Australian Country

A haven for birds

Unearthly screams – as Australian author and poet Henry Kendall described the cry of the curlew – are an eerily familiar night noise at Pam and Daryl Foulis’s home in South Australia’s south east. Sightings of the nocturnal bird are rare, however, so it seemed like an omen when Daryl spotted a pair on the building site of their new home on acreage near the village of Mundulla.

Daryl and Pam decided to go with the Aboriginal

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