Australian Birds

Just a few of the 130 I saw on our trip Down Under with a couple from Hong Kong.

Kookaburras, common in parks and quite approachable.


Masked Lapwing, also common in towns and cities and like Kookaburras and Ibis very tame.


Bush Stone Curlew, another bird seen in towns, here at home they are a rarity and difficult to see. In Darwin and Port Douglas, out in the open and if approached they will either walk away or freeze thinking you can't see them!


White Cheeked Honeyeater in Perth.


The weird looking Spinifex Pigeon, Ayers Rock.


Comb Crested Jacana, Corroboree billabong, Darwin.


Australian Darter on the billabong.


Forest Kingfisher.


Gallahs common Cockatoo and a farm pest.


Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, hundreds of them in Sydney.


Rose Crowned Fruit Pigeon, Darwin Botanical Gardens.

 

Black Crowned Night Heron, Kowloon Gardens Hong Kong.


Black Collared Starling.


Red Whiskered Bulbul Kowloon gardens.


Eastern Great White Egret, Hong Kong Harbour.