Wild Birds of Australia

avondale87 wrote in post #19469993
Very nice Dave
Have to admit I don't recall seeing a juvenile one.
Never been around nesting areas. I wonder how far they wander at that age?

Thanks Richard. I wonder too.
I had Tawnies and Sparrowhawks to visit today so didn't have time to watch this one.
I think it's feeding itself now, but not sure. It wasn't begging for food.
I have seen them around this age begging and being fed so my guess is it's still close to home.
Sooner or later I'll find a juvenile with some physical characteristic that will allow me to identify it and I'll try to follow it.

some more of our Forest Raven ~ Corvus tasmanicus

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avondale87 wrote in post #19470026
some more of our Forest Raven ~ Corvus tasmanicus

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Nice photos Richard, does the bird have a blue tinged eye?

Cheers

Dennis

nardes wrote in post #19470047
Nice photos Richard, does the bird have a blue tinged eye?

Cheers

Dennis

thanks Dennis
well! Yes it does and I hadn't noticed
Couple of tight crops

avondale87 wrote in post #19470052
thanks Dennis
well! Yes it does and I hadn't noticed
Couple of tight crops

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Thanks Richard, it was more noticeable in #2 (OP) where the eye was more in the shadows.

Cheers

Dennis

White-gaped Honeyeater (Stomiopera unicolor) behind Casuarina Beach, Darwin.

Pippan wrote in post #19470226
White-gaped Honeyeater (Stomiopera unicolor) behind Casuarina Beach, Darwin.

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Very attractive Pippan.
They would certainly blend with the environs.

I see it really is a Top End bird. Very straight line across the map

avondale87 wrote in post #19470254
Very attractive Pippan.
They would certainly blend with the environs.

I see it really is a Top End bird. Very straight line across the map

Yes, very distinctive call too, you always know when they're around.

Pippan wrote in post #19470255
Yes, very distinctive call too, you always know when they're around.

Yes, I listened. Quite crisp

Pippan wrote in post #19468763
Thanks Ray.

Inspeqtor you'll have to go to eastern Australia to hear them first hand but at least you would be almost guaranteed to hear them. They conduct a dawn chorus twenty minutes before sunrise and a dusk chorus twenty minutes after sunset. Our blue-winged kookas, in the north, do the dawn and dusk choruses too but have a different call. It's the call of the Northern Territory's Top End.

In the early '90s a friend of mine, a keen photographer and film-maker, David Curl, made a film called The Call of Kakadu. He was researching blue-winged kookaburras at the time. If you'd like to see what the environment of northern Australia is like, have a watch of it. We're currently in the middle of what's shaping up to be another very Big Wet, like the one in the film; lots of rain and flooding in many places.

Pippan that's an amazingly well documented film.
Life is tough in the world of nature
Those Kookaburra scenes early on are very nice (ugly youngsters)
I smiled when a lizard just went straight over the prone kangaroo. Treated it like a log. Why go round!
Thanks for the link

Pippan wrote in post #19470226
White-gaped Honeyeater (Stomiopera unicolor) behind Casuarina Beach, Darwin.

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Nice capture, Pippan! Looks like you went to the Little Kingfisher spot? There are a lot of different honeyeaters around. Saw them in the late afternoons bathing in the shallow water and having fun.

ozulrike wrote in post #19470302
Nice capture, Pippan! Looks like you went to the Little Kingfisher spot? There are a lot of different honeyeaters around. Saw them in the late afternoons bathing in the shallow water and having fun.

Yep, four different honeyeaters but no kingfisher. Here a Redhead's just dropped in on a Rufous-banded I'd been trying to focus on.

Pippan wrote in post #19470303
Yep, four different honeyeaters but no kingfisher. Here a Redhead's just dropped in on a Rufous-banded I'd been trying to focus on.

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Yes, they can be very elusive

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Two great shots!

nardes wrote in post #19470005
Adult Crimson Rosella feeding Junior in the Lamington National Park.

Dennis

Beautiful colors!

Pippan wrote in post #19470001
Immature Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta) at the tidal mangrove swamp behind Casuarina Beach.

Nice one!

avondale87 wrote in post #19470026
some more of our Forest Raven ~ Corvus tasmanicus

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Great captures!

Pippan wrote in post #19470226
White-gaped Honeyeater (Stomiopera unicolor) behind Casuarina Beach, Darwin.

Pippan wrote in post #19470303
Yep, four different honeyeaters but no kingfisher. Here a Redhead's just dropped in on a Rufous-banded I'd been trying to focus on.

Now those are different! Nice shots!

sogs wrote in post #19470349
Great captures!

Thanks Sogs