Avian Plunder from Down Under


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Posted by Jeff Weber on 18:40:11 03/10/07

Well, it's not exactly local, but I thought some of youi might be interested in what I found during the past three weeks in Australia. This was just casual birding, and some of the trip was business, but I was in some pretty birdy spots.

Little Penguin (in Sydney Harbour!)
Australian Pelican
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Magpie Goose
Black Swan
Cape Barren Goose
Chestnut Teal
Australian Wood Duck
Musk Duck
Tasmanian Native Hen (Tas. endemic)
Black-Tailed Native Hen
Dusky Moorhen
Purple Swamphen
White-Faced Heron
Great Egret
Australian White Ibis
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Masked Lapwing
Silver Gull
Kelp Gull
Crested Tern
Black Kite
White-bellied Sea Eagle
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Australian Hobby
Brown Falcon
Nankeen Kestrel
Spotted Turtle-dove
Peaceful Dove
Crested Pigeon
Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo
Galah
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Australian King Parrot
Green Rosella
Crimson Rosella
Easternn Rosella
Australian Ringneck
Tawny Frogmouth
White-throated Needletail
Laughing Kookaburra
Rainbow Bee-eater
Superb Fairy-wren
Spotted Pardalote
White-browed Scrubwren
Striated Fieldwren
Tasmanian Thornbill (Tas. endemic)
Red Wattlebird
Yellow Wattlebird (Tas. endemic)
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Noisy Friarbird
Bell Miner
Yellow-throated Miner
Yellow-throated Honeyeater
Grey-headed Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Stong-billed Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Grey-crowned Babbler
Pink Robin
Scarlet Robin
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Restless Flycatcher
Magpie-lark
Satin Bowerbird
Western Bowerbird
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Black Currawong (Tas. endemic)
Grey Currawong
Australian Raven
Forest Raven
Torresian Crow
White-winged Chough
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
House Sparrow
Zebra Finch
Grey-backed Silvereye
Eurasian Blackbird
Common Myna

Other Stuff:

Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Bennet's Wallaby
Pademelon
Euro
Koala
Echidna
Brushtail Possum
Common Wombat

Drysdalia rhodogaster (snake - bit my walking stick!)
Tasmanian Tree Skink



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