Monday 10 September 2012

Seven down four to go...

Saw the last species of kingfisher that occurs in the Northern Territory today namely the Little Kingfisher...

Whilst not as colourful as Azure Kingfisher (very similar to Common Kingfisher in the UK) this minuscule member of the family (about the size of an oak leaf) is a real beauty when you watch it fish at low water.
There are only another four species in Australia that I have not seen - one of which is extremely rare (no more than a couple of records from mainland Australia), one restricted to the top end of Cape York, one restricted to east coast of northern Queensland and the last widely distributed across eastern Australia.
This takes my Aus list to over 215 species not bad for the first five and a half months.





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