PAPERBARK FLYCATCHER

Photographed at Broome Bird Observatory, Western Australia, May 2015

590          PAPERBARK FLYCATCHER            Myiagra nana

Australia           (433)

Also known as the Little Restless Flycatcher. Found in tropical woodland and riverine habitats of northern woodland habitat of n. Australia and s. New Guinea: found from Kimberley Region of WA, across Top End of NT, to Gulf Country and sw Q.; Saibai Island in Torres Strait. Was regarded as a subspecies of Restless Flycatcher. 

GREAT BOWERBIRD

Photographed at Broome Bird Observatory, Western Australia, May 2015

589          GREAT BOWERBIRD               Chlamydera nuchalis

Australia          (432)

34-38 cm. Found in drier woodlands, shrubs/thickets; near water, outer urban areas, parks, gardens. Range from c. Broome (WA) through Kimberley, Top End (NT) s. to about Elliott; Gulf Coast s. to Nicholson, O'Shannassy, upper Flinders Rs; occasional s. to Mt Isa (Q); C. York Pen., coastal to near Mackay.

AUSTRALIAN PRANTINCOLE

Photographed 40 kms south of Broome, Western Australia, May 2015

588            AUSTRALIAN PRATINCOLE             Stiltia isabella

Australia        (431)

22-24 cm, wingspan 50-60 cm. Found in the vicinity of water on inland plains to coastal floodplains; stony ground with sparse low shrubs; bare margins of swamps; stock-tanks, stock routes, airfields. Range: n. and inland e. Aust, from c. Eighty Mile Beach (WA) to Rockhampton (Q), s. to coastal SA;casual in inland WA and Nullarbor Plain. Breeds mostly s. of Tropic, migrates n. in autumn-winter to n. Aust. ; Torres Strait, PNG, Indonesia, Borneo.

RED-BROWED PARDALOTE

Photographed at DeGray River Bridge, Western Australia, May 2015

587         RED-BROWED PARDALOTE              Pardalotus rubricatus

Australia           (430)

11-12 cm. Found in drier eucalypt woodlands, scrublands; tall mulga and other acacias; gums on watercourses. Range: found coastal n. and inland Aust., except Top End (NT); s. on e. coast to c. Rockhampton (Q); s. inland to Mitchell (Q); nw. NSW s., and e, to Brewarrina-Hilelston-Broken Hill; n. to Flinders Ras., -Gawler Ras, Gt Victoria Desert; in WA, to w. coast from Gascotne R., n. to Kimberley region.

Red-browed Pardalote emerging from its nesting hole, taken at Bowra Station, Queensland September 2015

BLACK-EARED CUCKOO

Photographed at Degray River Bridge, Western Australia, May 2015

586         BLACK-EARED CUCKOO             Chrysococcyx osculans

Australia            (429)

19-21 cm. Found in drier woodlands, scrublands,: mallee, mulga, lignum, saltmarsh, riverside thickets. Range: inland, drier coastal Aust. Breeding migrant to subcoastal s. Aust. Not e. coast, Vict. coast or Tasmania.

DUSTY GERYGONE

Photographed at Carnarvon, Western Australia April 2015; Note: same photograph just cropped.

585          DUSKY GERYGONE           Gerygone tenebrosa

Australia          (428)

The largest of the Gerygones, 11-13 cm. Found in mangroves, nearby swampland, creased mangrove. Range: coastal nw. WA, from nw Kimberley to Shark Bay, except where mangroves absent. 

PIED HONEYEATER

Photographed at Carnarvon, Western Australia April 2015

584         PIED HONEYEATER            Certhionyx variegatus

Australia          (427)

15-18 cm. Found in arid scrubland, mulga, mallee-spinifex, flowering shrubs/trees, eucalyptus woodlands. Range: arid interior, e. to c. Q-NSW c. Port Headland-Geraldton (WA); s. to Nullarbor Plain-Murray mallee (SA). Highly nomadic.

STAR FINCH

Photographed at Carnarvon, Western Australia April 2015

583         STAR FINCH          Neochmia ruficauda  

Australia        (426)

Also known as Red-tailed, Rufous-tailed and Red-faced Finch or Firetail. This is the sub-species subclarescens found from c. Shark Bay-Ashburton R. (WA), to w. Top End(NT), s. to Katherine; e. on Gulf Coast to s. York Pen. n. to C. Staaten R. Nominate race has beed decimated by trapping and decimation of habitat but was widespread from s. Cape York Pen., (Q) to inland ne NSW. 10-12 cm. Found near water; grassy flats with bushes, low trees; reeds, rushes,;irrigated crops, sugar cane. 

NOTE:        3 subspecies in Australia

subclarescens:        

ruficauda:           

clarescens:                

PAINTED FINCH

Photographed at Bush Beach, Western Australia April 2015

582         PAINTED FINCH          Emblema pictum

Australia           (425)

Found in spinifex rocky hills over permanent water, plains; acacia scrubs; citrus orchards. Range is patchy through arid inland and w. coast Australia: e. to Winton-Opalton (Q); n. to Mt Isa-Nicholson R.-Alexandria-Wave Hill (NT); w. to s. Kimberley-Pilbara (WA), to w. coast c. Eighty MileBeach-Carnarvon; s. inland to upper Murchison R.-Menzies; in SA, s. to c. Oodnadatta-n. Flinders Ras.-L. Frome. Nomadic.

MANGROVE GREY FANTAIL

Photographed at New Beach, Western Australia April 2015

581              MANGROVE GREY FANTAIL            Rhipidura phasiana

Australia        (424)          

14.5-16 cm. Resident in n. coastal mangroves from Shark Bay (WA) to Norman R., (Q).