Fotogalleri

Titel: Sub-adult individual - still got blue eyes

Beskrivelse: ID among other things due to steep forehead, rounded head and general size

Titel: Sleeping my day away....

Beskrivelse: The juvenile Frogmouth is able to leave the nest and fly around already when ½ size of a grown bird. Here the birds are roosting close to a public path - in the open and 2 m above the ground. Most birds have a colour more grey than tawny. Nice meeting !

Titel: Dad and todler in a garden next to the lowland rainforest

Beskrivelse: The male takes care of eggs and chicks for almost a year. The female can reach 65 kg almost 20 kg more than the taller Emu. In 5 days in the Mission Beach area we met 5 to 6 different individuals - 3 to 4 at this location. The two other birds were one in the forest and one crossing the highway just in front of our car.

Titel: One out of 3 this afternoon

Beskrivelse: Mission Beach is a relatively quiet holiday area, but north of it is Garners Beach - no body there (at least not this day). Very good conditions for this bird.

Titel: Here feeding on seeds

Titel: My place....

Titel: Family of 4

Beskrivelse: Here two adult birds, and one of two juvenile birds. Waiting in the shade for the night to come.... 38 + Celsius

Beskrivelse: Eucalyptus with flowers attracts birds. Here the Scaly-breasted Lorikeet's were clearly dominated by the Rainbow Lorikeets forcing the Scaly-breasted to leave

Titel: Smallest Cuckoo in the world (size of a House Sparrow)

Beskrivelse: Lakeside tree; male ID'ed by red eyering. Could be an interbreed between the two ssp russatus and barnardi (under-tail coloring seems a mix). Some books claims the ssp russatus to be a full species: Gould's Bronze-cuckoo.

Beskrivelse: Overgrown garden in the outskirts of the small holiday village. Tawny morph. Brown morph birds are always females.

Beskrivelse: Docu-pic: My friend Gordon McHattie allowed me to up-load this strange happening: The two Pardalotes had a fall-out from the trees above the garbage bins .. ending up on the bins in in-fight for several minutes...

Titel: Adult Hooded Dotterel on the beach.

Beskrivelse: Som med vores hjemlige Hvidbrystet Præstekrave, er Hooded Dotterel/Plover også i en situation, hvor bestanden trues af for meget menneskelig færdsel på strandene, hvor de yngler.

Titel: White-browed Scrubwren feeding in bush.

Beskrivelse: White-browed Scrubwren fouragerer oftest lavt nede, og gerne i lavt buskads.

Titel: Perched Adelaide Rosella.

Beskrivelse: Crimson Rosella findes i flere farver i artens udbredelsesområde i det sydøstlige Australien. Fuglene omkring Adelaide i South Australia er mest i den orange gruppe, med varierende mængder af gult i fjerdragten.