Last lot of photos of Top End birds for the moment

My son and I had a wonderful couple of weeks in the Top End. Here is a selection of various birds from throughout the trip:

Apostlebirds

Australsian Figbird

Australian Bastard

Australian Pelican

Australian White Ibis

Bar-shouldered Dove

Brown Honeyeater

Chestnut-breasted Mannikin

Comb-crested Jacana

Common Bronzewing

Golden-headed Cisticola

Great Bowerbird

Green-backed Gerygone

Grey Whistler

Grey-crowned Babbler

Little Bronze-cuckoo

Little Friarbird

Magpie Goose

Northern Fantail

Northern Rosella

Peaceful Dove

Rainbow Bee-eater

Red-collared Rainbow Lorikeets

Red-backed Kingfisher

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

Sacred Kingfisher

Striated pardalote

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Torresian Imperial Pigeon

Varied Triller

White-bellied Cuckoo-shirke

White-breasted Woodswallows

Willie Wagtail on Wallaby

Yellow Oriole

Egrets, Night Herons and a Coucal - photos of Top End Birds

Intermediate Egret

The above photo is an Intermediate Egret with its breeding plumage, fluffing itself at Yellow Waters, Kakadu. The next four photos are all of the Egrets, the Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret and Cattle Egret.

Great Egret

Intermediate Egret

Little Egret

Cattle Egret

The last of the Egrets is the Eastern Reef Egret. White then Grey Morph.

The following 2 photos are an adult and then a juvenile Nankeen Night Heron:

Nankeen Night Heron Adult

Juvenile Nankeen Night Heron

and finally a couple of Pheasant Coucals

Pacific Baza and Osprey from the Top End

I had a couple of enjoyable experiences with the Pacific Baza at Nitmuluk, Katherine, which flew across the road and sat on a branch just above the road, and the Osprey at Gunlom Billabong. Here are the photos.

Pacific Baza

Osprey