May 17, 2019

Birds on our travels

I enjoy bird watching on our travels, below are a few photos I was lucky to take.

I’ll try and name the birds I know, no guarantee's i will get them right, feel free to correct me in the comments below.

Thank you Helen and Vince for letting me know some of the birds correct names.

Gouldian finch
Pelicans at Noosaville

Crimson Finch, Gregory River Qld

New Holland Honeyeater, Lucky Bay Esperence

Galah, Worramel Station WA

Brolga FNQ

Australian Darter, Manning Gorge Gibb River Road

Purple Swamp Hen

Black Kite, Burdekin Qld

Silver Gull, Safety Bay WA

Stone Bush Curlew, Babinda Falls Qld

Casowary Babinda Falls Qld

Gouldian Finch, Wyndham WA

Egret? Gulf Savannah

Rainbow Lorikeet

Welcome Swallow or Red Capped Robin

Stone bush curlew

Lorikeets

Australian Darter

Pied Butcher Bird

Blue Winged Kookaburra

Laughing Kookaburra's

Fantail Wren

White Faced Heron 

Sacred Kingfisher

Silver Gull

New Holland Honeyeater

Whistling Kite

Willy Wag Tail

Pacific Duck

Nankeen Kestral

Pelicans over the Coorong

Magpie-lark

Lyre Bird

Intermediate Egret

Purple Swamp Hen

White Winged Fairy Wren


Purple Swamp Hen



Intermediate Egret's 

Bush Turkey

Cassowary

Stone Bush Curlew

Masked Lapwing

Blue Faced Honeyeater

Galah

King Parrot

Magpie

Bush stone Curlew

Crimson Finch

Brolga

Osprey

Crimson Finch

Singing Honey Eater i rescued from our bird bath

Aussie Emu

2 comments:

Firefly said...

Hi Mick,

we enjoyed your bird photos. You have some beautiful photos there. Hope you don't mind comments on a couple of bird names used. Sorry if these are not in order of your photos.
Your Robin Red Breast actually a Red-capped Robin. The buff coloured breast in the photo is misleading and probably indicates breeding plumage or juvenile bird. The Scarlet Robin (red breast) does not have red on the head.

The Egrets look to be Intermediate Egrets. The duck is not a Mallard, it is a Pacific Black Duck. The Blue Wren is a White-winged Fairy Wren. The Herons are White-faced Herons. The un-named Kingfisher looks to be a Sacred Kingfisher although if we could see a little more of the bird it would be easier to confirm that. Some birds have unnecessarily long names and in your photos these include the Southern Cassowary, the Rainbow Lorikeet, the Purple Swamp Hen.

Hope this helps you. Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos.

Helen and Vince

Mick said...

Thanks Helen & Vince for letting me know the correct names, i have edited the post.

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