“Wild birds that visit my backyard!”

[Renae]

I thought I would start a thread for everyone to post photos of wild birds that visit your backyard. I for one, love seeing all the different birds in different countries.

So, it is pretty simple.. post a photo of each wild bird that visits YOUR backyard ONLY and post the name of the bird too, with the photo.

PLEASE NOTE: if you don’t have photos you have taken of wild birds in your backyard, you can get images from Google, but please make sure you post a link where you got the photos from due to copyright.

I will go first... here are the wild birds that visit my backyard a lot.

Crested Pigeons:

Link

Red-tailed Black Cockatoos:

Link

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos:

Link

Sulphur Crested Cockatoos:

Link

Rose Breasted Cockatoos (Galahs):

Link

Eastern Rosellas:

Link

Crimson Rosellas:

Link

Rainbow Lorikeets:

(photo taken by me)

Mynah Birds:

Link

Crows:

Link

Bare Eyed Cockatoos:

Link

Butcher Birds:

Link

King Parrots:

Link

Princess Parrots:

Link

Magpies:

Link

Kookaburra's:

Link

There is a few others, but gotta try find the names of them.

 

[magni]

you are so lucky, I can't top that

 

[CosmoKramer]

Woww Im very jealous!!
I hope to visit Australia one day just to see all the wild parrots!

 

[TuathaSidhe]

awwww, I would love to have birds like that come into my yard!

We have the normal Red Birds, Finches, Blue Jays, Cat Birds, Black Birds, Crows and Robins. There are other birds that I have seen around, but not in my yard.

I do have some sort of bird nesting on my font porch. I think its a finch type but I am not sure, I will try to get a picture.

When I had my wisdom teeth taken out, my family didn't water my mums -_-..they died But, now I have a bird that made a nest! Dead mums on my porch, but thats ok, I dont care. hehe.

 

[Bokkapooh]

You have crows native to Australia? I never knew that!

 

[Daisy's Mom]

Stunning!!!

 

[Renae]

Yeah, they are Australian Crows. And the Magpies are actually called Australian Magpies.

 

[sweetpeaches]

Here is a pic of some cardinals in our back yard:

 

[MollyMouse]

I have lots of crows and magpies hanging around at the moment!!

 

[TuathaSidhe]

Here is a pic of some cardinals in our back yard:

Beautiful!! I love snow...

 

[Compassion]

I would love to be able to see Australia some day and also wild Cardinals!

 

[Tielygirl]

You have crows native to Australia? I never knew that!

Crows happen to be one of the only species in the world to be found on every continent! they are also very intelligent, and have highly social flock dynamics (they are very similar to us as far as family goes).


OK here it goes (this can take awhile...)

Goldfinches (they have 2 phases of color, winter and summer) Link
winter:

Summer:

Cardinal: Link

Indigo Bunting: Link

Scarlet Tanager: Link

Black-Capped chickadee: Link

Blue Jay: Link

Nuthatch: Link Although we get both varieties (the rose brested as well as this one) this one is more abundent in our area.

Raptor's

Sharp Shinned hawk: Link
* these guys are very petite hawks, in fact I think the tiels are almost bigger then them.

Red tailed hawk: Link

Northern Goshawk: These guys are the fishing birds, and have special adaptations on their feet specifically for fishing. Link

Great-Horned Owl:
The story to the ones we had in our yard this summer (raising babies!) is here: http://forums.avianavenue.com/bird-watchers-road/22250-great-horned-owls.html

Great Grey Owls: Link

American Kestrel: link

Oh also (cannot forget!)

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird: Link

That's all for now, Im pooped. there are many hundred more I could list but it could go on for days!
These are just regular birds, wait until I start on the migratory birds! In the spring and fall we have a HUGE influx of migrating birds traveling north and south.

 

[Tielygirl]

This is also a very good and detailed site with the birds we have up here Renae: — Species — Birds of North America Online

I forgot to add all the sparrows, finches, water fowl, and wood peckers we have then add on the invasive species that are competing with our native ones .

 

[Renae]

Beautiful birds! I love the Owl, Indigo Bunting, Scarlet Tanager, Black-Capped chickadee, and the Sharp Shinned hawk. All these amazing birds we don’t get to see.