Category: Australian wildlife

Another bird from the show at Healesville Sanctuary, this Black Breasted Buzzard waits for the signal to take off again.

I went to Healesville Sanctuary last week to take a visiting friend from the US to her first taste of Australian wildlife and birdlife in action. We watched the bird show which was amazing. This is a Black Kite catching food in mid-air.

A common name for the Darter is Snake Bird. If one approaches one sitting on a log or branch it will writhe its neck in a snake like manner. Like cormorants, the Darter needs to regularly leave the water and sit on a log, rock, branch or navigation piles in order to dry its wings….

One of the things that bird photographers love doing is getting a BIF shot – a bird in flight. I was focusing on this Australian Sulphur-crested White Cockatoo as it sat on a branch but then it decided to take off.

Via wikipedia: The Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles), previously known as the Masked Plover and often called the Spur-winged Plover in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent. It spends most of its time on the ground searching for food such…