Friday, January 5, 2007

Honeyeaters

Eastern Spinebill
 An adult bird
 A juvenile.  See also this post (and those linked to it).
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
 Juveniles about to leave the nest.  Image from Ros Cornish and John Wilkes.

White-eared Honeyeater

Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Noisy Miner

Red Wattlebird

Scarlet Honeyeater
Crescent Honeyeater

Photos by John Wilkes

New Holland Honeyeater
Above image by John Wilkes

Brown-headed Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
Noisy Friarbird
For more images see here.  Images of a nest in 2012 are here.

Flycatchers and Similar species

Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler

Grey Shrike-thrush
The bird has a mouthful of spiders to feed the chicks in the nest located in the milk crate!

Rufous Fantail

Grey Fantail
 An image taken by Sophie Jensen

Willie Wagtail

The white eyebrow is usually clearer.
Leaden Flycatcher
A female bird taken by Sophie Jensen.
 A male bird by me!

 Satin Flycatcher
Magpie-lark
 
 This is a male bird: the female has a white "face".
 This photo is included under the "spiffy image" rule>

Jacky Winter

Scarlet Robin

Both images are of males.  I couldn't resist adding the second (by Kim Mackenzie) proving that they do eat caterpillars.

Red-capped Robin

Flame Robin

Note how the red goes much further up the breast than with the Scarlet Robin.  The females and juveniles are relatively plain brown (and also eat caterpillars).

Hooded Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin
This second image shows a bird in a slightly more 'natural' environment.

Welcome Swallow
A naff image but possibly better than nothing!

Fairy Martin
Tree Martin
 Image by Kim McKenzie.  Note lack of red on forehead and breat.

Thornbills etc

Superb Fairy-wren
 A breeding male bird checking out an homage to Georgia O'Keefe
 A male in eclipse plamge.

White-browed Scrubwren
Above is a young bird
 Speckled Warbler

Weebill
Western Gerygone
White-throated Gerygone
Striated Thornbill

Yellow Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill

Buff-rumped Thornbill
Brown Thornbill
Southern Whiteface
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Silvereye

Finches etc

Zebra Finch
Double-barred Finch


Image by Garry Moffit
Red-browed Finch

Diamond Firetail
House Sparrow
European Goldfinch

Other smaller birds

White-throated Treecreeper
Brown Treecreeper
Spotted Quail-thrush
Varied Sittella
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

White-winged Triller
Olive-backed Oriole
Masked Woodswallow
White-browed Woodswallow
A male bird
 A female bird

Dusky Woodswallow

Skylark
Clamorous Reed-Warbler
Rufous Songlark
Brown Songlark

Common Blackbird
Common Starling
Common Myna
Mistletoebird

Australasian Pipit
 The bird on the left is an adult, while that on the right is a dependent young.  (I know this because I watched the adult feed the young on: the plumage doesn't help!)

Other, larger birds

Satin Bowerbird
This is a female or immature male bird.

Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie

Pied Currawong

Grey Currawong
In the Carwoola area the birds are grey.  In some other areas (eg Adelaide) they are much blacker but are revealed by their musical clinking calls.

Australian Raven
Little Raven

White-winged Chough (image by Wayne Johnson)

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Breeding Birds

This is a list of birds recorded as breeding (covering activities from Display to Dependent Young) over the duration of the project.  The list is in the order proposed by Christidis and Boles (2nd attempt) which has been endorsed by Birds Australia as the official list for Australia.  Note that I have not attempted to split the list as I have the occurence listing since there is no way of doing so that is:
  1. Concise,
  2. Sensible; and
  3. Meaningful to anyone other than a taxonomist.

Musk Duck; Black Swan; Australian Shelduck; Australian Wood Duck; Grey Teal; Pacific Black Duck; Australasian Grebe; Common Bronzewing; Crested Pigeon; Tawny Frogmouth; Little Pied Cormorant; White-faced Heron; Brown Goshawk; Wedge-tailed Eagle; Nankeen Kestrel; Peregrine Falcon; Eurasian Coot; Black-fronted Dotterel; Masked Lapwing; Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo; Galah; Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Crimson Rosella; Eastern Rosella; Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo;  Shining Bronze-Cuckoo; Pallid Cuckoo; Fan-tailed Cuckoo; Brush Cuckoo; Southern Boobook; Dollarbird; White-throated Treecreeper; Satin Bowerbird; Superb Fairy-wren; White-browed Scrubwren; Weebill; Striated Thornbill; Yellow-rumped Thornbill; Buff-rumped Thornbill; Brown Thornbill; Striated Pardalote; Eastern Spinebill; Yellow-faced Honeyeater; White-eared Honeyeater; Red Wattlebird; Noisy Friarbird; Varied Sittella; Rufous Whistler; Grey Shrike-thrush; Olive-backed Oriole; Dusky Woodswallow; Australian Magpie; Pied Currawong; Grey Currawong; Grey Fantail; Willie Wagtail; Australian Raven; Leaden Flycatcher; Magpie-lark; White-winged Chough; Scarlet Robin; Silvereye; Welcome Swallow; Fairy Martin; Tree Martin; Common Starling; Mistletoebird; Red-browed Finch; Diamond Firetail; House Sparrow;