CHIRRUPING WEDGEBILL

Photographed on bush road to Chinaman's Creek, South Australia March 2015

536         CHIRRUPING WEDGEBILL           Psophodes cristatus

Australia        (377)

19-21 cm. found in arid country with low saltbush, bluebush, emu bush; acacia scrubs; ignum-canegrass on watercourses. range inland e. Aust. from near Port Augusta (SA) n. to c. Oodnadatta, w. of L. eyre, to SimpsonDesert in ne. SA-ese. NT; e. throughs. Flinders Ras. (SA), occasionally far nw Vic., widespread NSW w. of Darling R.; in Q. e. to Cunnamulla, n. to Charleville-lower Diamantia R.

ROCK PARROT

Photographed in Innes National Park, South Australia March 2015

535       ROCK PARROT           Neophema Petrofina

Australia        (376)

21-23 cm. Found on granite, limestone islands; coastal dunes, scrubs, grasslands, swamps, wastelands, golf courses; coastal railyards for grain. Range coasts, islands of s. Aust., from Coorong (SA) to Shark Bay (WA).

Next three photographs taken at Lincoln National Park, South Australia March 2015