Paluma Outing - 27 January 2008
About 18 members ventured up to Paluma for the day where they visited Little Crystal Creek, the Grandis Forest, Birthday Creek and Paluma Village. While the bird watching was good they had to work hard to get the birds that were recorded for the day which included:
About 18 members ventured up to Paluma for the day where they visited Little Crystal Creek, the Grandis Forest, Birthday Creek and Paluma Village. While the bird watching was good they had to work hard to get the birds that were recorded for the day which included:
| Australian Brush Turkey | Brown Cuckoo Dove | Superb Fruit Dove |
| Red-tailed Black Cockatoo | Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Scaly-breasted Lorikeet |
| Australian King Parrot | Pale-headed Rosella | Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher |
| Forest Kingfisher | Dollarbird | Noisy Pitta |
| White-throated Treecreeper | Red-backed Fairy Wren | Large-billed Scrubwren |
| Brown Gerygone | Macleay's Honeyeater | White-naped Honeyeater |
| Eatern Spinebill | White-cheeked Honeyeater | Dusky Honeyeater |
| Yellow-spotted Honeyeater | Eastern Yellow Robin | Grey-headed Robin |
| Varied Sittella | Golden Whistler | Little Shrike-thrush |
| Yellow-breasted Boatbill | Black-faced Monarch | Spectacled Monarch |
| Pied Monarch | Leaden Flycatcher | Grey Fantail |
| Spangled Drongo | Barred Cuckoo Shrike | Cicadabird |
| White-breasted Woodswallow | Dusky Woodswallow | Pied Butcherbird |
| Victoria's Riflebird | Spotted Catbird | Tooth-billed Bowerbird |
| Red-browed Finch | Mistletoebird | Silvereye |
| Metallic Starling | ||
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It's definately a Pied Monarch
I'm sure I saw something up there.
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Is it a butterfly or a moth?
It's a Regent Skipper Butterfly, which is famous as having morphological traits of both butterflies and moths and could be described as the “missing link” between these groups.
(Greg Calvert)
(Greg Calvert)