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Bird List

Here you will find a selection of birds you might see at the Spit.
There are potentially many more birds in the area on any day though.

Beach Stone-curlew Striated Pardalote Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Australasian Gannet Pied Oystercatcher Buff-rumped Thornbill
Little Pied Cormorant Pacific Golden Plover Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Pied Cormorant Red-capped Plover Mangrove Gerygone
Great Cormorant Double-banded Lover Brown Honeyeater
Australian Darter Lesser Sand Plover Little Friarbird
Australian Pelican Greater Sand Plover Noisy Friarbird
Australian Wood Duck Masked Lapwing Blue-faced Honeyeater
Grey Teal Silver Gull Noisy Miner
Mallard White-winged Black Tern Brush Wattlebird
Pacific Black Duck Gull-billed Tern Willie Wagtail
White-faced Heron Caspian Tern Black-faced Monarch
Little Egret Crested Tern Leaden Flycatcher
Eastern Reef Egret Common Tern Spangled Drongo
Striated Heron Little Tern Torresian Crow
Australian White Ibis Pomarine Jaeger White-breasted Woodswallow
Royal Spoonbill Rock Dove Grey Butcherbird
Osprey Spotted Turtle-Dove Pied Butcherbird
Black-shouldered Kite Crested Pigeon Australian Magpie
Whistling Kite Bar-shouldered Dove Pied Currawong
Brahimy Kite Pale-headed Rosella Magpie-lark
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Eastern Rosella Olive-backed Oriole
Collared Sparrowhawk Galah Figbird
Australian Hobby Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Bar-tailed Godwit Rainbow Lorikeet Common Starling
Whimbrel Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Welcome Swallow
Eastern Curlew Australian Koel Tree Martin
Common Greenshank Pheasant Coucal Silvereye
Great Knot White-throated Needletail Golden-headed Cisticola
Red Knot Laghing Kookaburra House Sparrow
Sanderling Scared Kingfisher Double-barred Finch
Red-necked Stint Rainbow Bee-eater Australasian Pipit
Bush Stone-curlew Dollarbird  
Red-backed Fairy-wren Supurb Fairy-wren  

This checklist is designed as a guide only to possible sightings along the “Federation Walk”, Philip Park and the adjacent foreshore and sand flats south of Wave Break Island.

Any birds seen that are not on this list should be reported to:
Dr Darrell Price
5/25 Spendelove Av
Southport, Qld 4215
Email: ddarrell@bigpond.net.au

Events
Sun, Sep 28th, 08
@ 7:00am - 10:30am
Federation Walk Community Planting Day
Sun, Oct 26th, 08
@ 7:00am - 10:30am
Federation Walk Community Planting Day
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