#australian bird

[feathercreates]

becky lemme smash please (a.k.a. I found a Satin Bowerbird bower down by my local creek and was a little bit inspired. XD) Stickers, pattern goodies and more can be found on my Redbubble store here!

#satin bowerbird #bowerbird #meme #lemme smash #australian animals #aussie animals #birds #australian bird #native birds #wildlife #australia #bower #blue #purple #trash #rubbish #trinkets #knick knacks #becky lemme smash #TBH this wasn't just about the meme potential but I couldn't do stickers without it :P #looking forward to doing more aussie birds in this style!!

[wenbochenphoto]

This Australian superb lyrebird is busy feeding on the forest floor, looking for invertebrates in leaf litter. What powerful legs!

#faunaofaustralia #澳洲动物 #澳洲鸟类 #华丽琴鸟 #superb lyrebird #Australian bird

[kindercelery]

WARREN NEEDS TO DROP THE LASH SERUM

#please it’s been months since I’ve drawn him OR the emu guy 😭😭😭 #THAT IS A FULL GROWN MAN!!!! DROP THE LASH SERUM!!!! #ermmm what the scallop #artists on tumblr #silly drawing #art #digital illustration #oc #bird #bird oc #kookaburra oc #kookaburra #laughing kookaburra #Australian bird #Warren #oc Warren

[drhoz]

#2068 - Gallinula tenebrosa - Dusky Moorhen

AKA dusky moorhen, black gallinule, black moorhen and waterhen. Formerly known as Gallinula haematopus, Gallinula tenebrosa magnirostris and Gallinula tenebrosa subfrontata, but none of those names are now considered valid. The subspecies frontata from southeastern Borneo, the Sunda Islands, Timor and western New Guinea, and the subspecies neumannii from northern New Guinea, still seem legit, though.

One of the eight extant species in the moorhen genus, and found in India, Australia, New Guinea, Borneo and Indonesia. It is often confused with the purple swamphen and the Eurasian coot due to similar appearance and overlapping distributions, and in quite a few places in Australia you'll see all three, and quite possibly the Tasmanian nativehen and the common moorhen, on one lake.

John Gould described the dusky moorhen from a skin collected along the Murray River in South Australia in 1846. Hatchlings are fed annelid worms and molluscs at first, with more and more plant material added to the diet as they age. Adults are also known to eat carrion, bird droppings, and fruit.

Belconnen, ACT

#gallinula #moorhen #australian bird #australian capital territory #rallidae

[ravenarisart]

Rainbow Bee Eater - Merops ornatus

#bee eater #australian bird #artists on tumblr #rainbow bee eater #bird art #traditional art #natural history illustration

[tastetherainbow290]

There's a bird on my window :)

Anybody know what type of bird it is? I'm in Australia rn so that might be helpful information.b

#Bird #Australia #Australian bird #Window #Yellow #Idk why it's here #It just appeared this morning

[glasseswearingrabbitdetective]

So vocal 😂😂

#bird #Australian bird #magpie #iirc this bird type …

[thisfireflyandaphoenix]

australian birds really are the silliest creatures

#his name is Arcus and he is a menace and a joy #rainbow lorikeet #australian bird #posting it mostly so I have the file saved #he's been raised with humans since he was a chick he's extremely happy and well cared for

[ohjessicajessica]

This eastern rosella pin was a challenge to design! Fitting all the colours of the rainbow and making them play nice was difficult, but very rewarding in the end!

#eastern rosella #australian bird #pin game strong

[greg8114]

(со страницы "Kung Fu Chicken" Premium T-Shirt for Sale by BukovskyART)

#findyourthing #redbubble #bukovskyart #chicken #kung fu #karate #bin chicken australian #australian bird #funny bin chicken #bin chicken meme

[bukowsky-art]

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#findyourthing #redbubble #bukovskyart #pubg #winner #chicken dinner #game #chicken #gamer #battlegrounds #dinner #winner winner #battle royale #bin chicken #australian #australian bird

[ratocreative]

This is a photo of a special moment. I was alone at the top of Mt Donnabuang, trying to practice being in a meditative state. I spied this beautiful bird was flying amongst the tree tops, possibly hunting for food, when all of a sudden he swooped down to where I was sitting and decided to join me. He was unafraid despite being a wild bird.

This is a Carrawong btw. In Indigenous culture they are believed to be symbols of loved ones passed on, returning as ghosts. If one comes to you, it's possible that someone from beyond is trying to contact you. Though I don't know anyone now passed, so not sure who this message could be from.

Anyway I found it interesting, and had a good time hanging out with this little guy.

#film photography #film photo #wildlife #australian bird #currawong

[thebirdsofaus]

HALIASTUR LEUCOSTERNUS.

White-breasted Sea-Eagle.

Girrenera, Aborigines of New South Wales.

Me-ne-̏u-roo, Aborigines of the Cobourg Peninsula.

"In size and in the general markings of its plumage, this beautiful species is more closely allied to the Falco Ponticerianus of Latham, than to any other; but the total absence of the coloured stripe down the centre of the white feathers which clothe the head, neck and breast of the Australian bird, at once distinguishes it from its Indian ally.

The White-breasted Sea Eagle is very common on the northern and eastern portions of Australia, where it takes up its abode in the most secluded and retired parts of bays and inlets of the sea. 

...The chief food of this species is fish, which it captures either by plunging down or by dexterously throwing out its foot while flying close to the surface of the water; such fish as swim near the surface being of course the only ones that become a prey to it: sometimes the captured fish is borne off to the bird’s favourite perch, which is generally a branch overhanging the water, while at others, particularly if the bird be disturbed, it is borne aloft in circles over the head of the intruder and devoured while the bird is on the wing, with apparent ease. Its flight is slow and heavy near the ground, but at a considerable elevation it is easy and buoyant.

...

The sexes are so much alike in colour that it is by the greater size of the female alone that they are to be distinguished; the young, on the other hand, differ considerably from the adult.

Head, neck, chest and upper part of the abdomen snow white; back, wings, lower part of the abdomen, thighs, upper and under tail-coverts rich chestnut red; first six primaries chestnut at the base and black at the tip; tail-feathers chestnut red on their upper surface, lighter beneath, the eight central feathers tipped with greyish white; irides light reddish yellow; cere pale yellowish white; orbits smoke-grey; upper mandible light ash-grey at the base, passing into sienna-yellow and terminating at the tip in light horn-colour; under mandible smoke-grey; tarsi cream-yellow, much brighter on all the large scales on the front of the tarsi and toes.

#birds #australian bird #books

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024

From just before Xmas until the end of January, @purrdence and I were away from Perth, on what I'm fairly sure is the longest holiday I've had since High School, and that was just the summer breaks.

Which is not to say that the first week, in the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, went according to plan. For one thing it turns out that melatonin doesn't help me on long plane trips - it just makes me nauseous. And the property manager for the place we were supposed to be staying at in Canberra ghosted us. And then Purrdence, despite all our precautions before and on the fight, came down with COVID, so that shot any plans of us visiting my family for Xmas.

Species-wise, there was also the fact that quite a few of the species I saw I've actually posted about before, on previous visits to the Eastern States, and a fair number of them are also found here in Western Australia (This would go on to be an issue in New Zealand too, but more on that later).

Still, I got more than enough photos and new records to keep me interested, so there's going to a LOT of new blog entries over the next few months.

Here's a few species from Belconnen, in Canberra, that I've discussed before. Some back when the blog was still in single digits.

#australian beetle #australian bird #australian moth #australian bug #australian spider #australian fauna #australian capital territory

[platypu]

yeah facebook is terrible but sometimes you stumble across pure gold. there are dream animals i want to see in the wild and there will be posts like

ma'am that is the critically endangered regent honeyeater. There are less than 300 of them left in the wild

#the anklet indicates captive breed and released BUT STILL #i want to see one so bad this is so funny to me #birds #regent honeyeater #Anthochaera phrygia #bird #honeyeater #australian animals #fauna #conservation #wildlife

[webberwoof]

ive wanted to get a close up pic of a black shouldered kite for so long and it finally happened 😭😭😭 SO HAPPY

#birds #birding #ornithology #special interest #bird #bird photography #birdblr #australian birds #black shouldered kite #black-shouldered kite #accipitridae #accipitriformes