Welcome to the Birdway Website Ian Montgomery invites you to enjoy the beauty and fascination of wild birds with his photos of more than 1,200 species from Australia and around the World.

9 February 2010: this site contains more than 4,800 photos of 1,232 bird species in the wild - 595 of these are on the main Australian list of Christidis & Boles, 2008 - and 71 photos of 20 species of reptiles and Australian mammals.	Search WWW Search birdway.com.au
Contents	Bird of the Week - Little Tern, 7 Feb 2010 and Bassian Thrush, 28 Jan 2010
Click on one of the following to scroll down to: Gallery and Section Updates (9 February 2010) News (28 January 2010) HIgh-resolution Originals Browsing the Galleries In this Site you can . . . Gallery and Section Updates: 9 February 2010: 5 new photos of Greater Sand Plover. 9 February 2010: 4 new photos of Common Tern in Australia. 8 February 2010: 4 new photos of Little Tern. 3 February 2010: 6 new photos of Australasian Darter. 2 February 2010: 6 new photos of Chestnut Teal. 1 February 2010: 6 additional photos of Rufous Night-Heron. 30 January 2010: additional photos of Black-faced and Dusky Woodswallows. 29 January 2010: additional photos of Glossy, Australian (White) and Straw-necked Ibises. 28 January 2010: 2 additional photos of Bassian Thrush. 28 January 2010: 4 additional photos of Crested Tern, including sequence of 3 of bird catching a fish. 26 January 2010: 7 additional photos of Papuan Frogmouth. 25 January 2010: 6 existing photos of Brolga replaced by new ones. 24 January 2010: 7 additional photos of Green Pygmy-Goose added to Australian Ducks & Allies. 23 January 2010: 3 photo of Forest Raven added to Australian Corvids. 23 January 2010: 9 additional photos of male Superb Lyrebird displaying and feeding. 17 December 2009: 3 new photos of Frill-necked Monarch and 3 of Shining Flycatcher. 14 December 2009: 1 additional photo of White-faced Robin and 2 of Yellow-legged Flycatcher/Flyrobin. 13 December 2009: Golden-shouldered Parrot - 4 photos - and Red-cheeked Parrot - 1 photo - added to Australian Parrots. 13 December 2009: 8 additional photos of White-bellied Sea-Eagle. 11 December 2009: 4 additional photos of Wandering Whistling Ducks. 11 December 2009: additional photo of northern race of Black-throated Finch. 10 December 2009: 4 additional photos of Masked Finch, including two of the Cape York race - the 'White-eared Finch'. 10 December 2009: additional photo of Australasian Figbird of northwestern race ashbyi. 10 December 2009: existing 2 photos of Black-winged Monarch replaced by 2 new ones. 9 December 2009: 3 new photos of Torresian Crow. 8 December 2009: Australian example of Helmeted Guineafowl added to gallery. 7 December 2009: Northern Scrub-Robin added to Australo-Papuan Robins. 6 December 2009: Spotted Whistling Duck added to Australian and Old World Ducks. ^ Back up to Contents News 28 January 2010: Membership of the Bird of the Week Google Group now exceeds 600 members from all over the world. 11 December 2009: If you use images from Birdway in your website (see conditions for free use), please copy the images to your own site and do not link directly as Ian may move or delete images. 6 December 2009: Ian is back from a trip to Cape York Peninsula, Northern Queensland, so expect new and interesting photos on this website. 10 November 2009: Page Not Found (Error 404). Ian has just  changed the error handling code for this situation. You should now be directed to a Search Page so that you can fined what you are looking for. Any remaining problems, please let Ian know. Thank you. 30 July 2009: Ian has started adding photographs of other wildlife - encountered in his search for birds - starting with those Australian icons, the Monotremes: Echidna and Platypus. To accommodate the Other Wildlife Index, he has merged the sections Contact Details and About Ian. 22 June 2009: Ian has reorganized the regional indices to match the structure of the family thumbnails as follows: Asian and European indices have been merged into a single Old World Index, which includes Africa; A new Global Index has been added, which provides links to the global thumbnails of all families. To minimize disruption to the existing structure, this means that buttons have been renamed and some webpages have been redirected. If you get odd combinations such as the label "Asian Birds" on the Global Index page, refreshing the page should fix this. If you find any persistent problems, please advise Ian. 17 May 2009: Musk Lorikeet is the 1,200th species to be included in the website. 23 March 2009: The website revision to conform with the taxonomy of Birdlife International and Christidis & Boles, 2008, is now finished, apart from some loose ends. The two taxonomies differ in some respects (allocation of species to genera and families and sequence of species) and these differences between the Australian and Non-Australian family thumbnails are documented. There are now 136 families represented in the website. Next and Previous Family buttons are provided in all the top level family indices to permit navigation through all the galleries in the Birdlife International family sequence. Ian now encourages free use of images on personal and conservation-related websites in exchange for links. ^ Back up to Contents High-resolution Originals The photos in this site are from high-resolution originals suitable for printing (unless qualified with the comment 'for the record' or 'poor image quality') with a minimum length of 1,200 pixels along the longest side. Contact Ian about fees for publication or commercial use of photos (see section on image purchases). ^ 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 alphabetic indices and family thumbnails, where appropriate, to birds of the Whole World, Old World (Eurasia and Africa) and the New World (the Americas). You can browse the list of galleries in each section. ^ Back up to Contents In this site you can: Join the Google email list to receive the popular, free Bird of the Week photo item Contact Ian about fees for publication or commercial use of photos (see section on image purchases) Order quality A5, A4 and A3 prints 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 these gallery thumbnails - most recent at top. Greater Sand Plover Common Tern Little Tern Australasian Darter Chestnut Teal Rufous/Nankeen Night-Heron Black-faced Woodswallow Dusky Woodswallow Glossy Ibis Australian (White) Ibis Straw-necked Ibis Bassian Thrush Crested Tern Papuan Frogmouth Brolga Terek Sandpiper Green Pygmy-Goose Forest Raven Superb Lyrebird Shining Flycatcher Frilled/Frill-necked Monarch Yellow-legged Flycatcher White-faced Robin Golden-shouldered Parrot Red-cheeked Parrot White-bellied Sea-Eagle Wandering Whistling-Duck Black-throated Finch Masked Finch Australasian Figbird Black-winged Monarch Torresian Crow Helmeted Guineafowl Northern Scrub-Robin Spotted Whistling-Duck Black-necked Stork (Jabiru) White-throated Needletail Black Falcon Eastern Osprey Crested Pigeon Bar-breasted Honeyeater Red-headed Honeyeater Blue-faced Honeyeater Pied Heron Black-tailed Treecreeper Little Friarbird Helmeted Friarbird Silver-crowned Friarbird Radjah Shelduck Brahminy Kite Azure Kingfisher Rufous-banded Honeyeater Crimson Finch Spotted Harrier Golden Bowerbird (Far) Eastern Curlew Rainbow Bee-eater Sandstone Shrike-thrush Wedge-tailed Eagle Grey/Brown Whistler White-breasted Whistler Orange-footed Scrubfowl Barking Owl Rainbow Lorikeet Mangrove Golden Whistler Hooded Parrot Yellow-rumped Munia/Mannikin Gouldian Finch White-lined Honeyeater White-quilled Rock-Pigeon Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon Banded Fruit-Dove Green-backed Gerygone Ground Cuckooshrike Galah Freshwater Crocodile Estuarine/Saltwater Crocodile Spectacled/Common Caiman Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo Red-necked Pademelon Quokka Allied Rock Wallaby Eastern Great Egret Eastern Reef Egret White-faced Heron Red-necked Wallaby Red Kangaroo ^ Top of page