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I'm Gavin Gatenby, a retired NSW National Parks and Wildlife officer. I was also, for a couple of years, the Chief Guide at the Australian Museum. I hope my short wildlife videos will increase understanding of, and respect for, Australia's amazing wildlife. included here are a few Australian travel pieces and an hour-long doco on the history of the biological sciences.
DIY automatic outdoor bird feeder
Here's a simple DIY project for an automatic, battery operated, outdoor wild bird feeder using a relatively inexpensive programmable kibble dispenser designed for cats and dogs that's readily-available online. These dispensers (there are many brands) aren't designed for outdoor use, so I've built a simple weatherproof enclosure to protect it from the elements.
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Notorious: A recreated 15th Century Portuguese Caravel
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Notorious is a wooden sailing ship, a full-size recreation of a 15th Century Caravel. She travels the Australian coast as a museum ship, open on occasion for onboard and below-deck inspection. A visit to Notorious takes you back to maritime technology as it was over 500 years ago. Authentic recreations on this scale are almost invariably the work of whole teams of historians, maritime archaeolo...
The Australian Brown Quail and the French Revolution
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The Brown Quail (Synoicus ypsilophorus) is a small, plump, ground-dwelling bird native to mainland Australia, Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, some eastern Indonesian Islands, and Timor. It's also been introduced to New Zealand and Fiji. These little birds are surprisingly common, even in suitable urban parkland, although they're cryptic and seldom noticed. The story of the Brown Quail's discovery, ...
Time's Up Rally - Climate action now!
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A rally for climate action organised by 350.org.au at Batemans Bay Foreshore Park on Sunday 30 July 2023. The rally marched to the office of the local federal government MP.
White footed Dunnart - Sminthopsis leucopus
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The white-footed Dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) is a mouse-sized Australian marsupial that feeds mostly on invertebrates, like grubs, worms, moths and crickets, as well a small lizards and tiny frogs. They're part of the Dasyurid family, the largest members of which are the Tasmanian Devil and the Tiger Quoll.
Royal Spoonbill - Platalea regia
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Royal Spoonbills (Platalea regia) are strikingly beautiful birds found across most of Australia as well as in New Zealand, New Caledonia, East Timor and parts of Indonesia and New Guinea. The species has an unusual feeding strategy. They catch small fish, crustaceans, crabs, insects and frogs by slowly sweeping their open spoon-shaped bills in an arc through shallow water. When the sensitive pa...
Indian-Pacific: Across Australia by rail in 2010
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This is an historic video record of a Sydney to Perth trip on the Indian-Pacific from 22 May to 25 May, 2010. I had intended to upload to CZcams but at the time the maximum limit was 15 minutes, which was terribly restrictive, and I abandoned the project. But by 2023 my 13 year-old video had historic interest as a record of how things were. We travelled “Red Kangaroo” sleeper. This was second c...
Silvereyes: Heroic travellers of Australia & the South Pacific
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Silvereyes, scientific name Zosterops lateralis, are small omnivorous birds of Australia and the South-West Pacific. Just 12 cm long and weighing in at 10 grams, their most distinctive feature is the ring of pure white feathers around the eye. Australia's East Coast and Tasmanian Silvereyes migrate north to Queensland after the spring-summer breeding season, with the Tasmanian birds travelling ...
Eastern Yellow Robin - Eopsaltria australis
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The lovely Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis) is a widespread and common bird of Australia's eastern and southern coast, with populations stretching from North Queensland through NSW and Victoria to South Australia as far north as Adelaide and far inland wherever there's suitable habitat. They're at home in heaths, mallee, acacia scrub, woodland and forest. They're perch and pounce hun...
Australia's native Bush Rat: Rattus fuscipes
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The Bush Rat (Rattus fuscipes) is the most common of Australia's 54 native rodent species. It evolved from a wave of rodent immigrants from Asia that arrived between 4 and 3 million years ago. They're found primarily in the coastal regions of Australia from North Queensland, through New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, with populations in Western Australia as far north as Kalbarri. Ch...
Feathertail Glider Nest: How the smallest gliding mammal protects its home
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Australia's Feathertail Glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) is the world's smallest gliding mammal - about the size of a small mouse and weighing in at 12 grams. Rare footage, shot in the wild, shows how these minuscule marsupials protect their nest hollows by closing off the entrance with sprigs of gum leaves, hauled into place with their prehensile tails. Our tiny hero's home survives an assault by a...
Eastern Dwarf Tree-frog: Litoria fallax
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The Eastern Dwarf Tree-frog (Litoria fallax) is a small species, very common down Australia's East Coast. They're at home in a wide variety of habitats in or near fresh water and the chain of ponds in Sydney Park provides ideal habitat. I videoed these Dwarf Tree-frogs during a population irruption brought on by the unusually wet summer of 2021-22.
Buff-banded Rails - An urban wildlife story
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Buff-banded Rails (Gallirallus philippensis) are beautiful but usually shy birds found in wetlands with low, dense, cover. In the wild they're hard to see, except in those rare places where they become used to humans. I recorded these intimate scenes of the life of Buff-banded Rails, raising chicks, in Sydney Park, which is surrounded by the densely -populated inner Sydney suburbs of St Peters,...
The elusive Spotted Quail-thrush
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Spotted Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma punctatum) are shy, insectivorous, ground-dwelling birds found in open forest down Australia's east coast. They really like rocky hillsides and lightly-forested ridges with lots of leaf-litter, clumps of grass and low shrubs.
The amazing Australasian Darter
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Australasian Darters (Anhinga novaehollandiae) are amazing birds - underwater spearfishers engineered by evolution to sink rather than float, they can also soar to great heights on thermals and travel long distances in search of opportunity. Unlike their close relatives, the cormorants, they spear their prey rather than grabbing it. And if they look prehistoric, it's because they're of an incre...
The Pygmy, the Feathertail, the Bushfire & the Banksia
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The Pygmy, the Feathertail, the Bushfire & the Banksia
White-browed Scrubwren - Sericornis frontalis
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White-browed Scrubwren - Sericornis frontalis
Black Swan Event: Cygnets in Sydney Park
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Black Swan Event: Cygnets in Sydney Park
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo - Calyptorhynchus funereus
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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo - Calyptorhynchus funereus
Covid Lockdown - How to entertain a dingo
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Covid Lockdown - How to entertain a dingo
Bushfire catastrophe: Wildlife Survivors
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Bushfire catastrophe: Wildlife Survivors
Aftermath: A drive from Batemans Bay to Braidwood
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Aftermath: A drive from Batemans Bay to Braidwood
ScoMo Must Go! - Sydney 10 January 2020
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ScoMo Must Go! - Sydney 10 January 2020
Currowan fire 2019: the view from the Princes Highway
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Currowan fire 2019: the view from the Princes Highway
Enough is enough - now IS the time to talk about climate change
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Enough is enough - now IS the time to talk about climate change
Pied Oystercatcher - Haematopus longirostris
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Pied Oystercatcher - Haematopus longirostris
Where I come from we pronounce it with an N but apparently according to spell check that's wrong.
i wish they would bring it to Goa, India where there are descendants of Vasco Da Gama live. The people would be interested to see how the Portuguese made it to Goa 500+ years ago. Unfortunately the RSS of india may not allow it to dock. They are still filled with hate for converting Hindus to Christians.
What about Vasco Da Gama?? i am surprised you mentioned Columbus. The Portuguese went to India. Columbia left Spain.
But why did he chose the Portuguese caravel? Hell... a Viking long ship or a Knarr would be unique in Australia. Btw I'm Portuguese and congratulations to Graeme Wylie, you've done a terrific job.
This is very fascinating. So is the crew a total of 5 ? If so it's a pretty good amount of space - I mean not too bad.
It's a beautiful ship design. I live in the Portuguese part of Newark NJ, and I was in Portugal, and the town of Belem too where the navigation monument stands. Henry the Navigator is actually "Henrique Don Infante" which I guess is Spanish or Italian, and basically Henry the Baby.
Portuguese sailors were tough to explore the world in ships like this. Respect.
I had no idea this vessel existed. It's truly remarkable.
Imagine. The. Smell.
Indeed! Dried fish, bilge-water, human sweat, fear. If you were lucky, and on the right voyage, spices.
she is fast
I think that Prince Henry the Navigator was friends with a Greek guy called William the Concretor.
Definitely not for claustrophobic people, but interesting to see how cramped the hull was
Great video! Thanks!
Gee thanks!. First comment in 5 years on one of my first videos from 14 years ago! You'll be pleased to know that this roost is thriving and has since been the subject of years of regular citizen-scientist observation.
Be sure to lookup the bartolomeu dias caravel in Mosselbay, The interior below deck looks different.
I heard somewhere that the Caravel was a portuguese millitar technology and we don't have precise descriptions of how they were made because everything surrounding them was kept as a State secret.
Amazing video, thank you for sharing it! I loved so much the background sound with the butcher birds singing! I miss them 💕 Regards from Argentina! 🇦🇷
Oh, thanks! First comment in 10 years.
A sternpost mounted rudder, did not the vikings use them BC?
If ever could afford a yacht, this is what I would have, a ship and play pirates ⚓️🏴☠️❤️🥰
Dear Gavin Gatenby Esq.......What a find!!! Thank you for this wonderful walk and lecture, which so artfully combines the history of natural history and ecclesiastic history in such a fascinating and instructive way. Much to think about, and to dispute. Natural Theology seems to have been a very Anglican preoccupation. (??) What were the Continentals doing....?? (And we remember Gregor Mendel, another ecclesiastic, but not in England, whose seminal paper on genetic inheritance was published in 1866. Now, if only Darwin had read German!!) I came to this lecture via you article on Trotsky and Ukraine......for which I thank you. Greetings from South Africa.
Thanks muchly! This one was a big project, but it has been a really slow burn, so to speak. I'm, glad it's finally getting a little traction. Please recommend it to others, and good luck to South Africa, which needs all the luck it can get, IMO!
❤ де ла миросс александреросс1.1. 1:19 1:22 1:23
There is a Caravelle in a museum in Mosselbay South Africa. It was sailed from Portugal to commemorate the voyage of Bartholemew Diaz . It is also amazing
somebody get the camera man a bottle of oxygen.....jesus
All credit to you for putting the video together. I have come across bits of what you talk about from time to time came across Darwins diary re the trip to S America about 30 yrs ago, about 10 yrs ago heard of Wallace. Now need to find out about the others you have mentioned. Not many can but it together in the way you have. Thank you very much. Off Bali N E coast neare the Wallace line saw a rhinopias fish, been on Aldabra, been around S E Asia the narrative in you video explains a lot of it. Good to hear the local birds see the dog alert to go and get. Could you do a vid on your previous employment?
Gee thanks! Golly, first comment in two years. Put a lot of work into this one, but with few views. Seems you are based in Bali. I haven't thought about doing a video about my career which was mainly in the NSW NPWS with a brief stint at the Australian Museum. Anyway, recommend it to a few people. I could do with more viewings!
@@possm1 Some youtube vids get a lot of views - I don't know why it is that others don't get many. Seems to depend on who views it and shares it. Did hear that some pay a company to click the video link resulting in thousands of views. Conditioning. Most people live with concrete, bricks, plastic and wood. In the 1950s a young girl I met thought that milk came from a bottle. 1980s a relative who lived in London visited with their dog. The dog when seeing young cattle shook fixed to the spot and had to be carried shaking past the field gate. On Aldabra animals could be close without fear. I am not based on Bali. I live in the British Isles. Can go up the hills where the ravens let you come close, lay in the bracken and watch/listen nature move about. Vids re' your previous employment could be good. Rhinopias vid czcams.com/video/lPUvzX14eCk/video.html
@@frankd5871 Fascinating vid of the Bali marine life. I collect Balinese woodcarving but have never been there. Email me on the email in "About".
@@possm1 Where is the - About - you mention?
@@frankd5871 Ah, they sort of hide it. If you click on the "more" arrow at the end of the blurb under Werrong Lane on the home page it's there. Anyway, it's leegavin@brushtail.com.au.
so cool......................❤❤❤
Are you the Peter Bee who took over my job for a year way back in the day?
It's surprisingly small
I don't think there is any direct evidence that the center mounted rudder was adapted by Europeans from Chinese. It's rather a case of simultaneous invention. Similar to the magnetic compass in which the European version is divided in 16 points and the Chinese 12 indicating a different though process. Even Gunpowder was likely independent.
Oh to have the spare money and space and time to build such a beauty…
9 years full time? Imagine being able to work on a passion project like that. What a world we could live in.
his wife worked and he also made furniture. country folk of simple needs. Loveliest smartest couple you will ever meet.
@@cheryl1766 Oh cool.
" Há que considerar dois tipos de caravelas, a caravela latina e a caravela redonda. A caravela latina é a original, relativamente à qual não há unanimidade na proveniência. É, no entanto, uma evolução do que já existia, provavelmente um navio de pesca do Algarve. A caravela redonda é que se poderá considerar a invenção dos Portugueses já que resultou dos conhecimentos recolhidos e das propostas de Bartolomeu Dias depois de regressar do Cabo da Boa Esperança, com objetivos de melhoramento das suas qualidades de navegação face aos ventos que encontrou. Tratar-se-ia, assim, de resultado de investigação e de saber adquirido, aplicado cientificamente, podendo portanto considerar-se uma invenção portuguesa."
The age of exploration in a tiny wooden tub ! Brave souls indeed. 👍. Excellent.
トカゲとの交雑変異の進化とか⁇ 日本にいたら確実にツチノコ発見だよな。
Fantástico! Que bela recriação.
In the original there wouldn't have been bunks. Instead all the space available would have been used for storage. The crew would had been sleeping on hammocks, or on the deck instead. This is one of the reasons why those long voyage across the ocean sea were so full of hardships!
С берегов им кричали Вернитесь друзья! Но вперед они мчались, в чужие края В решете по крутым волнам!
...And so the poem goes, but they would have been shouting in Portuguese, not in Russian....😅
Muito bacana 👍🏻🙌🏻
I visited Notorious when she was docked in Brisbane a few years ago... definitley worth a look if she's in your area.
somehow portugal stopped innovating and was left behind by holland and england. too much catholic hierarchy.
Where did you get that idea...?😂. The reasons for Portugal's decline are many and various, and have little to do with lack of innovation or Catholic religious zealotry. Try political upheavals and wars of succession within the kingdom and the rest of the European continent instead. After the major European powers of the time France, Spain, the H.R.E. , had finished destroying each other. The power vacuum left behind, was what gave England the scant opportunity to take over. The Netherlands who had recently had gained their independence from Spain took the opportunity also, and piggyback on England's incursions and successes. All of this not happening, until way late into the 17th century.
Everyone surprised by the size but now think about the lunar landers they were even smaller. We have a thing for small ships.
The size of the ship, very similar to a northern Cog was perfect for the type of coastal shipping it was built for. The idea of making a Transatlantic voyage in such a small vessel is what made it not only daring but also insane! Logically subsequent voyages were made in more suitable and larger ships. Like Carracks and Naõs, which were more suitable and purposely built for that type of enterprise. The Apollo missions on the other hand, were a situation of necessity. The laws of physics and current technology, even to this day prevents us from building anything bigger. Once we figure out how to break gravitational pull, we will be able to make the larger vessels required to travel across space.😊
So caravels are this small 😮
It's what they had available at the time. These type of ships were perfectly fine for traveling in the Mediterranean. They very quickly started designing better and larger ships though. Giving rise eventually to the larger Galleons and subsequently to the man-o-wars, which became the ships of the line and frigates. The culmination of sailships for commerce ended with the cutters, which lasted until the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.
@@tatumergo3931 yeah can't believe one of these was in Magellan's fleet from Portugal to here in the Philippines must have been a rough ride
@@Delta-2-0 . I think that the caravelles in Magellan's expedition were of the later much larger type, not this one type. But I might be wrong, I'll have to double check. There's another type that combine the features of the Naõ and the Caravelle, now I don't know if they're classified as Naõs or Caravelles.
Portuguese fishing fleet crossing the Atlantic to fish the Grand Banks. 2100 miles of blue water sailing between Lisbon and the Banks. A mere nothing, in the 14th century.
looks badas as f
However, 'primitive' the caravel is looking today, still I believe the modern ship builder had excelled and out bode all his ancient predecessors by far.
Actually a much better improvement upon the northern Cog, a contemporary of the caravel, and which required calmer seas to make a safe passage.
No Ano 2.000 mil, como parte das "Comemorações dos 500 do Descobrimento do Brasil", a Marinha do Brasil lancou ao mar a "CARAVELA DO DESCOBRIMENTO", que seria uma Recriação de uma Caravela tipica do Período das Grandes Viagens de Descobrimento de Portugal... Foi um FRACASSO, tinha tendencia a ADERNAR, e precisou de várias toneladas de LASTRO para estabilizar na Vertical, e não apresentou boas "qualidades marinheiras"... Como dizemos no Brasil, "PERDEMOS O AMIGO, MAS NÃO PERDEMOS A PIADA", nos todos ZOMBAMOS DA MARINHA por essa "furada", particularmente (Eu estava no "meio" na Época) na FORÇA AÉREA, as piadas internas zombando da Marinha eram constantes. Nos meios civis a Zombaria era ABERTA, depois da Data 22 de Abril, ela foi "encostada" no cais do Museu Naval e depois de varios anos, SUMIU...😢
i cant believe someone actually made one! Fascinating video
There are actually many around the world today. Built and privately owned by several people and organizations. Traveling seasonally from Port to Port as displays and living museums.
Thank you for the insight, I have only sailed on a larger barque Eye of the Wind and to create then voyage this Caravel ship is incredible. Sud Aviation named an airliner after it.
A bit of shabby-chic feel there, made to look "amusement park old". Still a huge achievement.
Fantastic job. I am Portuguese living in Canada and really enjoyed video. thank you Obrigado
Perfect music for this! I felt like I was back in time, at the very beginning of the age of exploration. Is there a name for this kind of music? I want to listen more!
The music is credited at the end. Should be easy to find your way to their site from there.
@@possm1 thanks!
Late Medieval and Renaissance music, ofcourse a modern interpretation. If I might make a suggestion, try a jacara they're often used in period drama movie pieces like Elizabeth the Golden Age. One of my favorites is Rodrigo Martínez, very funny once you get the translation from Spanish.
My father in law just saw the Notorious near Port Macquarie NSW a few days ago - he is with the marine rescue as a volunteer and spotted her at anchor - amazing to see in real life! Now I came across this post quite at random and will share it with him! Thank you very much. Great endeavour to build and sail this vessel!
You should visit the carrack Santa Maria in Madeira Island.
We should all visit the Santa Maria, but how are we going to get to Madeira Island is the problem. Specially if you happen to be on the other side of the world! Travel today isn't cheap...!