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