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 |
palm in flower | |
Dendrobium orchid 26 June 2010 | 26 June 2010 |
28 June 2010 | |
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 |