cywong

Tasmania, 30Jan2011 to 6Feb2011

This batch of photos recorded the birds we saw during our short trip to Tasmania (literally record shots), they are jpeg images taken with EOS 7D and 100-400mm zoom lens. Although we could not find all the 12 endemic species of Tasmania and there were a few rainy days in this trip; the beautiful scenery and our wonderful experiences still made this trip very enjoyable. I must thank Kayi for joining this trip with me; and many of the birds shown here were found by her.

Shy Albatross



Buller’s Albatross



Yellow-nosed Albatross


Australasian Gannet



Black-faced Cormorant




Silver Gull




Kelp Gull




Pacific Gull




Crested Tern



Caspian Tern


Fluttering Shearwater


Short-tailed shearwater



Little Penguin



White-faced Heron


Pacific Black Duck


Australian Wood Duck


Chestnut Teal – male

Chestnut Teal – female


Black Swan


Cape Barren Goose


Purple Swamphen


Tasmania Native-hen (endemic)


Pied Oystercatcher


Sooty Oystercatcher


Hooded Plover


Masked Lapwing


Swamp Harrier


House Sparrow


European Gold Finch

European Gold Finch - juvenile


Common Starling


Blackbird

Blackbird - juvenile


Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike


Australian Magpie


Black Currawong (endemic)


Grey Currawong


Forest Raven


Noisy Miner


Little Wattlebird



Yellow-wattlebird (endemic)


Green Rosella (endemic)


Eastern Rosella


Musk Lorikeet


Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo


Strong-billed Honeyeater (endemic)


Black-headed Honeyeater (endemic)



New Holland Honeyeater


Yellow-throated Honeyeater (endemic)


Yellow-rumped Thornbill


Brown Thornbill


Tasmania Thornbill (endemic)


Striated Pardalote


Spotted Pardalote


Forty-spotted Pardalote (endemic)



Silvereye


Golden Whistler - immature


Olive Whistler


Flame Robin –male

Flame Robin – female


Dusky Robin (endemic)



Scarlet Robin – male


Scarlet Robin – juvenile


Grey Fantail


Satin Flycatcher


White-fronted Chat


Tasmania Scrubwren (endemic)


Superb Fairy-wren - male


Superb Fairy-wren - female


Dusky Woodswallow



Tree Martin


Welcome Swallow


Laughing Kookaburra



Thanks for viewing.

[ Last edited by cywong at 5/07/2011 21:34 ]

Andiona

Excellent Trip & Nice Photo

lchunfai

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mchristine

Dear CY,

Kayi and you are wonderful twins of HKBWS who are always willing to share adorable birds photos with us.   Many thanks

Ficedula

Dear CY

Thanks for sharing the great photos from Tasmania; the seabird shots are especially impressive! Please do check the identification of two of the birds, however. The bird identified as a Scaly Thrush looks to me like a juvenile Common Blackbird, whilst the European Greenfinch appears to be a juvenile European Goldfinch.

I lived in Tasmania for 22 years; it's a wonderful place for birds and the scenery is unlike that anywhere else in Australia.

David Henderson

Perth
Western Australia

cywong

Thanks all for the kind comments.

I am also grateful to David for correcting my mistakes in bird identification; and I have amended the wrong captions.

DanielCKChan

Excellent series, Cherry! I want to be there too with my family.

Gumbei

Thanks CY for sharing the wonderful birds photos. All are superb!

cywong

Thanks to Daniel and Gumbei!

Tasmania is certainly a good place for a family trip.
Wild animals can be seen very easily;





on the other hand, there are many zoos.

It's fun to visit an oyster farm,

or a fruit farm.


The scenery is magnificent.

wleepoin

Excellent set of images. Thanks for sharing with us.

Cheers
PWMK

cywong

Thanks to Peter & Michelle.