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Australian Wildlife Photography and Nature

302 images Created 14 Mar 2010

Australian Wildlife photography, including Australian parrot photos, pictures of koalas, images of kookaburras and kingfishers, wading birds, owls, raptos, falcons, honeyeaters, bee-eaters, and much more!

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  • Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Flight has always been a fascination of man, and our modern planes have taken some good hints from our feathered friends.  Here, the crimson rosella effortlessly flies through the forest.
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  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, AustraliaThe koala is most active at sunset, and spends at least 18 hours a day sleeping in trees.
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  • The Rainbow Bee-eater is very appropriately named, both for its colors and its diet.  It can expertly de-sting bees, wasps, and hornets, by rubbing and bashing the insect against a perch before eating it.  It is the only bee-eater found in Australia, and can eat as many as 100 bees each day!
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  • Cape du Couedic Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island
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  • The peregrine falcon is the true jet fighter of the skies!  As one of the deadliest birds of prey, it is the world's fastest bird.  It swoops down on its panic-stricken prey at speeds of up to 273 miles per hour (440 kilometers per hour)!  It will often use its talons to strike the prey in order to stun it and knock it to the ground.  The peregrine Falcon then picks up its prey off the ground and carries it to a sheltered place to eat.  Main prey include birds that fly in flocks, such as pigeons, parrots, and starlings.  Here is a portrait of a peregrine falcon.
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  • Galah, Kangaroo Island, Australia.<br />
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A pair of wild galahs poking their heads out of their home in a hollowed tree branch.  Galahs often tear away the bark around the entrance to their nesting hollows, to impede the climbing ability of monitor lizards, which devour bird eggs.  The definition of "galah" is a 'fool, silly person.'  Appropriately named after the bird of the same name because of its antics and the noise it makes.  For example, galahs have been observed playing in whirlwinds.  They deliberately let themselves be sucked up into the wind tunnel and spiral upwards, only to repeat the process once they are blown out the top.
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  • Remarkable Rocks panoramic, shot from within a small cave, Kangroo Island, Australia
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  • Barn owl portrait, showing delicate hair-like facial feathers known as vibrissae.  Vibrissae are extremely touch-sensitive and serve to enhance nocturnal birds' senses in the dark.
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  • The bird that Australians probable best relate to is the Laughing Kookaburra; perhaps because of its laughter-like call it seems to have an excellent sense of humor.  What many people do not know is that kookaburras are actually the largest members of the kingfisher family!
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  • A Comb-crested Jacana takes a break from foraging to peek up and peer through the thick reeds at Mareeba Wetlands, Australia.
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  • Most parrots including the rainbow lorikeet, breed in tree cavities, often in dead trees or branches, and often high off the ground.  Nests are lined with bark, leaves, and feathers, and keep eggs and chicks safe from terrestrial predators.
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  • Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Australia
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  • Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Australia
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  • The black-breasted buzzard takes a menacing stance to ward off threats.  This buzzard is a medium-sized bird of prey that eats rabbits, ground birds, lizards and carrion.  They glide at speed and snatch food from the ground, from trees, or in the air.  Interestingly, this buzzard will pick up and drop stones onto eggs in order to crack them open!  Its conservation status is listed as vulnerable.
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  • An Australian Pelican prepares to catch a scrap of flying fish. "A wonderful bird is the pelican, his bill will hold more than his belly can!" ~Dixon Merritt.
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  • Swamp Wallaby with a joey in its pouch, Australia
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  • Admirals Arch, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • A superb fairy-wren will mimic rodents to lure predators away from nests!  It does this by dropping flat on the ground, with wings to the side and the tail lowered, and scuttling off like a mouse.
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  • Yellow faced Whip Snake eating a frog, Mareeba Wetlands, Australia
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  • "Who needs monkey bars?  Every leaf, branch, tree is a monkey bar to me!"  A sulfur-crested cockatoo hangs upside down from a palm frond in Australia.
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  • A billabong at Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Australian Sea Lion pup on the beach at Kangaroo Island
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  • DNA evidence has found that the extinct Dodo belongs to the same bird family as doves and pigeons.  Out of the 25 species of pigeons and doves that are found in Australia, 23 of them are native to Australia.  Depicted in this image is the beautiful Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove.
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  • Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Because of its fearsome appearance, this harmless fish-eating Grey Nurse Shark was once killed indiscriminately as a suspected man-eater.  Sharks have an endless supply of teeth.  When one falls out, another grows in to replace it.  A shark may go through 10,000 teeth in a lifetime!
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  • Long pink legs of the Black-necked stork stand guard at the nest of eggs.  The Black-necked stork is the only stork in Australia.
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  • The Kangaroo Island Kangaroo is a subspecies of the Western Grey Kangaroo.  It is also referred to as the Black-faced Kangaroo or Sooty Kangaroo.  Here, a parent feeds alongside its joey.
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  • Little Shag, parent and child in nest, New Zealand
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  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • The White-bellied Sea-Eagle is found in coastal habitats and around terrestrial wetlands in tropical and temperate regions of mainland Australia and its offshore islands. The white-bellied sea eagle is also a  rare vagrant to New Zealand.
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  • Unlike the Green "Spotted" Catbird, this similar species is simply known as the Green Catbird which lacks a brownish-black ear patch. The Green Catbird is found in temperate and highland rainforests along the eastern coast of Australia.
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  • The Plumed Whistling Duck is a tall goose-like bird that roosts frequently in large camps on the banks of wetland areas.  Characteristic buff-colored plumes extend along the sides of these distinct ducks.
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  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • The remarkable vision of the Peregrine Falcon surpasses that of a human by eight times.  Soaring high in the sky, it can spot prey as far as 3 km (1.86 miles) away, before entering its impressive high-speed dive (of up to 240 miles per hour).  Attacking from above provides this feathered jet fighter both stealth and speed to catch its prey.
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  • The Wedge-tailed Eagle is the largest raptor in Australia, with a wingspan of 6 to 8 feet.
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  • Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia
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  • Australian Sea Lion, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • The Dusky Moorhen is found in wetland habitats, and is a bird of the rail family.
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  • Koala eating eucalypt leaf, Australia
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  • The Southern Cassowary is endangered in Australia, with only about 1,500 remaining.  75% of its original rainforest habitat has been cleared in Australia.
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  • Crimson Rosella, Australia
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  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Plumed Whistling-Duck sitting on its nest at Nyleta Wetlands, Australia
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  • Australian Sea Lion, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Unlike the other birds of prey that hunt during the day, the owl is active primarily at night.  The Sooty Owl has the largest eyes and roundest wings of all the masked-owls, making it well adapted for seeing in the dimly-lit forests at night.  It "bolts" its food, ripping off and swallowing the head first!
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  • Estuarine Crocodile flashing his crocodile smile, Australia
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  • Barn owl, Tyto alba, Australia
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  • Silhouette of a bird of prey (black kite) in flight, displaying its broadly feathered wingspan.
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  • Australian Sea Lion, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Australian Sea Lion, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • A pair of New Zealand Fur Seals soak up the sun on Stewart Island.
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  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Raven 01.jpg
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  • Barn owl, Tyto alba, Australia
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  • The Kangaroo Island Kangaroo is a subspecies of the Western Grey Kangaroo.
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  • Whiptail Wallaby 01_6686.jpg
  • Cape Barren Goose, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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  • Sydney Harbour Bridge Panoramic (12x33-inch)
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  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
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  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
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  • Spotted Eagle Ray
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  • Raven, Australia
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  • Australian Sea Lion Pups Panoramic (12x33-inch)
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  • Blue-winged Kookaburra 01_6081.jpg
  • Little Shag
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