Saturday, August 4, 2012

Common Canberra birds

The indigenous birds of Australia are amazing: medium-sized black and white ones; really big, crow-sized black and white ones; several types of beautiful parrots, including large-ish ones with green backs and wings and red fronts; large cockatoos, all white with a yellow pokey-fringe thing on their heads - really big, I mean, bigger than crows; and also parrots with light grey on back and wings, then salmon chests and light pink heads! 


I acknowledge that these pictures are quite poor - I simply cannot get any closer without a good zoom lens. But perhaps you can at least get an idea of the colors.








1 comment:

Heather said...

So so beautiful. I would have been screaming/squealing the whole time. We're y'all there when I found the parakeet in the road in Strand? So cute!