Some photos from the 2013 Gulf of Carpentaria tour
All photos taken by Philip Maher, July/August 2013


Eastern yellow robin

Yellow honeyeater


White-breasted whistler, immature. Karumba


Varied sittella, white-winged form. Gregory River

Varied lorikeet

Striated heron


Squatter pigeon


Spotted bowerbird,


Spinifex pigeon, Cloncurry

Rufous-crowned emuwren, fledgling. South of Cloncurry.

Purple-necked rock-wallaby, Cloncurry


Owet nightjar, Cumberland Dam, Georgetown


Lilac-crowned fairywren, Gregory River


Kalkadoon grasswren, south of Duchess

Jabiru (black-necked stork)

Gregory River, south of Burketown


Golden bowerbird

Australian (Cloncurry) ringneck

chestnut-breasted mannikin


Southern cassowary

Australian bustard

Buff-sided robin

Bridled honeyeater

Bower's shrike-thrush



Blue-winged kookaburra

Early breakfast in the Isa Hotel's carpark