10 YOU MIGHT SEE AROUND DARTMOUTH Eastern The is found in open The New Holland Honey Eater Australian King woodlands, grass- The ) Male King have a completely The New Holland Honeyeater takes nec- lands, farmlands and The Peregrine Falcon is a raptor. Adults have red head. Females are similar to males tar from the flowers of banksias, euca- remnant bushland. blue-gray wings, dark brown backs, a buff except that they have a completely green lypts, grevilleas and other trees and Often found in urban colored underside with brown spots, and head and breast. Both sexes have a red white faces with a black tear stripe on their shrubs. They are always very active, and habitats such as parks, belly and a green back, with green wings cheeks. They have a hooked beaks and strong are seldom seen sitting still. One of their gardens and golf talons. Their name comes from the Latin and a long green tail. They are found in more unusual activities is to conduct courses. Eastern word peregrinus, which means "to wander." ‘Corroborrees’, where up to a dozen pairs or family groups, and forages in are me- birds congregate and noisily display trees for seeds and fruit. King-Parrots The Peregrine Falcon feeds on small and me- dium-sized l parrots with distinctive together, fluttering their wings. Females lay their eggs on a bed of decayed wood- dium-sized birds, as well as rabbits and other white cheek patches. It has a red head, day-active mammals. It swoops down on its are slightly smaller in size. Young birds dust at the bottom of a deep hollow in neck and breast, with yellowish to prey from above, catching or stunning it with are browner and have a grey eye. The the trunk of a tree. greenish upper parts, a yellow under- its powerfully hooked talons, before grasping New Holland Honeyeater's cup-shaped and carrying it off to a perch to pluck and eat nest is made of bark and grasses, bound body and a yellow-green to blue-green it. together with spider web. It is lined with rump, with a red undertail. The shoul- They mate for life and breed in the same ter- soft material and is placed in a bush or ritory each year. The male courts the female ders are bright blue. Eastern Rosellas for about one month, using aerial displays. tree.. Both sexes feed the chicks. A pair mate for life. The female chooses and They make a nest, or scrape, on ledges and in of adults may prepares the nesting site, usually a small caves located high on a cliff. raise two or three hollow in a eucalypt tree Eggs are laid Mating season: Late March through May. broods in a year. Gestation: 29-32 days for egg incubation. The Satin Bower on a decayed wood bed and the female Clutch size: 3-4 eggs. incubates the eggs while the male

Both the male and female incubate the eggs regularly feeds her. The young may be for about one month. The chicks start to fly fed for a while after they fledge. in about 42 days, but are still dependent on their parents to learn how to hunt.

The Peregrine Falcon The Satin Bower Bird: Male and female satin bowerbirds are totally different in appearance. Males are iridescent nests annually on the deep satin blue, while females are predominantly olive green, The one thing they do have in common is an electric blue spillway at Lake eye. Bowerbirds are omnivorous, meaning that they will eat both plant and matter. Includes fruits, berries, new Dartmouth. shoots and insects.. Bowerbirds are so-named because of the intricate bower structures built by the males. These display arenas are to attract females, decorated with blue objects. 10 BIRDS YOU MIGHT SEE AROUND DARTMOUTH

Crimson Rosella Yellow Robin The Red Wattle Bird Kookaburra The Crimson Rosella is mostly crimson (red) The Eastern Yellow Robin has a grey back The is a large, noisy The Laughing Kookaburra is recog- honeyeater, the name refers to the nisable in both plumage and voice. It plumage and bright blue cheeks. The feathers and head, and yellow underparts Both sexes fleshy reddish wattle on its neck. The of the back and wing coverts are black are similar in plumage colour,, but the fe- plumage is grey-brown on the body, has an off-white underbelly, and with prominent white streaks and yel- broadly edged with red. Natural foods in- male is smaller. These Robins are found in a brown on the back and wings. The tail low on the belly. The face is pale and clude seeds of eucalypts, grasses and shrubs, wide range of habitats, from dry woodlands the tail is long with a white-tip. Young is more rufous, broadly barred with as well as insects and some tree blossoms. to rainforests. They are also common in Red Wattlebirds are duller and have a black. There is a conspicuous dark brown, rather than reddish, eye. The brown eye-stripe through the face. It is The Crimson Rosella's nest is a tree hollow, parks and gardens, and are usually first seen Red Wattlebird occurs in forests, located high in a tree, and lined with wood perched on the side of a tree trunk. Eastern woodlands and gardens, where it ag- one of the larger members of the king- gressively protects food-bearing plants shavings and dust. The female alone incu- Yellow Robins feed on insects, spiders and fisher family. The Laughing Kooka- from other honeyeater . They bates the white eggs, but both sexes care for other arthropods. Birds normally feed alone, feed on nectar, which it obtains by burra inhabits most areas where there the young. The chicks remain dependent on but may also be seen in pairs or small family probing flowers with its thin curved are suitable trees. Kookaburras feed bill. Some insects are also eaten, taken mostly on insects, worms and crusta- their parents for a further 35 days after leav- groups. either from foliage or caught in mid- ing the nest. During breeding season, breeding pairs of air. Berries and the honeydew produced ceans, although small snakes, mam- by some insects add to the bird's diet. Eastern Robins may lay up to three clutches mals, frogs and birds may also be Red Wattlebirds raise one or two of eggs. The female builds the nest and incu- broods in a season. Both sexes have eaten. Kookaburras are believed to bates the eggs. The nest is a woven cup of been recorded sharing incubation du- pair for life. The nest is a bare cham- ties, and both parents feed the young. ber in a naturally occurring tree hol- bark, grasses and other vegetation, bound together with spider web and lined with finer low. Both sexes share the incubation material and leaves. It is normally built in an duties and both care for the young. upright tree fork. Both parents, and some- Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually White Bellied Sea Eagle on Lake times some other helpers, care for the young offspring of the previous one to two Dartmouth birds. years, act as 'helpers' during the breed- The sea-eagle is readily distinguished by ing season. Every bird in the group its contrasting crisp-white and ashy-grey shares all parenting duties. plumage. This eagle is not confined to coastal areas, is regularly recorded at terrestrial wetlands along larger inland rivers and at freshwater swamps and lakes.