Unmistakable, with their pink and grey plumage, often travelling in large flocks when food is plentiful, either from traditional sources or grain crops. One of a small group in Currawinya N.P.
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The concerned look is possibly due to the fact that there is a young chick nearby. It is very well camouflaged and this tangled undergrowth covers quite a wide area.
I couldn't waste the opportunity of this shot, featuring my first pair of these red-backed hunters. The problem was they were in a large tree with about a zillion skinny branches! The best I could do was to mask the whole tree, minus the very centre, and fade out 75% of the outside sticks. Crude, but vaguely successful.
Sporting the bright orange cheek-patch and yellow crest displayed by males, the cockatiel is the smallest representative of the cockatoo family in Australia. Encountered in Currawinya N.P.
I thought I'd have to settle for this as my only Major Mitchell's, but , as you can see, it had one more move to make (thankfully!)
And it didn't even raise that beautiful crest! A flight shot had to ease the pain.
Pogona vitticeps - the Inland Bearded Dragon, one of 8 species of these Australian reptiles, wasn't in a hurry to complete its road-crossing in Currawinya N.P.
This character has been 'around the ridges' for a while.
This Banded Lapwing parent is not alone. Beside it, in this low tangled vegetation, is its newly hatched chick. Outfitted in its GI Joe jacket and cap, it is visible only because of a few white, downy feathers.
Like a little sailor in his own boat, this White-browed Tree-creeper makes good use of this hollow in a dead tree in an Outback waterway.
Welcome to Currawinya N.P situated in outback south western Queensland.