GANG-GANG COCKATOO

Photographed at Airey Inlet, Victoria February 2015

500        GANG-GANG COCKATOO            Callocephalon fimbriatum

Australia         (341)

33-36 cm. Found in wetter forrests and woodlands, from sea-level to over 2000 m on Divide; timbered foothills and valleys; timbered watercourses, coastal scrubs, farmlands, suburban gardens. Range se. mainland Australia, from mid n. coast, Hunter Region and c. Tablelands (NSW) s. to w. Vict. ; inland to Merriwa-Bathurst-Wagga (NSW) e. and c. Vict. and adjacent se. SA.

PECTORAL SANDPIPER

Photographed at Werribee Wetlands, Victoria February 2015

499          PECTORAL SANDPIPER           Calidris melanotos

Australia           (340)

19-23 cm. Breeds ne. Siberia and American Arctic: most migrate to S. America, but some to Japan, Pacific Islands, PNG, NZ and Aust., mostly to se mainland from Adelaide to Brisbane, Tasmania, sw WA up near Shark Bay, top of WA across to Darwin, around Cooktown (Q). Found in shallow freshwater, often with low grass or other herbage, swamp margins, flooded pastures, sewerage ponds, occasionally taidal areas and salt marshes.

LONG-TOED STINT

Photographed at Werribee Wetlands, Victoria, February 2015

498          LONG-TOED STINT            Calidris subminuta

Australia         (339)

13-15 cm. breeds in Siberia to far N. Pacic: migrates to s. and se. Asia; PNG; Regular but uncommon visitor to inland and coastal Aust.; range is coastal WA, except south from about Esperance; most of NT except sw corner; w. half of Q; most of SA except w.; most NSW except ne. corner; and a;ll Victoria. Found tussocky, weedy margins of shallow wetlands, coastal and inland, sewerage ponds, weed on tidelines, tidal mudflats.

WHITE-EARED HONEYEATER

497          WHITE-EARED HONEYEATER             Lichenostomus leucotis

Australia          (338)

20-22 cm. Found in wet forests, woodlands, bracken, vegetation streams, coastal heathlands/scrubs; in inland: mallee, brigalow, bear; in s. WA salmon-gum woodlands, tea-tree thickets around salt lakes. Range: in suitable habitat from Hughenden-Charters Towers (Q), inland to Blackall-Carnarvon Ras NP; e. NSW to Pilliga Scrub, c. and sw mallee areas; all Vict.; s. SA and Kangaroo Island; s. WA n. to Murchison R. except wetter sw.

Three subspecies:

thomasi:                  found on Kangaroo Island

leucotis:                   eastern NSW; s and e Vic; 

novaenorciae:          sw WA; s SA; n Vic; central NSW to stand ne; se Q.

Subspecies novaenorciae, near Whyalla, SA, September 2018

BLUE-WINGED PARROT

Photographed at Airey Inlet, Victoria, February 2015

496         BLUE-WINGED PARROT            Neophema chrysostoma

Australia          (337)

20 -23 cm. Found in open woodlands, coastal scrubs, dune, salt marsh vegetation, mallee, mulga, salt-bush, wetlands-edges, alpine meadows, airfields, saltfields, golf courses, paddocks, crops, orchards. Range: breeds e., n. Tasmania; s. Victoria, n. to Grampians NP, and in se. SA; migrates March-April to inland NSW, sw Q. and e. SA to Eyre Pen., returning Aug-Oct.

LITTLE LORIKEET

Photographed Airey Inlet, February 2015

495           LITTLE LORIKEET             Glossopsitta pusilla

Australia          (336)

Found in forests, woodlands, large trees in open country, timbered watercourses, shelter belts, street trees. Range coastal e. Australia mainland from c. Cooktown (Q) to se. SA; inland to Carnarvon Ra. NP (Q), Warrumbungles NP-West Wylong-Deneliquin (NSW), most Vic., except nw, to Mount Lofty Ranges-Adelaide Plains-Yorke (SA). 15-6.5 cm.

RUFOUS BRISTLEBIRD

Photographed Airey's Inlet, Victoria, February 2015

494          RUFOUS BRISTLEBIRD                Dasyornis broadbenti

Australia            (335)

This is the largest of the Bristlebirds, 24-27 cm. Found in coastal scrubs and tickets, gullies with rank growth of sword grass, blackberries, etc, undergrowth in gullies and temperate forests. Range from mouth of Murray River e. along to Ironbark Basin near Torquay (Vic); and possible pocket WA near C. naturalist to C. Leeuwin but possibly extinct.