What bird is that?

Wrens, robins and finches

A Scarlet Robin at the 4 Aces
A splendid fairy wren at Dwellingup
A female splendid fairy wren at Potters Gorge
Purple backed Fairywren at Wungong Dam
A Zebra Finch in Central Australia
A silver eye at the Berry Farm
A fantail in Tasmania
A western yellow robin at Dryandra 2021
A western yellow robin at Dryandra 2022

Swallows

Dusky Swallows at Koorda
A Martingale at Port Arthur in Tasmania
A welcome swallow

Ground dwellers

A masked lapwing at Mellenbye
An Australasian Pipit at Baladgie Rock

Honeyeaters

A New Holland Honeyeater
A Yellow-faced honeyeater

Kookaburra and kingfisher

Doves and pigeons (and a treehopper)

A spinfex pigeon in central Australia
A rufus tree creeper at Dryandra

Sea birds

Sandpiper at Mesa Campground
Red capped plover at Mesa Campground
Australian Pied Oyster Catcher
A Caspian (capsicum) tern on the Abrolhos
A Crested (Elvis) tern on the Abrolhos
A Bridled tern on the Abrolhos
A gorgeous nesting Noddy on the Abrolhos
A silver gull on the southern tip of the north island in New Zealand
Eggs …
… chicks between Mum and Dad …
… an adolescent Pacific Gull …
… and an adult Pacific Gull.

Other water birds

A classic Bin Chicken
A spoonbill at Herdsman Lake
Our state emblem, the Black Swan

Parrots

Kissing budgies in Central Australia
King parrot
Rosella
A scruffy western corella
A cute galah at Westonia
A ringnecked parrot, also known as a 28
A red tailed black cockatoo in my backyard
A sulpher crested cockatoo at Tjuwaliyn
An elegant parrot in the Porongorups
A mating pair of carnaby cocktoos. We watched them do it!
A macaw at the bottom of the world’s most dangerous road in Bolivia

Sharp beaked birds

Tawny frogmouth
A baby butcher bird
A western bowerbird
A Magpie in the Margaret river region
A black currawong
A currawong at Dryandra
A black faced cuckoo shrike from Hi Vallee
A pallid cuckoo at Oak Park

Raptors

A brown falcon at Karda
A nankeen kestrel in Bunbury

Big Australian birds

A bustard – “Big Bird!” At Wooramel
Old man Emu at Karda

Odd bod birds

Henny Penny from Mole Creek in Tasmania
A peacock spotted in Launceston

Birds of New Zealand

A funny Kea
A Tui

Bird art and images

Birds we’ve flown in

A light plane to the Abrolhos
A helicopter over Uluru and Kata Tjuta
The Krill Seeker over Ninagaloo
A helicopter over Nitmiluk

A family of crazy birds

A Piper bird
A Drummer bird
A Perspective bird
A Solo Avocado
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