Birds, Butterflies & Moths

BIRDS
Check the following places in the local area and wherever you visit just keep looking for that rare bird:Babinda area – Eubenangee Swamp National Park, Boulders, Bramston Beach, Rotary Park and any of the parks in the area.
Cairns area – Cairns foreshore, Flecker Botanical Gardens, Centenary Lakes, Lake Morris just to name a few.
Cassowary Coast – Warrina Lakes, Etty Bay, Djiru National Park Mission Beach

Birds | Bird Trails Tropical North Queensland

Rainbow Bee-eater
©Photograph by K. Jago [1]
Brahminy Kite
©Photograph by K. Jago [2]
Forest Kingfisher
©Photograph by K. Jago [3]
Cassowary and chicks
©Photograph by K. Jago [4]

BUTTERFLIES and MOTHS
These are a few of the many different butterflies and moths you can see in this local area.

Butterflies and moths | Wet Tropics Management Authority

Cairns Birdwing Butterfly
©Photograph by K.Jag0 [5]
©”Blue mountain swallowtail, Ulysses butterfly, blue emperor (Papailio ulysses)” by Swallowtail Garden Seeds is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.
Hercules Moth
©Photograph by K.Jago [6]
Four O’Clock Moth
©Photograph by KJago [7]

Papuan Frogmouth. ©Video by Kay Jago [8]

References:
[1] photo taken at The Chimneys, Georgetown, Qld, April 2017
[2] photo taken at Cooktown. Qld, October 2015
[3] photo taken at Mirriwinni, Qld, June 2018
[4] photo taken at Mission Beach, Qld, October 2018
[5] photo taken at Mirriwinni, Qld, April 2017
[6] photo taken at Mirriwinni, Qld, July 2011
[7] photo taken at MIrriwinni, Qld, April 2019
[8] photo taken at Mirriwinni, Qld, December 2016