Common Garden Birds in Darwin

Common garden birds photographed in suburban Darwin including doves, finches, fig birds, honey eaters and lorrikeets.

With plenty of water available to keep tropical gardens green, birds of all sorts are attracted to the housing areas as well as the public gardens and parks.

Black cockatoo's are frequent visitors, flashing their brilliant yellow tails in flight.

Sulphur-Crested cockatoos visit from time to time, feeding on seeds, berries,nuts and roots.

A cockatiel looks out on a brilliant green visitor attracted by a free lunch. Thanks to Claire for identifying this as an Indian Ringneck, a popular cage bird introduced into Australia. Maybe this one escaped?
This pair of Red-winged Parrots was photographed just behind the University.

Bar-shouldered Dove

Spangled Drongo

Masked Lapwing

Red-Backed Button-Quail

The Red-backed Buttonquail is the smallest and most cryptic of the Australian buttonquail. They are usually found in small coveys of about five birds. Their preferred habitat is pockets of damp, or rank grasslands. This quail can be either sedentary or nomadic, depending on the availability of food supply and suitable habitat. Some habitats form and disappear with the onset and retreat of wet periods. In the Top End of Australia where rank grasslands usually don't persist year round, the Red-backed Buttonquail tends to be nomadic, whereas in the southern portion of their distribution they are more sedentary as suitable conditions tend to be permanent.
Information courtesy THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA INC
Author Richard Chilton

This tiny bird enjoys a shower under a garden sprinkler. Possibly a Green-backed Warbler - they seldom sit still for long enough to get a good look.

	Dove and Double-barred Finch
	(Left)Flock of Grey-Crowned Babblers feeding on the grass in Nightcliff -
Helmeted Friarbird	Black Butcherbird
Olive-Backed Oriole

See more of Darwins Birds and some of the water birds often seen in the creeks and tidal areas around the suburbs.