GREY CURRAWONG

Photographed at Bridport, Tasmania, January 2015

483         GREY CURRAWONG          Strepera versicolor

Australia     (324)

also known as Black-winged, Brown or Clinking Currawong, or Squeaker. Range Tasmania, across the southern quarter of the mainland, and an area around the junction of NT, SA, WA. Found forest/woodlands, mallee, coastal scrubs, heaths, roadside timber, orchards, suburban areas.

STRONG-BILLED HONEYEATER

Photographed near Ben Lommond National Park, Tasmania, January 2015

482         STRONG-BILLED HONEYEATER           Melithreptus validirostris

Australia       (323)

Also known as Barkbird, Blackcap, and Black-capped Honeyeater. 15-17 cm. Endemic to Tasmania. Found in forests to coastal scrubs with heavy undergrowth.

YELLOW-THROATED HONEYEATER

Photographed near Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, January 2015

481        YELLOW-THROATED HONEYEATER             Lichenostomus flavicollis

Australia          (322)

Endemic to Tasmania. 20 cm. Found in forests, woodlands, except rainforests,; coastal scrub and heaths; golf courses, orchards, parks, gardens.

CRESCENT HONEYEATER

Photographed on Sarah Island, Tasmania, January 2015

480       CRESCENT HONEYEATER               Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera

Australia          (321)

15-16 cm. Range: Tasmania, around Adelaide, and coastal se Australia from Barrington Tops (NSW) to Mt Lofty (SA). Found in alpine woodlands, wetter eucalypt forest/woodlands; understory on creeks, gullies; coastal scrubs, tall heaths, mallee, orchards, gardens.

BLACK CURRAWONG

Photographed on Sarah Island, Tasmania, January 2015.

479       BLACK CURRAWONG             Strepera fulginosa

Australia           (320)

Endemic to Tasmania, found across the island and on King King and Flinders Island. Found in mountains/lowland forest/woodlands, high moors, coastal heaths, grazing country, orchards, suburban areas. 47-49 cm.

TASMANIAN THORNBILL

Photographed in the car park at Port Arthur, January 2015

478        TASMANIAN THORNBILL               Acanthiza ewingii

Australia            (319)

Endemic to Tasmania. Ranges all over Tasmania, and coastal islands, King Island, Furneaux Group. Found in forests, woodlands, scrubs. 10 cm.

FOREST RAVEN

Photographed near Queenstown, Tasmania, January 2015. 

477           FOREST RAVEN               Corvus tasmanicus

Australia       (318)

Also known as Tasmanian raven, only corvid in Tasmania proper. Ranges across Tasmania, southern Victoria and in NSW from Glen Innes, Barrington Tops, Coff Harbour to Port Stephens. Habitat from alpine forests, high moors to wet eucalyptus forests, woodlands, coastal scrubs, beaches, orchards, pine plantation, open country and urban environs. 52-54 cm.

BLACK-HEADED HONEYEATER

476         BLACK-HEADED HONEYEATER              Melithreptus affinis

Australia          (317)

Also known as Black-cap. Endemic to Tasmnia. 12.5-14.5 cm. Endemic to Tasmania; King Is.,and Furneaux Group; in T. range is n. and e. Found in drier eucalypt forests, woodlands, coastal heaths, orchards and gardens.

YELLOW WATTLEBIRD

Photographed in Scotsdale, Tasmania, January 2015

475         YELLOW WATTLEBIRD            Anthochaera paradoxa

Australia          (316)

Largest honeyeater, 37-45 cm. Endemic to Tasmania, rarely found in w. Found in mountain shrubberies, sub-alpine forests to lowland forests; open woodlands; coastal scrubs, especially with banksia, golf courses, gardens, orchards, parks.

BLACK-FACED CORMORANT

Photographed at Low Head, Tasmania, January, 2015

474         BLACK-FACED CORMORANT                 Phalacrocorax fuscescens

Australia           (315)

Also known as Black-faced Shag or White-breasted Cormorant. Range along coast of Tasmania and southern Australia from just above Eden (NSW) to C. Leeuwin (WA). Found in coastal waters, islands, larger bays, deep inlets, ashore mostly on rock stacks or remote rocky headlands, seldom on beaches.

TASMANIAN NATIVE-HEN

Photographed at Deloraine, Tasmania, January 2015

473           TASMANIAN NATIVE-HEN             Gallinula mortierii            

Australia            (314)

Also known as Narkie. 43-50 cm. Endemic to Tasmania, absent from the w. and sw. Found in farmlands with short grass, tussocks; edges of wetlands, streams, lakes; margins of woodlands; roadsides.

BURNT-NECKED EREMOMELA

472          BURNT-NECKED EREMOMELA              Eremomela usticollis

South Africa          (124)

Range across ne third of Southern Africa. 10 cm. Found in acacia savanna; subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savannah and subtropical or tropical dry scrubland.

SPOTTED HARRIER

Photographed in southern NSW

471       SPOTTED HARRIER             Circus assimilis

Australia             (313)

Also called Smoke Hawk. 50-61 cm; wingspan to 1.2 m. range all over mainland Australia. Found on grassy plains, crops and stubble fields, bluebush, saltbush, spinifex associations, scrublands, mallee, heathlands, open grassy woodlands.

Photographed at Werribee, February 2015