SWINHOE'S SNIPE

Photographed at Katherine, Northern Territory, January 2024

 

1335                       SWINHOE'S SNIPE                    Gallinago megala     

AUSTRALIA               811

Also known as Forest Snipe or Chinese Snipe. It breeds mainly in central and southern Siberia and Mongolia. The entire population migrates and spends the non-breeding season principally in eastern and southern India, Sri Lanka, south-eastern China, South-East Asia and New Guinea. It has been recorded on migration in eastern China and occasionally in Japan. Records in Australia are mainly from the Top End of the Northern Territory and from north-western Western Australia. Breeding habitat: forest glades and meadows. Non-breeding habitat: shallow freshwater wetlands of various kinds including paddy fields and sewage farms, with bare mud or shallow water for feeding, with nearby vegetation cover.

NORTHERN SHRIKETIT

 

Photographed near Katherine, Northern Territory, January 2024.

1334                      NORTERN SHRIKETIT                     Falcunculus whitei

AUSTRALIA                      810

 It is found in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia and the Top End of the Northern Territory. Endemic to Australia where they inhabit open eucalypt forest and woodland. One for three species of the genus Falcunculus.