| On safari-- wildlife and nature photos |
This is the first of several pages on Australian birds. Point to the small images for captions, then click to enlarge the pictures
Above, the Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and the Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), the flightless birds which are Australia's biggest. More photographs of emus can be found in the Outback pages
Below, the Yellow-bellied or Olive-backed sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis), a 10-12 cm resident of tropical north Queensland. And a pair of the even smaller Spotted pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), among the country's tiniest birds. They were photographed in the Adelaide Hills (Mount Lofty Ranges), as they prepared their nest. Slightly bigger, a Striated pardalote (Pardalotus striatus) raids a hanging basket for building material in a suburb in the Hills, and a pair of the same species seems to be courting in Morialta Conservation Park
 | Juvenile Striated pardalotes feature in a slideshow of some birds which are frequent visitors to my home garden...honeyeaters and lorikeets are the most common. Click on the image to see the slideshow |
The Superb blue wren (Malurus cyaneus), is one of Australia's dozen or so species of colorful wrens. Those here (below) were photographed in Victoria except for the young male, who was in the Adelaide Hills
Three of the country's robins are the Scarlet robin (Petroica boodang), photographed in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, the Eastern yellow robin (Eopsaltria australis) , pictured in Victoria, and the Red-capped robin (Petroica goodenovii), photographed in South Australia's north-east mallee
Five more little birds are the Diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata), Red-browed finch or firetail (Neochmia temporalis), photographed in the Adelaide Hills, and the Brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla) and Double-barred finch (Taeniopygia bichenovii), photographed in Victoria, and the Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis), photographed on South Australia's south-central coast
More Australian birds: Parrots Raptors Honeyeaters & others Waterbirds
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