The orange faced one is a dusky moorhen, the one with the white is a eurasian coot, and the other two are some kind of duck (real specific, I know).
These funny looking things are guineafowl.
The white bird is a cattle egret and the black billed one is an Australian white ibis. The ibises are all over campus. They look pretty and exotic, but they lose some of their charm when you see one with a beak covered in salsa because it has been picking through the trash.
I really like these guys, the purple swamphen. I really like the birds that have that kind of colourful megabeak.
The last 3 are photos of the little corella. These guys form huge flocks and sit around in trees beaking off to people down below. They're the peanut gallery of the UQ lakes.
Very nice...keep the pictures coming.
ReplyDeleteThanks Patrick, love the Corella, and The Ibis, you are so lucky all this exotic birds.Will email or try Skype after we get your Sweetie on the plane. love June
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. I love looking at birds that can't fly at me and steal my sandwich...
ReplyDeleteguineafowl look delicious
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying all of your pictures.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone happen to know the specific type of guinea fowl that is shown in the picture above?
ReplyDeleteI know they're a species native to West Africa, because the Australia Zoo has the same kind.
ReplyDeleteNumida meleagris
ReplyDeleteThank you :) Great Pictures too
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I've been trying to figure out the names of the ducks!!!
ReplyDeleteIf you ever figure out what the brown and white ducks are called, post it up please!
Finally, I've found what those mutant turkey chickens are called, great blog.
ReplyDeleteI think that the brown ducks are called 'white eyed' ducks or 'Hardheads'. Thanks for the pictures.
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