Sailing with Nine of Cups Birds of Australia

s/y Nine of Cups
Birds of Australia
November 2011 - ???

Check back often; we'll update with new
birds and better photos as often as we can.

Australia is home to around 800 species of birds, half of which are unique. We'll begin our collection of
Australian bird photos at Chesterfield Reef in the Coral Sea. It's not technically Australia (it belongs to France
actually), but it is part of the Oceania/Australia continent and thus qualifies. We'll add more as we go.

Black noddy - Chesterfield Reef

Masked booby - Chesterfield Reef

Brown booby - Chesterfield Reef

Lesser frigate - Chesterfield Reef

Red-footed booby - Chesterfield

Lesser frigate-juvenile - Chesterfield

Sooty terns - Chesterfield Reef

Stint - Chesterfield Reef

Our chief reference is Helm
Field Guides Birds of
Australia - 7th edition by
Ken Simpson & Nicolas
Day which, by the way,
Marcie traded with the
publisher for rights to her
photo of a Pitcairn warbler.
Good trade!

We've also found a terrific
bird and wildlife website
that we highly recommend:
Ian Montgomery's
Birdway

Crested tern - Chesterfield Reef

Sandpiper - Chesterfield Reef

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Australian magpie/pied magpie - Bundaberg

Masked lapwing - Bundaberg

Straw-necked ibis - Bundaberg

Crested pigeon male fantail display

Galahs are grey and pink cockatoos. Cheeky and very common."Galah",an Aborignal word, also means a stupid person.

Crested pigeon - Bundaberg

Cockatiel - Bundaberg

Common koel - Bundaberg

Silver gull - Bundaberg

White-faced heron - Bundaberg

Eastern pale-headed rosella - Bundy

Yellow-throated honey-eater
Bundaberg

Rainbow lorikeet - Bundaberg

We continue to be
amazed not only by
the variety of bird
species here, but by
the sheer volume of
birds. We walk just
after dawn each
morning just to listen
to the birdsong and
the observe the birds
in the area. And this
is just one town in
Queensland. We're
just beginning to
explore.

Chesterfield Reef - 9 species identified

Zebra finch - back side (left) and front
(above)-Bundaberg

Australian white ibis/sacred ibis

Rainbow bee-eater - Bundaberg

Fantail pigeon (domesticated) - Bundy

Australian (Richard's) pipit - Deal Island

Purple swamp hen - Woodgate (above)
Blue-faced honey-eater (right) - Bundy

Willie wagtail - Bundaberg

Brown honey-eater - Bundy (above)
Pied butcherbird - Bundy (right)

Forest kingfisher - Woodgate

Little friarbird - Maryborough

Great egret - Walker's Point

Pacific black duck (male) - Maryborough

Australian wood duck couple - Bundy

Pied butcherbird - Bundaberg

Our location at the mouth of the Burnett River is
ideal for all sorts of bird species.

Cattle egret - breeding plumage - Bundy

Mistletoebird (male) - Bundaberg

Mistletoebird (female) - Bundy

Laughing kookaburra - Bundaberg
Largest kingfisher in Australia

Peaceful dove - Bundaberg

Black-winged stilt - Walker's Point

Double-barred finch - Bundaberg

Black shouldered kite - Bundaberg

Common redshank - Bundaberg

White-faced heron/eastern curlew - Bundy

Common greenshank - Bundaberg

Lemon-bellied flycatcher - Bundaberg

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Welcome swallow - Bundaberg

Figbird - Bundaberg
The male (far right) and female (above left) watched over the chick in the nest (above center)

Striated heron - Bundaberg

Osprey - Bundaberg

Eastern yellow robin - Bundaberg

KOOKABURRA
(Marion Sinclair - Australian Children's
Song, 1936)
(Thanks, Nancy Zapf, for sending these lyrics)

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree.
Merry, merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh,
Kookaburra! Gay your life must be.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see.
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
Leave some there for me.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
That's not a monkey, that's me!