RED-CHEEKED PARROT

Photographed in Iron Ranges, Queensland October 2015

688         RED-CHEEKED PARROT          Geoffroyus geoffroyi

Australia      (530)

20-25 cm. Found in rainforests, scrubs; nearby eucalypt woodlands. Range: e. Cape York Pen (Q), from Pascoe R s. to Rocky R. Locally common; sedentary.

LITTLE BRONZE-CUCKOO

Photographed at Coen, Queensland October 2015

687     LITTLE BRONZE CUCKOO         Chrysococcyx minutillus

Australia    (529)

Found in drier, open forests and woodlands; monsoon forest, paperbarks, gardens. 14-15 cm. Range: nominate race: Kimberley (WA)-Top End (NT). Race: bernardi: from c. Byfield (Q) to c. Kempsey (NSW), inland to Tenterfield. Some migrate in autumn to Cape York Pen.

YELLOW-BILLED KINGFISHER

Photographed at Iron Range, Queensland October 2015

686      YELLOW-BILLED KINGFISHER            Syma torotoro

Australia       (528)

Found in lower levels, margins of tropical forests; scrubs on watercourses; adjacent eucalypt woodlands. Range: in Aust confined to n. Cape York Pen. (Q), s to Aurukun on w. coast, Princess Charlotte Bay on e. coast. Common, Sedentary. 18-21 cm.

FRILLED MONARCH

Photographed at Iron Range, Queensland October 2015

685          FRILlED MONARCH            Arses telescophthalmus

Australia          (527)

Found in rainforest, chiefly in middle spaces/lower canopy. Range: confined to n. Cape York Pen.(Q): s. to McIwraith Ra. on e. coast and to Archer R. on w. coast. Fairly common, sedentary. 

GREATER SAND PLOVER

Photographed on Chilli Beach, Queensland October 2015

684          GREATER SAND PLOVER          aradrius leschenaultii 

Australia          (526)

Also known as Large Sand Dotterell or Large Sand Plover. 20-25 cm, wingspan 53-60 cm. Found on wide, sandy or shelly beaches; sandpits, tidal mudflats, reefs, sand-cays, mangroves, salt marsh, dune wilderness, bare paddocks, seldom far inland. Range: breeds (in three races) from Turkey to s. Siberia; regular summer migrant to Aust., Tas., commonest in nw WA, where fpcks of thousands.