– KIMBERLEY BIRDS –

KOOKABURRA

BIRDS OF THE KIMBERLEY

Broome and the Kimberley has an amazing diversity of birds, over 330 species within a 70km radius.

Roebuck Bay is regarded as the most significant site in Australia for shorebirds, whose migration is a 20,000 km round trip!

Some of the birds included in this collection are the Tawny Frogmouth Owl, the Blue Winged Kookaburra, the Great Egret and a Collared Sparrow Hawk with a freshly caught dragon lizard between his claws.

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Amanda McInerney

TAWNY FROGMOUTH

One of my favourite birds, their feathers are extraordinarily soft. I found this out in a tragic way when trying to rescue a baby that had fallen from its nest.

They are very hard to spot, as they camouflage so well, often being mistaken for a branch!

COLLARED SPARROWHAWK

A bird of prey, the Collared Sparrowhawk eats small birds, lizards, insects, and even small mammals.

The image on left shows a freshly killed Ta Ta Lizard between his talons.

They are one of the few raptors that frequent suburban gardens.

BLACK FACED WOOD SWALLOW

Black faced woodswallows are sedentary (remaining in one area) to locally nomadic.

EGRETS

Not strictly a Kimberley Bird, it was one of the few birds that I was able to get close enough to, to take a decent photo 😊

RAINBOW BEE EATER

They catch flying insects like bees, wasps, dragonflies and beetles mid-air and remove the sting by rubbing the insect against a branch.

ZEBRA FINCH

CORELLA

AUSTRALIAN HOBBY

KIMBERLEY FLY CATCHER

Found almost entirely in mangroves around the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, from Broome around to Cambridge Gulf, these birds build the smallest nest of any bird in Australia. They lay only one egg.