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Mangrove Honeyeater

Mangrove Honeyeater

Mangrove Honeyeater; there is only one place I have spotted these cheeky birds, but am sure they are everywhere. They are 18-21cm in size. They can be seen from Townsville northern Queensland down to northern New South Wales. Their habitat includes mangroves, nearby eucalypt woodlands, and trees in coastal towns. They breed from Aug-Nov and lay 2 eggs being pale salmon-pink or spotted red-brown in color. They are noisy and aggressive. They are like the varied Honeyeater Mangrove-honeyeater  is noisy and aggressive, they feed in outer foliage of mangroves, forages over lower trunks, roots and usually feeds on nectar and...

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Entertaining Wrens

Entertaining Wrens

It is not always easy to spot the tiny Wrens but if you are lucky to spot them, you will find them just amazing to watch especially in their breeding season when the males are busy keeping an eye on all his females. Most wrens are very small and very quick and when not breeding they can be hard to find. The Variegated Fairy-Wren below is so colourful especially the male. Their size is 11cm-14.5cm.They breed from July-Mar  and a female will lay 3-4 eggs. Their preferred habitat is shrub associations, undergrowth, margins of clearing, woodlands, heaths,sand plain and dune...

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Forest Kingfisher

Forest Kingfisher

We are very fortunate to have both the Forest Kingfisher and the Sacred Kingfisher living in the trees on and around our property. Just being able to walk out our front door and just take a couple of steps to be able to photograph these beautiful little birds in their natural environment is beautiful. Years ago we put a very shallow frog pond in the bottom corner of our yard, the rain runoff keeps it topped up with lovely cold fresh water. Yes we have frogs in their but because we just let it do what it wanted to do...

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Another Day With The Striated Pardalote

Another Day With The Striated Pardalote

I captured these Striated Pardalote along the Pine Rivers in Queensland. They keep giving me the fly around darting into pine trees, fir trees, and it was hot so they were always hiding under something to get so shade, but even when fluffed all up they looked really great. You can check out my other post with all their details on my earlier post Dedicated to all the Australian Fauna and Flora lost in the 2019/2020 bush fires   

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Rufous Fantail

Rufous Fantail

Capturing the Rufous Fantail this year was a tremendous achievement for me as I had been trying to find them for a couple of years. They are also known as the black-breasted rufous-fantail or rufous-fronted fantail. They are 15-16.5cm in size but they are very very quick. The fan like tail when in flight is so striking. The rufous fantail is easily distinguished by their orange-reddish-brown back, rump and base of tail. Their preferred habitate is undergrowth of rainforests, wetter eucalypt forests and gullies, monsoon forests.paperbarks, sub-inland and coastal scrubs, water courses, parks and gardens They can be very hard...

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