Black Swans in floodwater
Pacific Black Duck: Copley
White-faced Heron: Copley
White-face Heron at Copley Retention Dam, Northern Flinders Ranges, in July.
Little Pied Cormorant: Copley
White-fronted Chat: Copley
White-fronted Chat, Epthianura albifrons, on the shore of Copley Retention Dam, Northern Flinders Ranges.
Collared Sparrowhawk: Copley
Collared Sparrowhawk, Accipiter cirrocephalus, a small but fierce bird-hunting hawk seen in Copley, Northern Flinders Ranges in July.
Variegated Fairy Wren: Copley
Mistletoe Bird
The tiny male Mistletoe Bird has a distinct high pitched call and scarlet breast plumage similar in colour to the mistletoe flower. Seen here feasting on mistletoe fruits in June in the Northern Flinders Ranges, he will then excrete the sticky seeds onto branches of nearby native plants, enabling the semi parasitic mistletoe to germinate and embed into the branches of host plants.
Black Kite
The distinctive shape of a Black Kite with forked tail, circling over Copley Retention Dam.
Little Pied Cormorant nest
Nests of the Little Pied Cormorant are seen in low branches along the inlet of the Copley Retention Dam.
