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Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Bold Park, Perth, Western Australia, August 14, 2024 Rainbow Lorikeet, Bold Park, Perth, Western Australia, July 06, 2024 Little Corella, Bold Park, Perth, Western Australia, 29 August 29, 2024 Photos taken Ian Stewart This series features three bird photos with a common theme taken by the same photographer.

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MAY 7, 2023

Black-eared Cuckoos – Chrysococcyx osculans are one of the smaller Cuckoos in Australia and a Cuckoo species that I have not had much of an opportunity to photograph. It wasn’t calling, which is often the giveaway for Cuckoos in Australia, but perched on a branch as we walked by.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

We are lucky in Western Australia that we can move around our own state. We can’t move around the rest of Australia or go overseas, but keeping everyone safe is a priority. So much has happened in the world in their absence from Australia. There has been no community transmitted coronavirus for many months.

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APRIL 24, 2022

The mud is full of aquatic insects and their larvae and the Sharp-tailed Sandpipers have joined many other species feeding along this stretch of main highway around Australia. They will breed in the short Siberian summer between June and August and they will then return to Australia.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrikes – Coracina novaehollandiae are a common bird species around our home in Broome, Western Australia. They are present throughout much of Australia and as their name would suggest they have a black face! They have one very distinct feature when they land, which is that they shuffle their wings.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Collared Kingfisher (Brisbane, Australia, Jan 2017). Red-backed Kingfisher (Alice Springs, Australia, Dec 2016). Red-backed Kingfisher (Alice Springs, Australia, Dec 2016). Sacred Kingfisher (Brisbane, Australia, Dec 2016). Common Kingfisher (Mumbai, India, Feb 2019 and Nanhui, China, Apr 2020).

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DECEMBER 1, 2019

Yellow-faced Honeyeaters – Calygavis chrysops are found in the eastern and south eastern parts of Australia. They are not present in Western Australia or the Northern Territory, so not a bird species that we get to observe very often. Our recent observations of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters have been in dense forest.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

This year we have a lot of people visiting from the south of Australia in the search for warmer weather during the winter months. We are lucky in Western Australia that we are one of the few places in Australia not in lockdown, but our beaches are also seeing a lot more vehicles than normal.

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DECEMBER 26, 2021

Despite all of the restrictions on our travel we are fortunate that it does not stop birds from entering Western Australia. Western Australia remains closed to the rest of Australia and the world and we do not have any Covid cases in the community, so life appears to be quite normal here. Ringed Plover and Great Knot on the mud.

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MARCH 29, 2020

In Australia we have two egg-laying mammals. We have observed a lot more Echidna in Australia than Platypus. Platypus prefer a water habitat and their location in Australia means we have rarely travelled to where they live. As most of you know, we do have some incredible birds in Australia as well as mammals.

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MAY 26, 2013

The most widespread of all cockatoos in Australia is the Galah Eolophus roseicapillus and we have them here in Broome, though we don’t always see them in town. The Galah varies in colour throughout Australia and the birds we have around Broome are much paler than the birds we observed in Queensland earlier this year.

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JUNE 25, 2020

” Budgerigar (Ayers Rock, Australia, Dec 2016). Rainbow Lorikeet (Brisbane, Australia, Dec 2016). Superb Fairywren (Brisbane, Australia, Dec 2016). Black-winged Stilt (Nanhui, China, May 2019). Almost abstract bird patterns. Blue Tit (Visselhoevede, Germany, Jul 2018). “You`re so juvenile!”

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MARCH 26, 2023

Crested Pigeons – Ocyphaps lophotes are very widespread throughout Australia and can easily be observed in Broome on the streetlights on a wintery morning. Although Crested Pigeons are quite a common bird Australia-wide you don’t always find a nest, so that you are able to observe the family grow.

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JUNE 28, 2020

Cattle Egret should not be in breeding plumage in June in the north of Australia! Cattle Egret have been recorded in Australia since 1948. It was clearly a Cattle Egret , due to the orange feathers, but it is June! The Derby wetlands water had all gone green. They are usually observed in flocks around cattle, but this one was alone.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We have encountered Orange Chats before in Western Australia, but also in the Northern Territory at the Tennant Creek Poo Ponds. Some years we encounter Crimson Chats around Broome too and even less rare is the Orange Chat. The last record of an Orange Chat in the Broome area was in 2006.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Apparently, the Rufous Whistler used to be known as the Rufous-breasted Thickhead due to its “noticeable breadth of cranium” The source website itself quotes its own source, the delightfully titled “The Useful Birds of Southern Australia”, R Hall, 1907. This is the most common swallow in Australia. .

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Crested Myna (Shanghai, China) Black Crested Bulbul (Nonggang, China) Crested Barbet (Letaba, Bateleur, Kruger Park, South Africa) Crested Bunting (Nonggang, China) Crested Dove (somewhere in Australia) Crested Finchbill (Tengchong, China) Crested Flameback (Taman Negara, Malaysia) Crested Francolin (Ndumo, South Africa) Crested Goshawk (Shanghai, (..)

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MARCH 24, 2022

In order to get their residence visa, Bruce and Lynn needed to spend a full year in Australia. And in 2015- 2016, they travelled the entire continent of Australia birding and writing about it. I do not know the Australian birds, nor do I have any book on them.

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APRIL 25, 2022

It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. All photos were taken in Australia in December 2016 – locations included Brisbane and surroundings, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Melbourne, and the coast near Melbourne.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Northern Rosella are resident in the north of Australia, but not in large flocks. If you happen to be in the north of Australia then keep your eyes out for Northern Rosella and remember they may be at your feet or way up high in the foliage. We rarely encounter more than one pair at any location. Northern Rosella in the trees.

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JULY 5, 2020

Western Australia remains closed to everybody from everywhere. It is only recently that we could move out of the Shire of Broome into the rest of the Kimberley and allowing the rest of Western Australia into the Kimberley has only happened recently too. It does not matter if you are from interstate, because our borders remain closed.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

In fact it is a rather dull bird for Australia! If you came across a Lemon-bellied Flycatcher further north in Australia you would easily believe it was a different species. The Kimberley Flycatcher that we encountered at the Derby wharf was quite a cooperative bird. It was not bothered at all by our presence under the large trees.

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JUNE 23, 2012

This post will look at the Superb Fairy-wren, Malurus Cyaneus , which can be easily found in a variety of habitats within the south-eastern corner of Australia. All of the photographs above were taken during the first week of June at Bicentennial Park in Sydney Australia.

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JUNE 7, 2020

Whistling Kites are widespread across Australia and around Broome they help clean up the carrion along with the Black Kites. The travel restrictions are slowly easing around Western Australia, but you are still not allowed to enter from any other state or from overseas.

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JUNE 6, 2021

They are widespread throughout Australia , but it does not mean you necessarily easily observe them. By the size of the juvenile birds the adults must have laid the eggs several months ago when the rains came to that area of Western Australia. We soon observed several bird species and then a Yellow-billed Spoonbill flew overhead.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

It concerns the nature of wildlife in Australia, and is perhaps the most remarked about aspect of Australia’s wildlife, at least the impression you’d get if you’ve ever watched ten minutes of Animal Planet. The very dangerous nature of the wildlife. Stingers, or box jellyfish, are serious business.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Over the past few months we have had a variety of Cuckoos calling and looking for a mate and the sound of any Cuckoo in Australia is completely different to the European Cuckoo. The Cuckoos in Australia call shrilly and in a frantic descending or ascending call and often you will only hear the variety of species and not actually observe them.

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JULY 4, 2021

In another year when time stands still when you are not allowed to move freely around Australia or overseas some things happen like clockwork. There is a large influx of tourists to Broome at this time of year from the southern colder climes of Western Australia. Pied Oystercatchers feeding their chicks.

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OCTOBER 2, 2022

The species is only in the north of Australia and they are often found in locations that are hard to get to year round. We have been able to observe Purple-crowned Fairy-wrens in a few locations across the north of Australia and they were quite easy to see in the car-park at Big Horse Creek in 2017.

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JULY 25, 2021

There are also Eastern Reef Egrets along our coast despite the fact that we are in Western Australia! The water is clear and it would be easy for the Little Egret to see the fish that are present. Little Egret. They are both the white and grey morph. The Eastern Reef Egrets prefers to feed amongst the rocky areas of our coastline.

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MARCH 1, 2020

There is a variation in the plumage of Australian Magpies across Australia and as such they looked different in Victoria. The significant difference between Broome’s Australian Magpies and those in the south of Australia is the presence of a completely white back in the south. Australian Magpie.

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MARCH 20, 2022

The Willie Wagtail – Rhipidura leucophrys is one of Australia’s most widespread bird species, but it is not observed all year round close to our home in Broome. Willie Wagtails are present across much of the mainland and they are a large fantail. They are distinct with their black and white plumage and they are extremely vocal.

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JUNE 15, 2014

Brown Honeyeaters are dispersed widely in Australia across the north and down the west and east coast. Birding Australia Broome Honeyeaters' Some plants will recover, but others will succumb to the termite invasion which usually is an invasion into the main root system from underground. Young Brown Honeyeaters having fun in the water.

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APRIL 18, 2021

We are not allowed to travel internationally out of Australia, but these shorebirds are free to head north. There are some beautifully coloured Curlew Sandpipers on the beaches now and the Great Knot and Red Knot are also coloured up ready to head north.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In 2022, the 10,000 Birds eBird Collaborative submitted 1,837 checklists from 9 countries ( Australia , China , Costa Rica , Mexico , Saint Lucia , Serbia , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and the United States ) and observed 1,273 species. The Collaborative life list increased to 4,140.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Hooded Plovers are only found in the south of Australia and they are not abundant in any location. There are two populations and our last encounter was in the south of Western Australia almost two years ago. During the recent months we spent in Victoria we were lucky enough to observe a pair of Hooded Plovers.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Meanwhile across the ditch , my useful column last week explaining how awful oxygen thief Tony Abbott could distract Australia from his flailing incompetence has sadly for him arrived too late and he has been disposed in what Australians mysteriously refer to as a spill. It’s hard to escape the kookaburra when in Australia.

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