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BIRDING ADVENTURES TV NEWS Greetings!
For those of you that have been pining to go on that special birding trip, we have an awesome special offer for Birding Adventures viewers and members! Through Tourism Northern Territory, we are offering unbeatable packages for an exceptional birding trip to this special part of Australia. So please click on this link to learn more.
Be sure to catch the third Australia show, profiling the Top End of the Northern Territory when it airs this week on Fox Sports Net. Join our Facebook page where you will get sneak previews of shows, updates on our travels and much more!
Filming the magnificent birdlife of the Northern Territory
Congratulations to the winner of our last quizz, Marie Di Rosa from Fort Myers, Florida! And be sure to enter this week's quizz. Stay tuned for another Birding Adventure! 
THE TV SHOW WHERE BIRDS OF A FEATHER ADVENTURE TOGETHER
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BIRDING THE TOP END OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA! The Northern Territory is Australia's real Outback and home to iconic natural wonders like Uluru or Ayres Rock and Kakadu National Park. The "NT" is renowned for its colourful outback characters and unique Aboriginal culture. The Top end of the Northern Territory holds such awesome birding destinations like Fogg Dam, Kakadu National Park, Litchfield National Park and Buffalo Creek. Awake each morning to birdsong and spend the days soaking in the wonderful avian diversity. In the evenings listen for calls of the Bush Stone Curlew, Orange-footed Scrub Fowl, Barking Owl, Large-tailed Nightjar and perhaps the howl of dingoes.
The Northern Territory is Australia's real Outback and home to iconic natural wonders like Uluru or Ayres Rock and Kakadu National Park. The "NT" is renowned for its colourful outback characters and unique Aboriginal culture. The Top end of the Northern Territory holds such awesome birding destinations like Fogg Dam, Kakadu National Park, Litchfield National Park and Buffalo Creek. Awake each morning to birdsong and spend the days soaking in the wonderful avian diversity. In the evenings listen for calls of the Bush Stone Curlew, Orange-footed Scrub Fowl, Barking Owl, Large-tailed Nightjar and perhaps the howl of dingoes. 
A spectacular waterfall in Litchfield National Park in The Northern Territory Some of the birds you may see in the Top End include Rainbow Pitta; Bush Stone Curlew; Great Bowerbird; Large-tailed Nightjar; Bar-shouldered Dove; Rose-crowned Fruit Dove; Emerald Dove; Forest Kingfisher; Rainbow Bee-eater; Striated Pardalote; Blue-faced Honeyeater; Brown Honeyeater; Rufous-banded Honeyeater; Lemon- bellied Flycatcher; Restless Flycatcher; White-winged Triller; Yellow Oriole; Double-barred Finch; Long-tailed Finch, Crimson Finch; Mistletoe Bird;Spangled Drongo; Northern Fantail; Radjah Shelduck; Pied Heron; Red-tailed Black Cockatoo; Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Little Corella; Rainbow Lorikeet; Red-winged Parrot; Pheasant Coucal; Horsefield's Bronze Cuckoo; Little Bronze Cuckoo; Orange-footed Scrubfowl; Purple Swamphen; Blue-winged Kookaburra; Brown Goshawk; White-bellied Sea Eagle; Black Kite, Whistling Kite to name but a few!! 
A juvenile Rainbow Pitta from the Fogg Dam area |
| RAINBOW PITTA! The Rainbow Pitta, Pitta iris, is a bird with a velvet black head and underparts, green upperparts, pale blue shoulder and olive green tail. It has a black bill, pink legs, brown eye and reddish brown streak along each side of its crown. Both sexes are similar, with the female being slightly smaller and duller than the male. An Australian endemic, the Rainbow Pitta lives in the forests of northern Australia. As with other pitta, it is a secretive and shy bird. The diet consists mainly of insects, arthropods and small animals. The female lays three to four glossy cream eggs with blotches inside its large domed nest.
Catch the quest for this unique
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Correctly identify the mystery bird in the photo above and win a comprehensive Nikon lens cleaning kit. Email answers to info@BirdingAdventures.com and title your email "Quizz". Clue: an American shorebird! The winner (first correct entry drawn) will be announced in next week's newsletter. Congratulations to our last winner, Marie Di Rosa of Fort Myers, Florida who correctly identified our last mystery bird as a Marsh Wren! Marie won a Nikon lens cleaning kit. |
TV SCHEDULE We will be airing the following new shows this week on Fox Sports Net. Our upcoming immediate schedule is as follows: Week of April 22 Rainbow Pitta - Northern Territory Australia Week of April 29 Great Green Macaws - Costa Rica RE-RUN 
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Happy Birding,
The Birding Adventures Team PS - Check out the awesome deal Nikon is offering. Click on the "Take it to the Edg" banner below. 
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