Queensland birds

We are back in California after 3 weeks in Australia. It's hard to limit the photos but here are some favorites.
Also a bat.




Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher


Rainbow Lorikeets


Tawny Frogmouth


Spectacled Monarch


Black-faced Monarch


Eastern Whipbird


Rainbow Bee-eater



Eastern Yellow Robin


Pale-yellow robin



Laughing Kookaburra


Regent Bowerbird


Bridled Tern


Buff-banded Rail


Superb fairy-wren


Variegated Fairy-wren


Red-backed Fairy-wren


Rufous Fantail


Flying Fox (Fruit Bat)

Fiji birds: Nadi and Taveuni

We spent Christmas week in Fiji. Here's our birding highlights.


White-collared Kingfisher


Collared Lory


Jungle Myna


Vanikoro Broadbill



Orange-breasted honeyeater


Banded Rail



Fiji White-eye


Red-breasted Musk Parrot


Fiji Goshawk


White-faced Heron


Polynesian triller



Fiji Woodswallow


Common Myna


Red Avadavat


Reef Heron



Magnificent Frigatebird


Golden Plover

We had some problems with Bird Identification, but eventual found a good birding brochure from a driver and searched the internet for the rest.