‘I felt like a bird god’: why comedian Geraldine Hickey is excited for this year’s Aussie Bird Count

The keen birdwatcher encourages others to take 20 minutes out of their day, describing the experience as meditative'

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In early October the comedian Geraldine Hickey went looking for tawny frogmouths, a charismatic bird with a frog-like beak and mottled feathers.

They're a good-looking bird," Hickey says, though it hasn't yet appeared in her annual bird calendar, a project she started as a lockdown thing" that has gained its own dedicated audience.

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