BUFF-BREASTED PARADISE-KINGFISHER

Photographed at Kingfisher Park, Julatten April 2016

765      BUFF-BREASTED PARADISE-KINGFISHER           Tanysiptera sylvia

AUSTRALIA         (609)

Also known as White-tailed Kingfisher. Found in rainforests with open ground; scrubby mountain gullies; riverside vine scrub; well vegetated gardens. 29-35 cm, incl. tail. Range: summer breeding migrant (Oct.-Apl) to coastal ne Q from PNG, from Cape York s to Mt Spec, near Townsville; some overwinter. Locally common.

YELLOW CHAT

Subspecies macgregori, Photographed at Marmor, Queensland March 2016

 764          YELLOW CHAT             Epthianura crocea

AUSTRALIA         (608)

Found in bullrushes, pencil rush, sedges, swamp canegrass, lignum on seasonal wetlands, artesian bore dams, saltbush, bluebush on plains. 10-11.5 cm. Range: from Roebuck Plains (WA) - Barkly Tablelands (NT) - Gulf lowlands (Q) - e. to c. hughenden (Q); Pocket of sub-species at Marmor (Q). Rare, sedentary, nomadic.

Note: There are currently three subspecies of Yellow Chat recognised in Australia: (1) Epithianura crocea crocea, found in Kimberley to the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Lake Eyre Basin; (2) Epithianura crocea tunneyi: restricted to small area in floodplains from Adelaide River to East Alligator River; (3) Epthianura crocea macgregori: Also known as the Capricorn yellow chat, occurs in coastal region of central Queensland (Considered critically endangered).

Subspecies crocea photographed on Roebuck Plains, WA, September 2016

TAHITI PETREL

Photographed on pelagic trip off Mooloolaba, Queensland march 2016

763        TAHITI PETREL           Pseudobulweria rostrata

AUSTRALIA         (609)

Breeds in New Caledonia, Society and Marquesas Islands; wide pelagic dispersal across pacific from Japanese waters to sw N. America. Offshore sight records from Gt Barrier Reef to Sydney. 39 cm, wingspan c. 95 cm. Regular visitor, uncommon.