a field guide to the planet - by Damon Ramsey
INDO-PACIFIC Coral Reef
birds
The birds; above the underwater, and on top of the exposed, coral reefs...
Family Haematopodidae: Oystercatchers
Family Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Snipes
Tringa 'Tattler' (Montgomery Reef, Australia).
Family Burhinidae
Esacus magnirostris, 'Beach Thick-knee/Stone-Curlew', (Montgomery Reef, western Australia)
Family Laridae: Terns and Gulls
Family Phalacrocoracidae: Cormorants
Family Ardeidae: Herons, Egrets, Bitterns
Egretta sacra, 'Eastern Reef Egret' grey morph, (Montgomery Reef, Australia).
Egretta sacra, 'Eastern Reef Egret' white morph, (Montgomery Reef, Australia).
Family Pandionidae: Osprey
Pandion cristatus, 'Eastern Osprey' (Montgomery Reef, Australia).
Family Accipitridae: Hawks, Kites, Eagles
Haliaeetus leucogaster, 'White-bellied Sea-Eagle', (Montgomery Reef, Australia).
Thinking of travelling again after everything settles down? One of the first expeditions I am booked to work on is the NZ sub-Antarctics with Silversea Expeditions. And here is a shortened version of one of my lectures in a warmer part of the world.