Students practiced researching, drafting and formatting slides with photo and captions.

1. Kakadu birds, plants and animals
research, drafting and formatting by
Computer Group 3 students
August 2013
(some photos by Jill K)

2. Hang: water buffalo
Before 1825 to 1843 about 80
buffalo were brought to
Northern Territory for meat.
In the mid 1900s, the buffalo
colonised the permanent
swamps and freshwater springs
of the top end of the Northern
Territory.
Australia has two types of
buffalo, the river type from
Western Asia, with curled horns
and the swamp type from
Eastern Asia, with swept-back
horns.
This buffalo in the picture is a
young swamp type one.

3. Jason:
Australasian
DARTER
• .
Australasian Darter called the
snakebird. It is a large, slim water bird
with a long snake-like neck, sharp
pointed bill, and long, rounded tail.
Darter is found from Adelaide, South
Australia, to Tennant Creek, Northern
Territory and then to Broome, Western
Australia.
The Darter is lives in wetlands and
sheltered coastal waters, mainly in the
Tropics and Subtropics. It prefers
smooth, open waters, for feeding, with
tree trunks, branches, stumps or posts
fringing the water, for resting and
drying its wings. They feed in calm
seas near shore, fishing. Darter isn’t
affected by salty water, but does
require waters with sparse vegetation
that allow it to swim and dive easily.
They builds nests in trees standing in
water, and move to deeper waters if
the waters begin to dry up.

4. Khuyen: lotus Flower
The lotus flower leaves float
on the water surface. The
leaves are above the rising
water until the floods, when
they become completely
submerged and die back.
After that lotus flower then
survive on flood reserves
stored in the root
underground. As the flood
water go down in the dry
season new leaves shoot up.

5. Sue: Rainbow bee eater
• Rainbow bee eater is very
colourful small birds, there
are many can found in
open forests or woodland
usually near water,. They
eat insects ,also has ability
to catch flying insects too.
• They have long tail
feathers and a golden
crown. They Look very
clever smart little birds, I
like them very much.

6. Letay: Australasian
Darter
Darter is sometimes called
the snake bird. It Usually
inhabits freshwater
Wetlands. They swim
under the water surface.
They look for food by
diving to depths of about
60 centimetres and
impaling the fish with its
sharp spear like beak.
Small fish are swallowed
under water but larger
ones are brought to the
surface where they eat it .