Preliminary RFI – Darwin & Top End for July visit

Best place to see Chestnut Rail – either from the Elizabeth River Bridge (near Palmerston) or Stuart Pk mangroves (if you don’t mind getting muddy). Channel Island bridge good for Great-billed Heron.

Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon – Bardejdilidji. Also Banded Fruit-dove. Or if the Carpentaria Palms at the beginning of the Nourlangie walk are fruiting, Banded will be feeding there.

Hooded Parrot- often hanging around streets in Pine Creek.

Little Kingfisher-best spot Howard Springs on trunks of trees.

Green-backed Gerygone – monsoon vine-thicket on way to Wickham Pt, Palmerston

Gouldian Finch – sites depend on whether rain has fallen or fire. I’ve just expanded on this in an article I sent to Simon Mustoe on my trip with Jonathon Franzen.

I could go on, but have other work to do. Good luck

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