Autumn sunrise, Coorong National Park, South Australia
Friday, May 24, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Coorong National Park
Yesterday I spent the day in Coorong National Park looking for the highly endangered Orange-bellied Parrot. You can read more about this rare bird here. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find one, but I will try again next winter.
The Coorong is a special place of salt lagoons, sand dunes and mallee, all great habitat for birds and other wildlife.
I saw a wide variety of birds, including Straw-necked Ibis, the ever present Australian Pelican, Purple Swamphen and some distant Red-necked Avocets.
Some birds gave the quickest glimpse, like this Grey Shrike-thrush. This Yellow-rumped Thornbill almost hopped around my feet. Two Rufous Night-herons spooked from their roost and circled above me for a while.
In the roadside fields and paddocks were Galahs, Cattle Egrets and Cape Barren Geese.
The Coorong is a special place of salt lagoons, sand dunes and mallee, all great habitat for birds and other wildlife.
I saw a wide variety of birds, including Straw-necked Ibis, the ever present Australian Pelican, Purple Swamphen and some distant Red-necked Avocets.
Some birds gave the quickest glimpse, like this Grey Shrike-thrush. This Yellow-rumped Thornbill almost hopped around my feet. Two Rufous Night-herons spooked from their roost and circled above me for a while.
In the roadside fields and paddocks were Galahs, Cattle Egrets and Cape Barren Geese.
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