Sal's Pix & Critter Stories

Sal's Favourite Bird pics

Sal Badcock Studio & Gallery
Mission Beach, North Queensland, Australia
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White-breasted or Little Cuckoo-shrike (Caroacina papuensis)

Link to Sweep, my rescued cuckoo-shrike's page

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)

'Righto then, I'm off!'
Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus)

These are the most ridiculous looking birds, they have short legs
like a crow with a really long tail like a pheasant.
They fly terribly.
They are actually not a pheasant, but a long-tailed relative of the cuckoo.
But unlike it's cuckoo relatives, it doesn't pinch other birds nests.

Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena)

Pick me! Pick me! No not him, Me!

Dusky Honeyeater (Myzomela obscura)

This little baby was brought into our verandah by his Mummy bird during a storm probably nearly 2 years ago.
He has decided that he likes it, and returns most nights to roost on his peg.

Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)

length: 22-28cm
The bee-eater does not build a nest in trees, rather it digs a tunnel in the earth.
They are communal birds who look after each other and their babies.

I love this photo, the bee-eater checking out the wood-swallow

White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus)

These little guys are common sight cuddled up together on wires.

Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii)

One of our many Kingfishers
length: 18-23cm
Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus)

Of course I had to have a lorikeet (that's my Girl guide name)

Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis

length: 26-30cm
Yellow-bellied Sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis)

length: 10-12cm
These tiny birds are everyones favourites.
They share their world with us and build their beautiful little nests under verandahs.Br> In fact lots of people hang bits of string or wire for that very purpose.
Link to my on-going Sunbird diary and more photo's

Beach Thick-knee or Beach Stone-Curlew (Esacus magnirostris)

length: 53-58cm

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White-breasted or Little Cuckoo-shrike (Caroacina papuensis) Link to Sweep, my rescued cuckoo-shrike's page

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) 'Righto then, I'm off!'	Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus) These are the most ridiculous looking birds, they have short legs like a crow with a really long tail like a pheasant. They fly terribly. They are actually not a pheasant, but a long-tailed relative of the cuckoo. But unlike it's cuckoo relatives, it doesn't pinch other birds nests.
Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena)
	Pick me! Pick me! No not him, Me!
Dusky Honeyeater (Myzomela obscura) This little baby was brought into our verandah by his Mummy bird during a storm probably nearly 2 years ago. He has decided that he likes it, and returns most nights to roost on his peg.
Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus)

length: 22-28cm The bee-eater does not build a nest in trees, rather it digs a tunnel in the earth. They are communal birds who look after each other and their babies. I love this photo, the bee-eater checking out the wood-swallow White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus)
	These little guys are common sight cuddled up together on wires.

Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii) One of our many Kingfishers length: 18-23cm	Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) Of course I had to have a lorikeet (that's my Girl guide name)

Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis length: 26-30cm	Yellow-bellied Sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis) length: 10-12cm These tiny birds are everyones favourites. They share their world with us and build their beautiful little nests under verandahs.Br> In fact lots of people hang bits of string or wire for that very purpose. Link to my on-going Sunbird diary and more photo's
Beach Thick-knee or Beach Stone-Curlew (Esacus magnirostris) length: 53-58cm