Birdlist
161 species have been recorded since 1998                                                         last updated 18/02/2007

*Denotes species seen since the first flooding in 2003, but not recorded in the previous 40 years.
# Denotes species breeding since the flooding.
QUAIL Purple Swamphen KINGFISHERS
Stubble Quail Dusky Moorhen Laughing Kookaburra
SWANS, DUCKS, GREBES Black-tailed Native-hen Sacred Kingfisher
Blue-billed Duck Eurasian Coot Rainbow Bee-eater
Musk Duck WADERS WRENS, PARDALOTES, TH/BILLS
Freckled Duck (214) Latham's Snipe Superb Fairy-wren
Black Swan Black-tailed Godwit Variegated Fairy-wren
Cape Barren Goose Marsh Sandpiper Spotted Pardalote
Australian Shelduck Common Greenshank Striated Pardalote
Australian Wood Duck Wood Sandpiper (154)  Weebill
Pacific Black Duck Common Sandpiper Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Australasian Shoveler Red-necked Stint Yellow Thornbill
Grey Teal Pectoral Sandpiper (978) HONEYEATERS
Chestnut Teal Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Red Wattlebird
Pink-eared Duck Curlew Sandpiper Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Hardhead Painted Snipe (170) Noisy Miner
Australasian Grebe Banded Stilt Singing Honeyeater
Hoary-headed Grebe Black-winged Stilt White-plumed Honeyeater
Great Crested Grebe Red-necked Avocet Brown-headed Honeyeater
CORMORANT Red-capped Plover New Holland Honeyeater
Darter Double-banded Plover OTHER BUSH BIRDS
Little Pied Cormorant Black-fronted Dotterel Brown Treecreeper
Pied Cormorant Red-kneed Dotterel White-fronted Chat
Little Black Cormorant Banded Lapwing Red-capped Robin
Great Cormorant Masked Lapwing Hooded Robin
Australian Pelican Australian Pratincole White-browed Babbler
HERONS, IBIS, SP/BILLS GULLS, TERNS Varied Sittella
White-faced Heron Silver Gull Crested Shrike-tit
Little Egret Gull-billed Tern Rufous Whistler
White-necked Heron Caspian Tern Grey Shrike-thrush
Great Egret Crested Tern Restless Flycatcher
Intermediate Egret Whiskered Tern Magpie-lark
Cattle Egret PIGEONS, DOVES Grey Fantail
Nankeen Night Heron Rock Dove Willie Wagtail
Australasian Bittern Spotted Turtle-Dove Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Little Bittern (195)  Common Bronzewing White-winged Triller
Glossy Ibis Crested Pigeon Dusky Woodswallow
Australian White Ibis Diamond Dove Pied Butcherbird
Straw-necked Ibis Peaceful Dove Australian Magpie
Royal Spoonbill COCKATOOS, PARROTS Australian Raven
Yellow-billed Spoonbill Galah Little Raven
BIRDS OF PREY Little Corella Skylark
Black-shouldered Kite Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Richard's Pipit
Black Kite Cockatiel FINCHES, SWALLOWS, MARTINS
Whistling Kite Purple-crowned Lorikeet House Sparrow
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Crimson Rosella Zebra Finch
Spotted Harrier Australian Ringneck European Goldfinch
Swamp Harrier Blue Bonnet Welcome Swallow
Brown Goshawk Red-rumped Parrot Tree Martin
Collared Sparrowhawk Budgerigar Fairy Martin
Wedge-tailed Eagle Elegant Parrot OLD WORLD WARBLERS
Little Eagle CUCKOOS Clamorous Reed-Warbler
Brown Falcon Pallid Cuckoo Little Grassbird
Australian Hobby Fan-tailed Cuckoo Brown Songlark
Black Falcon Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Golden-headed Cisticola
Peregrine Falcon NIGHT BIRDS Silvereye
Nankeen Kestrel Southern Boobook Common Blackbird
RAIL, CRAKE Barn Owl Common Starling
Buff-banded Rail SWIFT  
Baillon's Crake (050)  Fork-tailed Swift  
Australian Spotted Crake     
Spotless Crake (051)     


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