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Powerful owl sitting on tree branch looking and facing forward, bright yellow eyes, with a stripey white and brown chest

Powerful Owl

Scientific name Ninox strenua
Bird type Birds of prey

Male pink robin sitting and singing on a tree branch. It has a bright pink chest, with a blackish grey head and back. The bird is looking and facing to the right, the background is green

Pink Robin

Scientific name Petroica rodinogaster
Bird type Bush birds

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Scientific name Pycnonotus jocosus
Bird type Garden birds, Introduced birds, Urban birds

Rainbow bee eater holding a wasp in its beak

Rainbow Bee-eater

Scientific name Merops ornatus
Bird type Small insect eating birds

A male Zebra Finch perches on a large dark grey branch. He is facing right, and is shaded on the belly. His orange beak and chestnut cheek are highly visible against the pale background.

Zebra Finch

Scientific name Taeniopygia castanotis
Bird type Bush birds

Green parrot, with red patch under and over eyes, blue head, green body, yellow under wings. Bird is facing toward the right.

Musk Lorikeet

Scientific name Glossopsitta concinna
Bird type Parrots

The Restless Flycatcher builds a small cup-shaped nest of bark and grass bound with spider web, camoflaged with pieces of lichen and bark, and placed in a exposed position on a tree branch, often near or over water. Males and females both help to build the nest, incubate the eggs and feed the young. Up to three broods may be raised in one season and the young disperse quickly after fledging.

Restless Flycatcher

Scientific name Myiagra inquieta
Bird type Small insect eating birds

Black and white bird, angle from behind bird, birds head facing to the left

Pied Butcherbird

Scientific name Cracticus nigrogularis
Bird type Birdsong, Bush birds, Common birds

Two rainbow lorikeets sitting on a branch, surrounding by green leaves. Rainbow lorikeet. Blue head, orange beak, orange upper chest, blue lower chest. The right side bird is grooming left birds head.

Rainbow Lorikeet

Scientific name Trichoglossus moluccanus
Bird type Bush birds, Common birds, Garden birds, Hollow nesters, Honeyeaters, Parrots, Urban birds

Close up of very small thornbill. Yellow tinged front, with mottled brown all the way up to throat. Brown mottled head. Looking to the right

Striated Thornbill

Scientific name Acanthiza lineata
Bird type Small insect eating birds

White bird, with a black collar and back of head. White chest and face. Orange eye. Bird sitting on vegetation and looking to the left

White-fronted Chat

Scientific name Epthianura albifrons
Bird type Small insect eating birds

Small bird. Orange body, black head with a white throat and black collar sitting on a branch, facing sideways with its head facing to the right

Rufous Whistler

Scientific name Pachycephala rufiventris
Bird type Small insect eating birds