OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE

Photographed at Gold creek reservoir, near Brisbane, August 201

213            OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE            Oriolus sagittatus

Australia         (213)

Range from Kimberley across the top of Australia and down e. coast to tip of SA, ranges inland to cover most of Q, NSW and Vic., small pocket around Adelaide. Found in rain forests, eucalyptus forests and woodlands, timber on watercourses, mallee and gardens. 26-28 cm

RED-NECKED STINT

212    RED-NECKED STINT              Calidris ruficollis

Australia            (212)

13-16 cm. Ranges over most of Australia except driest central WA, s. of NT and n. of SA. It breeds in the Arctic, Siberia and n. Alaska. Found on tidal mudflats, salt marshes, beaches, wetlands and sewerage ponds.

GREEN CATBIRD

Photographed at Mount Glorious, Queensland, August, 2014.

211            GREEN CATBIRD          Ailuroedus crassirostris

Australia       (211)

24-32 cm. Often heard in rainforests, making the noise of a cat or a baby crying. ranges down the e. coast and Great Divide from s. of Gladstone, Queensland to s. of Narooma, NSW. Found in mountain and lowland rain forests, densely forested gullies, paperbark and other watercourses.