NOISY FRIARBIRD

145       NOISY FRIARBIRD           Philemon corniculatus

Australia       (145)

Also known as Leatherbird. Range down east coast and inland from Cape York to Melbourne with thin band along Murray into SA. Found in open forests and woodlands, watercourses, coastal, orchards, parks.

GREY FANTAIL

144        GREY FANTAIL           Rhipidura albiscapa

Australia      (144)

14-17 cm. Found all across Australia and Tasmania except in most arid areas. Habitat includes coastal/inland scrub, mangroves, rain forests, forests/woodlands, watercourses, orchards and parks.

Subspecies albicauda, photographed near Alice Springs, NT May 2016

Subspecies albicauda, photographed Tasmania February 2017

MULGA PARROT

143            MULGA PARROT              Psephotus varius

Australia     (143)

Also known as Many-coloured Parrot. 25-31 cm. Found near water, in mulga, mallee, other scrubs, watercourses. Ranges through suitable habitat across interior of s. Australia, to parts of w. and s. coast.

PACIFIC BLACK DUCK

142        PACIFIC BLACK DUCK          Anas superciliosa

Australia        (142)

Also known as Black, Brown, Grey or Wild Duck. Very familiar Australian wild duck ranging throughout Australia except in inland. Also found in Indonesia, Polynesia, NZ, and sub-Antartic Islands.

MALLARD

141         MALLARD         Anas platyrhynchos

Australia         (141)

Typical duck in many illustrations. Found in Eurasia, n. Africa, N. America; introduced in 1860s; widespread through se Australia and Tasmania, pocket around Perth. Habitat deep freshwater, dams, ponds, rivers.

Photographed in England, January, 2014

LITTLE WATTLEBIRD

140      LITTLE WATTLEBIRD            Anthochaera chrysoptera

Australia    (140)

Also known as Brush Wattlebird. Ranges across sw corner of WA, Tasmania and along coast from Adelaide to above Brisbane. Found in banksia/eucalyptus woodlands, heathlands, tea-tree scrub, sand plain-heaths. 26-31 cm.

Subspecies lunulata, photographed in Tasmania February 2017

LITTLE FRIARBIRD

139             LITTLE FRIARBIRD            Philemon citreogularis

Australia     (139)

Ranges across the n. and e. of Australian mainland. Found in open forests/woodlands/rivers, swamps, mangroves, orchards, parks and gardens. 25-29 cm.

LITTLE PIED CORMORANT

138       LITTLE PIED CORMORANT           Phalacrocorax melanoleucos

Australia   (138)

58-64 cm, wingspan 84-92 cm. Ranges all over Australia except the inland. Also in Malaysia, Indonesia to PNG, Solomons, New Caledonia, NZ and some sub-Antartic Islands. Found on coasts, islands, inlets, inland waters, house dams, roadside ditches.

PIED OYSTERCATCHER

137            PIED OYSTERCATCHER           Haematopus longirostris

Australia      (137)

Also known as Eugerie-bird, Redbill, Seapie or Wongbird. Ranges across all suitable habitats around the coast of Australia and Tasmania. Found on undisturbed sandy, shell grit or pebbled beaches, sandbars, tidal mudflats, and parks or paddocks near the coast. 42-51 cm.

CRESTED TERN

136           CRESTED TERN            Sterna bergii

Australia     (136)

44-48 cm, wingspan 95 cm-1.05 m. Range is around the coast of Australia and tasmania. Also found in Philippines and Fiji, s and e asia, Red Sea-s. Africa, where known as Swift Tern. Found coastal, offshore, beaches, bays, inlets, lakes.

PIED CORMORANT

135             PIED CORMORANT           Phalacrocorax varius

Australia       (135)

Also known as Yellow-faced Cormorant.  66-80 cm, wingspan c. 1.5 m.  Ranges over all of mainland except inland. Found in coastal waters, estuaries, bays, tidal inlets, and to far inland lakes and rivers.

DARTER

134         DARTER           Anhinga melanogaster

Australia        (134)

Also known as Snake-bird. Range is mainland Australia except sparse in w and s inland. Found in Africa, Asia and PNG. Habitat includes larger shallow water, rivers, lakesswmps, lagoons, tidal estuaries. 86-94 cm.

WHIMBREL

133             WHIMBREL          Numenius phaeopus

Australia       (133)

Range includes the coast of all Australia. The whimbrel breeds in Siberia and visits here during our summer where it is found wading along the coast, in estuaries, mangroves, tidal flats. 38-43 cm.

Darwin January 2024

WHITE-PLUMED HONEYEATER

132    WHITE-PLUMED HONEYEATER            Lichenostomus penicillatus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Australia     (132)

Also called Chickowee, Greenie or Native Canary. 15-17 cm. Found never far from water in open forests/woodlands, watercourses, mallee, blossoming woodlands/heaths, parks, gardens. Range widespread across e and se mainland and along rivers in interior.

NOTE:           4 subspecies in Australia

carteri:               central WA

penicillatus:       se Aust., from s Qld, through NSW, Vice, into se tip of SA

calconii:             band from border to coast across WA near Broome

leilavalensis:      central Aust, to ne SA and w Qld.    

Subspecies carteri, photographed at Onslow, WA, July 2018

RUFOUS WHISTLER

131      RUFOUS WHISTLER       Pachycephala rufiventris

Australia        (131)

Range all over mainland Australia, summer breeding in the se and moving north in Autumn/winter.Also found in Indonesia, PNG and New Caledonia. Found in open forest/woodland/scrubs from coast to arid.