birds of australia

During our recent trip to Australia, we were very fortunate indeed to see three Southern Cassowaries, a male, a female, and a juvenile. These are large birds, being ranked as the third heaviest bird int the world. Females can weigh up to 165 pounds and stand up to 6 feet tall! The medial of...

On our recent trip to Australia, we were fortunate to see a number of species of fairy wrens at the start of their breeding season. Like many fairy wrebs, Superb Fairy Wrens are “socially monogamous” but “sexually promiscuous”. A male and female form a pair bond and raise young together...

When we saw them, the Metallic Starlings were very active with feeding their nestlings. They nest in colonies, so there was constant activity. I noticed than one adult routinely staged in the same place before fly to and entering its woven nest. I was able to get this shot of the staging bird.

To continue with cockatoos as the subject of my posts, I am posting today an image of a Sulfur-crested Cockatoo. This back lit cockatoo is fly past with a bit of food in its beak. Males and females look the same, except for the color their iris. In males, the iris is quite dark (almost...

I have used a male Gang-gang Cockatoo as my avatar on this forum, so I thought that I would post an image to show what the entire bird looks like. In this image, the male has erected his crest in an attempt to look his best for a nearby female. The scientific species name for these cockatoos...

During our recent trip to Australia, we saw rainbow lorikeets multiple times at multiple locations. While in the Iron Range on the Cape York Peninsula, we found an ideal spot to photograph them, as the birds would land on a perch before moving in to feed. Like most lorikeets, Rainbow Lorikeets...