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