South Western Western Australia Birds - the Albany Region

In late December 2015 I travelled to Perth, hired a car and drove to the east of Albany (to Cheyne's Beach) to spend the new year, and beyond, exploring this unique part of Australia. The flora and fauna of this temperate region have been isolated from the rest of Australia for thousands of years by huge areas of arid wilderness that has allowed unique species, or sub-species, to develop. Three birds, the noisy scrub-bird, the western whipbird and the western bristlebird are endemic, rare and localised, and vocal, though famously difficult to sight, let alone get a photograph of, because their preference for thick scrub. Several times I was within a couple of metres of the scrub-bird, and the whipbird, without a sighting. For the bristlebird I was lucky to get a brief sighting as it moved through a thicket of scrub. 

Some landscape images are here.

Australasian Darter

Brush Bronzewing

Carnaby's Cockatoos

Common Bronzewing

Emu

Grey Fantail

Inland Thornbill

Purple-gaped Honeyeater

Red-capped Parrot

Red-winged Fairy-wren (m)

Regent Parrot

Rock Parrot

Southern Emu-wren (f)

Southern Emu-wren (m)

Splendid Fairy-wren (m)

Splendid Fairy-wren (f)

Western Bristlebird

Western Rosella

Western Spinebill (f)

White-breasted Robin

White-browed Scrubwren

Yellow-rumped Thornbill