Bird of the Week: 14th October - the letter 'S'

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Holly
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Bird of the Week: 14th October - the letter 'S'

I am so impressed with everyone's efforts last week - well done for thinking outside the box. Lets keep it going with another letter this week - the letter S

 

(next week we will move away from the letters, but lets give it another bash now).

Lachlan
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King Parrot and Little Corella... 

My excuse this week is that the scientific name of the King Parrot is Alisterus scapularis, and the scientific name of the Little Corella is Cacatua sanguinea.

dianne.kelly4
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I have enjoyed visits from scarlet honey-eaters to my garden whilst the gevilleas were in full flower.

Headsie
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Samphire, means birds to me, wrens, chats and many more.

This White-Winged Fairy-Wren I found in a salt pan in WA's wheatbelt.

richman

Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, Stilt (Pied)

Annie W
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Being fairly new to birding, I don't have a huge variety, so some you may have seen before.

Strepera fuliginosa

(Black Currawong) smiley

Spotted Pardalote

(Female)

Spinebill, Eastern

Australasian Shelduck

Tasmanian Scrubwren

Silvereye

Shrike-thrush, Grey

West Coast Tasmania

Annie W
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Hope no-one minds, may as well keep going laugh

Superb Fairy-wren with a silly smile

Sweet sensible Superb Fairy-Wren sliding off sprouting moss

Soft shaded Strong-billed Honeyeater

Secretive Scrubtit

Silvergull tootsies laugh (clearly I am now running out of descriptive 's' words) smiley

West Coast Tasmania

shoop
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Hahaha RubyE , oh you Started off Shy and then got Strongly into the Spirit of Sharing with Splendid SnapShotS Supported by your Super Smart Simply Funny SenSe of humour that always makes me Smile.smiley

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

dnа1972
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Very nice.

Annie W
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Surely I did Shoop, but you simply set a superb example showing spectacular specimens of speech in last weeks thread.  And, oh dear, clearly you win my friend, my thesaurus is broken, hehehe cheekylaugh

West Coast Tasmania

shoop
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More letter S

Sacred Kingfisher sitting on a safety sign.A Swan, Shelduck and Shovelers Stilt having a scratchie salute Sneaky Spying Sittella

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

mpb
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Spotted Harrier

Mark

dicutting10
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love everyone's S birds - there are quite a few when you look.  Dredged through my files to see if I could come up with some different ones - first is a spangled drongo, a spotted dove, the beautiful sea eagle, some little silvereyes and last but not least the starling looking glam with the late afternoon sun.

Diane

shoop
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Several more .

Swans (Mute)

 Swallow sunning showing its spotsSwallow soundingSinging Honeyeater Silvereye

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

mpb
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Some more from my backyard.

Sea Eagles

Singing Superb


Spangled Drongo


Scared Kingfisher

Shag on a stick (sorry)

Silly Look (Double sorry)

Mark

Annie W
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Squawking Sparrow

West Coast Tasmania

mpb
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Not my backyard, but was for a short period.

Secretary Bird

Skimmer

Storks

Yellow billed.

White neck

grey crowned

Scavengers

Mark

shoop
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Wow I have only taken a couple of these type of birds and that was overseas , fantastic photos by the way, what are the vultures feeding on and where exactly were these taken . Fabulous capture and great to see a complete mix up. That secretary bird is one strange awesome bird indeed, wouldn't  mind getting myself one of them !

Kerry - Perth, Western Australia.

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