Birds and Animals of Australia's Top End: Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, and Kununurra

Contents\nAbout this book\nHow to use this book\nMaps of the Top End\nGeography and geology of the Top End\nWeather and seasons of the Top End\nHabitats of the Top End\n	Beaches and mudflats\n	Mangroves\n	Rivers and billabongs\n	Freshwater wetlands and floodplains\n	Monsoon forest\n	Sandstone escarpments\n	Savanna woodlands\nHow to watch wildlife\n	Equipment\n	When to watch wildlife\n	Finding wildlife\n	Watching nocturnal species\nWhere to find wildlife\n	Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve\n	Gregory National Park\n	Kakadu National Park\n	Howard Springs Nature Park\n	Mataranka and Elsey National Park\n	Nitmiluk National Park and Katherine Gorge\nBIRDS OF WETLANDS AND BEACHES\n	Magpie Goose – Magpie Goose\n	Whistling-ducks – Wandering & Plumed Whistling-ducks\n	Shelduck, grebe and pygmy-goose: – Radjah Shelduck, Australasian Grebe and Green Pygmy-goose\n	Ducks – Hardhead, Pacific Black Duck and Grey Teal\n	Stork – Black-necked Stork\n	Cormorants – Australian Pied, Little Pied, Little Black & Great Cormorants\n	Darter and pelican – Australasian Darter and Australian Pelican\n	White egrets – Plumed, Cattle, Great & Little Egrets\n	Dark herons – Great-billed, White-faced & Pied Herons and Pacific Reef-heron\n	Small herons – Rufous Night-heron, Striated Heron and Black Bittern\n	Ibises and spoonbill – Australian, Straw-necked & Glossy Ibises and Royal Spoonbill\n	Rails and crake – Chestnut & Buff-banded Rails and White-browed Crake\n	Swamphen and coot – Purple Swamphen and Common Coot\n	Crane and stone-curlew – Brolga and Beach Stone-curlew\n	Stilt and oystercatchers – Pied & Sooty Oystercatchers and Black-winged Stilt\n	Lapwing and jacana – Masked Lapwing and Comb-crested Jacana\n	Small plovers and turnstone – Black-fronted and Red-kneed Dotterels, Red-capped Plover and Ruddy Turnstone\n	Coastal plovers – Grey & Pacific Golden Plovers and Greater & Lesser Sandplovers\n	‘Grassy plains’ waders – Australian and Oriental Pratincoles, Oriental Plover and Little Curlew\n	Large sandpipers – Far Eastern Curlew, Whimbrel and Bar-tailed Godwit\n	Medium-sized sandpipers – Common Greenshank, Great & Red Knots and Grey-tailed Tattler\n	‘Coastal\' small sandpipers – Sanderling, Red-necked Stint and Curlew & Terek Sandpipers\n	Other small sandpipers – Marsh, Common & Sharp-tailed Sandpipers\n	Gull + Large terns: 1 – Silver Gull and Caspian Tern\n	Large terns: 2 – Greater Crested, Lesser Crested & Gull-billed Terns\n	Small terns – Whiskered, White-winged & Little Terns\n	Kingfishers – Azure and Little Kingfishers\nRAPTORS\n	Osprey + Kites: 1 – Osprey and Brahminy Kite\n	Sea-eagle and baza – White-bellied Sea-eagle and Pacific Baza\n	Eagle and buzzard – Wedge-tailed Eagle and Black-breasted Buzzard\n	Kites: 2 – Black & Whistling Kites\n	Goshawks – Brown, Grey & Red Goshawks\n	Falcons – Brown & Peregrine Falcons, Australian Hobby and Nankeen Kestrel\nBIRDS OF THE FOREST\n	Scrubfowl – Orange-footed Scrubfowl\n	Dove and imperial-pigeon – Brown-capped Emerald Dove and Torresian Imperial-pigeon\n	Fruit-doves – Black-banded & Rose-crowned Fruit-doves\n	Cuckoos – Brush Cuckoo and Little Bronze-cuckoo\n	Owl and nightjar – Rufous Owl and Large-tailed Nightjar\n	Pitta – Rainbow Pitta\n	Kingfisher, white-eye and honeyeater – Collared Kingfisher, Australian Yellow White-eye and Red-headed Honeyeater\n	Gerygones and triller – Green-backed, Large-billed & Mangrove Gerygones and Varied Triller\n	Shrike-thrush and whistlers – Mangrove Golden & Grey Whistlers and Little Shrike-thrush\n	Orioles and fantails – Australasian Figbird, Green Oriole and Northern & Arafura Fantails\n	Butcherbird, drongo and flycatchers – Spangled Drongo, Black Butcherbird and Broad-billed & Shining Flycatchers\n	Robins – Buff-sided & Mangrove Robins\nBIRDS OF OPEN AREAS\n	Bustard – Australian Bustard\n	Stone-curlew – Bush Stone-curlew\n	Coucal and quail – Pheasant Coucal and Brown Quail\n	Cuckoos – Australian Koel and Channel-billed Cuckoo\n	Pigeons: 1 – Common Bronzewing, Crested Pigeon and Spinifex Pigeon\n	Pigeons: 2 – Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon and Partridge Pigeon\n	Doves – Peaceful, Bar-shouldered & Diamond Doves\n	Owls – Barking Owl and Southern Boobook\n	Barn-owl and frogmouth – Eastern Barn-owl and Tawny Frogmouth\n	Owlet-nightjar and nightjar – Australian Owlet-nightjar and Spotted Nightjar\n	Kingfishers – Blue-winged Kookaburra and Forest & Sacred Kingfishers\n	Bee-eater and Dollarbird – Rainbow Bee-eater and Dollarbird\n	Black-cockatoo and Cockatiel – Red-tailed Black-cockatoo and Cockatiel\n	Cockatoos – Galah, Little Corella and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo\n	Lorikeets – Red-collared & Varied Lorikeets\n	Parrots: 1 – Northern Rosella and Red-winged Parrot\n	Parrots: 2 – Hooded Parrot\n	Bowerbird – Great Bowerbird\n	Fairywrens – Purple-crowned, Red-backed & Variegated Fairywrens\n	Grasswren – White-throated Grasswren\n	Small honeyeaters – Banded, Brown & Dusky Honeyeaters\n	Medium-sized honeyeaters:1. – Rufous-banded, Rufous-throated, White-gaped & Yellow-tinted Honeyeaters\n	Medium-sized honeyeaters:2. – Black-chinned, White-throated Honeyeater, Bar-breasted & White-lined Honeyeaters\n	Large honeyeaters – Blue-faced Honeyeater and Helmeted, Silver-crowned & Little Friarbirds\n	Miner, pardalote and Weebill – Yellow-throated Miner, Striated Pardalote and Weebill\n	Babbler and woodswallows – Grey-crowned Babbler and Black-faced, Little & White-breasted Woodswallows\n	Cuckooshrikes, triller and gerygone – Black-faced & White-bellied Cuckooshrikes, White-winged Triller and White-throated Gerygone\n	Sitella, shrike-tit and treecreeper – Varied Sitella, Crested Shrike-tit and Black-tailed Treecreeper\n	Whistler and shrike-thrushes – Rufous Whistler and Grey & Sandstone Shrike-thrushes\n	Butcherbirds, magpie and oriole – Pied & Grey Butcherbirds, Australasian Magpie and Olive-backed Oriole\n	Willie-wagtail and Magpie-lark – Willie-wagtail and Magpie-lark\n	Flycatchers and robin – Leaden, Paperbark & Lemon-bellied Flycatchers and Jacky Winter\n	Crow, Apostlebird, bushlark and cisticola – Torresian Crow, Apostlebird, Australasian Bushlark and Golden-headed Cisticola\n	Martins and Mistletoebird – Tree & Fairy Martins and Mistletoebird\n	Finches: 1 – Crimson, Double-barred & Star Finches\n	Finches: 2 – Gouldian, Long-tailed & Masked Finches\n	Mannikins – Chestnut-breasted, Pictorella & Yellow-rumped Mannikins\nMAMMALS\n	Echidna – Short-beaked Echidna\n	Quoll and phascogale – Northern Quoll and Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale\n	Bandicoot + Possums: 1 – Northern Brown Bandicoot and Common Brushtail Possum\n	Possums: 2 + Sugar Glider – Rock Ringtail Possum and Sugar Glider\n	Wallabies – Agile & Northern Nailtail Wallabies\n	Wallaroos: 1 – Antilopine & Common Wallaroos\n	Wallaroos: 2 + Rock-wallabies – Black Wallaroo and Wilkin\'s & Short-eared Rock-wallabies\n	Flying-foxes – Black & Little Red Flying-foxes\n	Microbats – Ghost, Yellow-bellied Sheath-tailed & Orange Leaf-nosed Bats\n	Rodents – Black-footed Tree-rat and Water & Common Rock Rats\n	Dingo and Water Buffalo – Dingo and Water Buffalo\nREPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS\n	Crocodiles: 1 – Estuarine Crocodile\n	Crocodiles: 2 + Turtles:1 – Freshwater Crocodile and Northern Long-necked & Northern Yellow-faced Turtles\n	Turtles: 2 + Geckos: 1 – Northern Snapping & Pig-nosed Turtles and Asian House Gecko\n	Geckos: 2 – Bynoe\'s & Banded Prickly Geckos and Northern & Northern Spotted Dtellas\n	Geckos: 3 – Northern Knob-tailed, Northern Spiny-tailed Gecko & Marbled Velvet Geckos\n	Geckos: 4 + Snake-lizard – Giant Cave Gecko and Burton\'s Snake-lizard\n	Skinks – Top End Fire-tailed & Eastern Striped Skinks and Red-sided & Slender Rainbow-skinks\n	Lizards: 1 – Common Blue-tongue and Gilbert\'s Dragon\n	Lizards: 2 – Frilled Lizard and Sand Goanna\n	Lizards: 3 + Snakes: 1 – Merten\'s Water Monitor and Children\'s Python\n	Snakes: 2 – Olive & Water Pythons\n	Snakes: 3 – Black-headed & Oenpelli Pythons\n	Snakes: 4 – Carpet Python and Brown Tree Snake\n	Snakes: 5 – Green Tree Snake and Taipan\n	Snakes: 6 – Mulga Snake, Northern Brown Snake and Northern Death Adder\n	Snakes: 7 – Keelback and Arafura File Snake\n	Frogs: 1 – Green Tree, Red Tree & Roth\'s Tree Frogs\n	Frogs: 2 – Giant Frog, Northern Dwarf Tree Frog and Rocket Frog\n	Frogs: 3 – Masked, Rockhole, Copland\'s Rock & Dahl\'s Aquatic Frogs\n	Frogs: 4 – Marbled & Ornate Burrowing Frogs and Northern Spadefoot Toad\n	Frogs: 5 – Pale & Peter\'s Frogs and Cane Toad\nFurther reading\nAcknowledgements\nPhoto credits\nIndex