Sunday, August 14, 2016

Birds seen on trip

Species Name Comments
Magpie Goose
Plumed Whistling-Duck Everywhere, sometimes in  in huge numbers
Wandering Whistling-Duck
Greylag Goose (Domestic type)
Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type)
Black Swan
Radjah Shelduck
Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)
Green Pygmy-Goose
Cotton Pygmy-Goose Surprisingly common.  Lifer
Australian Wood Duck
Mallard (Domestic type)
Pacific Black Duck
Mallard x Pacific Black Duck (hybrid)
Grey Teal
Hardhead
Australian Brushturkey
Orange-footed Scrubfowl Few sightings
Brown Quail
Australasian Grebe
Great Crested Grebe Tablelands Lakes
Black-necked Stork Burdekin River only
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Australasian Darter
Australian Pelican
White-necked Heron
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
White-faced Heron
Little Egret
Eastern Reef Egret
Cattle Egret
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill
Black-shouldered Kite (Australian)
Square-tailed Kite
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Swamp Harrier
Spotted Harrier
Grey Goshawk
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Black Kite often in largeish numbers
Whistling Kite
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Australian Bustard Two sightings
Pale-vented Bush-hen  Lifer
Australasian Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Sarus Crane 2 sites near Yungaburra
Brolga Huge flock at Mazeppa NP
Bush Stone-curlew Very common at Yungaburra.  Heard other sites
Black-winged Stilt (Australian)
Australian Pied Oystercatcher
Masked Lapwing
Comb-crested Jacana
Whimbrel
Eastern Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Latham's Snipe
Silver Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Crested Tern
Rock Dove
White-headed Pigeon
Brown Cuckoo-Dove (Australian)
Pacific Emerald Dove Garden bird at Yunmgaburra
Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
Wompoo Fruit-Dove Nesting at Curtain Fig Tree
Pheasant Coucal
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Barn Owl
Australian Swiftlet
Laughing Kookaburra
Blue-winged Kookaburra Mount Garnet
Forest Kingfisher Common at Yungaburra
Sacred Kingfisher
Rainbow Bee-eater
Nankeen Kestrel
Australian Hobby
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Galah
Little Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Cockatiel
Australian King-Parrot
Red-winged Parrot Several sightings
Australian Ringneck
Pale-headed Rosella
Red-rumped Parrot
Double-eyed Fig-Parrot  Lifer, Bird of the trip
Little Lorikeet
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Several sightings around Yungaburra
Spotted Bowerbird
Superb Fairywren
Red-backed Fairywren
Eastern Spinebill
Yellow-spotted Honeyeater
Lewin's Honeyeater
Yellow Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Yellow-throated Miner
Bridled Honeyeater Endemic 
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Red Wattlebird
Singing Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Dusky Honeyeater
Scarlet Honeyeater
Brown Honeyeater
White-cheeked Honeyeater
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Macleay's Honeyeater Endemic 
Helmeted Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird
Striated Pardalote
Yellow-throated Scrubwren Lake Barrine
Atherton Scrubwren
Large-billed Scrubwren
Mountain Thornbill  Lifer
Weebill
Fairy Gerygone  Lifer
White-throated Gerygone
Brown Gerygone
Grey-crowned Babbler
Chowchilla Endemic  Lifer, Lake Barrine
Eastern Whipbird
White-breasted Woodswallow
Dusky Woodswallow
Grey Butcherbird
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Barred Cuckooshrike Lifer Mather Rd
Black-faced Cuckooshrike
White-bellied Cuckooshrike Several sightings at Yungaburra
Varied Triller Once on Mather Rd
Grey Shrikethrush
Bower's Shrikethrush  Lifer, several sightings around Yungaburra
Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Olive-backed Oriole
Australasian Figbird Very common around Yungaburra
Spangled Drongo
Willie Wagtail
Grey Fantail
Black-faced Monarch 1 sighting at Curtain Fig
Spectacled Monarch Quite common at Yungaburra
Pied Monarch 1 sighting on Petersons's Creek
Magpie-lark
Leaden Flycatcher
Torresian Crow Everywhere on the Tablelands
Little Crow Western/Central Queensland
Australian Raven
Little Raven
crow/raven sp.
Apostlebird
Victoria's Riflebird Curtain Fig Tree, Lifer
Pale-yellow Robin
Eastern Yellow Robin
White-browed Robin
Grey-headed Robin  Lifer Lake Barrine
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
Tree Martin
Australian Reed-Warbler
Tawny Grassbird
Golden-headed Cisticola
Silvereye
Common Blackbird
Metallic Starling One sighting of 2 birds in Garden.
Common Starling
Common Myna
Mistletoebird
Olive-backed Sunbird
Australasian Pipit
House Sparrow
Red-browed Finch
Crimson Finch
Double-barred Finch
Scaly-breasted Munia  Lifer, Cairns Esplanade
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin

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