On safari-- wildlife and nature photos

Aussie birds

This is the first of several pages on Australian birds. Point to the small images for captions, then click to enlarge the pictures

The big...

Emu   Southern cassowary

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

...and the small

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

Sunbird

Male spotted pardalote    The female     The male again

Not much bigger is the Superb blue wren (Malurus cyaneus), one of Australia's dozen or so species of colorful wrens

Superb blue wren    Superb blue wren    Young male superb blue wren

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

Female Scarlet robin   Scarlet robin   Eastern yellow robin   Red-capped robin

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), the Double-barred finch (Taeniopygia bichenovii), and the Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis), photographed in Victoria

Diamond firetail    Red-browed finch     Brown thornbill    Double-barred finch     Double-barred finch   Silvereye

More Australian birds: Parrots    Raptors    Honeyeaters & others    Waterbirds
or go straight to Kangaroo Island, the Adelaide Hills, the River Murray, the Outback, Victoria or Papua New Guinea

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Index of chapters

  • Portfolio (5 pages)
  • African slideshows
  • Australian slideshow
  • Guest photographer
  • Spots 'n' blotches
  • Browsers & grazers
  • Okavango Delta
  • Walking in Zimbabwe
  • Zambia
  • The Outback (3 pages)
  • The River Murray
  • Wildlife carers
  • The Linyanti
  • Cheetah brothers
  • Selinda's birdlife
  • Masai Mara
  • Big cats
  • Faces on safari
  • The Adelaide Hills
  • Aussie birds p.2
  • Niugini days
  • Lions of Selinda
  • Heavyweight herbivores
  • Kwando Reserve
  • Kenya:Samburu
  • Elephants
  • Kangaroo Island
  • Victoria
  • About Afrigalah
  • Links
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