Billabong is a commonly used name for lagoons in tropical rivers of Australia, i.e. areas that stay wet when other parts of the rivers fall dry. They are often covered with water lilies and lined with reeds, providing ideal habitats for many aquatic birdsA water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water. In some definitions, the term water bird is especially applied to birds in freshwater ecosystems, although others make no distinction from seabirds that inhabit marine environments.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Water_bird
Freshwater streams and billabongs
live on the riverbanks including broad-leafed paperbark, silver-leafed paperbark and white paperbark.
The sanctuary is a permanent home to over 100 species of Australian mammals and reptiles such as kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, crocodiles, and birds including parrots and cassowaries.
Billabong Tree. Found beside creeks and billabongs growing to about 5 metres this tree is an indicator of the fresh water. During November and December masses of small edible berries are produced and turn red or black when ripe. They are sweet and can be eaten raw.
Billabong is the name of an Australian brand of sportswear for surf, skateboard, and snowboard.
Billabong is a term that derives from the language of the Wiradjuri people in south western New South Wales, and describes a pond or pool of water that is left behind when a river alters course or after floodwaters recede3.
Some go 16–20 km deep into the Earth and act as continental cornerstones.
The Northern Territory is home to the highest number of waterbirds in Australia as well as some of the most beautiful and rare bird species. The aptly-named Bird Billabong is located in the Mary River National Park between the Mount Bundey Hills and the Mary River channel, and is teeming with many of them.
Founded in 1973 by Gordon and Rena Merchant, the company first traded on the Australian Securities Exchange in August 2000. The name "billabong" is derived from the Wiradjuri word bilabaŋ that refers to a "creek that runs only during the rainy season".
Well-established in both skiing and skateboarding as well as surfing, the two companies will have a combined 630 shops in 28 countries, Boardriders said. Founded on the Gold Coast in 1973, Billabong listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2000.
The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.
WHAT'S IN A NAME? The word Koala derives from an Aboriginal word meaning 'no drink' . Because Koalas so seldom venture down onto the ground, it was thought that they have no need to drink water.
Platypus can live in man-made lakes, dams and irrigation channels, but they are more commonly found in natural lakes, creeks, rivers, backwaters and billabongs. They can be found anywhere from sea-level to alpine environments, but are uncommon in salty bays or estuaries.
Australia boasts more than 1,200 species of Acacia, which are commonly known as wattle trees. The golden wattle is Australia's floral emblem, and is widespread around Canberra, in southern New South Wales, in the Adelaide Hills and Victoria.
Many woodlands have eucalypts or wattle as the dominant trees, but mulga and paperbark woodlands are also common. The understorey can include cypress pine, wattles, grass trees, Banksia, saltbush, spinifex, tussock and other grasses.
They include trees such as swamp mahogany, swamp paperbark and swamp she-oak, and shrubs like the swamp banksia, tea trees and ferns. Saltmarshes feature plants such as pigface, sea rush, marine couch, creeping brookweed and swamp weed, all of which are adapted to saltier conditions.
Billabongs, cut-off meanders of the Murray-Darling rivers, South-east Australia, were the main standing (fresh) waters prior to colonisation by Europeans.
Another iconic Australian brand sold overseas: How Billabong founder who lost $600MILLION was too devastated to attend meeting selling his surfwear label to an American company after 45 years at the helm. Billabong yesterday agreed to be taken over by American sports company Boardriders for $208million.
Personality: Pikachu is a male Cockatiel who came to the LCAL rescue as a stray. Pikachu is not hand tame. He is quite shy with people and has a general fear of hands.
Kiwi (bird), a flightless bird native to New Zealand.
The Diamantina Fracture Zone is located southwest of Australia and formed as the Australian and Antarctic continents separated and is in excess of 3400 km in length. The fracture zone has a maximum depth of 7019 m in the Dortrecht Deep some 1400 km west of the Southwest WA coast.
it would not be an attractive place to swim. The water is turbid, the edges are sticky mud. You may be able to walk in to the water easily, there won't be any creatures to harm you, but when you come out, you will be covered in mud. Don't even think about it.
Billabongs ebb and flow throughout the year, bursting with water and blooming lilies after the summer monsoonal rains and then gradually receding during the months-long dry season, when they serve as permanent water sources for people and wildlife.