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A pair of black-browed albatrosses do a bit of mutual grooming to strengthen their bond. They will often touch beaks and call, as well. The birds in this colony were nesting alongside rockhopper penguins.
Red-browed Finch, Neochmia temporalis
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With apologies to Bobby Darin— if anyone remembers
A Finch family came down into the water feature to bathe. I expected it would be a quick splash and dash, but some settled in for a long soak. This one splayed out its tail for exta beauty.
Sericornis frontalis
A bird that rarely ventures out from beyond the sticks & scrub where it is often heard and seldom seen. It was thus a nice surprise to have one pose out in the open for a brief moment before returning to the scrub.
White-browed Scrubwren
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Some territory invaders go to great lengths to remain safe from attack :-)
This Scrubbie was determined to move on the intruder.
While participating in the Aussie Bird Count, I came across this little beauty. Hopefully I identified it correctly.
Red-browed Finch
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Came across a family of Finches working in a newly sprouted bean patch.
Then I realised they were helping themselves to the fresh bean shoots.
White-browed Wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis) is a resident breeder in India and is endemic to the Indian subcontinent.
Pitiguari (Cyclarhis gujanensis)
(Gmelin, 1789).
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Bempton - East Yorkshire - Great to catch up with this Ocean Wanderer , What a sight and one I would never have expected to see in my lifetime . Amazing that it was taken in the Northern hemisphere rather than were it should be in the Southern Antarctic.
The rufous-browed flycatcher (Anthipes solitaris) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is native to Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It was formerly placed in the genus Ficedula.[1]
Thalassarche melanophris and Morus bassanus
Flying over Staple Newk Gannet breeding colony. Sad to see the dead gannet below, and the remnants of fishing nets that the gannets pick up for nesting material.
The gannet has possibly died from the bird flu outbreak that is currently affecting UK seabird colonies.
White-browed Scrubwren
I was walking along a well used footpath, when the Scrubwren jumped out in the open and hunted among the leaflitter. It seemed to have no fear of people passing by on the footpath.
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Red-browed Finch
Scientific Name: Neochmia temporalis
Description: The Red-browed Finch is most easily recognised by its bright red eyebrow, rump and beak, on an otherwise green and grey bird. Upperparts are olive green with grey underneath. Both sexes are similar in appearance. Often observed in small flocks, which feed on the grass. They will fly into dense undergrowth when disturbed by a passer-by. Red-browed Finches may also be called Red-browed Firetails.
Similar species: Silvereye
Distribution: The Red-browed Finch occurs mostly east of the Great Dividing Range, between Cape York in Queensland and the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia
Habitat: The Red-browed Finch is found in grassy areas interspersed with dense understorey vegetation, often along creek lines.
Seasonal movements: Largely sedentary.
Feeding: The Red-browed Finch feeds on seeds and insects on the ground, but sometimes perches on seeding grass heads.
Breeding: The nest of the Red-browed Finch is large and domed, with a side tunnel for an entrance. It is a rough construction of twigs and grass stems built in a dense shrub between 1 and 2 metres from the ground. Both parents share nest-building, incubation of the eggs and feeding of the young when they hatch.
Calls: Short, high-pitched whistles.
Minimum Size: 10cm
Maximum Size: 12cm
Average size: 11cm
Average weight: 11g
Breeding season: October to April
Clutch Size: 4 to 5
Incubation: 14 days
Nestling Period: 22 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Seen at Marc Newman's place at Ballandean. Marc and Jan have many of these beautiful birds visiting them.
The Red-browed Firetail occurs mostly east of the Great Dividing Range, between Cape York in Queensland and the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. It grows to 10-12cm.
There must have been more sunlit shots collectively taken of Arten Gill viaduct on the eastern side in the past two weeks than there have been over the duration of very many years past. From this angle, the last occasion for me was over twenty-one years ago, so I was very happy to obtain this on Friday 31st July 2020. Locomotive Services Ltd.'s D6817 (37521) leads (with 47593 on the rear) the 1Z40 08:35 Skipton to Appleby Rail Charter Services 'Settle & Carlisle Tourist Train' over Arten Gill viaduct, viewed from Stonehouse Brow on the Dent Fell.
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The snowy-browed flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Scientific name: Ficedula hyperythra
This is Albert the solitary Black-browed Albatross that became famous for visiting Bempton Cliffs for many summers between 2014 and 2022.
We'd taken a boat trip to photograph diving Gannets just offshore from Bempton Cliffs when Albert made a surprise and most welcome appearance. It was a pretty grey day so this isn't the best of shots but it serves as a nice reminder of our close encounter with him.
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Red-browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis) in the late evening, Woodlands Historic Park, Melbourne, Australia.
I hadn't noticed these little birds until recently.
They are at the entrance-way to the farm and it appears there are hundreds of them busily going about their day.
Thalassarche melanophris
Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire
Taken on its 100th day at Bempton this year, last year arrived later and stayed until early September.. This Albatross is believed to have lived in Europe since 2014, when he is likely to have been blown off course and left unable to return to his breeding grounds in the South Atlantic. It has now spent at least part of its summer amongst the Bempton Gannet colony on 4 occasions first visting in 2017.
Although vagrancies from the South Atlantic are rare, on several occasions a Black-browed albatross has summered in Scottish gannet colonies. A similar incident took place in the gannet colony in the Faroe Islands island of Mykines, where a black-browed albatross lived among the gannets for over 30 years. In July 2013 the first sighting of a Black-browed albatross in the Bahamas was recorded.
The Black-browed albatross feeds on fish, squid, crustaceans, carrion, and fishery discards. This species has been observed stealing food from other species. It can have a natural lifespan of over 70 years.
Apologies for the continuing theme of the Yorkshire Albatross but it was a pretty amazing, and this angle shows its underwing pattern rather than its black back. Black-browed Albatross normally only occurs in the southern hemisphere and its nearest breeding site to Britain is the Falkland Islands which is 8000 miles away. They are habitual ship followers and I'm assuming that is how this one managed to stray so far out of range. But Sooty Shearwaters www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5511808162/in/photolist also breed in the Falkland Islands and they routinely migrate north to British waters in large numbers every summer (which is the southern hemisphere winter).