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1 December 2008: this site contains 3,840 photos of 1,047 bird species in the wild; 541 of these are on the Australian list (Christidis & Boles, 2008).	Search WWW Search birdway.com.au
Contents	Bird of the Week: Tufted Duck - 31 Dec 2008; Snow Bunting - 23 December 2008
Click on one of the following to scroll down to: Gallery and Section Updates (30 November 2008) News (29 October 2008) Browsing the Galleries In this Site you can . . . Gallery and Section Updates: 30 November 2008: Revised Birds of Paradise Galleries with all 3 Australian Riflebird. 29 November 2008: Revised Corvid Galleries with the addition of 4 North American species. 28 November 2008: Spotted Pardalote and Chestnut-rumped Thornbill added to Pardalotes & Allies. 20 November 2008: Revised Australo-Papuan Babbler galleries with all 4 Australian Species. 17 November 2008: 3 American species added to Global Nuthatches. 17 November 2008: Sandhill Crane added to Global Cranes. 16 November 2008: Revised Parrot Galleries with 146 photos of 37 species, including Mulga and Bourke's Parrots. 14 November 2008: Major Mitchell's Cockatoo added to revised Cockatoo galleries now containing 72 photos of 10 species. 12 November 2008: Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush added to revised Whipbird & Quail-thrush galleries. 30 October 2008: New Helmeted Guineafowl gallery. 29 October 2008: Revised galleries of Frogmouths, Nightjars & Nighthawks, Owlet-nightjar, Potoos and Oilbird. 27 October 2008: Star Finch gallery added to Estrildid Finches. 25 October 2008: Revised galleries of New World Blackbirds, Orioles & Allies with 39 photos of 13 species. 22 October 2008: Revised Corcoracidae Galleries (White-winged Chough & Apostlebird) with 12 photos of the 2 species. 16 October 2008: Revised Mound-builder Galleries (Brush-turkey & Scrubfowl) with 12 photos of 2 species. 15 October 2008: Revised Cassowary & Emu Galleries with 16 photos of 2 species. 13 October 2008: Revised Woodswallow, Butcherbird, Currawong & Australian Magpie Galleries with 60 photos of 13 species. 11 October 2008: Revised Global Kingfisher & Kookaburra Galleries with 81 photos of 20 species. 1 October 2008: New Californian Quail Gallery. 30 September 2008: Revised Pheasants & Allies Galleries with 2 additional New World species: Wild Turkey Sooty (Blue) Grouse. 29 September 2008: Revised Australo-Papuan Robin Galleries with 49 photos of 14 species. 22 September 2008: Red Goshawk Gallery added to Hawks & Allies. 6 September 2008: Revised Honeyeater & Allies Galleries (now includes Chats, Friarbird, Gibberbird, Miners, Spinebills & Wattlebirds) with 174 photos of 54 species. 30 August 2008: 4 species added to New World Swallows & Martins. 28 August 2008: New Loon/Diver galleries with 2 species. 27 August 2008: Revised Global and Australian Wader (Scolopacidae) galleries with 8 additional species including: Long-billed Dowitcher Rock Sandpiper Red/Grey Phalarope Marbled Godwit Long-billed Curlew 25 August 2008: Revised Auk Galleries with 7 additional species from Alaska, including Auklets, Murres and Puffins. ^ Back up to Contents News 29 October 2008. Previous and Next Family buttons are being added progressively to global indices - starting with night-birds such as Frogmouths - so that you can navigate directly between families in taxonomic sequence. 13 October 2008. An array of alphabetic buttons have been added to all the geographical lists so you can quickly jump down the list and back again. For example, click "K" in Australian Birds to find Kestrel, Kite, etc. The upward arrow button beside the letter, K for example, takes you back to the alphabetic buttons. 27 August 2008. The Red Phalarope is the 1,000th species to be included in the site. 22 August 2008. "Eurasian" is progressively being replaced by "Old World" (meaning Europe, Asian and Africa) as some photos from Africa are included. 5 August 2008. "American" is progressively being replaced by "New World" (meaning North, South and Central America) to avoid confusion. 1 August 2008. Ian is back home for the foreseeable future and working on the website. Visit this page or subscribe to the bird of the week newsletter to discover the latest additions. 10 March 2008. Non-Australian Galleries are progressive being updated to conform with the Birdlife International check list. 8 February 2008. Following the publication of the latest work on the taxonomy of Australian Birds, Christidis & Boles (2008), Australian Galleries are progressively being updated to match their classification (this will take a long time!). This sometimes means that the sequence may vary between the Non-Australian and Australian gallery thumbnails (e.g. Global and Australian Herons) and some species may be assigned to two genera, with the Birdlife International one being listed first and the Christidis & Boles one second (e.g. Cattle Egret Bubulcus/Ardea ibis). 21 November 2007. A photo of a distant Cinnamon Quail-thrush is the 500th Australian species in the site. 2 November 2007. Ian has introduced a new gallery design which has thumbnails and images on the same page for easier viewing separate headings for description, location and image size photographic data such as shutter speed Check out the Royal Spoonbill Gallery to see what you think. 2 August 2007. Ian now encourages free use of images on personal and conservation-related websites in exchange for links. ^ Back up to Contents Browsing the Galleries Photographs are organized by geographical regions - where the species occur rather than where the photos were taken.The main emphasis is on birds which occur in Australia but there are also sections on Asian, European and North and South American Birds. You can browse the list of galleries in each section. The photos in this site are from high-resolution originals suitable for printing. ^ Back up to Contents In this site you can: Join the email list to receive the popular, free Bird of the Week photo Order quality A5, A4 and A3 prints of photos (see section on image purchases) Contact Ian about fees for publication or commercial use of photos (see section on image purchases) Download photos from the galleries (see section on image purchases for conditions for free use of photos) ^ Back up to Contents	Join the free Bird of the Week list and brighten up your week with a beautiful and informative email. Some Recent Additions Click on a thumbnail below to view the photo in its gallery Brown-headed Honeyeater Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Yellow-billed Magpie Inland Thornbill Spotted Pardalote Crimson Chat Grey-crowned Babbler Halls Babbler Chestnut-crowned Babbler Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Sandhill Crane Blue and Yellow Macaw Orange-winged Parrot Rose-ringed Parakeet Long-tailed Parakeet Red-winged Parrot Bourke's Parrot Mulga Parrot Galah Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush Helmeted Guineafowl Common Nighthawk Large-tailed Nightjar Papuan Frogmouth Star Finch Bullock's Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird White-winged Chough Apostlebird Australian Brush-turkey Southern Cassowary Emu Black-backed Butcherbird Black Butcherbird Little Woodswallow Belted Kingfisher Red-backed Kingfisher Little Kingfisher Blue-eared Kingfisher Californian Quail Wild Turkey Sooty (Blue) Grouse Buff-sided Robin Jacky Winter Red Goshawk Black-chinned Honeyeater Yellow-throated Miner White-plumed Honeyeater Graceful Honeyeater Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Singing Honeyeater Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Pacific Loon Common Loon Red-necked Phalarope Pectoral Sandpiper Willet Short-billed Dowitcher Thick-billed Murre Parakeet Auklet Horned Puffin Tufted Puffin Pale-headed Rosella Budgerigar Australian King Parrot Red-winged Parrot Cotton Pygmy-Goose Cinnamon Teal Northern Pintail Brant/Brent Goose Spectacled Eider Steller's Eider Canada Goose Plumed Whistling-Duck North American Osprey Snail Kite Bald Eagle Common Buzzard Square-tailed Kite Varied Lorikeet Black Skimmer Crested Bellbird ^ Top of page