Monday 27 September 2010

Friends of Hanging Rock: bird identification walk

On Sunday morning the friends of Hanging Rock were joined by members of a bird watching group for the annual bird identification walk. It was great opportunity to meet knowledgeable and enthusiastic bird watchers - which I'm definitely not. However, I used the occasion to take photographs of the splendid flora, fauna, geological formations, and infrastructure of the Hanging Rock Reserve.

These images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.

The Hanging Rock reserve boasts well over 100 different types of birds and of these 39 are listed here; of course, not all were sighted, but many were. Wikipedia has articles for each of the 39 birds and for many more not listed here.

Australasian Pipit
Australian Golden Whistler
Australian Magpie
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Black-fronted Dotterel
Brown Thornbill
Brush Cuckoo
Crimson Rosella
Dusky Woodswallow
Eastern Rosella
Eastern Spinebill
Galah
Grey Currawong
Grey Fantail
Jacky Winter
Laughing Kookaburra
Little Raven
Magpie Lark
Pacific Black Duck
Pallid Cuckoo
Pied Currawong
Rufous Whistler
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Striated Thornbill
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Superb Fairywren
Varied Sittella
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Western Silvereye
White-browed Scrubwren
White-Eared Honeyeater
White-faced Heron
White-naped Honeyeater
White-throated Treecreeper
White-winged Chough
Willy Wagtail
Yellow Thornbill
Yellow-faced Honeyeater

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