ROSE ROBIN

299         ROSE ROBIN           Petroica rosea

Australia             (269)

11.-12.5 cm. Found in ferntree, beech and other dense, mosist gullies, wetter eucalypt forest/rainforest. Range Adelaide around coast to Carnavon Range in Queensland.

Photographed at Toolangim State Forest, Victoria November 2015

AUSTRALIAN HOBBY

Photographed at Gilgandra, NSW

298             AUSTRALIAN HOBBY            Falco longipennis

Australia             (268)

Also known as Little Falcon. 30-35 cm, wingspan to 90 cm, female larger. Range all over Australia. Found in open woodlands, grasslands with trees, environs of wetlands, lakes, rivers, timbered watercourses, city parks and well-treed suburbs.

BLACK-FACED WOODSWALLOW

297         BLACK-FACED WOODSWALLOW            Artamus cinereus

Australia         (267)

17.5-20 cm. Range over most of mainland Australia except tip Cape York, e. coast from Tropic of Capricorn s. to Adelaide, and SW corner of WA. Found open country, gibber, spinifex, sandhills, saltbush, wetlands and irrigation areas.

WHITE-BROWED TREECREEPER

296        WHITE-BROWED TREECREEPER           Climacteris affinis

Australia          (266)

14-15 cm. Found in semi-arid, arid inland scrub, stands of belar in mallee, mulga, native pine, black box and saltbush. Range southern inland mainland from upper Gascoyne River (WA) to Cobar/Bourke (NSW).

GRACEFUL HONEYEATER

295          GRACEFUL HONEYEATER              Meliphaga gracilis

Australia         (265)

14-16.5 cm. Smallest of the three 'Meliphaga'. Found in rainforests, vine scrub, eucalypt woodlands, coastal scrubs, lantana, orchards and gardens. Range ne. Queensland, Ingham up to tip Cape York.

BUFF-RUMPED THORNBILL

294          BUFF-RUMPED THORNBILL           Acanthiza reguloides

Australia             (264)

Also known as Bark or Buff-rumped Tit, or Varied Thornbill. Range s. and se. mainland, from Atherton in the n., through most of NSW except nw, all of Vict., and across to Adelaide. Found in open stringy bark forest, woodland, scrub and golf courses. 11 cm.

YELLOW THORNBILL

293        YELLOW THORNBILL              Acanthiza nana

Australia            (263)

Also known as Little Thornbill. Range across e. and se. mainland Australia, from Mackay, Atherton Tablelands, to Cunnamulla, in NSW west as far as Cobar/Ivanhoe, all of Vict, and in SA w. to Goolwa and n. to Flinder's Ranges. Found in drier woodlands, coastal and inland scrub, riverine forests, mangroves, orchards, parks and gardens. 10 cm.

WHITE-THROATED TREECREEPER

292           WHITE-THROATED TREECREEPER              Cormobates leucophaeus

Australia          (262)

Also known as Little Treecreeper or Woodpecker. 16-17.5 cm. Range down eastern mainland Australia from Mackay to SA border, and around Adelaide. Found in rainforests, wetter eucalypt forests, woodlands, coastal teeters, ravine forests, mallee and brigalow.

YELLOW ORIOLE

Photographed in Ingham, Queensland.

291            YELLOW ORIOLE                Oriolus flavocinctus

Australia           (261)

26-30 cm. Range across n. Aust. from w. Kimberley to Top End, and in Q. from Cape York Peninsular down to Ingham. Found in Rainforests, dense vegetation on watercourses, woodlands, paperbarks, mangroves, plantations, orchards and gardens.

JACKY WINTER

 290              JACKY WINTER             Microeca fascinans

Australia      (260)

Also known as Brown Flycatcher, Peter Peter and Stumpbird. 12-14 cm. Range across mainland Australia except driest desert, patchy in settled areas. Found in open woodlands, scrublands, paddocks with live/dead trees, stumps, fences, watercourses and roadsides.

EASTERN REEF EGRET (dark morph)

289        EASTERN REEF EGRET (dark morph)           Egret sacra

Australia          (259)

60-70 cm, span 90 cm-1 m. Range around coastline of mainland Australia except in the Bight and Victoria. Found on coasts and islands, rocky shores, coral reefs, tidal rivers and inlets.