Thursday 7 May 2009

Everybody's talking (Melbourne birds)

Birds of Melbourne

I know what everybody is thinking, bird pictures. Have you seen any birds in Melbourne? Funny you should ask, I have seen a bunch of them and even compiled a list as well as some photographs of them, which I'll post in the next few days.

Rainbow lorikeet
Pied (or grey) currawong
Pacific gull
Silver gull
Little pied cormorant
Little black cormorant
Rock dove
Indian myna
Starling
House sparrow
Song thrush
Blackbird
Australian (Eurasian) coot
Dusky moorhen
Willie wagtail
Butcher bird
Welcome swallow
Spur winged plover
Whistling kite
Black swan
Little corella (?)
Mallard
other ducks
Southern boobook
Austrlian pelican
White plumed honey eater
Red wattle bird
Crested pigeon

Plus a lot of other small things I haven't identified yet.

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