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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.
    White-bellied Sea Eagle_6556.jpg
  • 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.
    Green Catbird_6545.jpg
  • Between 5.1-6.2 in (13-16 cm), the Double-eyed Fig Parrot is the smallest of Australia's 56 species of parrots.  The female Double-eyed Fig Parrot has a red forehead, while the male has a blue frons.
    Double-eyed Fig Parrot_3640.jpg
  • The adult straw-necked ibis sports not only an iridescent coat of back feathers, but also straw-like white feathers along its neck.  Found commonly along the east coast of Australia, it is also a vagrant to New Zealand, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island.
    Straw-necked Ibis_3194.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 11_7651.jpg
  • Barn owl, Tyto alba, Australia
    Barn Owl 03_3844.jpg
  • Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Australia
    Sulfur Crested Cockatoo 06_H7C9881.jpg
  • Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Australia
    Sulfur Crested Cockatoo 05_H7C9901.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 10_7598.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 08_7538.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 07_7524.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 06_6635.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 03_6610.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 02_6605.jpg
  • 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.
    Black-necked Stork 03_6018.jpg
  • 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.
    Black-necked Stork 04_6013.jpg
  • 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.
    Black-necked Stork 02_5928.jpg
  • Estuarine Crocodile flashing his crocodile smile, Australia
    Estuarine Crocodile 01_4673.jpg
  • Barn owl, Tyto alba, Australia
    Barn Owl 04_3846.jpg
  • Estuarine Crocodile, Australia
    Estuarine Crocodile 02_3604.jpg
  • Barn owl, Tyto alba, Australia
    Barn Owl 02.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 09_7540.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 04_6621.jpg
  • 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.
    Black-necked Stork 01_6589.jpg
  • 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.
    Black-necked Stork 05_6016.jpg
  • The Wedge-tailed Eagle is the largest raptor in Australia, with a wingspan of 6 to 8 feet.
    Wedge-tailed Eagle 01_3937.jpg
  • Remarkable Rocks Panoramic (12x33in), Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Remarkable Rocks Panoramic (12x33in).jpg
  • Remarkable Rocks panoramic, shot from within a small cave, Kangroo Island, Australia
    Cave Panoramic, Remarkable Rocks.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 12_7683.jpg
  • Australian Pelican, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Australian Pelican 05_6626.jpg
  • "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.
    Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo 01_3657.jpg
  • 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.
    Australian Pelican 01_7730.jpg
  • 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.
    Barn Owl 01.jpg
  • Sydney Cityscape Panoramic (12x33-inch)
    Sydney Cityscape Panoramic (12x33-in...jpg
  • Spur-winged Plover (Masked Lapwing, northern subspecies: Vanellus miles miles)
    Masked Lapwing 05_4235.jpg
  • Australian Sea Lion Pups Panoramic (12x33-inch)
    Aussie Sea Lion Pups Panoramic (12x3...jpg
  • Sydney Harbour Bridge Panoramic (12x33-inch)
    Sydney Harbour Bridge Panoramic (12x...jpg
  • 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.
    Kangaroo Island Kangaroo_7190.jpg
  • Masked Lapwing, northern subspecies: Vanellus miles miles
    Masked-lapwing 04_4229.jpg
  • The Southern Cassowary is endangered in Australia, with only about 1,500 remaining.  75% of its original rainforest habitat has been cleared in Australia.
    Southern Cassowary 01_2747.jpg
  • Sydney City, Australia
    Sydney City.jpg
  • A pair of Laughing Kookaburras, Australia
    Laughing Kookaburra 04_5977.jpg
  • Plumed Whistling-Duck sitting on its nest at Nyleta Wetlands, Australia
    Plumed Whistling-Duck 01_4265.jpg
  • Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia
    Rainbow Lorikeet 03_3509.jpg
  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
    Forest Kingfisher 08_3505.jpg
  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
    Forest Kingfisher 07_3448.jpg
  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
    Forest Kingfisher 06_3445.jpg
  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
    Forest Kingfisher 02_2877.jpg
  • Laughing Kookaburra, Australia
    Laughing Kookaburra 09_8059.jpg
  • Koala eating eucalypt leaf, Australia
    Koala 07_8022.jpg
  • Sleeping Koala, Australia
    Koala 06_8005.jpg
  • Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island 02...jpg
  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Koala 05_7182.jpg
  • 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.
    Galah, Nesting 01_6997.jpg
  • Laughing Kookaburra, Australia
    Laughing Kookaburra 08_6741.jpg
  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
    Forest Kingfisher 01_6526.jpg
  • Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia
    Rainbow Lorikeet 05_6479.jpg
  • Swamp Wallaby with a joey in its pouch, Australia
    Swamp Wallaby 01_6273.jpg
  • 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.
    Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove_4614.jpg
  • Yellow faced Whip Snake eating a frog, Mareeba Wetlands, Australia
    Yellow-faced Whip Snake_5797.jpg
  • 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!
    Rainbow Bee-eater_4743.jpg
  • 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.
    Peregrine Falcon_4156.jpg
  • 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.
    Plumed-Whistling Duck_4307.jpg
  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
    Forest Kingfisher 04_3442.jpg
  • Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia
    Rainbow Lorikeet 04_3360.jpg
  • Laughing Kookaburra, Australia
    Laughing Kookaburra 03_3277.jpg
  • Laughing Kookaburra, Australia
    Laughing Kookaburra 02_3236.jpg
  • Forest Kingfisher, Daintree, Australia
    Forest Kingfisher 03_2904.jpg
  • Admirals Arch, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Admirals Arch_7472.jpg
  • Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island 02...jpg
  • A billabong at Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Billabong 01_6892.jpg
  • Laughing Kookaburra, Australia
    Laughing Kookaburra 07_6729.jpg
  • Laughing Kookaburra, Australia
    Laughing Kookaburra 05_6725.jpg
  • Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Australia
    Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo 01_6578.jpg
  • A Comb-crested Jacana takes a break from foraging to peek up and peer through the thick reeds at Mareeba Wetlands, Australia.
    Comb-crested Jacana 01_5706.jpg
  • Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia
    Rainbow Lorikeet 02_2917.jpg
  • Crimson Rosella, Australia
    Crimson Rosella 02_7214.jpg
  • Crimson Rosella, Australia
    Crimson Rosella 04_7192.jpg
  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Koala 02_7124.jpg
  • Crimson Rosella, Australia
    Crimson Rosella 03_7193.jpg
  • Crimson Rosella, Australia
    Crimson Rosella 05_7190.jpg
  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Koala 04_7177.jpg
  • Crimson Rosella, Australia
    Crimson Rosella 06_2777.jpg
  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, Australia
    Koala 03_7175.jpg
  • 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!
    Sooty Owl Portrait 01_3014.jpg
  • 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!
    Laughing Kookaburra 01_3241.jpg
  • 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.
    Superb Fairywren 01_7577.jpg
  • 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.
    Crimson Rosella in flight 01_7221.jpg
  • Frogmouths are named for their massive broad bills.  Like this Papuan Frogmouth, they perch motionless and disguise themselves as dead branches during the day.  At dusk, they begin foraging by swooping down on insects and spiders.
    Papuan Frogmouth 01_6559.jpg
  • 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.
    Peregrine Falcon Portrait 01_3348.jpg
  • 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.
    Rainbow Lorikeet in Tree Cavity 01_3...jpg
  • Koala, Kangaroo Island, AustraliaThe koala is most active at sunset, and spends at least 18 hours a day sleeping in trees.
    Sleeping Koala 01_7152.jpg
  • The Dusky Moorhen is found in wetland habitats, and is a bird of the rail family.
    Dusky Moorhen 01_6658.jpg
  • Frogmouths are named for their massive broad bills. Like this Papuan Frogmouth, they perch motionless and disguise themselves as dead branches during the day. At dusk, they begin foraging by swooping down on insects and spiders.
    Papuan Frogmouth 02_6573.jpg
  • 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.
    Black-breasted Buzzard 01_3954.jpg
  • Currently four subspecies of the Australasian Ringneck are recognized. Hybridization is common between the subspecies.
    Australian Ringneck 11_H7C6103.jpg
  • The Mallee ringneck (Barnardius zonarius barnardi), a subspecies of the Australian Ringneck parrot, showcasing its brilliant plumage.
    Australian Ringneck parrot and bloss...jpg
  • The Kangaroo Island Kangaroo is a subspecies of the Western Grey Kangaroo.
    Kangaroo Island Kangaroo_7261.jpg
  • Australian Ringneck roosting in the rain.
    Australian Ringneck 10_H7C5894.jpg
  • Australian Ringneck in flight, showcasing its beautiful vibrant spectrum of colors
    Australian Ringneck 08_5205.jpg
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