RED-WINGED FAIRY-WREN

Photographed at Cheyne Beach March 2015

557         RED-WINGED FAIRY-WREN             Malurus elegans

Australia         (398)

Also known as Marsh Wren. Found in thick club and swamp vegetation, often with sword-grass and tea-tree, on margins of streams, freshwater swamps; swamp-woodlands; understory in jarrah-karri forest; moist gullies ranges; nearby eucalypt woodlands; coastal dune vegetation; well-vegetated gardens, orchards. 14-16 cm.

COLLARED SPARROWHAWK

Juvenile Collared Sparrowhawk, photographed at Cheyne Beach March 2015

556         COLLARED SPARROWHAWK               Accipter cirrhocephalus

Australia      (397)

Range all over Australia, including Tasmania, widespread, uncommon but may be seldom recognised as similar to Brown Goshawk. Found in forests, woodlands, river margins, inland scrubs, timbered gorges, farmlands, shelter belts, leafy suburban gardens. 30-40 cm, wingspan 76 cm.