Monday, December 22, 2014

GREAT CRESTED GREBE

Photographed near Bowral, NSW, Grebe in breeding plumage.

466         GREAT CRESTED GREBE                 Podiceps cristatus

Australia            (308)

Found in lakes, larger lagoons and swamps, reservoirs, floodways, bays, inlets. Range around coast of Australia and far inland, most of NSW, Tasmania, Victoria, eastern half Queensland but not Cape York, coast of WA, top of NT, se of SA; also Eurasia, Africa, but not Indonesia and Borneo and PNG. 48-61 cm. 




SABOTA LARK


465           SABOTA LARK             Calendulauda sabota

South Africa            (123)

Found in dry savannah, moist savannah and subtropical or tropical shrubland. 15 cm. Near endemic to Southern Africa.


EURASIAN ROCK PIPIT


464            EURASIAN ROCK PIPIT                    Anthus petrosus

Britain         (13)

16 cm. Breeds on the rocky coasts of Western Europe, mainly resident in Ireland, Great Britain and France, and in the east Scandinavia and Russia. Found along rocky coastlines.