HIMALAYAN BUZZARD

 

1310                 HIMALAYAN BUZZARD                    Buteo burmanicus

NEPAL.             150

Fairly common winter visitor or passage migrant; some may over-winter. Mountain or open country. Rather sluggish, pounces on prey by dropping from vantage point or soaring over open country.

LESSER YELLOWLEGS

Photographed at Ash Island, NSW, September 2020

1309                            LESSER YELLOWLEGS                      Tringa flavipes

AUSTRALIA                        794 

Shorebird, breeds in clearings near ponds in the boreal forest region from Alaska to Quebec. Usually migrate from North America to South America; regular vagrant to UK; Rare vagrant to Australia with records in NSW, and unconfirmed from other states. Forages in shallow water; eats mainly insects, small fish and crustaceans.

ARAFURA SHRIKE-THRUSH

Photographed at Kakadu, North Territory, May 2016.

1308                  ARAFURA SHRIKE-THRUSH                Colluricincla megarhyncha

AUSTRALIAN                    793          

Formerly considered a conspecific member of Little Shrike-thrush complex but genetic investigations found it a separate species, and with three subspecies: megarhyncha (found on Salawati, Misool and Are Islands and New Guinea; parvula (found in nw WA and NT); and aruensis (Trans-Fly region of New Guinea). Natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Darwin, 2024

LITTLE-RINGED PLOVER

Photographed at Wunjunga Wetlands, Queensland, March 2020

(*900)                  LITTLE-RINGED PLOVER                 Charadrius dubius

AUSTRALIA                  792

Breeding habitat is open gravel areas near. freshwater across the Paleartic, including northwestern Africa. Migratoryand winter inn Africa. Forage for food on muddy areas; eat insects and worms. Three subspecies: C. d. curonicus from Eurasia, Russian Fareast, Japan, Korea, China to North Africa. Winter spends in Sahara, Sri Lanka, to Indonesia and China; C. d. jerdoni from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan to South East Asia; C. d. dubius  from the Philippines, New Guinea to Bismarck Archipelago.

GURNEY'S EAGLE

Photographed above Saibai Island, Torres Straits, March 2020.

1307                      GURNEY’S EAGLE                     Aquila gurneyi

AUSTRALIAN BIRDS                 791

Uncommon to rare resident in NG but widely distributed, forrest eagle. Endemic to NG and Moluccas, vagrant to Torres Straits. Reputedly preys on arboreal mammals such as possums. Not well know information on this birds, seems prevalent near coast.

LONG-TAILED BUZZARD

Photographed above Saibai Island, Torres Straits, March 2020.

1306                  LONG-TAILED BUZZARD                  Henicopernis longicauda

AUSTRALIAN BIRDS                790

Also known as Long-tailed Honey-buzzard. Singly or in pairs soars over Forrests, circling and patrolling open corridors beneath canopy; feeds mainly on insects, lizards, and bird’s eggs. Endemic to NG, uncommon resident.