Birding / Travel in Australia

Photography by Terry Sohl - May-June 2019

A trip of a lifetime!! Our little family took a trip to Australia from May 25th to June 14th, visiting a number of locations in the eastern part of the country. This page is dedicated to some of the better photos from the trip, with a focus on birds, but other animals and scenery at the bottom of the page.

Birds are listed roughly in taxonomic order. Click on an image chip or the species name to be taken to a page of higher-res photos. It's hard to pick a favorite photo from the trip, but it's probably the one I'm featuring below...an incredibly colored Eastern Rosella, taken near Bellingen, Australia.

Southern Cassowary	Black Swan	Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Duck	Grey Teal	Pink-eared Duck
Hardhead	Australian Brush-Turkey	Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Australasian Grebe	Rock Dove	White-headed Pigeon
Spotted Dove	Pacific Emerald Dove	Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove	Bar-shouldered Dove	Papuan Frogmouth
Dusky Moorhen	Eurasian Coot	Australasian Swamphen
Bush Stone-curlew	Masked Lapwing	Silver Gull
Great Crested Tern	Australasian Gannet	Australasian Darter
Great Cormorant	Pied Cormorant	Little Black Cormorant
White-faced Heron	Cattle Egret	Striated Heron
Australian White Ibis	Straw-necked Ibis	Royal Spoonbill
Black-shouldered Kite	Brahminy Kite	Laughing Kookaburra
Blue-winged Kookaburra	Forest Kingfisher	Sacred Kingfisher
Rainbow Bee-eater	Nankeen Kestrel	Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Galah	Long-billed Corella	Little Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo	Australian King-parrot	Red-winged Parrot
Crimson Rosella	Eastern Rosella	Rainbow Lorikeet
Spotted Catbird	Satin Bowerbird	Superb Fairy-Wren
Eastern Spinebill	Lewin's Honeyeater	Noisy Miner
Red Wattlebird	Dusky Myzomela	New Holland Honeyeater
White-cheeked Honeyeater	Macleay's Honeyeater	Striated Pardalote
White-browed Scrubwren	White-breasted Woodswallow	Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie	Pied Currawong	Gray Shrike-thrush
Australasian Figbird	Spangled Drongo	Willie Wagtail
Magpie Lark	Australian Raven	Victoria's Riflebird
Eastern Yellow Robin	Gray-headed Robin	Welcome Swallow
Mistletoebird	Olive-backed Sunbird	Australasian Pipit
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin

Other Critters

Honestly we didn't see all that many animals other than birds. There were glimpses of wallaby and the like when driving, slipping into the brush, but we really didn't see a lot overall. Here's a few:

Koala	Coppery Brushtail Possum	Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Red-legged Pademelon	Dingo	Grey-headed Flying Fox
Saltwater Crocodile

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