Brisbane Queensland
Brisbane has a wide range of bird habitats, from the Moreton Bay RAMSAR recognised wetlands to the western rainforest of D’Aguilar National Park. Other sites include Oxley Creek Common in the south, and around Mt Coot-tha Botanic gardens, both places easily accessible from the city centre.
Link to: “Bird Places of Brisbane”
Photo: A treat to see is the male Red-backed Fairy-wren, here photographed on the banks of the Brisbane River at Fig Tree Pocket.
These beautiful Rosellas, belonging to the Blue-cheeked race of the Pale-headed Rosella species, are seen in the south-east of Queensland. This pair were photographed chattering away down the side path of a suburban Brisbane garden.
This Bush Stone-curlew was part of a family of three feeding in the car park at Bellbird Grove in D’Aguilar National Park.
The Pied Butcherbird is famous for its flute like song, which varies from place to place across Australia. This individual has introduced a short rolling trill into its song, contrasting sweetly with its clear flute like notes.
Scaly-breasted Lorikeets are a common sight across Brisbane. Here seen feeding in the flowers of a Golden Cane Palm.
Blue-faced Honeyeaters (pictured) use their size to dominate city gardens. This one had just seen off the Butcherbird in the previous photo.
Rainbow Lorikeets are ever present and tend to dominate feeding and nesting places wherever they go.
This Channel-billed Cuckoo was photographed at Brisbane’s Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. At the top of the gardens are extensive plantings of various forest types including subtropical and tropical rainforest, Bunya, Brigalow, Acacia, and Melaleuca forests.
As is common across south-eastern Australia, Noisy Miners dominate Brisbane’s degraded bushlands and man-made environments, to exclude smaller bush birds and other honeyeaters.
The Torresian Crow ranges across the northern parts of Australia and is common around the city.
Another common parrot seen in the city, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, screeching and making its raucous call
This Olive-backed Oriole has found a tasty treat, seen on the the Araucaria Walk at Enoggera Resevoir.
A Masked Lapwing feeds from a lawn at Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. The old name Spurwing for this bird refers to the lethal spurs it carries in the crook of its wing.
In the undergrowth at the Botanical Gardens an Australian Brush-turkey is foraging among the leaves.
The Australian Magpie. Magpies are common in the city but as Birdlife Australia surveys show they are loosing out to other birds such as the Butcherbirds and Miners in the urban setting.