black butcherbird

Both eyes on this bird contained this white over the pupils. God knows how it was able the see? Yet it seem to be doing not to badly.

This photograph really shows the hook at the end of its beak.

Another species of Butcherbird.

That hook on the end of the beak looks as if it could do some damage.

I photographed this bird on the landscaped grounds of my lodge at Cape Tribulation, Australia.

This young bird was less shy than its parent who watched from a safe distance. This is my first effort with raw I can already see some advantages although the workflow is longer. I am pretty sure that will become more streamlined with practise.

This bird was using the wet leaves of the bushes to wash itself early in the morning. Normally they hide in the mangroves and make their melodious calls to each other and are rarely seen. After its shower it flew to the manroves and called its mate. they do have nasty feeding habits eating the...

This is a difficult bird to make an image of as it runs into the mangroves when it sees you. This morning it was making calls to its mate and must have been preoccupied as it allowed me to get quite close.