Cheryl Ridge

Australian wildlife photos
Updated list of Australian birds and animals I have
photographed in the wild. Species total: 220+ birds.
Species marked * = card or print available from me here on Redbubble

ROBINS:
Eastern Yellow Robin *
Flame Robin *
Hooded Robin
Jacky Winter
Red Capped Robin *
Rose Robin
Scarlet Robin *

KOOKABURRA AND KINGFISHERS:
Laughing Kookaburra
Sacred Kingfisher
Forest Kingfisher
Azure Kingfisher

SWALLOWS AND WOODSWALLOWS:
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
White Browed Woodswallow
Dusky Woodswallow
Masked Woodswallow
White Breasted Woodswallow

WRENS:
Superb Fairy Wren *
Splendid Fairy Wren *
Red Backed Fairy Wren
White Winged Fairy Wren
White Browed Scrubwren
Variegated Fairy Wren

FINCHES:
European Goldfinch
European Greenfinch
Red Browed Finch *
Zebra Finch
Diamond Firetail *

FANTAILS AND WAGTAILS:
Grey Fantail *
Rufous Fantail *
Willie Wagtail

HONEYEATERS AND WATTLEBIRDS:
Blue Faced Honeyeater
Brown Headed Honeyeater *
Brown Honeyeater
Dusky Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
Lewins Honeyeater *
New Holland Honeyeater
Purple Gaped Honeyeater *
Scarlet Honeyeater
Singing Honeyeater
Spiny Cheeked Honeyeater
Striped Honeyeater
White Cheeked Honeyeater
White Eared Honeyeater *
White Fronted Honeyeater
White Naped Honeyeater
White Plumed Honeyeater *
Yellow Faced Honeyeater
Yellow Plumed Honeyeater
Yellow Tufted Honeyeater
Little Wattlebird
Red Wattlebird
Eastern Spinebill *

LORIKEETS/PARROTS/COCKATOOS
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo (West. Vic)
Gang Gang Cockatoo *
Glossy Black Cockatoo
Major Mitchell’s (Pink) Cockatoo *
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo *
Corella
Little Corella *
Galah
Musk Lorikeet *
Purple Crowned Lorikeet
Rainbow Lorikeet *
Australian King Parrot *
Blue Bonnet
Blue Winged Parrot
Mulga Parrot *
Red Rumped Parrot
Regent Parrot *
Turquoise Parrot
Mallee Ringneck *
Crimson Rosella (Vic *, SA and Murray Race)
Eastern Rosella
Green Rosella (restricted to Tasmania)

BIRDS OF PREY (RAPTORS)
Tawny Frogmouth *
Black Kite
Black Shouldered Kite *
Brahminy Kite
Brown Falcon
Collared Sparrowhawk *
Osprey
Swamp Harrier
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Whistling Kite
White Bellied Sea Eagle
Powerful Owl *
Southern Boobook

DUCKS AND GEESE
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Australian Shoveller
Blue Billed Duck
Cape Barren Goose
Chestnut Teal Duck
Hardhead
Musk Duck
Pink Eared Duck
Pacific Black Duck

OTHER WATER BIRDS
Australasian Gannet
Darter
Black Swan *
Cormorant: Black Faced Cormorant – Great Cormorant – Pied Cormorant –
Little Pied Cormorant – Little Black Cormorant
Australian Pelican *
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow Billed Spoonbill
Straw Necked Ibis
Australian White Ibis
Great Egret *
Heron: White Faced Heron * – White Necked Heron – Nankeen Night Heron –
Rufous Night Heron
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Tasmanian Native Hen
Buff Banded Rail
Black Tailed Native Hen
Tern: Crested Tern – Caspian Tern – Whiskered Tern
Australasian Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Hoary Headed Grebe
Sharp Tailed Sandpiper
Pied Oystercatcher
Sooty Oystercatcher
Black Winged Stilt
Red Necked Avocet
Beach Stone Curlew
Masked Lapwing
Black Fronted Dotterel
Red Kneed Dotterel
Australian Spotted Crake
Kelp Gull
Silver Gull
Pacific Gull
Little Penguin (Fairy Penguin) *
Sanderling
Painted Snipe

PIGEONS AND DOVES:
Common Bronzewing Pigeon
Wonga Pigeon
Bar Shouldered Dove
Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove

OTHER BIRDS
Apostle Bird
Australian Brush Turkey
White Browed Babbler
Chestnut Crowned Babbler
Satin Bower Bird
Grey Butcherbird
Pied Butcherbird
White Fronted Chat
Golden Headed Cisticola
Cicadabird
Pallid Cuckoo
Horsfields Bronze Cuckoo
Fan tailed Cuckoo
Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike
White Winged Chough
Grey Currawong
Spangled Drongo
Emu
Leaden Flycatcher
Restless Flycatcher
Little Friarbird
Rainbow Bee-eater
White Throated Gerygone
Superb Lyrebird *
Malleefowl
Australian Magpie
Murray Magpie (Magpie Lark)
Mistletoebird
Miner: Bell Miner – Bell Bird – Noisy Miner – Yellow Throated Miner
Spectacled Monarch
Olive Backed Oriole
Spotted Pardalote *
Striated Pardalote
Painted Button Quail
Raven
Silvereye *
Varied Sitella
Thornbill: Brown Thornbill – Buff Rumped Thornbill – Striated Thornbill –
Yellow Rumped Thornbill – Inland Thornbill – Chestnut Rumped Thornbill
White Throated Treecreeper
Brown Treecreeper
Bassian Thrush
Chestnut Quail Thrush
Grey Shrike Thrush *
Little Shirke Thrush
Varied Triller
White Winged Triller
Crested Shrike-Tit
Clamorous Reed Warbler
Weebill
Eastern Whip Bird
Golden Whistler *
Rufous Whistler *
Southern Whiteface

INTRODUCED SPECIES
Song Thrush
Indian/Common Myna
House Sparrow
Common Starling
Common Blackbird
European Greenfinch
European Goldfinch

Total sighted and photographed: 220 bird species, various other

OTHER AUSSIE WILDLIFE
Eastern Grey Kangaroo *
Bennetts Wallaby
Swamp Wallaby
White Bennetts Wallaby
Red Kangaroo *
Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat
Koala *
Echidna *
Possum
Flying Fox
Water Rat
Scarlet Percher Dragonfly
Banded Flutterer Dragonfly *
Jacky Lizard (Tree Dragon) *
Goanna – Lace Monitor *
Central Bearded Dragon *
Sand Monitor *
Stumpytail (Shingleback)
Tiger Snake
Copperhead Snake
Red-bellied Black Snake
Others – Dolphin, Fox, rabbit, hare, soldier crab, turtle, various insects