Treecreepers, lorikeets and robins

[shakyHands]

Here are a few birds from the Wandoo national park about 80km east of Perth. Wandoo is a white eucalypt tree endemic to the south west.

Rufous Treecreeper (range is south west Australia and parts of South Australia). Both on Wandoo trees.






Purple-crowned lorikeet (occur across southern Australia)





Hooded robin found Australia wide. The male is black and white with its black 'hood', the female grey.





Western Yellow Robin (from south-west Western and southern South Australia) - very similar looking to the Eastern Yellow Robin from Eastern Australia



A shot after it has taken off - not a great shot but is shows off its bright yellow belly




And a bonus Grey shrike-thrush (typical of the naming of numerous Australian birds, not related to either shrikes or thrushes but is supposed to be a good singer)




All taken with OM1-mk2 with 150-400+TC and MC14

[Gerry]

The things that you learn around here. I never knew that there were any robin types other than the red breast that we see all over the place here. Informative image set, thank you for posting. 😎

[shakyHands]

The things that you learn around here. I never knew that there were any robin types other than the red breast that we see all over the place here. Informative image set, thank you for posting. 😎

There are quite a few robins in Australia. Below are two other examples. - the scarlet robin and the red-capped robin. It is worth noting that these are "Australasian Robins" and are not related (or only distantly related) to European and North American robins. A lot of our birds seem to get names that match European bird names but are completely unrelated birds. I can imagine early european settlers saying "look at that bird it looks like a Magpie". There is an Island off the coast near Perth called Rottnest Island. It is named from an early Dutch explorer who thought the Quokka (a marsupial in the macropod family like the kangaroo which is common on the Island) was a rat.