HALL'S BABBLER

404          HALL'S BABBLER                Pomatostomus superciliosos

Australia          (278)

23-25 cm. Found in tall mulga and other acacia scrubs, cypress pine, open eucalypt woodlands, spinifex areas. Range western Queensland and north-western NSW. Not identified until 1960s.

RED-BACKED KINGFISHER

Photographed north of Cooktown, Queensland

403        RED-BACKED KINGFISHER               Todiramphus pyrrhopygia

Australia          (277)

20-24 cm. Found in sparse inland, woodlands, scrubland, often far from water, gibber, spinifex, tree lined dry-watercourses and grassy tropical woodlands. Range most of Australian mainland excepts WA, southern half Victoria, and around ne NSW.

LATHAM'S SNIPE

Photographed near Geelong, Victoria, November 2014.

402        LATHAM'S SNIPE           Gallinago hardwickii

Australia              (276)

Also known as Australian or Japanese Snipe. 28-31 cm, bill 7.5 cm. Breeds in Japan and migrates to Australia for the summer, range in Australia from Perth up w coast and across the n. to the Gulf, from Cape York down e coast and across to Eyre Peninsular and some distance inland, all of Tasmania. Found on soft wet ground or shallow water with tussocks, wet parts of paddocks, seepage below dams, irrigated areas, sultans, bogs and mangrove fringes.