RACKET-TAILED TREEPIE

Photographed at Dong Nai Nature Reserve, Vietnam, May 2024.

 1342                    RACKET-TAILED TREEPIE                   Crypsirina temia

VIETNAM                   5

The racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) is an Asian treepie, a member of the crow family, Corvidae. This bird occurs in southern Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Indo-China, Sumatra, Java and Bali in scrub and secondary growth, open fields and gardens, bamboo thickets and open forest often near villages. It almost always feeds in trees (arboreal) never feeding from the ground though coming down to bathe on occasion. It moves through the trees with great agility and uses its remarkable tail as a balancing organ. It eats mainly insects and fruit.

 

YELLOW BITTERN

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

 ( *866)              YELLOW BITTERN                    Ixobrychus sinensis  

CAMBODIA                   5        

Found in mangroves, freshwater marshes and wet grassland, including small stands of reeds in parkland. 37 cm. Breeds in N Indian sub-continent and much of E Asia to as far north as Russian Far East and Southeast Asia, east to Philippines.

WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE

Photographed at Royal National Park, Sydney

5.  WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE     Haliaeetus leucogaster

Australia (5)

Also known as the White-breasted Sea-eagle. It is 70-90cms with a wing span of about 2 metres. Generally the female is the larger bird. Found around lakes, ocean, river and large bodies of water. Distributed right around the coast of Australia for a distance inland; also found in India, SE Asia, PNG and Solomon Islands.

Photographed at King Billy's Landing on Cape York.

Photographed at Forbes, June 2014

Juvenile, photographed Lincoln National Park, South Australia March 2015

Darwin, January 2024