Dusky Moorhen

Shy in the wild but relatively tame in city parklands, this rail can run rapidly but usualy takes to water if threatened.
Pairs or small flocks feed on seeds, insects and frogs on land adjoining water.
It also feeds upended on underwater weeds.

Photo taken in Yanchep national park.

Australian Magpie

This melodious songster is an excellent mimic and one of Australia's most recognised birds. Its back feathers are colored black in NSW and white in Southern and Western Australia.
Living in groups with a dominant male, its territorial attacking humans that venture too close to its nest during the breeding season.
It eats insects small reptiles, birds and worms.

Photos taken. 1 Whiteman national park, W.A. 2,3 Pointheathcote W.A.

Australian Ringneck

Last Update: 02.07.2014, Photos 2,3,4,5 and text.

The name of Twenty-Eight Parrot is derived from its distinctive (twenty eight) call.

The Australian Ringneck is a large parrot, differing in size and plumage in different regions. There are four subspecies, in two main groups. All are mostly green, with an obvious yellow band on the hind-neck. Members of the Mallee group have a mainly green head and neck. 

The Malee Ringneck, subspecies bernardi, has more varied green and blue body, with more yellow underneath and a red frontal band. 

The Cloncurry subspecies mackgillivrayi has much more yellow and pale turquoise around the face. 

The Port lincoln group all have dark hoods and are mainly green.

None of them is not described in this blog, but the Australian ringneck is unmistakable with a yellow  hind collar on a mostly green bird.

The Australian Ringneck is endemic to Australia. The Mallee group is found in arid eastern Northern Territory, north-western Queensland and inland eastern Australia.

The Port Lincoln group is in central and western arid Australia. Ringnecks are generally absent from coastal areas in the eastern states.

Australian Ringnecks are found in pairs or small flocks over lightly timbered areas, open woodlands and tree-lined watercourses. They are mainly resident, but may move in arid areas in response to rainfall.

Australian Ringneck feed mainly on the ground, but also in trees and shurbs, usually in the morning and late afternoon, resting in the heat of the day. They eat seeds, and some fruits, flowers, nectar and their larvae. They often feed on split grain on roadsides. 

Australian Ringneck lay their eggs in hollows in living or dead trees on a base or on rotting wood dust. They enter trough a hole in the trunk, a knothole ore spount. Yhe female incubates the eggs while being fed by the male and she may leave the nest for a short time to be fed by him. The young are fed by both parents and often can be seen at the mouth of the hollow.

In the East of Australia, numbers are effected by clearing of mallee scrub and woodland for agriculture. Ringnecks were considered vermin in Western Australia and were shot as orchard pest in open shooting seasons. Aviary escapes are seen around urban areas in the east.

  

Photo- Jozef Skubin. 1. Kwinana town 07.03.2013. 2,3,4,5,6 Walter Point Swan River 29.06.2014

Text references.
Australian Birds, Their Nests and Eggs.
Field guide to Australian Birds.
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and and Antarctic Birds
Parrots and Pigeons of Australia
Wikipedia 

Little Corella

Last edit- 

28.06.2014,Photos /2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

02.07.2014 Photos 10,11,12 

Little Corella is one of several related species of Cockatoo, called Corellas.

Its congregates in flocks up to several thousand birds, which often include many Galags.

The birds generally roosts in trees overnight, and flies off to feed in the early morning and late afternoon with an almost deafening screeching.

When Little Corellas play, they become very noisy. They have conversations with each other, flies and also shows off by hanging themselves upside-down with their feet, beaks or both.

One bird was seeing hanging upside-down on two wires with its feet and back, letting its feet go and climbing  up. Then it does it all over again the right way up, and upside-down in a spinning motion.

We know also: Long billed Corella and Western Corella..

Photos/ Jozef Skubin  1 Kwinana town, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Caninngton River,
10,11,12, Walter Point Swan River.    

Galah

This bird often behaves erratically, and so its name has become synonymous with idiotic human behaviour.
The species is not popular with farmers because it assembles in large flocks that can damage crops.
In cities and country towns it is more often seen in pairs or small groups.

Photos taken in Kwinana town