Birds we’ve seen or heard so far this month (December 2011) on or very near the Araucaria property in the Scenic Rim, southeast Queensland are:
| Australian magpie |
| barn owl |
| bar-shouldered dove |
| black duck |
| brown cuckoodove |
| brush cuckoo |
| channel-billed cuckoo |
| cicadabird |
| crested skriketit |
| eastern rosella |
| eastern whipbird |
| eastern yellow robin |
| fan-tailed cuckoo |
| figbird |
| galah |
| grey butcherbird |
| grey shrike-thrush |
| koel |
| kookaburra |
| Lewin’s honeyeater |
| magpielark |
| masked lapwing |
| noisy miner |
| noisy pitta |
| olive-backed oriole |
| pale-vented bush hen |
| pheasant coucal |
| pied currawong |
| rainbow lorikeet |
| red-browed finch |
| rose-crowned fruitdove |
| spangled drongo |
| sulphur-crested cockatoo |
| Torresian crow |
| varied triller |
| variegated fairywren |
| wedge-tailed eagle |
| welcome swallow |
| wonga pigeon |
The crested shriketit was a surprise – only the second time we’ve seen it here in 30 years.
The pale-vented bush-hen moved in last month, but that was the first time we have seen or heard it here.
I now need to add buff-banded rail, white-faced heron and little pied cormorant to that list