Australia 2018. Birding the Northern territory. Part One Darwin and surroundings

We visited the Northern Territories Australia during the two first weeks of October 2018. This is the best season for birding but unfortunately not for birders with temperatures over 40 C°.
As expected birding was excellent but demanding.
We report this trip in five shorter videos according to the route we followed. For the preparation of this trip we used information and GPS coordinates published by Laurie Ross and Tim Dolby on the internet which proved to be very usefull. In the video's we included also shots of the local environnement where we spotted the birds. We could successfully document 111 species but still missed some of our target birds . Labelling to the best of our knowledge! For suggested corrections: see comments.

[@tudoritacapsa9182]

Minunate creaturi!...
"Laudati-l pe Iehova de pe pământ, monștri marini și toate adâncurile de ape, ..., munți și toate dealurile, pomi roditori si toți cedrii, animale sălbatice și toate animalele domestice, târâtoare si înaripate, regi ai pământului și toate popoarele, prinți și toți judecătorii pământului, tineri și fecioare, bătrâni și copii! Sa laude numele lui Iehova, căci numai numele său, este nespus de înalt! Demnitatea să este mai presus de pământ și cer". Psalmul 148:7-13.

[@richardlistwon4758]

I CANNOT THANK YOU ALL ENOUGH FOR ALL THE VIDEOS!

[@parwinderkaur3077]

Very nice video

[@CharismaticPlanet3822]

Wow, Great upload of Birding. Making bird videos such a demanding efforts. i can understand your efforts. Big like for this video.

[@andocoolxd5158]

Excelente trabajo amigos!

[@archiesbirding1229]

The gull-billed tern is actually a crested tern juv

[@guymarchal8660]

thanks for suggestion

[@chunwaiwong4258]

我喜歡！

[@kamaleshwaranmalaiswamy6492]

Your vedio are really awesome its make me to see more iam from india

[@morganpickering651]

Thank you so much for the video. I am watching it and getting excited for when I go over to Darwin for the second time.
The video is very good, however I thought I would let you know that at 4:23 this bird is not a "Gull-billed Tern" and infact a "Greater Crested Tern". Please note the dull yellow bill, "Lesser Crested Tern" which is also common there has a much brighter almost orange bill, and "Gull-billed Tern" which has now been split between two species "Australian Tern" and "Gull-billed Tern" has a black bill.
8:21 wow I have seen these loads of times on trips to the east coast of Australia, including my previous trip to Darwin, however I have never seen them in a tree. Great observation.
17:37 I do love to see the large groups of Black Kites. Great video of them.

[@luizgeraldosilveira878]

I LIKE AND LOVE THE BIRDS

[@josemhernandez8733]

Very nice!

[@debra9393]

Thanks for a wonderful video..great photography and close ups. Makes you feel like your actually there!

[@ВалентинаБубнова-ы7ъ]

красивый фильм! благодарю

[@andocoolxd5158]

Amazing!

[@buckleupbuckeroo]

Amazing footage. Well done guys

[@archiesbirding1229]

The little friarbird is a helmeted friarbird

[@maxmcfarlane7440]

Can confirm this 🤟🏽

[@fernandoequix3931]

fabulous

[@danieloliver4417]

The Yellow Oriole is a Green Oriole... The Yellow Oriole is a bird from South America.

[@김영춘-b6p]

I appreciate the birds there.The picture quality is very good. What kind of camera do you use?

[@guymarchal8660]

What I use is today is a Sony FDR-AX53 4K consumer camera with a 20X optical zoom, fitted with an old Sony teleconversion lens VCL-HG2037Y factor 2X.
I record moving scenes preferentially in FHD at 50P.
I only us 4K 25P recording for long distance shots without too much motion.
This allows me to crop later on during editing achieving around 1600mm equivalent without loosing FHD resolution. I render in XAVC S which provides much better quality than XAVC. Recording for both formats at 100 megabit sec to minimise artefacts.

[@김영춘-b6p]

Thank you for your kind response. I also use Nikon p900s to shoot four seasons of Korean birds and keep only the data, but I can not upload it to RUclips yet. I'm very much looking at your picture.

[@baileythebirder]

Guy and Rita, another great video trip report. Thanks for posting. Couple of questions: how many birds do you have on your life list now, and are you still using the FDR AX 53 with the 2x teleconverter?

[@guymarchal8660]

yes, I still use the same camera

[@andocoolxd5158]

The Pied Imperial Pigeon is actually a Torresian Imperial Pigeon

[@joelcalia9790]

Pied and Torresian are the same bird!

[@luizgeraldosilveira878]

@@joelcalia9790
TANK AUSTRALIAN

[@inekeoostenvanmeer1407]

Thank you for the Beautiful video s

[@guymarchal8660]

bedankt

[@archiesbirding1229]

Are you going to the Hunter Estuary?
It is in NSW

[@bretagnefrancoise]

très belle vidéo bravo
bienvenue sur ma chaîne nature
amitiés ornitho Françoise

[@mariaisabelgutierrezdelapa2600]

que presiosos

[@lakshmitara5088]

👌🌷👌🌷👌