Australian Cruise

Australian Cruise
Our first full day in Australia, 2012, on a Freemantle beach.

Monday, July 30, 2018

The Birds!




We had a small book of common birds of Western Australia, and of almost 100 in the book (although there are many more than that), we saw at least 60 of them in the wild and more at the zoo! Then we saw several more that weren't in our little book; the Internet helped identify most of those.  There were some birds that were too small and/or too fast to identify or get a photo of.  We had a lot of fun finding new birds and getting pictures of most of them.

Emu
Saw the scat at the Pinnacles, but didn't see the actual bird until the zoo.

Australian Pelican

Sacred Kingfisher

Cormorants do not have a coating on their wings, so they have to dry them out after they go swimming.

Great Cormorant



Pied Cormorant

Little Pied Cormorant




Black Swan



Australian Shelduck




Blue Billed Duck



Musk Duck


White-eyed Duck




Chestnut Teal

Chestnut Teal pair
Grey Teal


Dusky Moorhen



Purple Swamphen


Eurasian Coot



White-faced Heron



Intermediate Egret


Eastern Reef Egret



Rufous Night Heron


Sacred Ibis

Straw-necked Ibis


Royal Spoonbill


Pied Oystercatcher


Masked Lapwing





Black-winged Stilt


Banded Stilt


Silver Gull

Immature Silver Gull

Caspian Tern



Osprey


I think this is an immature osprey.


Australian Kestrel




Spotted Turtle-dove- We saw plenty, but didn't take any photos.


Crested Pigeon


Pigeons... I think just Rock Pigeons.  I saw one place that identified them as "Feral Pigeons."




Common Bronzewing

Bush Stone-Curlew
At the zoo.

Galah


Little Corella

Long-Billed Black Cockatoo


Rainbow Lorikeet





Australian Ringneck


Laughing Kookaburra- heard him quite clearly at Yanchep Park!


Superb Fairy-wren


Red Wattlebird




Noisy Miner
Baby Noisy Miner





White-plumed Honeyeater



Singing Honeyeater



White-cheeked Honeyeater


Brown Honeyeater


Grey-crowned Babbler


Willie Wagtail-
You cannot have a true appreciation of the Willie Wagtails without a video.  They are constantly moving.  They fly a little ways, wag their tag, fly a little ways again, wag their tag, and on and on.
A Youtube video link: https://youtu.be/AN8MF8daTWg, if my uploaded video doesn't work.





Restless Flycatcher


Magpie-lark, male and female
Male

Female

Australian Magpie



Grey Fantail



Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike



Welcome Swallow


Mistletoe Bird


Silvereye



Red-Capped Plover



White-fronted Chat


Pied Butcherbird



  
Yellow Honeyeater, probably

Little Wattlebird

Beach Stone Curlew
Saw in Port Hedland, near mangroves. Beach Stone-Curlew.
Beach Stone Curlew. Another view.

Sooty Oystercatcher
Sooty Oystercatchers

 Yellow-throated Miner
Saw this guy at the zoo, but not in captivity.

Some unidentified birds
Possibly a sandpiper.... but doubt it.

Looks like a baby.... don't know what!
Birds at the zoo: I did take some duplicate photos, but did not include them all here. 
Guineafowl

Cassowary


Common Bronzewing

Brush Bronzewing

Superb Fairy wren, male

Superb Fairy Wren, female

Banded Stile
Bush Stone Curlew

Electus Parrot

Purple crowned Lorikeet
Rainbow Lorikeet

Pied Heron


Glossy Ibis

Brolga 
Royal Spoonbill

Black-necked Stork
Black-necked Stork



Bridled Tern
Bridled Tern

Little Penguin