WESTERN CORELLA

Photographed at Beverley, Western Australia, April 2015

  561            WESTERN CORELLA             Cacatua pastinator

 AUSTRALIA          (402)

Also known as Western Long-billed Corella. c. 47 cm. Found in wheat; sheep farming country, with remnant native forest; woodland, scrub, sand plain heath. Endemic to sw. WA, Albany-Boyup Brook region of far s. WA, ne. of Perth, between Northam and Dongara; Moora and Burkina in w. and e.

Note: The Western Corella occurs in the SW of WA. It consists of two geographically separated subspecies: Butler's Corella (Cacatua pastinator butleri) found in the northern wheat fields of SW WA; and Muir's Corella (Cacatua pastinator pastinator) in a small pocket around Lake Muir, in the far south. The Lake Muir population was down to 100 hundred birds but has recovered considerably. The northern birds are smaller than the southern birds.

Photographed near York, Western Australia April 2015

Butler's Corella, photographed at Beverley November 2016

 

Muir's Corella, photographed at Lake Muir, November 2016

WESTERN THORNBILL

Photographed in Dryandra Woodlands, Western Australia April 2015

560            WESTERN THORNBILL             Acanthiza inornata

Australia         (401)

This is the plainest of the hornbills. It is endemic to sw. WA: from c. Hill R. -Moora s. and e. to Stirling Ras. NP. Found in tall forests to open woodlands; coastal scrubs.

WESTERN GERYGONE

Photographed in Dryandra Woodlands, Western Australia April 2015

559          WESTERN GERYGONE        Gerygone fusca

Australia        (400)

10-11 cm. Found in drier open forests, woodlands; coastal, inland eucalypt, mulga, other acacia scrubs. Ranges in e., c. and w. Aust: e. to near coast between c. Rockhampton (Q) and Sydney (NSW); s. coast Vic; Eyre Pen. (SA); w. coast from Esperence-NW Cape (WA)

LITTLE EGRET

Photographed at Busselton, Western Australia, March 2015

558            LITTLE EGRET              Egretta garzetta

Australia        (399)

56-65 cm; wingspan c. 90 cm. Found in tidal mudflats, saltmarshes, mangroves, freshwater wetlands, sewerage ponds. Ranges across Tasmania and Victoria; NSW except nw. corner; Queensland except sw third; top half of NT. se. corner of SA, e. and n. WA.