Greetings all from the iucn world parks congress! Great photos last week, well done.
This week I thought we could look at birds that are either - found in other countries as well as Australia (though can still be considered a native bird - eg a koel) - you might need to check the distribution of your bird before you post it - or birds that you have photographed internationally and not found in Australia (eg puffin).
As always, wait a turn before posting
Rainbow Bee-Eater.
Samford Valley Qld.
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
Dollarbird.
Samford Valley Qld.
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
Australian Pelican.
Samford Valley Qld.
A rather wet and bedraggled American Bald Eagle in the rain, Ketchican, Alaska.
Roly
Healesville
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36062443@N04/sets/72157632450588204/
Takahē with a cold wind blowing up its kilt - Orokonui Ecosanctuary New Zealand. Takahē were thought to be extinct until a small surviving population was discovered in the 1940s.
The Pheasant Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
Samford Valley Qld.
Pacific Golden Plover - from Samoa
Peter
This species is unmistakable.
The bird occurs in south-eastern Borneo, the southern Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, New Britain, and northern and eastern Australia. It isn't the best photograph but an interesting bird.
Samford Valley Qld.
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
Bar-tailed Godwit.
Quote, "The Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica undertakes one of the avian world’s most extraordinary migratory journeys. Recent research reveals that some individuals from the East Asia/Australasia Flyway population made a nonstop flight of over 11,000 km, the longest continuous journey that has ever been recorded for a landbird".
Samford Valley Qld.
Lots of great photos posted here - love Lathams Snipe, the Cisticola, Bald Eagle and the Bar Tailed Godwit - and all of them.
I got a New Zealand Tui on a Kowhai tree.
Shorty......Canon gear
Canberra
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawshorty/
Allen's Hummingbird
Peter
Yellow Headed Caracara from South America
Mark
Mallard.
Samford Valley Qld.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Central Park, NYC)
Peter
Grey Crowned Crane
Mark