SATIN FLYCATCHER

218        SATIN FLYCATCHER           Myiagra cyanoleuca

Australia         (218)

Range down e. coast and highlands and in Tasmania. Found in heavily vegetated gullies in forests,woodlands, coastal forests and woodlands, open country. 15-17 cm.

DUSKY MOORHEN

217     DUSKY MOORHEN              Gallinula tenebrosa

Australia         (217)

Also known as Waterhen. 35-40 cm. Range sw WA, Tasmania and e. third of mainland except Cape York. Found in well-vegetated wetlands, town lakes, parks, farm dams, irrigation storage, drains, rivers, wetlands and mangroves.

CATTLE EGRET

216              CATTLE EGRET         Ardea ibis

Australia          (216)

48-53 cm, span c. 90 cm.  Range from the Kimberley to coastal se. and around to Adelaide, also in sw WA and Tasmania. Originally came to NT from Indonesia in 1940s. Found in stock paddocks, pastures, croplands, wetlands, tips and drain ways.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

INTERMEDIATE EGRET

215            INTERMEDIATE EGRET               Ardea intermedia

Australia         (215)

Also known as Plumed Egret. 56-70 cm. Range across northern third of mainland and e. half of mainland and in Tasmania. Found in freshwater wetlands, pastures and crop land, idal mudflats and floodplains.

Note: two different subspecies. If split bird from Cocos Island is nominate species. Bird from Australia will become Plumed Egret.   NOTE: now split by IOC 23 September 2023. Bird below is now a separate species. 

Photographed on Cocos Island, January 2023

GREAT EGRET

214      GREAT EGRET       Ardea alba

Australia     (214)

Also known as Large or White Egret, or Whit Crane. 76 cm -1 m, span c. 1.5 m. Ranges all over Australia except driest e. WA, nw SA and sw NT. Found in shallow riverbeds, estuaries, tidal mudflats, wetlands, sewerage ponds and irrigation areas.

OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE

Photographed at Gold creek reservoir, near Brisbane, August 201

213            OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE            Oriolus sagittatus

Australia         (213)

Range from Kimberley across the top of Australia and down e. coast to tip of SA, ranges inland to cover most of Q, NSW and Vic., small pocket around Adelaide. Found in rain forests, eucalyptus forests and woodlands, timber on watercourses, mallee and gardens. 26-28 cm

RED-NECKED STINT

212    RED-NECKED STINT              Calidris ruficollis

Australia            (212)

13-16 cm. Ranges over most of Australia except driest central WA, s. of NT and n. of SA. It breeds in the Arctic, Siberia and n. Alaska. Found on tidal mudflats, salt marshes, beaches, wetlands and sewerage ponds.

GREEN CATBIRD

Photographed at Mount Glorious, Queensland, August, 2014.

211            GREEN CATBIRD          Ailuroedus crassirostris

Australia       (211)

24-32 cm. Often heard in rainforests, making the noise of a cat or a baby crying. ranges down the e. coast and Great Divide from s. of Gladstone, Queensland to s. of Narooma, NSW. Found in mountain and lowland rain forests, densely forested gullies, paperbark and other watercourses.

WESTERN RINGNECK

210        WESTERN RINGNECK            Barnardius zonarius

Australia       (210)

Also known as Port Lincoln Parrot, Port Lincoln Ringneck or Twenty-Eight Parrot. 34-37 cm. Found in forests, woodlands, red-river gums, mallee, mulga, farmland and gardens. Range southern half of WA, central and south NT, and western two-thirds of SA.

Next three photographs taken at Lincoln National Park, South Australia March 2015

MUSK LORIKEET

Photographed near Manly, Queensland, August 2014

209      MUSK LORIKEET           Glossopsitta concinna

Australia         (209)

20-23 cm. Found in eucalyptus woodlands, drier forests on foothills, plains, roadside timbers, timbered watercourses, and bush dams. Ranges along coast to a distance inland from above Brisbane to near Adelaide.

BAR-TAILED GODWIT

Photographed near Manly, Queensland, August 2014. Birds in non-breeding plumage.

208       BAR-TAILED GODWIT          Limosa lapponica

Australia         (208)

38-46 cm, female larger. Found on tidal mudflats, estuaries, shallow river margins, and flooded pastures. Range on mainland Australia except in driest e. of WA, ranges around coast of Tasmania. The god wit breeds in ne. Siberia and nw. Alaska and migrates to Indonesia and Australia, will sometimes winter here.

Photographed near Manly, Queensland, August 2014. 

Photography NSW Central Coast, October, 2014

Photography NSW Central Coast, October, 2014

Photography NSW Central Coast, October, 2014

Photographed near Barwon Heads, Victoria

EASTERN OSPREY

Photographed at Palm Beach, Queensland, July 2014

207      EASTERN OSPREY          Pandion haliaetus

Australia       (207)

Also known as Fish Hawk. 50-65 cm, span to 1.7 m, female larger. Range all around coast of mainland except from Adelaide to NSW border. Found on coast, estuaries, bays and inlets, does venture inland.

NOTE: There were four recognised sub-species of Osprey around the world. This Australian sub-species, cristatus, has now been classified as its own species, Eastern Osprey (2016)

This and photograph below photographed at Lincoln National Park, South Australia March 2015

BRAHMINY KITE

Photographed at Palm Beach, Queensland, July 2014

206      BRAHMINY KITE        Haliastur indus         

Australia       (206)

Also known as Red-backed Kite. 43-51 cm, span 1.2 m, female larger. Found around the coast from Carnarvon (WA) across the top and down to Newcastle (NSW). Found beaches, estuaries, tidal sand flats, mangroves, rivers and towns.

DUSKY HONEYEATER

205          DUSKY HONEYEATER           Myzomela obscura

Australia    (205)

12-15 cm. Range range along e. coast from Cape York to NSW border, also across the top end of NT. Found in vine scrubs, rain forests, watercourses, eucalyptus woodlands, paperbarks.

Photographed at Crystal Creek Caravan Park, North Queensland, September 2015

Photographed at Crystal Creek Caravan Park, North Queensland, September 2015

Photographed at Crystal Creek Caravan Park, North Queensland, September 2015