A list for WA (even 10 is not enough) :
crakes / rails (Chestnut but take your choice)
Painted Snipe
Hooded Plover
Princess Parrot
Rufous Owl
grasswrens (Thick-billed but take your choice)
pitta (Rainbow but take your choice)
quail-thrush (Chestnut-breasted but take your choice)
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Shining Flycatcher
And the ones at Argyle in the Kimberley where I work :
Radjah Shelduck
Spotted Harrier
Spinifex Pigeon
Northern Rosella
Fork-tailed Swift
Black-tailed Treecreeper
Banded Honeyeater
Crimson Chat
White-browed Robin
Painted Finch
Or the rest of Australia :
Southern Cassowary
Plainswanderer
Cape Petrel
Cape Barren Goose
Inland Dotterel
Pacific Baza
Superb Lyrebird
Scarlet Honeyeater
Beautiful Firetail
But how can I leave out :
Malleefowl
Button-quail (Painted but take your choice)
Albatross (Wandering but take your choice)
Tahiti Petrel
Booby / Frigatebird / Tropicbird (Red-tailed but take your choice)
Brolga / Sarus Crane
Lesser Sand Plover (breeding plumage)
Yellow Chat
Pictorella Mannikin
Gouldian Finch
And for Africa (first birds of prey)
Palmnut Vulture
Bateleur
Long-crested Eagle
African Fish Eagle
Gabar Goshawk
Chanting Goshawk (Pale or Dark)
Gymnogene
Eastern Red-footed Kestrel
Giant Eagle Owl
Spotted Eagle Owl
Or waterbirds :
Little Bittern
Black Egret
Goliath Heron
Saddle-billed Stork
Hamerkop
African Spoonbill
Bald Ibis
Black Crake
Three-banded Plover
Dikkop (Spotted or Water)
Or choose from :
Black-bellied Korhaan
Crowned Crane
Francolin (Swainson's but take your choice)
Secretarybird
Double-banded Sandgrouse
Carmine-Bee-eater
Ground Hornbill
Orange-breasted Rockjumper
Red Bishop
Melba Finch
But the best are the long tailed species :
Paradise Flycatcher
Long-tailed Shrike
Gurney's Sugarbird
Malachite Sunbird
Red-collared Widow
Long-tailed Widow
Pin-tailed Whydah
Paradise Whydah
But to think of what I left out .............
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