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🌏 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Zanda funerea) #AustralianBirds | #YellowTailedBlackCockatoo #ZandaFunerea | #BlackCockatoos #Cockatoos #CockatooFamily #Parrots 📷: Photo by ChiemSeherin🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌏 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Zanda funerea)

The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo is a large, brownish-black bird with a short crest, distinctive yellow cheek patches, and a yellow tail band. It is distributed across southeastern Australia, including Tasmania, favouring eucalypt woodlands and forests. These cockatoos are diurnal, social, and often noisy, seen in pairs or flocks. Their flight is characterized by slow, deep wingbeats, and they primarily feed on seeds and wood-boring grubs. Two to three subspecies are recognised. Gemini 3 (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Fun fact: Their most distinctive sound is a high-pitched, mournful, and drawn-out "kee-ow... kee-ow" call, which is often described as sounding like a rusty gate or a wailing cry. This call can carry over long distances.

📷: Photo by ChiemSeherin via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/yellow-boring-black-cockatoo-cockatoo-9959679/

BAXO

Magpie sitting in the tree at the bottom of our drive just singing for the sake of it😊

#magpie #AustralianBirds #Australia #BirdSong

Baby peregrine falcon Girri, at CSU in Orange, is getting big quickly now, and starting to get curious. She still sleeps a lot but she's standing and walking and flapping more when she is awake.

#birds #birdsofmastodon #australianbirds #australianwildlife #PeregrineFalcons #falcons

Screenshot of a live nest cam looking inside a nest box. A baby peregrine falcon stands with its head very close to the camera.

Screenshot of a live nest box cam showing a baby peregrine falcon leaning over and flapping its wings.

Eastern Spinebill, Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania. These birds appear to have paler colouring than the ones we see in Queensland.

#BirdPhotograhy #AustralianBirds #OwnPics #WildOz #FediBirds #OMSystem

Small orange-brown, black and white honeyeater with long, curved, black bill perched on a small dead tree trunk, with trees and bushes in the background.

We saw a few Shy Albatross not far offshore from Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania.

#BirdPhotograhy #AustralianBirds #OwnPics #WildOz #FediBirds #OMSystem

Albatross soaring with wings outstretched and one wingtip just touching the surface of the water.

Black Swan babies are so cute! https://sydneybirder.com/2025/11/25/lone-cygnet-for-this-black-swan-couple/ #birds #BirdWatching #AustralianBirds

Fairywren Bird - Decorative Bird Art 🩵🩵🩵
https://jan-matson.pixels.com/featured/fairywren-bird-and-decorative-pattern-jan-matson.html
Decorative Australian bird art for wildlife lovers and interior designers seeking something uniquely Australian.

#DecorativeArt #InteriorDesignIdeas #WallArtForInteriors #JanMatsonArt #BirdArt #AustralianBirds #birds #bird #MastoArt #BirdsOfMastodon #art #artist #BirdPainting

A male Splendid Fairywren bird is perched on a decorative floral patterned background. The bird is light blue and dark blue and the background pattern is blue.

Not really a good picture, but I didn't feel like getting out of the car and closer to this #cassowary dad and his chicks. They also crossed the road quite quickly. #photography #wildlifephotography #australia #australianwildlife #australianbirds
Ooops - forgot alt text. So here it goes: photograph shows a cassowary and it's three chicks. The adult bird looks somewhat similar to an emu in shape and size. It has glossy black feathers that look a bit like fur. Its neck is featherless and blue, with a red wattle at the throat. The bird hat a helmet shaped bony casque on its head. The chicks are striped brown.

Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)

Amity Point, Queensland, Australia

#pelican #australia #bird #australianbirds #queensland

A pelican, standing on a sandy beach, with the ocean framed immediately behind it

Taking a moment of repose: A silver gull basking in the Mannum sun.

Mannum, South Australia.

Photo and edit by Kev.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #southaustralia #Seagull #SilverGull #Mannum #AustralianBirds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #BirdWatching #MannumSA #RiverLife

A close up, horizontal photograph by Kev Peirce of a silver gull (also known as a seagull) resting on a patchy lawn.

The bird is facing slightly down and to the right, showing its white head and chest, and light grey wings with a dark tail visible in the background.

It is clearly lit by sunlight, casting a dark shadow behind it and featuring a natural, grassy background.

The Australian brushturkey is a wonderful feathery weirdo. And this one tried to steal my toast. We had long conversations about the errors of its ways.
Brushturkeys are one of the species of birds who incubate their eggs in huge mounds of plant material, that they then tend to keep the temperature in the mound perfect for the eggs. When you watch one constantly adding and taking away stuff, you wonder if it wouldn't be MUCH less stressful to just sit on the eggs.
The yellow sack at their necks also inflates when they get excited, like the dangly nose thing of American turkeys (forgot what it is called).
#photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #travelphotography #australia #australianbirds

photograph shows a brushturkey, peeking over the edge of a picknick table, that has teacups, a pot of margarine and other food stuff on it.
The bird is roughly the size and shape of a turkey, has black feathers and a bright red neck. Around the lower end of its neck is a bright yellow sack of skin. The bird looks absolutely fascinated by the food right in front of it.

Australian bush-stone curlews make the most eerie sounds at night. (You can listen to recordings online) They are also first class starers.
#photography #wildlifephotography #travelphotography #australia #australianwildlife
#australianbirds

photo shows a bush-stone curlew, a long-legged bird with brown and white feathers and fairly large eyes. The bird is looking towards the camera.

Sulphur crested #cockatoos are becoming so tame that my wife always takes her #iPhone out with her. This morning they let her get right up within touching distance and the result is the next two #videos.

#AustralianBirds #cockatoo #BirdPhotography #Australia

I was in the back garden and heard a characteristic peep-peep. My friend the king parrot was back. I can’t ignore that summons, went up to the deck to feed him. He was soon joined by his wife. #australianbirds #australia

Taking a moment of repose: A silver gull basking in the Mannum sun.

Mannum, South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.

#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #Seagull #SilverGull #Mannum #AustralianBirds #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #BirdWatching #MannumSA #RiverLife

I was standing in the vegetable garden wondering if the spinach was ready for picking when I glanced left - and saw these two tiny New Holland Honeyeaters babies looking at me.

Too new to the world to be frightened of me, they just sat there while i took this photo.

#BirdsOfFediverse #BirdsOfTheWorld #AussieBirds. #AustralianBirds

Two tony birds sitting on a branch deep inside a rosemary bush, almost obscured by leaves.

🌏 Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii) #AustralasianBirds #AustralianBirds #AsianBirds | #ForestKingfisher #MacleaysKingfisher #BlueKingfisher #TodiramphusMacleayii | #TreeKingfishers #TreeKingfisherFamily #Kingfishers 📷: Photo by polettix🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌏 Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii)

The Forest Kingfisher, also known as Macleay's Kingfisher or the Blue Kingfisher, is a strikingly blue and white bird. It features a bright blue back, wings, and tail, contrasting with a white breast and a distinctive black eye-band through the eye. Males have a white nape, while females have a blue one. It is found in coastal regions of northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia, inhabiting open forests, woodlands, and mangroves. This kingfisher is usually solitary or in pairs. It hunts by sally-pouncing, watching from a high perch and then diving to the ground or water to seize invertebrates, small frogs, and lizards. 2.5 Flash (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Fun fact: These birds have a tough way of making a home! They reportedly fly with such force, striking an arboreal termite nest with their bill repeatedly to chip away material, that observers have occasionally found birds that have died from a broken neck during the process.

📷: Photo by polettix via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/kingfisher-bird-nature-alcedinidae-821252/

GBCK

The first of Diamond & Gimbir’s 3 peregrine falcon eggs hatched today at CSU in Orange, NSW. Diamond left briefly, and you can see it here sleeping while resting on the other two eggs. Gimbir's first time as a dad, so it'll be interesting to see how he reacts to the chicks when he sees them—it took him a while to get the hang of incubating the eggs, but he's taken to it well now that he gets the idea.

Link to the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2RtoIMNzA

#birds #birdsofmastodon #australianbirds #australianwildlife #falcons #PeregrineFalcons