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Chris Hail
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Hobbyist bird photographer around Meanjin/Brisbane Australia. Photos here all my own unless noted otherwise.
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It's time to post raptors!

White-bellied sea eagle 🪶 at Eagle Hawk Neck, Tasmania.
Photo of a white-bellied sea eagle in flight in a bright blue sky. It is a large eagle, mostly white as seen from below, with dark brown feathers on the trailing edges of its wings.
October 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Male paradise riflebird 🪶 Mt Glorious QLD
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Photo of an adult male paradise riflebird perched on a post. It is a small bird, solid black in colour, with bright metallic blue father's on top of its head and around its neck. It has a hint of bright yellow around the base of its beak, which is used as part of its elaborate mating dance.
October 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Black-shouldered kite 🪶 departing its perch. Oakey, QLD
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Photo of a black-shouldered kite flying toward the camera in front of a clear blue sky. It is a medium-sized raptor, white but for the edges of its wings, which are black. It has bright red eyes with dark feathers over the tops like eyebrows.
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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So that makes this a Crimecop scenario, then
October 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Green rosella 🪶, Port Arthur TAS
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Photo of a green rosella perched among blooms in a flowering shrub. It is a medium sized parrot which is not green, but largely bright yellow on its head and front, with blue wings. Its cheeks and chin are also blue, and it has spots of red feathers just above and below its beak, which is white.
October 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Fledgling pale yellow robin 🪶 in the dark forest
Cairns region, QLD
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Photo of a pale yellow robin perched on a branch against a dark background. It is a juvenile bird with scraggly feathers and uneven colouring, with pale yellow on its belly and mottled grey elsewhere.
September 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Scarlet myzomela honeyeater 🪶
Ipswich region, QLD
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Photo of a male scarlet honeyeater perched on a thin branch looking over its shoulder at me. It is a small bird with black feathers on its back and wings, a white underside and white edges on its wings, and its head and chest are as red as red can be. Literally; the camera's red sensor is maxed out in some parts of this image.
August 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Thanks! Didn't see any big stick insects, but there was this pretty healthy orb weaver up in the rainforest:
Photo of a large spider on a web deep in the forest. Its legs span about 8 cm. A woman's hand is visible holding a phone close to the spider, giving a sense of scale.
August 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Australian bustard 🪶 in deep grass. Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland
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Photo of an Australian bustard with just its head and neck showing through tall grass. It is a tall bird with a long neck, but it is stocky like a turkey, rather than slender like an egret. It has grey feathers on its face and neck, with a cap of dark blue on top of its head. Its eye has a light coloured iris, and its beak is short and robust.
July 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Goanna slowly climbing a tree, Cattana Wetlands
Cairns region, QLD
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Photo of a goanna - aka lace monitor - from the shoulders up, climbing the trunk of a tree. It is a large lizard, with thin wrinkly skin and a long face. It has bands of black and pale yellow on its lower jaw, as well as on its fingers. It is hugging the tree tightly, with its long claws gripping the bark.
July 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Eastern cattle egrets 🪶 commuting back to the roost after a long day of eating bugs in the fields.
Daintree River, QLD
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Photo of four cattle egrets in silhouette, flying in front of soft clouds highlighted orange by the sunset. Their long necks are held tucked to their shoulders in flight, while their legs trail behind.
July 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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From a great distance, i got this quick view of a grey goshawk 🪶 being mobbed by a mixed flock of lorikeets (mostly rainbow, but there are two scaly-breasted in this shot).
Hardings Paddock, Ipswich region, QLD
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Photo of a grey goshawk in flight above about 20 lorikeets in a cloudy sky. The hawk is facing toward the camera, with its wings spread wide and its tail tilted. The lorikeets are all wheeling the same direction, so the undersides of their wings are visible. They have a blaze of yellow, with red and orange on their bellies. As they are far away in this photo, their more vbrant colours are difficult to discern.
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A hungry sulphur-crested cockatoo screaming for attention.
Cairns, Queensland 🪶
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Close up photo of a sulphur-crested cockatoo with its beak wide open and its crest flattened back. It is a large white parrot with a black beak, a pale yellow crest on its head, and white eyes with large black pupils that give it a somewhat toy-like appearance.
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Scarlet honeyeater (myzomela) just coming in to his adult plumage. When it's all in, he'll be bright red all over his head and throat with a handsome black jacket and grey belly. 🪶
Hardings Paddock, Ipswich region QLD
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Photo of a male scarlet honeyeater perched on a branch. He is a small bird with a thin, curved beak. His feathers are mottled light and dark grey, with splashes of saturated red around his head and face. He has the confident but awkward look of a teenager eager to appear grown up.
June 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Pale-headed rosella 🪶 Sherwood Arboretum, Brisbane QLD
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Photo of a pale-headed rosella perched on a branch. It is a medium sized parrot, with a long tail and a rather stout beak. Its dominant colour is a yellowish off-white, with blue on its wings and red under the tail. On its back is a pattern of yellow with black spots.
June 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Black-shouldered kite approaching a perch. Ipswich region, QLD
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Photo of a black-shouldered kite in flight just in front of a decayed branch on a dead tree. It is a small white falcon-type bird, with its wings extended and its feet untucked. It has dark patches under its light grey wings, while the rear of its feathers are bright white.
June 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Always showing the skeptical eyebrows - Portrait of a willie wagtail, Cairns QLD
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Photo of a willie wagtail perched on a stalk of grass. It is a small black bird with its tail feathers held high and its wings folded. It has a white underside and a line of white over its eye. It is not related to true wagtails, but is a fantail that behaves like a wagtail, swinging its tail back and forth while it hops around on the ground looking for insects to eat.
June 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Squatter pigeon, far north Queensland
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Photo of a squatter pigeon standing in short grass. It is a brown pigeon with a white breast and hints of purple and green iridescence on its wing. It has a striking pattern of black and white on its cheeks, and its eye is surrounded by bright orange.
May 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Rainbow lorikeets 🪶 really do use the whole colour spectrum, most of it in maximum saturation.
Ipswich, Queensland
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Photo of a rainbow lorikeet perched on a stem studded with bright pink buds. It is a brightly coloured smallish parrot, with red eyes and an orange beak. Its face is purple with blue streaks, its chest is orange flecked with yellow, and it has green around its tail and the edges of its wings.
May 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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White-bellied sea eagle 🪶, Ipswich region QLD
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Photo of a white-bellied sea eagle, soaring overhead in a clear blue sky. It is a large eagle, with white feathers on its whole exposed underside except for the leading edges of its wings, which are dark brown. It has a distinctive pointed tail, much like the wedge-tailed eagle, which is the only eagle in Australia that is larger than this one.
May 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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White-fronted chat 🪶 from last year at Werribee Treatment Plant.
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Photo of a white-fronted chat perched on top of a bush. It is a tri-coloured bird, with light grey feathers on its back, dark brown on its wings and in a bib shape over its breast, and bright white on its face and neck and the rest of its front and underside.
May 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Blue-faced honeyeater 🪶 in the blooms of the backyard umbrella tree. They take turns with the more numerous rainbow lorikeets.
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Photo of a blue-faced honeyeater perched on blooming stems of an umbrella tree, in front of a clear blue sky. The stems are studded with bulbous pink buds, with a few of them starting to open. The bird is a medium large honeyeater with a downward curving beak. It has black and white feathers, with a black bib down its throat and chest, and mostly black around its head. Its eyes are yellow, and its face is bald with blue skin in a gradient from light above its eyes to dark below them.
April 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The umbrella trees are blooming, and they're crowded with rainbow lorikeets. Three flowers are rich in nectar, which is all these birds eat.
Ipswich, QLD
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Photo of a rainbow lorikeet perched on a branch studded with pink buds and flowers. It is a brightly coloured medium-sized parrot, with an orange beak and eyes, blue face and belly, orange and yellow breast, and green and yellow on its wings.
April 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A pair of silvereyes, stacked up on neighbouring twigs. 🪶
Hardings Paddock, Ipswich region QLD
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Photo of two Australian silvereyes, perched on thin branches. They are small grey birds, with yellow feathers on their faces and wings. Their dark eyes are surrounded by rings of white, making it appear that their eyes are huge for their face.
April 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Sometimes you have to just go for the obvious cheesy shot.
Sunset at Moreton Island, QLD
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Photo of a sailboat on the horizon in front of a bright orange sunset.
March 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM