Bird of the Week - Bernhard Schmitz Photography

Whilst I’m a fairly novice bird watcher, Suki the cat had always a great interest in birds for her own reasons. With the exception of cooked specimens, I tended to ignore feathered animals before I moved to Australia in late 2005 to join Mrs. Schmitz in Sydney. This changed soon after we settled in the suburb of North Bondi where the sheer abundance of colourful and exotic species sparked my interest in avian topics. I started to write down bird inspired observations which I put on this little weekly blog about Australia, Sydney and the feathered and not feathered locals.

Bernhard Schmitz & Suki the cat

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The Red-winged Fairywren (Malurus elegans) or Silberkopf-Staffelschwanz 2011/01/13

This Fairywren is endemic to the south-western corner of Western Australia, an area me and Mrs. Schmitz chose as destination for our annual summer expedition. As mentioned in my last BOTW this region in Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot and a place well worth a trip to, even if you are not primarily interested in Mother Nature’s generosity.

The Australian King Parrot (Alisterus scapularis) or Königssittich 2010/12/16

First of all - me and this male King Parrot, that I befriended recently in the Booderee National Park, want to wish all readers of BOTW a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

The Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) or Rotohrbülbül 2010/12/09

The Red-whiskered Bulbul, an introduced Asian passerine bird you can frequently see in Sydney, sports his red whiskers all year long whilst many Australian men limit the time they have facial hair above the upper lip to a month long period called Movember.

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