Wedge-tailed Eagle about to land on a kangaroo carcass. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Australian Wood Duck having a splash. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Black Swan. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Red-capped Plover (female) protecting her chicks. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

White-fronted Tern. Breed in New Zealand and other islands in the region, but some visit us here in southeast Australia in August/September. Looking forward to their reTern this year! #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Flame Robin fluffed up on a frosty morning. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Eastern Reef Egret. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Superb Fairy-wren (female). #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Musk Lorikeet feeding on ironbark blossoms. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Great Egret landing in Merimbula Lake (a few years ago). #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Red-browed Finch. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Brown Skua in southeast Australian waters. Sadly, this species made headlines this week as the first recorded case of H5N1 bird flu on the Australian mainland. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Wedge-tailed Eagle (Australia’s largest #raptor) disturbed by a passing car while feeding on a road killed kangaroo. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Hooded Plover in southeast Australia. #BirdOfTheDay #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

Sooty Oystercatcher at Ulladulla in southeast Australia. #BirdOfTheDay #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

Pied Stilt. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Spotted Harrier. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Black Swan cygnet in a contemplative mood. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Crested Tern preening. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Buff-banded Rail at Lake Curalo in Eden. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Curlew Sandpipers at Mogareeka. These beautiful little #shorebirds are critically endangered here in Australia and I haven’t seen any in my region for the past five years. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

Bullers Albatross. #WorldOceansDay #BirdOfTheDay #seabirds #WildOz

Pacific Gull with a freshly caught crab. #SuperSeabirdSunday #BirdOfTheDay #seabirds #WildOz

White-eared Honeyeater perched on an old fencepost at Gluepot Reserve last year. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #WildOz

Powerful Owl in a rainforest gully here in Merimbula a few years ago. Australia’s largest owl. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #WildOz

After the rain: a rather wet Grey Butcherbird in my backyard a few years ago. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #WidOz

Australasian Grebe (at Honeyeater Dam a few years ago :) #birds #BirdOfTheDay #WildOz

White-browed Babbler on a stone wall at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. #birds #WildOz

Emus crossing the face of a steep sand dune in the Coorong. #birds #WildOz

Black-faced Cormorant near Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray River this morning. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Black-faced Cormorants near Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray River this morning. The pipe they are roosting on conveys dredged sand from the river across the dunes to the open ocean in an ongoing process to keep the river mouth open. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Apostlebird in Hattah-Kulkyne National Park in northwest Victoria. #birds #WildOz

@milliganreports.bsky.social What a heartbreaking and yet also heartwarming story. Beautifully written! Loved #Shellybanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Buller's Albatross in heavy seas off southeast Australia. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

Sooty Oystercatcher staying ahead of the incoming waves at Ulladulla. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

Hooded Plover says N0! These little Australian #shorebirds are critically endangered here in NSW with only 60-70 left. (Fortunately, they are doing better in Vic, Tas, SA and WA.) #birds #WildOz

Kookaburra sitting in an old gum tree (as prescribed) at Booderee Botanic Gardens. #birds #WildOz

Sooty Oystercatcher at Ulladulla. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

Red-capped Plover at Ulladulla. #shorebirds #birds #WildOz

New Holland Honeyeater at Ulladulla with a Pacific Ocean background. #birds #WildOz

Diamond Firetail at Rocky Hall. (Apologies for the steep angle. By the time I'd got flat on the ground for a much better photo, this bird had flown :) #birds #WildOz

From the archives: three Cormorant species together (Little Pied, Pied, Great) at Haycock Point in southeast Australia. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

Welcome Swallow. #birds #WildOz

Little Wattlebird taking off from a casuarina in my backyard. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Fairy Prion in southeast Australian waters. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Golden Bosun at Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). This golden form of White-tailed Tropicbird is a Christmas Island special. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

White-headed Pigeon posing for a portrait on my back deck in Merimbula this evening. A handsome pigeon from the wetter forests of eastern Australia. Fortunately, I have a well forested gully over my back fence, so these birds are regular visitors. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Crimson Rosella moulting into its adult plumage feeding in a grevillea in my backyard. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Rainbow Lorikeets preening each other after some rain. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz