Top End birding tour photographs
22 June - 6 July 2010


checklist of species seen
notes on the tour

  photographs: Philip N Maher
black grasswren (female)                                        6 July 2010 The helicopter delivers us to Mitchell Plateau    6 July 2010
black grasswren                                                        6 July 2010 black grasswren (male)                                          6 July 2010
bar-breasted honeyeater Mitchell Plateau         6 July 2010 Kimberley honeyeater Mitchell Plateau               6 July 2010
crimson finch                                                             4 July 2010 double-barred finches                                             3 July 2010
Gouldian finch (black-faced)  3 July 2010 Gouldian finch (red-faced)  3 July
Gouldian finch (unusual colour form)                   3 July 2010 Gouldian finch                                                           3 July 2010
Group of Gouldians                                   3 July 2010 Long-tailed finches                                   3 July 2010
Long-tailed finches                                   3 July 2010 Long-tailed finch                                     3 July 2010
Yellow-tailed mannikin                              3 July 2010 Masked finches                                        3 July 2010
Purple-crowned fairywren                           2 July 2010 Female purple-crowned fairywren                2 July 2010
Purple-crowned fairywren                          2 July 2010 Victoria River NT                                      2 July 2010
Brolgas, Parry's Lagoon area                    5 July 2010 Wetland species, Parry's Lagoon               5 July 2010
Great egret          Parry's Lagoon                            5 July 2010 Wandering whistle-duck's nest, Parry's Lagoon 5 July 2010
Lake Argyle                                                               4 July 2010 Yellow chat, Lake Argyle                                        4 July 2010
Yellow chat, Lake Argyle                                        4 July 2010 Sunset Kununurra                                                    3 July 2010
saltwater crocodile freshwater crocodile
East Point, Darwin                                                22 June 2010 Jabiru
black-chinned honeyeater (golden-backed form) Great bowerbird's bower
Red goshawk,   Mataranka                                30 June 2010 female red goshawk with prey                           30 June 2010
variegated fairywren     subsp. dulcis             28 June 2010 variegated fairywren  subsp. dulcis                  28 June 2010
Christine faces off with a black wallaroo Christine retreats ...
The vanquisher                                  Kakadu , 26 June 2010 Gunlom escarpment                                             29 June 2010
chestnut-quilled rock pigeon                              26 June 2010 Partridge pigeon Geophaps smithii smithii     26 June 2010
Wild man, Gunlom escarpment form               28 June 2010 sandstone dragon, Gunlom               pre-tour  21 June 2010
Magpie goose sandstone shrike-thrush
buff-sided robin dew on leaf
   
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palm in flower  
Dendrobium orchid                                 26 June 2010                                                             26 June 2010
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                                                                                  26 June 2010                                                                                  28 June 2010
blue argus butterfly orange lacewing
oak blue butterfly                                                  27 June 2010 common crow butterfly
  grey butcherbird (silver-backed form)
grey whip snake star finch