Rural Acreage Areas

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

Small shorebird dressed like it’s wearing a formal black waistcoat with striking face mask and collar.

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.

A small white egret often tailing cattle and tractors like a farmyard helper, taking insects stirred from the grass.