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Albatross Espanola, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Albatross Espanola, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Albatross Espanola, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Albatross out from Sydney, NSW Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Apostlebird Emmdale Roadhouse, NSW Photo: Bev |
Apostlebird Katherine, Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Apostlebird Katherine, Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Apostlebird Katherine, Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Australasian pipit Point Plomer headland NSW Photo: John D |
Australian magpie Field of Mars Reserve Ryde, NSW Photo: Bev |
Australian raven Gladesville, NSW Photo: Roberta Johnston |
View You Tube videos of: Australian raven Australiasian pipit |
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Band-tailed Barbthroat Ecuador Photo: Alex Portilla Ecuagenera Orchid Nursery |
Barn owl at a display Parramatta Park 2011 Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Black-cockatoo Field Of Mars Reserve Photo: Bev |
Black-cockatoo Rosedale, Qld Photo: Marianna |
Black duck Riverglade Reserve Photo: Bev |
Black-faced cuckoo-shrike Riverglade Reserve, Gladesville 26 Jan 2014 Photo: Marianna |
Black-faced monarch south of Crescent Head Photo: Bev |
Black-faced shag East coast, Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Black swan East coast, Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Blue-footed boobie North Seymour, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Blue-footed boobie Espanola, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Blue-footed boobie Espanola, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Brown cuckoo-dove Delicate Nobby south of Cresent Head NSW Photo: Bev |
Brown cuckoo-dove Delicate Nobby south of Cresent Head NSW Photo: Bev |
Brown gerygone Crescent Head, NSW Nov 2011 Photo: Bev |
Brown gerygone Crescent Head, NSW Nov 2011 Photo: Bev |
Brown quail Point Plomer, NSW Aug 2016 Photo: Bev |
Brown quail Point Plomer, NSW Aug 2016 Photo: Bev |
Brown thornbill Crescent Head, NSW Oct 2011 Photo: Bev |
Brush turkey male - Field of Mars Reserve Photo: Bev |
Brush-turkey chick in garden in Epping, NSW January 2013 Photo: Louise Brodie |
Buff banded rail Milsons Passage NSW Photo: Josie Kennedy |
Buff banded rail chick 1 of 4 Strangers Creek, Ryde NSW Photo: Bev |
Bush stone-curlew Ellis Beach, Queensland Photo: Gary W4 |
Bush stone-curlew Ellis Beach, Queensland Photo: Gary W4 |
Butcherbird - Grey - juvenile Gladesville Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Butcherbird - Grey sitting on nest Field of Mars Reserve, Ryde, NSW Photo: Pam Ward |
View You Tube videos of: Black cockatoo - yellow-tailed Black cockatoo - yellow-tailed - along Tarban Creek Gladesville Black-faced cuckoo-shrike - Kelly's Bush, Hunter's Hill, NSW Bowerbird - regent - glimpses of a female bathing, note black patch on top of head Bowerbird - satin - note its lilac eye towards the end, lovely call Brown cuckoo-dove Brown gerygone Brown gerygone - sorry about bacon cooking noises Brown gerygone - looking for a snack Brown quail Brown thornbill and brown gerygone Brown thornbill Brown thornbill - hear its distinctive trill Buff-banded rail chick Buff-banded rail - 2 adults seen at Shrimpton's Creek, Ryde, NSW Butcherbird - Grey - Huntleys Cove, NSW |
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Cape Barren goose Kangaroo Island South Australia Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Cape Barren goose Kangaroo Island South Australia Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Cassowary Mission Beach, Queensland Photo: Gary W4 |
Channel-billed cuckoo Gladesville Hospital Gladesville, NSW - Jan 2013 Photo: Bev |
Chestnut teal Tarban Creek, Gladesville Photo: Bev |
Corella - long-billed Greystanes, NSW Photo:T Nipperess |
Corella - long-billed Boronia Park Hunter's Hill, NSW Photo: Bev |
Corella - long-billed Boronia Park Hunter's Hill, NSW Photo: Bev |
Cormorant - great East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Cormorant - great with Pelican East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Cormorant - little black Delicate Nobby, NSW Photo: Bev |
Cormorant - little black Delicate Nobby, NSW Photo: Bev |
Cormorant - little pied Delicate Nobby, NSW Photo: Bev |
Crown pigeon Port Moresby, PNG Photo: Bev |
Cuckoo - Shining bronze Crescent Head, NSW Photo: Bev |
Currawong Field of Mars Reserve Photo: Bev |
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Darter Bedlam Bay, NSW Photo: Bev |
Dollarbird South Turramurra, NSW Photo: Jenny Zvolanek |
Drongo - spangled Point Plomer, NSW Photo: Bev |
View You Tube videos of: Drongo - Spangled Drongo - Spangled at Point Plomer, NSW Duck - Australian wood duck - Hunter Valley, NSW Dusky moorhen - mum and chick - and others |
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Eagle, little Rosedale, Qld Photo: Marianna |
Eastern spinebill feeding on Lantana (weed) Photo: S Payne |
Eastern spinebill feeding on Cestrum (weed) Photo: S Payne |
Eastern spinebill Photo: Virginia Bear |
Eastern spinebill Winmalee (North Springwood, lower Blue Mountains) Photo: Toni Benton |
Eastern spinebill Kanimbla Valley, NSW Photo: James Beverley |
Eastern yellow robin Delicate Nobby Photo: Bev |
Emu Kangaroo Island South Australia Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Emu Kangaroo Island South Australia Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Emu Kangaroo Island South Australia Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
European blackbird - immature East coast, Tasmania Photo: Bev |
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Fantail - grey Launceston, Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Figbird Gladesville Hospital Photo: Bev |
Figbird - female Crescent Head, NSW Photo: Bev |
Finch nest Isabella, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Frigate bird San Cristobal, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Frigate bird - male Genovesa, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Frigate bird- female & chick Genovesa, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
View You Tube videos of: Grey fantail Figbird Figbird - female Forest kingfisher |
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Galah, Australian Gladesville, NSW Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Galahs, Rainbow lorikeets Gladesville, NSW Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Galah in flight Gladesville, NSW Photo: John D |
Galah and sea gull in flight Gladesville, NSW Photo: John D |
Geese - introduced native of Northern Eurasia Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Goose - introduced Wynn Vale Lake, SA Photo: Ron Johnson - Adelaide |
Golden whistler male, Crescent Head, NSW Photo: Bev |
Golden whistler female, Crescent Head, NSW Photo: Bev |
Golden whistler Delicate Nobby South of Crescent Head Photo: Bev |
Goshawk Field of Mars Reserve, NSW Photo: Bev |
Goshawk - chick Photo: Bev |
Goshawk - chick 1 month later Photo: Bev |
Goshawk Field of Mars Reserve, NSW Photo: A Smith |
Goshawk - Brown Crescent Head, NSW Photo: Bev |
Great bowerbird Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Great bowerbird Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Great bowerbird - bower Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Great egret Wetlands, Salisbury Highway, Adelaide Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Grey fantail Photo: Bev |
Grey fantail Photo: Bev |
Gull - Pacific East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Gull - Pacific East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Gull - Pacific East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Gull - Pacific Kangaroo Island South Australia Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Gull - Pacific East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Gull - silver East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Gull - silver East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Gull - silver East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
View You Tube videos of: Gerygone - brown - sorry about bacon cooking noises Gerygone - brown - looking for a snack Golden whistler Golden whistler male and female Golden whistler - bathing Goshawk - Brown Green catbird Green catbird - contact call Grey fantail Grey fantail - tail display, drinking, calling and bathing Silver gulls showing some unusual feeding behaviour Silver gull walking on beach near Point Plomer |
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Harris's Hawk Ecuador Photo: Alex Portilla Ecuagenera Orchid Nursery |
Heron - striated Port Macquarie, NSW Photo: C Lewis |
Heron - striated Port Macquarie, NSW Photo: C Lewis |
Heron - striated Riverglade Reserve, Gladesville, NSW Photo: Bev |
Heron - striated Riverglade Reserve, Gladesville, NSW Photo: Bev |
Heron - white-faced Hunter Valley, NSW Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Hoatzin Ecuador Photo: Alex Portilla Ecuagenera Orchid Nursery |
Honeyeater - brown Crescent Head, NSW tiny bird slightly bigger than a wren Photo: Bev |
Honeyeater - brown Crescent Head, NSW white blotches behind eyes Photo: Bev |
Honeyeater - Lewins Delicate Nobby, NSW Photo: Bev |
Honeyeater - Lewins Delicate Nobby, NSW Photo: Bev |
Honeyeater - New Holland East coast Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Humming bird Ecuador Photo: Wayne Hanson |
Humming bird nest Pangui, Ecuador Photo: Bev |
View You Tube videos of: Heron - striated, Riverglade Reserve, Gladesville Honeyeater - Brown Honeyeater - Lewin's |
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Ibis - Australian white Jubilee Lake, Wynn Vale, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Ibis - Australian white Botanic Gardens, Sydney Photo: Bev |
View You Tube videos of: Australian white ibis |
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King parrot Photo: Bev |
King parrot Finds food in a NSW Christmas bush Photo: Bev |
King parrot Gladesville, NSW Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
King parrot Winmalee (North Springwood, lower Blue Mountains) Photo: Toni Benton |
King parrot - female Gladesville, NSW Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Kingfisher - forest Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Kingfisher - red-winged Okinawa, Japan Photo: Nicola Dixon |
Koel - female Photo: Bev |
Kookaburra Photo: Bev |
Kookaburra Gladesville Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Kookaburra on a cold morning Gladesville Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Kookaburra just resting Gladesville NSW Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Kookaburra - blue-winged Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
View You Tube videos of: Kookaburra Kookaburra laughing |
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Lapwing - masked East coast, Tasmania Photo: Bev |
Lewin's honeyeater Photo: Bev |
Lewin's honeyeater Delicate Nobby Photo: Bev |
Little black cormorant Wynn Vale Lake, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little corella Murray Bridge, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little corella Murray Bridge, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little corella Murray Bridge, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little corella Murray Bridge, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little corella Murray Bridge, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little pied cormorant at freshwater pond, Delicate Nobby Photo: Bev |
Little pied cormorant Jubilee Lake, Wynn Vale, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little pied cormorant, Yabby Jubilee Lake, Wynn Vale, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Little wattle bird Photo: Bev |
Long-billed corella Boronia Park Hunter's Hill, NSW Photo: Bev |
Long-billed corella Boronia Park Hunter's Hill, NSW Photo: Bev |
Lorikeet - rainbow Ray Park, Beecroft Photo: Dorothy Doolan |
Lorikeet - rainbow HuntleysCove, NSW Photo: John |
Lorikeet - scaly-breasted Point Plomer, NSW Photo: Bev |
Lyrebird - very rare sighting!! Terry's Creek Epping, NSW Photo: Virginia Hall |
Lyrebird - foraging Terry's Creek Epping, NSW Photo: Virginia Hall |
View You Tube videos of: Lewin's honeyeater Lewin's honeyeater - preening Little wattlebird Lorikeet - musk Lorikeet - scaly-breasted Lyrebird - video by Virginia Hall |
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Magpie Gladesville Photo: Lorraine Findlay |
Magpie - black-backed Rosedale, Qld Photo: Marianna |
Magpie Mount Barker, SA Photo: Ron Johnson, Adelaide |
Magpie Field of Mars Reserve Ryde, NSW Photo: Bev |
Masked lapwing Riverglade Reserve Gladesville, NSW Photo: Bev |
Masked lapwing Riverglade Reserve Gladesville, NSW Photo: Bev |
Mockingbird Santa Cruz, Galapagos Photo: Bev |
Monarch - black-faced south of Crescent Head Photo: Bev |
Monarch - spectacled Crescent Head, NSW Photo: Bev |
Mountain velvetbreast Ecuador Photo: Alex Portilla Ecuagenera Orchid Nursery |