Rhonda's Blog: 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.