SATIN FLYCATCHER

218        SATIN FLYCATCHER           Myiagra cyanoleuca

Australia         (218)

Range down e. coast and highlands and in Tasmania. Found in heavily vegetated gullies in forests,woodlands, coastal forests and woodlands, open country. 15-17 cm.

DUSKY MOORHEN

217     DUSKY MOORHEN              Gallinula tenebrosa

Australia         (217)

Also known as Waterhen. 35-40 cm. Range sw WA, Tasmania and e. third of mainland except Cape York. Found in well-vegetated wetlands, town lakes, parks, farm dams, irrigation storage, drains, rivers, wetlands and mangroves.

CATTLE EGRET

216              CATTLE EGRET         Ardea ibis

Australia          (216)

48-53 cm, span c. 90 cm.  Range from the Kimberley to coastal se. and around to Adelaide, also in sw WA and Tasmania. Originally came to NT from Indonesia in 1940s. Found in stock paddocks, pastures, croplands, wetlands, tips and drain ways.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

Cattle Egret in breeding plummage, photographed in Nepal.

INTERMEDIATE EGRET

215            INTERMEDIATE EGRET               Ardea intermedia

Australia         (215)

Also known as Plumed Egret. 56-70 cm. Range across northern third of mainland and e. half of mainland and in Tasmania. Found in freshwater wetlands, pastures and crop land, idal mudflats and floodplains.

Note: two different subspecies. If split bird from Cocos Island is nominate species. Bird from Australia will become Plumed Egret.   NOTE: now split by IOC 23 September 2023. Bird below is now a separate species. 

Photographed on Cocos Island, January 2023

GREAT EGRET

214      GREAT EGRET       Ardea alba

Australia     (214)

Also known as Large or White Egret, or Whit Crane. 76 cm -1 m, span c. 1.5 m. Ranges all over Australia except driest e. WA, nw SA and sw NT. Found in shallow riverbeds, estuaries, tidal mudflats, wetlands, sewerage ponds and irrigation areas.