Forest

Small, round and bright-eyed like a tiny owl who missed its bedtime. Secretive through the day, emerging silently at dusk from tree hollows.

Warm brown owl with piercing yellow eyes and a call remarkably like a dog’s bark, echoing along rivers and woodlands.

Stocky, rugged bird of prey perched on power poles, surveying paddocks with patience and purpose.

A shy woodland pigeon with shimmering rainbow wing panels that flash bronze-green in the sun. Often heard before seen — a deep, mournful oom-oom-oom.

Social brown birds that forage in noisy family gangs, hopping, chattering and working together constantly.