedgehog like spines. Help them survive in #NewGuinea 🇵🇬 when you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤮🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/03/eastern-long-beaked-echidna-zaglossus-bartoni/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Victoria crown #pigeons of #NewGuinea 🕊️🦜have stunning lilac and maroon feathers that mesmerise admirers. Don't let these #birds die out like their cousin the #dodo, help them survive. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴⛔️ when you shop! https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/12/victoria-crowned-pigeon-victoria-goura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/12/victoria-crowned-pigeon-victoria-goura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
Birds of New Guinea by Thane K. Pratt, Bruce M. Beehler, 2014
This is the completely revised edition of the essential field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world's largest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a spectacular avifauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as an exceptionally diverse assemblage of songbirds such as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds.
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Victoria crown #pigeons of #NewGuinea 🕊️🦜have stunning lilac and maroon feathers that mesmerise admirers. Don't let these #birds die out like their cousin the #dodo, help them survive. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴⛔️ when you shop! https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/12/victoria-crowned-pigeon-victoria-goura/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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The dazzling Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise 🌈💫 earn their name from male birds' mating dances for females 🥁🎷🕊️ Help them to survive #palmoil and #mining #deforestation in #WestPapua and #NewGuinea and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/26/magnificent-bird-of-paradise-cicinnurus-magnificus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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The dazzling Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise 🌈💫 earn their name from male birds' mating dances for females 🥁🎷🕊️ Help them to survive #palmoil and #mining #deforestation in #WestPapua and #NewGuinea and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/26/magnificent-bird-of-paradise-cicinnurus-magnificus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/26/magnificent-bird-of-paradise-cicinnurus-magnificus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer -
Hype for the Future 79Q: Lae 🇵🇬
Overview The City of Lae is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea and a direct descendant of the German New Guinea Company representative of the northern part of the modern nation, distinct from the British colonization and integration into Australia associated with the southern side and the area around Port Moresby. Today, the community is sandwiched between the Markham River, the Busu River, and the Solomon Sea.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/hype-for-the-future-79q-lae-%f0%9f%87%b5%f0%9f%87%ac/
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Hype for the Future 79R: Port Moresby 🇵🇬
Overview Port Moresby serves the role of the capital city of Papua New Guinea and is located on the southern side of the primary island. Directly to the north of large portions of Queensland in Australia 🇦🇺, the City of Port Moresby is one of the rare wealthier areas associated with the Global South, though the overall nation remains on the impoverished side of nations. The University of Papua New Guinea is located within the city, and the National Museum and Art Gallery and the Nature […]