MANGROVE ROBIN

Photographed at Cygnet Bat Pearl, trip to Waterfall Reef, Western Australia, June 2015

629             MANGROVE ROBIN                Eopsaltria pulverulenta   

Australia        (472)

14.5-16.5 cm. Found in dense, low thickets of coastal mangroves; on coasts, tidal creeks, river mouths. Range: coastal tropical Aust. from c. NW Cape (WA) to c. Proserpine (Q), with breaks where mangroves absent; points on Gulf coast (Q). Locally common.

BROWN BOOBY

Photographed at Cygnet Bat Pearl, trip to Waterfall Reef, Western Australia, June 2015

628             BROWN BOOBY                Sula leucogaster

Australia          (471)

65-76 cm, span 1.4 cm. breeds all year round but with autumn and spring peaks. Common in nw WA, breeds from Ashmore Reef (n. Indian Ocean) s. to Bedout I.; in Q, from Raine I., off ne Cape York Pen. to Bunker Group, s. Gt Barrier Reef. Common offshore s. to Moreton Bay (Q) and dampier Arch. (WA); uncommon on NSW coast.

EASTERN REEF EGRET (white morph)

Photographed at Cygnet Bat Pearl, trip to Waterfall Reef, Western Australia, June 2015

627        EASTERN REEF EGRET (white morph)           Egret sacra

Australia          (470)

Also known as Eastern Reef Heron. 60-70 cm, span 90 cm-1 m. Range around coastline of mainland Australia except in the Bight and Victoria. Found on coasts and islands, rocky shores, coral reefs, tidal rivers and inlets.

BARKING OWL

Photographed in Broome. Western Australia, June 2015

626         BARKING OWL              Ninox connivens

Australia        (469)

35-45 cm. Found in open forests, woodlands, dense scrubs, foothills, river red gums, other large trees near watercourses penetrating otherwise open country, paperbark woodlands. Rage: mainland Australia and some n. coastal islands; rare or absent from arid, treeless or heavily forested regions. 

GROUND CUCKOO-SHRIKE

Photographed on the Killarney Gap Road, 25 kilometres from Bingara, NSW, June 2015

625         GROUND CUCKOO-SHRIKE          Coracina maxima

Australia          (468)

33-36 cm. Fornd in open grasslands with dead trees and belts of live trees; timber on watercourses; malle-spinifex; mulga and other acacias; cypress pine scrubs; playpens, pasture, vineyards. Range: widespread across mainland, mostly inland of Gt Divide, but to near e. coast in lower Hunter Valley (NSW) and from near Brisbane to near Townsville (Q); sparse or absent from C. York Pen (Q) n. of Georgetown-Cunjuvoy; Top End  (NT); n Kimberley (WA); driest deserts and arid coastal areas; Nullarbor Plain and wetter forested areas in se. Just. and sw. WA. Uncommon, nomadic.

Photographed at Barrow Creek, Northern Territory May 2016

VARIED TRILLER

Photographed in Albert Bishop Park, Nundah, Brisbane, Queensland, June 2015

624         VARIED TRILLER              Lalage leucomela

Australia           (467)

17.5 cm. Found in rainforests, monsoon/vine forests, eucalypt forests/woodlands, paperbarks, watercourses, lantana, gardens. Range: from n. Kimberley (WA) to Top End (NT); C. York Pen. (Q) to ne. NSW, casual s. to Kuringai Chase NP; mostly below 850 m.

WESTERN WHISTLER

Photographed in Dryandra State Forest, Western Australia, May 2015

623        WESTERN WHISTLER               Pachycephala occidentalis 

Australia               (466)

Formerly subspecies of Golden Whistler. Range: sw WA anywhere south of a line from Shark Bay to Cocklebiddy with a few east of the WA/SA border. Usually found in wetter forested areas with a thicker understory; also in coastal vegetation, especially if cover from peppermint trees; well-wooded reserves in wheat belt; also Rottnest Island.

This is what they call an 'armchair tick'. In when you have photographed birds all over the place and they then make one of the sub-species into a full species....so you add another tick to your list because you have already seen it, or in my case photographed it. The Western Whistler was considered a subspecies of the Australian Golden Whistler but recent DNA tests have made it a full species.

Photographed in Dryandra State Forest, Western Australia, May 2015

Photographed at Cheynne's Beach, Western Australia, May 2015

Photographed at Cheynne's Beach, Western Australia, May 2015

RED-BROWED TREECREEPER

Photographed at Girraween National Park, Queensland, June 2015

622           RED-BROWED TREECREEPER              Climacteris erythrops

Australia          (465)

13.5-16 cm. Habitat: limbs, loose bark of trunks, upper branches in tall eucalyptus forests, mainly in hilly and mountainous country and where these emerge into deep rain forested gullies, to sea-level. Range: se. Aust., from se. Q Tewantin s. through forested highlands and coastal NSW, e. and n. of Melbourne, w. to Wombat State Forest, but not Otways.

SPOTTED QUAIL-THRUSH

Photographed at Girraween National Park, Queensland, June 2015

621           SPOTTED QUAIL-THRUSH            Cinclosoma punctatum

Australia        (464)

25-28 cm. Found in drier forests/woodlands/scrubs with leaf-litter, branches, rocks, tussocks, on sunny side of dry ridges. Range: se Aust., from s. of Rockhampton (Q) to e. Tas, and se. SA;inland to Carnarvon Ra. NP (Q); Mt Kaputar-Warrumbungle NPs-Grenfell (NSW); inland to ne. Vic., w. to Grampians NP; also Fleurieu Pen.-s. Mt Lofty Ras. (SA).