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 Blue-faced honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis | Aussie birds 4 |  Grey fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa |
Home garden entertainers
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The honeyeaters of my garden, including the New Holland (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae), White-plumed (Lichenostomus penicillatus), and two of the biggest, the Red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata) and the Little wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) . They're often acrobatic feeders. In the outback Danggali Conservation Park, I came across a Spiny-cheeked honeyeater (Acanthagenys rufogularis), while the Singing honeyeater (Lichenostomus virescens) was photographed near Morgan on the River Murray and the Crescent honeyeater (Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera) at Kinglake NP in Victoria. The Regent honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia) was photographed at Cleland Wildlife Park in the Adelaide Hills, as was the Blue-faced honeyeater at the top of the page. The Noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) is an aggressive colonising bird
Other attractive birds common in many urban as well as country areas are the Crested pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes), the White-backed magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen), the Murray magpie or magpie lark or peewee (Grallina cyanoleuca), the Welcome or houseswallow (Hirundo neoxena), the introduced Common blackbird (Turdus merula), the Dusky woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus), the Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys), and the Grey fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa). I found the White-throated treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaeus) in the Adelaide Hills, the Brown tree-creeper (Climacteris picumnus) at Morgan on the River Murray, the White-browed treecreeper (Climacteris affinis) in the north-east mallee, the Diamond doves (Geopelia cuneata) drinking from an outback dam, and the Fan-tailed cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis) on Granite Island
Striated fieldwren
Calamanthus fuliginosis
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Bird sightings in Victoria include the Striated fieldwren, Shining bronze-cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidis), female Rufous whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris), White-fronted chat (Epthianura albifrons), Pied currawong (Strepera graculina), the Rufous bristlebird (Dasyornis broadbenti), the Grey shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica) and a female Superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)
More Australian birds: Waterbirds
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