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Blue-breasted Fairy-wren (Malurus pulcherrimus) Monjebup Western Australia.
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Rufus Songlark (Megalurus mathewsi) are migratory returning to southern Australia in spring to breed. They migrate north again In Autumn. They have a loud call which is made from prominent yet secreted position or while flying.
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Black-eared Cuckoo (Chalcites osculans) are found in dryer habitats in sparsely vegetated country. Not often seen and uncommon. This was a lifer as far as a photograph goes. Like all cuckoos it parasitises other birds into raising their young.
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Crested Bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis). A bird more often heard but not often seen in the mulga and mallee country in the Australian outback.
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Ground Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina maxima) near Perenjori in Western Australia’s northern wheat belt region.
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Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae) hawking around Herdsman Lake, metropolitan Perth Western Australia looking for insects.
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White-browned Scrub-wren (Sericornis laevigaster) now called Spotted Scrub-wren (Sericornis maculatus) by some authorities. Usually very secretive little birds but less so at Cheyne’s Beach Western Australia.
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Yellow-rumped Thornbill ( Acanthiza chrysorrhoa) at Cervantes Western Australia. Very busy little birds quite often seen in open fields and grassed areas.
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Singing Honeyeater (Lichenostomus virescens) at Cervantes Western Australia. These birds are one of the more common birds around Australia but still worth looking at when out birding.
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Collard Sparrow-hawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) at Lake Joondalup to the north of Perth Western Australia. I was watching some Fairy-wrens and Silver-eyes when this bird appeared out of nowhere and captured one of the Silver-eyes.
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Brown Songlark (Cincloramphus cruralis) near Corrigin Western Australia. They like open grasslands where their colouring helps with camouflage. Their legs and particularly their feet seem disproportionate to the rest of their body.
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Australian Ringneck (Barnardius zonarius) Port Lincoln variety. Seen near Newdegate in the Easter wheat belt of Western Australia.
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Red-capped Robin (Petroica goodenovii), Charles Darwin Reserve Bunjil Western Australia.
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New Holland Honeyeater ( Phylidonyris novahollandia) Pemberton Western Australia.
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Splendid Fairy-wren (Malarus splendens). Margaret River southwest Western Australia.
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Grey Shrike-thrush. Stirling Range Retreat Amelup, south west Western Australia.
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Elegant Parrot, feeding on small seeds at Stirling Range Retreat south west of Western Australia.
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A pair of Nankeen Kestrel. The best example I have so far that emphasisers the difference between a male(below) and female(above).
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Western Whistler previously known as Golden Whistler. Endemic to the South West of Western Australia.
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White-browed Babbler Monkey Mia Shark Bay Western Australia.
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Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax). For a young eagle flying in the few weeks after leaving the nest is quite an effort. The lose height before achieving enough lift to stay airborne.
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White-cheeked Honeyeater
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Splendid Fairy-wren (Malurus splendens) at Yanchep National Park Western Australia.
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Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) in Iluka Beach Park Western Australia. Parents either end two juveniles in the middle. Kind of cute really.
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Restless Flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta) with breakfast. Seen at Stirling Range Retreat in the south west of Western Australia.
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Scarlet Robin. Stirling Range Retreat, south west Western Australia.
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Yellow-rumped Thornbill ( Acanthiza chrysorrhoa). All fluffed up because it is a cold Bridgetown (southwest Western Australia) morning.
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White-backed Swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna). Swallows are very hard to capture on the wing. In Australia these are a less common variety, so pretty pleased to get this reasonable shot of one near Cervantes Western Australia.
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White-backed Swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna). A pair were collecting nesting material from a graded roadside verge, providing an opportunity to take some photos where they are not normally seen.
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Carnaby’s Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris). These birds are becoming increasingly more scarce around the Perth Metropolitan area. This female was with a flock that were feeding on pine cones on the ground.
