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NATURALIST, AUTHOR AND WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER

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© David GW Hollands - https://www.davidhollandsbirds.com.au/ all photographs and contributions 2021

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The startling beauty of a Pacific Baza, moving through the rainforest

First flight. The maiden flight of a young White Goshawk

Pied Currawong making its ritual attack on a White Goshawk

Adult Collared Sparrowhawk in flight

Juvenile Collared Sparrowhawk

Red Goshawk female, dropping away from the nest

On guard. Female Peregrine near her eyrie

Female Peregrine gently feeding her day-old young

The female Peregrine raced past me, screaming

Through the forest. Square-tailed Kite in flight

The striking, rare and beautiful Letter-winged Kite, the world’s only nocturnal hawk

Take-off. Wedge-tailed Eagle

Young Black Falcon, always blacker and more dapper then the adults

The light morph Little Eagle eyed me closely

The young Australian Hobby left the ground and flew straight towards me

Spotted Harrier in hunting mode

Portrait of a Black-breasted Buzzard

The extraordinary gracefulness of the Black-shouldered Kite

In the early morning sun, a Brown Goshawk leaps into the air from beside the river

The Osprey fixed me with a piercing stare

With its long and powerful legs, an Osprey leaps up off the rocks

Two downy young Wedge-tailed Eagles

On the look-out at sunrise. Black-shouldered Kite

Perched in the wind. An old and very black Wedge-tailed Eagle

Dropping down to the nest. Female Spotted Harrier

WINTER FLOCK OF BROLGAS IN WESTERN VICTORIA

FLIGHT OF BROLGAS

Little Egret on the Beach

PAIR OF SARUS CRANES

PAIR OF BROLGAS

INCUBATING SARUS CRANE

BROLGA SETTLING ONTO NEST

SARUS CRANE AND BROLGA FEEDING TOGETHER. ATHERTON TABLELAND

PAIR OF SARUS CRANES. GULF OF CARPENTARIA

AUSTRALASIAN BITTERN AT NEST

BLACK-NECKED STORK AT SEA

CATTLE EGRET FOLLOWING TRACTOR

CATTLE EGRET LANDING WITH CATTLE

CATTLE EGRET WITH CATTLE

BROLGAS COMING IN TO LAND

GREAT EGRET LANDING

GREAT AND LITTLE EGRET FISHING TOGETHER

CATTLE EGRET WATCHING AS CATTLE GRAZE

BLACK-NECKED STORK LANDING ON NEST

TAKE-OFF. BLACK-NECKED STORK

BROLGA. ADULT AND JUVENILE AMONG LILIES

GATHERING OF BROLGAS. GULF OF CARPENTARIA

LITTLE EGRET FEEDING YOUNG

BROLGA. THE START OF THE DANCE

THREE WHITE-NECKED HERONS

GREY-TAILED TATTLERS

ORIENTAL PLOVER

AUSTRALIAN PRATINCOLE AT NEST

BANDED LAPWINNS AT NEST

BEACH STONE-CURLEW WITH CRAB

BAR-TAILED GODWIT FLOCK

BAR-TAILED GODWITS AT REST

CLOSE UP OF BAR-TAILED GODWITS

EASTERN CURLEWS THROUGH THE MIST

HOODED PLOVERS AT THE NEST

HOODED PLOVERS AT THE NEST

IN THE BREEDING COLONY OF BANDED STILTS

PIED AND SOOTY OYSTERCATCHERS AT HIGH TIDE

THE OYSTERCATCHER THAT ATTACKED ME

PIED OYSTERCATCHER AT THE NEST

RED-NECKED AVOCET

DEFENCE DISPLAY BY BUSH STONE-CURLEW

MIXED FLOCK OF WADERS TAKING OFF. BROOME, WA

AZURE KINGFISHER WITH FISH

LAUGHING KOOKABURRA FAMILY

LIKE A LANDING EAGLE. LAUGHING KOOKABURRA

KOOKABURRAS AND CAMERAS

BUFF-BREASTED PARADISE KINGFISHER, often known as WHITE-TAILED KINGFISHER

BUFF-BREASTED PARADISE KINGFISHER FLYING TO NEST

SACRED KINGFISHER AT TREE HOLLOW

SACRED KINGFISHER LEAVING TREE HOLLOW

LEAVING THE TREE, THE SACRED KINGFISHER BRIEFLY FLEW UPSIDE DOWN

YELLOW-BILLED KINGFISHER

CORRINGLE CREEK, HOME OF THE AZURE KINGFISHER

FISHING SEQUENCE. AZURE KINGFISHER

FISHING SEQUENCE. AZURE KINGFISHER

FISHING SEQUENCE. AZURE KINGFISHER

FISHING SEQUENCE. AZURE KINGFISHER

FISHING SEQUENCE. AZURE KINGFISHER

BARN OWL NESTING IN ENGLISH BARN. 1961

LANDING BARN OWL

GRASS OWLS AT NEST

GRASS OWL FAMILY

TASMANIAN MASKED OWL

ROOSTING PAIR OF POWERFUL OWLS

FEMALE POWERFUL OWL

RUFOUS OWL IN NEST HOLLOW

FLEDGLING RUFOUS OWL

AGGRESSIVE MALE BARKING OWL

PAIR OF TAWNY FROGMOUTHS

CHRISTMAS ISLAND HAWK OWL

PAIR OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND HAWK OWLS

BLAKISTON’S FISH OWL, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN

BLAKISTON’S FISH OWL HUNTING

SPECTACLED OWL. COSTA RICA

BARROW, ON THE NORTH COAST OF ALASKA

WARNING NOTICE AT POINT BARROW

SNOWY OWL, ALASKA

HANDLING THE SNOWY OWL HIDE IN THE WIND

NEST AND EGGS OF SNOWY OWL

SNOWY OWL AND CHICK

FEMALE SNOWY OWL

SNOWY OWL LANDING AT 2.00am

SNOWY OWL EGGS AND CHICKS

TEACHING INUIT BOYS ABOUT THE SNOWY OWL

WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE WITH FISH

YOUNG SEA-EAGLE FEEDING ON SHARK

WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLES ARE NOT POPULAR WITH NESTING MAGPIES

JUVENILE SPOTTED HARRIER

JUVENILE SPOTTED HARRIER

BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE

BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE TEACHING JUVENILE TO HUNT

LETTER-WINGED KITE

LETTER-WINGED KITES

GREY GOSHAWKS AT NEST

AUSTRALIAN HOBBY

BLACK FALCON AT NEST

PEREGRINE FALCON AT NEST HOLLOW

GREY FALCON WITH PREY

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