Lajamanu
There is no doubt that water is the most important resource in the desert. I did all my birdwatching by the creek or a dam.
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| Brown Goshawk Accipiter fascialis |
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| Jacky Winter Microeca fascinans |
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| Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta nana |
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| White-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula penicillata |
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Yellow-tinted Honeyeater
Ptilotula flavescens |
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| juvenile Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis |
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| Horsfield's Bushlark Mirafra javanica |
I am fairly certain the above bird is a Horsfield's Bushlark. Happy for correction and a learning moment. Dr Thomas Horsfield, a US doctor and naturalist, worked for the British East India Co in Java. He was the first to describe the genus Mirafra using our bird
M. javanica as the nominate race. Dr Horsfield also described the Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo
Chrysococcyx (Chalcites) basalis. This info from "Australian Bird Names" by Fraser and Gray.
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Horsfiled's Bronze-Cuckoo
Chryscoccyx basalis |
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