Friday, March 22, 2013

Yet another flashback...............birdlife


Seventy-three (73) bird species have been recorded :

Note : members of Birdlife Australia - Mornington Peninsula branch
(nee PENBOC) confirmed sixty-two (62) bird species during two (2) field days held in May 2010 and December 2011.

  • Australasian Grebe
  • Australian (Nankeen) Kestrel
  • Australian Magpie-lark
  • Australian Raven
  • Australian Shell Duck
  • Australian White Ibis
  • Barking Owl
  • Black Shouldered Kite
  • Black-Faced Cuckoo-Shrike
  • Brown Falcon
  • Brown Goshawk
  • Brown Thornbill
  • Buff Banded Rail
  • Cattle Egret
  • Chestnut Teal
  • Collared Sparrowhawk
  • Crescent Honeyeater
  • Crested Pigeon
  • Crimson Rosella
  • Eastern Rosella
  • Eastern Spinebill
  • Eastern Yellow Robin
  • Flame Robin
  • Galah
  • Golden Whistler
  • Great Egret
  • Grey Butcherbird
  • Grey Currawong
  • Grey Fantail
  • Grey Shrike Thrush
  • Hardhead (White-Eyed) Duck
  • Hoary Headed Grebe
  • Japanese Snipe
  • King Parrot
  • Laughing Kookaburra
  • Little Black Cormorant
  • Little Grass Bird
  • Little Pied Cormorant
  • Magpie
  • Maned (Wood) Duck
  • Masked Lapwing (Plover)
  • Masked Woodswallow
  • Mistletoebird
  • New Holland Honeyeater
  • Noisy Miner
  • Pacific Black Duck
  • Pacific Heron
  • Painted Button Quail
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Red Wattlebird
  • Rufous Fantail
  • Silvereye
  • Southern Boobook
  • Spotted Pardalote
  • Straited Thornbill
  • Straw Necked Ibis
  • Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
  • Superb Fairy Wren
  • Tawny Frogmouth
  • Varied Sittella
  • Wedge Tailed Eagle
  • Welcome Swallow
  • Whistling Kite
  • White Faced Heron
  • White Fronted Chat
  • White-browed Scrubwren
  • White-eared Honeyeater
  • White-naped Honeyeater
  • White-throated Treecreeper
  • Willie Wagtail
  • Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo


..............and some images to whet the appetite :

Great Egret

Buff-banded Rail  (Photo : Ben Cullen)

Laughing Kookaburra (looking serious)

Pacific (or White-necked) Heron

White-faced Heron, Australasian Grebe,
Little-pied Cormorant and Pacific Heron 

Australasian Grebe

Australasian Grebe - nesting

Grey Shrike Thrush

Bronze-wing Pigeon


Australian Raven - with an eye on an egg

Australian Raven - making off with the egg


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