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More parrots from yesterday at Coonabarabran.

There's an Eastern Rosella, a female Red-winged Parrot, Male and Female Red-Rumped Parrots.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #parrot #EasternRosella #RedWingedParrot #RedRumpedParrot

Superb Fairywrens that were very curious about us as we watched the ring-tailed lemurs at the zoo yesterday.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #SuperbFairywren

This is the closest I've been to one of Australia's rarest honeyeaters. This magnificent bird is a Regent Honeyeater, and is critically endangered. There were a good half dozen captive birds in the aviary attached to the Taronga Zoo animal hospital. These are likely part of the captive breeding program to try to rescue the species.

I have previously been extraordinarily lucky and seen some in the wild.

#bird #captive #TarongaWesternPlainsZoo #AustralianWildlife #RegentHoneyeater

There are quite a few parrot species around here (Coonabarabran). Just now, I found these Red-Winged Parrots (male and female).

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #RedWingedParrot

Oh it seems I didn't post the Meerkats we saw at the zoo.

So here are some furry watchers for your Monday morning.

#Meerkat #Animal #TarongaWesternPlainsZoo

#SilentSunday

We've had a wet week, and clearly it was wet enough that this little micro-bat decided its usual roost was too damp, so it's sheltering under a rug on our veranda stairwell railing.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #bat #microbat

Three species of Thornbills I met yesterday on the same walk in the Warrumbungles National Park.

Yellow, Inland and Buff-Rumped.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #YellowThornbill #InlandThornbill #BuffRumpedThornbill

Giraffe Blep!

#blep #giraffe #TarongaWesternPlainsZoo #Dubbo

A male Flame Robin we found at the entrance to the Mayfield Garden at Oberon yesterday afternoon.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #FlameRobin

It's Rose Robin season again! As it gets closer to Winter, the Rose Robins appear around home. They're quite possibly here all year 'round, but in the cooler months they come down from the canopy to more accessible heights.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #RoseRobin #robin

Look at this cute round goat.

It's a Pygmy Goat, and there's a whole pen of them at #TarongaWesternPlainsZoo

(cute as they are, they still smell like goats)

#goat #PygmyGoat #animal

Until only relatively recently, these were called Purple Swamphen in Australia. They're now known as Australasian Swamphen (there's a version in New Zealand which is essentially identical).

This one was spotted at Glenbrook Lagoon, NSW.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #AustralasianSwamphen

New bird for me - a White-eared Honeyeater. Spotted at Mayfield Gardens this afternoon.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #WhiteEaredHoneyeater

White-winged Choughs (pronounced Chuff) in full threat display.

These are a communal bird species living in flocks with one breeding pair, and a lot of helpers. They're very territorial and in this image they were reacting to another group of Choughs encroaching on their territory.

As you can see from the bird on the right, they usually just look like black birds (their white wings only show in flight). But when they want to look tough, they engorge their eyes so they turn red. #bird

And now for something completely different - Animal Patterns.

Bongo, Zebra, Giraffe.

If anyone wants one (or all) of these in Desktop background size, hit me up and I'll put them somewhere to download.

#pattern #natural #animal

Danger Kitties

Lions in the rain at #TarongaWesternPlainsZoo

New bird for me today, a pair of Eastern Shrike-tits that were foraging in my front yard.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #bird #EasternShrikeTit

Magpie Lark, wondering what that clicking noise is (it's the camera shutter). Also known colloquially as a Peewee.

#Bird #MagpieLark #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

Spotted by the caravan this morning, a Weebill, which as its name suggests, has a wee bill.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Weebill

The melaleuca's are flowering at work, and the Rainbow Lorikeets are making full use of that fact.

#bird #RainBowLorikeet #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

A pair of Grey-Crowned Babblers I found this morning at Yelarbon.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #GreyCrownedBabbler

A study in Eastern Yellow Robins (or in this case an individual robin).

Caught up with a friend today and we went for a casual shoot out at the base of the Blue Mountains. We weren't expecting much (being close to midday), but this little robin decided to hang around for some photos.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternYellowRobin #robin

The Lewin's Honeyeater appears to be very common in my area, heard and seen very often. You'd think they were the most common honeyeater, but that crown probably goes to one of the smaller species that mostly stay in the canopy of the eucalyptus trees high above.

Regardless, this relatively small bird has a disproportionately loud call and despite the name honeyeater, will happily eat nectar as well as insects.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #LewinsHoneyeater