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| The Blackshouldered Kite I would have to say is one of my favourite birds. They are only a small to medium sized raptor but they are so beautiful with dove grey wings, striped with a black panel and a white breast which they fluff the feathers out on, almost like bib. They have big eyes with a patch of black feathers which extend slightly past the eye giving them a slightly oriental look. They have a small hooked beak and a small amount of black on the underwing. I'm repeatedly amazed at how close they will let me get, mind you they are always safely perched above the ground, but I've had a few of them just sit for quite awhile and let me take photos before they swoop off, usually to hover above the ground before they pounce on some small unsuspecting mammal, reptile or insect. To me they have an unusual way of looking which seems a little sad but very unknowledgeable, as though they know something that I don't. It's August and I notice one of them most days around Byron. I'd never seen a Bazza Hawk before, so seeing four of them, mum & dad & the kids, wheeling around and showing off in the big trees in a friends yard was pretty exciting! The Brahminy Kites, and there are a few of them, hang around the wetlands and the coast looking for food & are unmistakable with their white head & breast & deep chestnut brown upper wings. The Osprey too swoop around the beaches, sometimes diving down to pick up food and just as quickly swooping off. |
Black Shouldered Kite |
Black Shouldered Kite |
Black Shouldered Kite |
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* 1. Grey Goshawk |
* 2. Australian Hobby |
* 3. Grey Goshawk |
* 4. Black Shouldered Kite |
* 5. Collared Sparrowhawk |
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* 6. Swamp Harrier |
* 7. Wedgetail Eagle |
* 8. Australian Hobby |
9. Osprey |
* 10. Swamp Harrier |
* 11. Osprey (female) |
* 12. Collared Sparrowhawk |
* 13. Black Shouldered Kite |
* 14. Pacific Baza |
* 15. Osprey (male) |
* 16. Brahminy Kite |
* 17. Osprey (female) |
* 18. Osprey (male) |
* 19. Osprey (female) |
* 20. Black Shouldered Kite |
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