Australian Birds

[caskur]

Australian Welcome Swallow. Small and fast...I was pleased to get a photo.

That is a rippa... well done.

[formosan]

No, crimson rosellas are different. Here's a mediocre image taken on a rather gloomy day from afar.

Eastern rosellas are more colourful.

[Rotwang]

Another Welcome Swallow. About the size of a small hand, they just don't stop swooping and soaring.

[Frood]

Rotisserie worthy...

[Rotwang]

This is an Australian striated pardalote. Striated means striped. It is very small, around the size of a wren. They are not easily photographed because of their size and the fact that they stay in shadow most of the time because they are rather easy prey for our raptor population.

[Frood]

No good for eating unless you've got 6-7 of them and a bamboo skewer...

[formosan]

This is an Australian striated pardalote. Striated means striped. It is very small, around the size of a wren. They are not easily photographed because of their size and the fact that they stay in shadow most of the time because they are rather easy prey for our raptor population.

It's very pretty Rotwang.

[caskur]

These birds, Purple Swamphens are not Australian although they thrive in our environment but this one with the mended gummy broken leg was too close in good light to ignore. Not a fashionable bird but a thread filler bird.

What do you think?

[caskur]

This breed is an Australian Shelduck.... Quite pretty ducks.

We haven't had rain for 8 months im Perth and our lakes have dried up. It's quite dire here... I start having a severe panic attack worried for our wildlife...

[formosan]

These birds, Purple Swamphens are not Australian although they thrive in our environment but this one with the mended gummy broken leg was too close in good light to ignore. Not a fashionable bird but a thread filler bird.

What do you think?

It's a unique looking bird.

[formosan]

This breed is an Australian Shelduck.... Quite pretty ducks.

We haven't had rain for 8 months im Perth and our lakes have dried up. It's quite dire here... I start having a severe panic attack worried for our wildlife...

They are both pretty, especially the one on the left.

[caskur]

They are both pretty, especially the one on the left.

That is the female I discovered today. They have white feathers around the eye and on their sides.

They are very pretty but those ones look distressed to me from our drought.

[formosan]

That is the female I discovered today. They have white feathers around the eye and on their sides.

They are very pretty but those ones look distressed to me from our drought.

We have some colourful ducks here, but some Australian ducks have such beautiful markings like the ones you posted.

[formosan]

I don't have a picture of a mallard, but I found this image of one of our most beautiful ducks.

[caskur]

We have some colourful ducks here, but some Australian ducks have such beautiful markings like the ones you posted.

You definitely have lovely ducks in Canada...we don't really take much notice of ducks do we? We just take them for granted.