BIRD LIST

The below list (work in progress) is compiled from the Gympie and District Field Naturalist’s Club bird list, the Noosa Parks Association (NPA) listing of birds sighted in the park, and the Sunshine Coast Council’s two bird guide sheets, plus from first-hand observation. Descriptions are based on information from ‘A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia‘ by Graham Pizzey.

Bird name	Latin name	Habitat	Family	Call / voice and alternative names
Australasian Bittern	Botaurus poiciloptilus	Reedbeds, rushes, cumbungi, swamps, lagoons rivers, wet paddocks, drains	Ardeidae Bitterns, Herons, Egret	Unusual voice resembling a distant foghorn, and thought to have inspired aboriginal bunyip legends. This bird is also known as: Boomer, Bullbird, Bunyip
Australasian Figbird	Sphecotheres viridis	rainforests, eucalypt forests and woodlands, swamp woodlands, vegetation on watercourses, mangroves, leafy trees on farms, streets, parks, gardens, and orchards	Oriolidae Orioles, Riflebirds, Drongo, Starlings	Squeeky voice with downward inflection. This bird is also known as Banana-bird, Mulberry-bird, Shrike
Australasian Gannet	Morus serrator	Seabird, seldom ashore	Sulidae Boobies, Gannet	Spectacular high-diving white seabird, also known as Diver
Australasian Grebe	Podiceps ruficollis	still fresh waters, prefers smaller waters, usually with sub-aquatic growth; in winter flock occasionally with Hoary-headed grebes on larger open waters	Podicipedidae	Its alarm call is a sharp ‘tik’; has a clear, angry chitter
Australian Hobby	Falco longipennis	typically found in open country with large trees and timbered watercourses, but also in nearly treeless plains and in city parks, gardens and well-vegetated suburbs	Falconidae Falcons	Has a shrill rapid-fire call that sounds like ‘kee-kee-kee-kee-kee’, more twittering than the Kestrel. This bird is also known as Little Falcon, Black-faced or Duck Hawk, Little Duck-Hawk, and White-fronted Falcon
Australian Kestrel	Falco cenchroides	Plains, open foothills, coastal dunes and cliffs; also in farmlands, around market-gardens, city buildings, and railyards	Falconidae Falcons	Shrill, excited rapid-fire keekeekeekeekee near nest and when playing, else thin squealing ‘keer keer keer’. This bird is also known as Nankeen Kestrel, Hoverer, Mosquito Hawk, Sparrow Hawk, and Windhover
Australian King-Parrot	Alisterus scapularis	Rainforests, wet eucalypt woodlandss and clearings, coastal woodlands and scrubs, areas with berry-bearing shrubs, crops, potato-fields, orchards, parks and gardens	Polytelitidae Longtailed Parrots	Scratchy brassy in-flight ‘chack! chack!’ calls, and harsh alarm screeches. Also known as Blood Rosella, King Lory, Scarlet-and-Green or Spud Parrot
Australian Magpie	Gymnorhina tibicen	Likes trees and open areas, and can be found in orchards, on golf courses, playing fields, in suburban areas and gardens	Gymnorhina Australian Magpies	Rich mellow flute- or organ-like call, and is therefore also known as Flutebird, Organbird, or Piper
Australian Magpie-lark	Grallina cyanoleuca	Very wide. Absent only from dense forests and waterless deserts; likes trees, rivers, and swamps as well as urban areas	Grallinidae Magpie Larks	Mated pairs perform a duet that goes as follows: loud metallic ‘tee-hee’, instantly answered antiphonally with a ‘pee-o-wee’ or ‘pee-o-wit’
Australian Pelican	Pelecanus conspicillatus	Large shallow waters, coastal and inland, occasionally on open sea; also found inlands on mudflats, sandpits, piles, and jetties	Pelecanoididae Diving-Petrels	A rather silent bird that only utters the occasional gruff croak. Also known as Spectacled Pelican
Australian White Ibis	Threskiornis molucca	wide-ranging, from pastures and swamps, over woodlands, tidal mudflats, to garbage tips and grassed areas	Plataleidae Ibises and Spoonbills	Utters harsh barks and shouts. Also called Sticklebill and Sicklebird. As it is often found on rubbish dumps also known as dump bird
Australian Wood Duck	Chenonetta jubata	Earth dams, tanks, water among timber, swamps, lakes, reservoirs, sewage farms, ricefields. On sea, in bays and inlets	Cairininae Perching Ducks	The female does a long-drawn nasal ‘gnow?’ rising at the end; males have shorter, higher, more rising calls
Azure Kingfisher	Ceyx azureus	Mostly tree-lined creeks, rivers, lakes, and swamps with banks suitable for nesting. Also lives in tidal creeks, well-vegetated estuaries, and mangroves	Alcedinidae Kingfishers	Shrill squeaked ‘peet peet’, often in flight. Also known as Blue, Creek, Purple, River, or Water Kingfisher
Baillon’s Crake	Porzana pusilla	Vegetation growing and floating in freshwater swamps, tussocks, waterside vegetation	Rallidae Crakes, Rails, Bush-hen, Native-hens, Swamphens, Moorhens, Coot	Various tones: a harsh ‘krek-krek’, a whirring ‘chirr’, and a soft whining complaint note. This bird is also known as Marsh Crake, Little Crake, or Little Water Crake
Barn Owl	Tyto alba	Open forests and woodlands, grasslands with stands of timber, offshore rocks, islets and islands, farmlands, suburbs, cities. Occasionally roosts or nests in buildings. Also likes drive-in cinema screens and can be found in treeless areas where it nests in caves or on ledges	Strigidae and Tytonidae Owls	Utters hoarse thin wavering reedy screech ‘sk-air!’ or ‘skee-air!’ in-flight and when perched
Barred Cuckoo-shrike	Coracina lineata	Tropical and sub-tropical rainforest, scrub and scrub-margins, eucalypt forest and woodlands and clearings, swamp woodlands, timber along water courses, plantations, and gardens	Campephagidae Cuckoo-shrikes and Trillers	Pleasantly chatters, often in flight, and sounds like a toy mouth-organ: ‘aw-loo-ack, aw-loo-ack, aw-lack, aw-lack’. Apparently its range also includes a plaintive whistled ‘whee’. Also known as Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike
Bar-shouldered Dove	Geopelia humeralis	Typically found in vegetation near water, also in (sub)tropical scrubs, inland and coastal, scrubby vegetation and mangroves by creeks and swamps, eucalypt woodlands, crops, plantations, lantana thickets, and gardens	Columbidae Pigeons and Doves	Very high pitched melodious ‘coolicoo’ as well as an emphatic ‘hook, coo! Hook, coo!’ Also known as Kook-a-wuk, Pandanus or River Pigeon
Beach Stone-Curlew	Burhinus neglectus	Likes undisturbed open beaches, exposed reefs, mangroves, and tidal sand or mudflats	Burhinidae Stone-curlews	Utters a feeble alarm call ‘klee-klink’ This bird is also known as Beach or Reef Thick-knee
Bell Miner	Manorina melanophrys	Tmperate rainforest, wetter eucalypt or angophora woodland, with fairly dens shrubby understorey, visits garden feeders	Philemon Friarbirds	Clear high-pitched bell-like ‘tink’, varying in pitch. Typically uttered by many birds in a colony with beautiful tinkling effect, that can be tryingly persistent. Also sharp repeated ‘jak jak jak’ and hard complaining ‘kwee-kwee-kwee-kwee’; immature birds make a continual ‘yik,yik’ Also known as Bellbird
Black Bittern	Dupetor flavicollis	Leafy riverside, creekside or swampside trees, mangroves, in willows, on river margins, in swamps, tidal creeks and mudflats	Ardeidae Bitterns, Herons, Egret	Low pronounced ‘w-h-o-o-o-o’, repeated at intervals. Also known as Yellow-necked or Mangrove Bittern
Black-breasted Buttonquail	Turnix melanogaster	Leaf-strewn floors of drier (sub)tropical rainforests, vine scrubs and adjacent thickets, including lantana, occasionally in pastures	Turnicidae Button quails, Bustard-quails	The female makes a deep ‘oo-oom, oo-oom, oo-oom’ sound. The male seems to hold his breath
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike	Coracina novaehollandiae	Grasslands with trees, timber along watercourses, woodlands, scrublands, forests, as well as orchards, parks, and gardens	Motacillidae Pipits and Wagtails	Musical rolling or purring sound, as well as a higher note ‘chereer, chereer’ and a harsh scolding ‘skair’. This bird is also known as Blue or Grey Jay, Cherry Hawk, Leatherhead, Shufflewing, or Summerbird
Black-faced Monarch	Monarcha melanopsis	Likes damp gullies in temperate forest to breed, then disperses into more open woodland	Monarcha Monsrch Flycatchers	Notes vary greatly, from ‘why-you, which-you’, over a harsher ‘which-a-where’ to a mellow, descending ‘which you’ or even a ‘why you, witch’. Seems to be able to slur as well, as in ‘r,r,rerr’ or ‘shsh-shsh-shirr’
Black-fronted Dotterel	Charadrius melanops	Shallow margins of rivers, lakes, on pebbles, gravel, or mud; in swamps and on the edges of dams; also in brackish lakes and on saltmarshes	Charadriidae Plovers and Dotterels	Single, explosive ‘dip!’ and tinkling rattles and churrings, often while flying This bird is also known as Guttersnipe and Sandpiper
Black Kite	Milvus migrans	Open country, also along timbered watercourses, beaches, towns, airfields, rubbish dumps, slaughter-yards,cattle camps, homestead environs	Milvinae Soaring Kites	Feeble plaintive whinnies and trills. Also known as Fork-Tailed Kite, Kimberley Hawk, and Kite-Hawk
Black-necked Stork	Xenorhynchus asiaticus	Swamps, mangroves, and mudflats, dry floodplains, irrigated lands, bore-drains, sub-artesian pools, occasionally seen in open grassy woodland	Ciconiidae Storks	Clappers its bills, and utters dull booms. Also known as Policemanbird and Jabiru
Black-shouldered kite	Elanus notatus	Open forest, grasslands with groups of trees, farms, market gardens, sewage farms, vacant land with rank growth,attracted by mice it can also be seen in outskirts of towns	Elaninae Hovering Kites	Its voice is a clear ‘chee’ with a sob in it, often repeatedly in flight; also utters a harsh ‘skairr!’
Black Swan	Cygnus atratus	Large open waters: fresh, brackish and salt, flooded pastures, green crops, tidal mudflats, prefers permanent swamps and lakes with emergent and sunaquatic vegetation, ornamental lakes. Occasionally on open sea	Cygninae Swans	Far-carrying musical bugle with a break, uttered in flight and when on water; also softer crooning notes
Black-winged Stilt	Himantopus himantopus	Fresh or brackish swamps, shallow river or lake-margins, dams, sewage farms, commercial saltfields, estuaries, mudflats	Recurvirostridae Stilts and Avocets	Falsetto yaps or repeated ‘boo’, mostly when nesting, immature birds have a thin whistle. Also known as Pied Stilt, White-headed Stilt, Stiltbird, Longshanks
Blue-faced Honeyeater	Entomyzon cyanotis	Open forests and woodlands, timber along watercourses and in farmlands, roadsides, taller sub-inland scrubs, also sugarcane, orchards, golf courses, parks, gardens	Philemon Friarbirds	Strong, strident and distinctive: typically a penetrating querulous ‘woik, woik, woik’, or ‘queet, queet’, each note rising at the end. Also a softer ‘hwit, hwit’ This bird is also known as Blue-eye, Gympie, Banana-bird, Pandanus-bird (n.Aust)
Brahminy Kite	Haliastur indus	Coastlines, especially with sandflats, mudflats, mangroves, islands, tidal sections of larger rivers, beaches, harbours, coastal towns	Milvinae Soaring Kites	Stuttered ‘peeah-h-h’, feeble peevish trills, mews and squeals. Also known as Red-backed Kite or Sea-eagle
Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster	found in (sub)tropical waters	Sulidae Boobies, Gannet	Also known as Brown Gannet
Brown Falcon	Falco berigora	Wide-spread: from clearings in mountain forests to open woodlands and treeless plains, farmlands, roadsides, coastal dunes	Falconidae Falcons	Probably the noisiest of teh Australian raptors: screeches, demented hoarse cracklings, at times like laying hen
Brown Cuckoo-Dove	Macropygia amboinensis	Mostly on margins of rainforests	Columbidae Pigeons and Doves	Mellow, high-pitched ‘coo-crrork’ or ‘cucu-rrorrk’, rising at end (‘did you walk?’) repeated deliberately seval times, In display a rolling ‘c-croor’. Also known as Brown Pigeon, Brownie, Large-tailed or Pheasant Pigeon, Pheasant-tailed Pigeon
Brown Goshawk	Accipiter fasciatus	Anywhere with trees, but typically more in open forests and woodlands, partly cleared farmlands, shelter-belts, roadside timber, city parks, gardens	Accipitrinae Goshawks and Sparrowhawks	Male utters a high-pitched rapid-fire ‘kikikiki!’, whereas the female voices a slower mellow whistled ‘yuik, yuik, yuik’, mostly near the nest. This bird is also known as Australian Goshawk, Chicken Hawk, Pacific Goshawk
Brown Honeyeater	Lichmera indistincta	Inland scrubs, (sub)tropical woodlands, rainforest-margins, coastal shrubs, swamp woodlands and mangroves. Also in vegetation near watercourses, golf courses, parks, gardens	Philemon Friarbirds	Its song is strong, sweet and varied, typically ‘sweet-sweet-quarty-quarty’. Its alarm call however is somewhat harsh and grating. Also known as Least Honeyeater
Brown Quail	Coturnix australis	Rank vegetation on low wet swampy ground, heavy pasture in damp paddocks, clover, lucerne, rice stubbles, grassy woodlands, in coastal areas it likes swampy heaths of sword grass and melaleuca and banksia-thickets	Phasianidae Quails, Pheasants and Fowls	A fairly loud whistled ‘f-weep’, ‘tu-weeeee’, or ‘bee-quick, bee-quick’, rising at end and uttered at frequent intervals. When flushed, sharp chirp or quick fluty chatter. Calls are heard often early morning, late afternoon and at night. Also called Swamp, Partridge or Silver Quail
Brown Thornbill	Acanthiza pusilla	Foliage and undergrowth of rainforests, wetter eucalypt forests, woodlands, scrubs, creekside vegetation, bracken, rushes on swamp and river-margins, dune-vegetation on coast. Saltmarsh vegetation, mangroves, parks, gardens	Acanthiza Thornbills	Notes varied, many surprisingly deep, typical call is a baritone ‘pee-orr’, also many fussy squeaks and churrs. Excellent mimic, especially when stressed and during sub-song; its alarm call is a deep zizzing scolding like scrubwren.
Brush Bronzewing	Phaps elegans	Generally in cover with a scrubby thick understorey, coastal scrubs and heaths, understorey of eucalypt forests and woodlands, and on the dry sparser scrubs of coastal islands	Columbidae Pigeons and Doves	Muffled ‘oom’, uttered incessanly when breeding. Also known as Box-poison Pigeon, Little Bronze-Pigeon
Brush Cuckoo	Cuculus variolosus	Rainforests and woodlands, leafy trees along watercourses, mangroves, roadsides	Cuculidae Cuckoos	A shrill far-carrying deliberate, usually descending phrase of 3-8 notes ‘fear-fear-fear….’. Displaying males utter noisy shrill rising phrases such as ‘where’s-the-tea’, ‘where’s-the-tea-Pete’, or ‘where’s-the-pippy’, becoming demented. Also known as Square-tailed Cuckoo
Brush-turkey	Alectura lathami	Mainly coastal (sub)tropical and temperate rainforests and scrubs	Megapodiidae Mound Builders	Deep, fairly loud ‘kyok!’ with nasal quality, as well as loud cluckings and deep subdued grunts. Also known as Scrub or Wild Turkey, Yellow-wattled Brush-turkey
Buff-banded Rail	Rallus philippensis	Vegetation by swamps, streams, tussocks in wet paddocks and woodlands, crops, rank pastures, samphire in brackish swamps or saltmarsh, and in homestead gardens	Rallidae Crakes, Rails, Bush-hen, Native-hens, Swamphens, Moorhens, Coot	Possesses an arsenal of sounds: sharp squeak like scratching a slate, sharp ‘click click’ notes, coos, thudding grunts. A sharp ‘crek’ or squeak when flushed. A call ‘coo-aw-ooo-aw-ooo-aw’, has even been described as ‘somewhat like a braying donkey’
Bush Stone-curlew	Burhinus magnirostris	Open woodland with fallen branches, leaf-litter, sparse grass, timber along dry watercourses, sandy scrub near beaches, mangrove-fringes, country golf courses	Burhinidae Stone-curlews	A far-carrying eerie mournful whistle of successive parts: starts low and slowly, is repeated, rises, quickens, breaks, descends, and may end in staccato chorus of ‘wee-wiff, wee-wiff, wee-wiff’ often by several birds and usually at night. Also known as Stone Plover, Weeloo, Willaroo
Cattle Egret	Ardeola ibis	Floodplains, swamp margins, pastures, low fodder crops	Ardeidae Bitterns, Herons, Egret	Guttural croak, softer than other egrets. Also known as Buff-backed Heron
Channel-billed Cuckoo	Scythrops novaehollandiae	Open forests, woodlands, swamp woodlands and scrublands, sometimes in rainforest	Cuculidae Cuckoos	A raucous, deliberately-spaced shout of ‘oik’, ‘awk’, or ‘wark’, repeated, rising slightly. Uttered flying or perched, often at night. Also known as Flood, Rain or Stormbird, Giant or Storm Cuckoo, Fig Hawk, Hornbill, Toucan
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin	Lonchura castaneothorax	Grasslands near water, swamp-vegetation,coastal heaths, mangroves, overgrown wastelands and roadsides, pastures and cultivation, canefields, ricefields, and other cereal crops, lantana thickets	Ploceidae Australian Grass Finches and Allies	Bell-like notes, becoming a merry tinkling when a flock is put to flight, song of male very high-pitched wheezing, not easily heard Also known as Barleybird, Barley Sparrow, Bullfinch, Chestnut(-breasted) Finch
Cicadabird	Coracina tenuirostris	Heads of trees in temperate and tropical rainforests, scrubs, open woodlands, paperbark-swamps, mangroves	Campephagidae Cuckoo-shrikes and Trillers	Male sounds like cicada beginning to call: a strange, loud, rather harsh, staccato buzzing repeated 8-20 times or more, slowing and dropping slightly; when chasing, reported to utter a soft, explosive ‘twik’ or ‘twok’; alarm-call, quick, slightly rolling ‘chuit’ Also known as (Jardine) Caterpillar-eater, Triller
Clamorous Reed-warbler	Acrocephalus stentoreus	Stands of reeds, cumbungi, river red gum regrowth, weeping willows, bamboos, even tall cereal crops over or beside lakes, swamps, or rivers, lantana thickets; often in public gardens	Sylviidae Old World Warblers	Rich variable liquid phrases, some metallic and guttural, others sweet, repeated in chant: ‘chutch chitch chutch, dzee-dzee-dzee, quarty-quarty-quarty’. Alarm-call sharp ‘t!’, also dry scolding rattle This bird is also known as Nightingale, Reedbird, Reedlark, Swamp Tit, Water Sparrow
Collared Sparrowhawk	Accipiter cirrhocephalus	Temperate rainforests, coastal woodlands, to inland mulga and mallee scrubs	Accipitrinae Goshawks and Sparrowhawks	Shrill rapid ‘kikiki’, faster and thinner than Goshawk or Kestrel; can resemble alarm of Honeyeater; also slow mellow piping ‘yuik, yuik, yuik’; near nest, thin squeals Also known as Chicken Hawk
Comb-crested Jacana	Irediparra gallinacea	Offshore vegetation on surface of lagoons, swamps and dams	Jacanidae Jacanas or Lotusbirds	Thin squeaky chitter or piping, usually in flight. Also known as Lotusbird, Skipper, Lily-trotter, Water Pheasant
Common Koel	Eudymanys scolopacea	Rainforest, open forest, tall leafy trees on fringes of rainforest or woodland along streams or in stands in farmland, parks and streets	Cuculidae Cuckoos	Very vocal day and night during breeding period, specially in wet. Rather silent after breeding. Males utter repeated far-carrying ‘kooeel’, also brisk rising ‘quoy-quoy-quoy-quoy’, falsetto ‘quodel-quodel-quodel’ or slightly mad, rising ‘weir-weir.weir-weir!’. Female has shrill four-note brassy piping. Also known as Black or Flinders’ Cuckoo, Cooee or Rainbird, Indian Koel
Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis	Urban areas, pastoral and agricultural districts near towns	Sturnidae Starlings and Mynas	Various raucous creaky notes, growls, and rattles, often strung together as song; on taking flight, a mellow liquid note. Alarm-call harsh ‘scairr!’ somewhat like tearing cloth Also known as Indian Myna or Mynah
Common Starling	Sturnus vulgaris	Urban areas, settled, cleared lands, pastoral country, open habitats, reedbeds, tidal mudflats, beaches, islands, gardens, orchards	Sturnidae Starlings and Mynas	Characteristic descending whistlling voice. Alarm call is a harsh decending ‘tcheer’ or a sharp ‘dick!’ singly or staccato. Also known as English Starting
Crested Pigeon	Ocyphaps lophotes	Open country, generally where water is present, in settled districts often on roadsides, stubble-fields and other croplands, weed-grown paddocks, sportsgrounds, farmyards, country railyards	Columbidae Pigeons and Doves	Whoop!’ singly in alarm, or repeated Also known as Crested Bronzewing or Dove, Saddleback, Topknot, Whistling-winged Pigeon, Wirewings
Crested Tern	Sterna bergii	Offshore usually near coast, bays, inlets, tidal rivers, salt or brackish coastal swamps or lakes, occasionally large fresh waters, occasionally follows rivers well inland	Laridae Gulls, Terns, and Noddies	Noisy, a somewhat rasping ‘carrik’ or ‘kirrik’ Also known as Diver, Greater Crested, Ruppell’s Swift
Crimson Rosella	Platycercus elegans	Rainforests, wetter forests and woodlands to above snowline, fern-gullies	Platycercidae Broad-tailed Parrots	Contact call mellow ringing ‘trip-klee’ or slow bell-like ‘klee-kleekeee’; in flight raucous brassy clanging ‘klee klee klee’ Also known as Crimson Parrot, Red Lowry
Darter	Anhinga melanogaster	Larger shallow waters, fresh and salt, rivers, lakes, swamps, lagoons, reservoirs, tidal inlets, estuaries, but not open sea	Anhingidae Darters	A brassy clanging, alarm-note is a mechanical-sounding clicking Also known as Diver, Needle-beak Shag, Snake-bird
Diamond Dove	Geopelia cuneata	Near water in dry inland scrubs and woodlands, hilly country with scrubby trees, timbered watercourses	Columbidae Pigeons and Doves	Slow, level, mournful four-note coo, syllabized ‘oh-my-papa’, also plaintive slow high-pitched ‘coo-cooooo’ Also known as Little or Red-eyed Dove or Turtle-dove
Dollarbird	Eurystomus orientalis	Forests, open woodlands, and timber along watercourses, over open swamps at dusk, timbered suburbs of towns and cities	Coraciidae Rollers	Loud rasping accelerating ‘kak, kak,kak-kak-kak-kak-kak’ or ‘yap, yapapapap’ Also known as (Eastern) Broad-billed Roller, Starbird
Double-barred Finch	Poephila bichenovii	Vegetation along watercourses, drier grassy woodlands and scrublands, open forests and adjacent cleared lands, canefields, roadsides, wastelands, golf courses, plantations, gardens, parks	Ploceidae Australian Grass-finches and Allies	Toot like toy-trumpet, decribed as long-drawn-out ‘tiaat, tiaat’ Also known as Bicheno, Banded, Black-ringes, Owl, Owl-faced, or Ringed Finch
Dusky Honeyeater	Myzomela obscura	Coastal woodlands and scrubs, rainforests, vegetation along watercourses, mangroves, swamp-woodlands, gardens	Meliphagidae Honeyeaters	An obscure squeak, excited ‘see see see’ when birds chase, also a short mournful whistle with soft triling chatter
Dusky Moorhen	Gallinula tenebrosa	Well-vegetated swamps, town lakes, rivers with wide grassy margins and stands of rushes or reeds, dense trees along banks or in water	Rallidae Crakes, Rails, Bush-hen, Native-hens, Swamphens, Moorhens, Coot	Noisy strident ‘kerk!’ Also known as Black Gallinule or Moorhen
Eastern Bristlebird (subsp)	Dasyornis brachypterus	Coastal scrubs, wet heathlands, reedbeds and thickets overgrown with rank vegetation	Dasyornis Bristlebirds	Loud and melodious, with sweet but strangely penetrating quality, ends in something of a whipcrack Also known as Brown Bristlebird
Eastern Grass Owl	Tyto longimembris	Tall grass-tussocks in extensive swampy areas, grassy plains, swampy heaths	Strigidae and Tytonidae Owls	Hoarse thin wavering reedy screech ‘sk-air!’ or ‘skee-air!’ in flight and perched. Has alse been heard to utter a ‘thin quavery little whistle’
Eastern Reef Heron	Egretta sacra	Exposed reefs, rocky shores, beaches, mudflats, islands; roosts and nests in woodland, scrub, pandanus adjacent to beaches	Ardeidae Bitterns, Herons, Egret	A hoarse croak Also known as Blue, Sacred, or White Heron, White or Blue Reef Hero, Reef Egret
Eastern Spinebill	Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris	Forests and woodlands, thickets along watercourses, chiefly in coastal areas or on Divide, occasional inland, coastal scrubs and heaths, well-vegetated gardens (especially on cultivated fuchsias, abutilons)	Meliphagidae Honeyeaters	Clear high-pitched staccato piping, sometimes long-repeated, may be brisk and explosive or soft and wavering Also known as Cobbler’s Awl, Hummingbird, Spine-billed Honeyeater, Spiny
Eastern Whipbird	Psophodes olivaceus	Dense closed habitats, near ground: coastal scrubs, creek and riverside vegetation, undergrowth and floor of rainforests, wetter eucalypt forests and woodlands, dense thickets of blackberries, bracken, lantana, overgrown gardens	Orthonychidae Logrunners, Whipbirds, Wedgebills, adn Quail-thrushes	Loud whipcrack, typically uttered as duet by pairs Also known as Coachwhip or Stockwhip-bird
Eastern Yellow Robin	Eopsaltria australis	Shaded cover, from lower levels of mountain rainforests to coastal swamp-woodlands and tea-tree thickets, orchards, golf courses, gardens, parks	Muscicapidae (subfamily Muscicapinae) Old World Flycatchers	Oft-repeated quick explosive ‘chop-chop!’ Also called Yellowhammer, Yellow Bob, Yellow-breasted Robin
Emerald Dove	Chalcophaps indica	Rainforests, (sub)tropical scrubs, wet eucalypt forest, streamside timber, lantana thickets, coastal and island scrubs, mangroves, farms, gardens, tourist centres	Columbidae Pigeons and Doves	Monotonous low-toned ‘coo-coo’ and ‘hoo-hoo-hoon’, with nasal ending Also known as Green-winged Pigeon
Eurasian Coot	Fulica atra	Large fresh or brackish waters, inland floodwaters, permanent swamps, town lakes, reservoirs, sewage farms, brackish coastal swamps	Rallidae Crakes, Rails, Bush-hen, Native-hens, Swamphens, Moorhens, Coot	Noisy, with a variety of harsh notes, typically a sharp ‘kyik!’ or ‘kyok!’, and repeated raucous screeches
Fairy Martin	Cecropis ariel	Generally in open country, near water	Hirundinidae Swallows and Martins	Slight churring ‘drrt drrt’ or rolling ‘dzee dzee’ This bird is also known as Bottle, Cliff, or Land Swallow
Fan-tailed Cuckoo	Cuculus pyrrhophanus	Dense wooded habitats, from rainforests to red gum forests, also in open country, paddocks, roadsides, orchards, gardens, mangroves	Cuculidae Cuckoos	Strong, rather sad slow downward trill: ‘peeeee’, also a small voice ‘get-woorrk’ with rising inflection, or shrill slurred high-pitched ‘pree-eee’ or ‘to-brrreeet’ Also known as Ash-coloured Cuckoo
Feral Pigeon	Columba livia	Ledges and cavities in buildings, grain-handling installations, railyards, wharfs, streets, parks, gardens	Columbidae Pigeons and Doves	A deep ‘cocoocoo’ or ‘rackitty-coo’; persistent ‘ooms’ Also known as Domestic, Homing, or Rock Pigeon, Rock Dove
Forest Kingfisher	Halcyon macleayii	Open woodlands, timber and scrub along watercourses, swamps, beaches, mangroves	Alcedinidae Kingfishers	Loud high-pitched scratchy ‘krree-krree-krree’ and a high-pitched rattle. Scolding speech and chatterings near nest
Fuscous Honeyeater	Lichenostomus fuscus	Drier open forests and woodlands, river red gums along watercourses, margins of rainforests, inland scubs including belar and other casuarinas, and brigalow; gardens	Meliphagidae Honeyeaters	Often ‘arig-arig-a-taw-taw’; in song-flight deep metallic twanging ‘tew-tew-tew-tew’, ‘permewan-permewan-permewan’ or ‘clitchit-clee-you, clitchit-clee-you’, repeated
Galah	Cacatua roseicapilla	Open country with suitable trees, typically on watercourses. Grasslands, cereal crops, town parks, playing fields, even beaches	Cacatuidae Cockatoos	High-pitched splintered call ‘chill chill’, harsher screeches Also known as Goolie, Goulie, Roseate or Rose-breasted Cockatoo, Willie-willock, Willock
Glossy Black-Cockatoo	Calyptorhynchus lathami	Usually associated with casuarinas in coastal forests and woodlands, timbered watercourses	Cacatuidae Cockatoos	Feeble whining or wailing, described as a soft ‘tarr-red, tarr-red’ This bird is also known as Casuarina (Black) Cockatoo, Leach’s Black Cockatoo
Golden-headed Cisticola	Cisticola exilis	Tall grasses, rushes, and rank herbage aroundswamps, drainage and in wet or neglected paddocks, roadsides, crops, blackberries, samphire on saltmarsh margins	Sylviidae Old World Warblers	Perched and in flight, breeding males utter incessant far-carrying insect-like ‘bhzzt’ followed by loud liquid ‘lek’ or ‘pillek’; high-pitched chatterings and scolds Also known as Barleybird, Cornbird,Golden-capped Grass-warbler, Golden-headed Fantailed Warbler, Grassbird, Grass-warbler, Tailorbird
Golden Whistler	Pachycephala pectoralis	Closed habitats, rainforests, forests, woodlands, riverside vegetation, coastal and sub-inland scrubs, orchards, shelter-belts, golf courses, parks, gardens	Pachycephala Whistlers	Range of sweet notes, many robust and ending in sharp crack, others with curious in-drawn quality; typical phrases are: rising ‘wheat-wheat-wheat-WHITTLE!’, a brisks ‘dee-dee-dee-ah-WHIT!’. Contact-call: a single rising ‘seeep’. Like other whistlers, males often call after thunder, car backfire, shot or other sudden loud noise, hence ‘Thunderbird’, but also known as Cuthroat, Golden-breasted, White-throated, or Yellow-breasted Whistler or Thickhead, Ring-coachie, Whipbird
Great Cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	Coastal waters, bays, estuaries, larger rivers and lakes, farm dams	Phalacrocoracidae Cormorants	Querulous croaking, rising in cadence, rarely heard away from roosts or colnies Also known as (Big) Black Cormorant, Black Shag
Great Egret	Egretta alba	Shallows of rivers, mudflats, swamps, lagoons, sewage farms, irrigation areas, larger dams	Ardeidae Bitterns, Herons, Egret	A guttural rattling croak Also known as (Great)White Egret, White Crane
Green Catbird	Ailuroedus crassirostris	Rainforests and margins, densely-foliaged gullies, nearby cultivated areas	Paradisaeidae Birds-of-paradise and Bowerbirds	Loud, harsh. Typical call like yowling cat, frequently starting before dawn; a nasal, drawling ‘here-I-are’ Also known as Spotted Catbird
Grey Butcherbird	Cracticus torquatus	Margins of rainforest and eucalypt forests, open woodlands, coastal and inland scrubs, including mallee, vegetation along watercourses, shelter-belts on farms, roadside timber, golf courses, parks, gardens	Cracticus Butcherbirds	Beautiful deep mellow piping. In aggression a staccato rollicking descending shriek and a harsh grating ‘karr, karr’ Also known as Silver-backed Butcherbird, Whistling Jack or Jackass, Durbaner, Grey Shrike
Grey-crowned Babbler	Pomatostomus teporalis	Open forest, scrubby woodlands and scrublands	Timaliidae Babblers	Typical clear call ‘yahoo’ or brisk ‘gowahee, gowahee, gowahee’, rather like braying of distant donkey, also a strident ‘peeoo peeoo peeoo’ heard afar, or falsetto ‘put-yair, put-yair, put-yair’, incessant fussy chatterings Also known as Apostlebird, Barker, Cackler, Catbird, Chatterer, Codlin Moth Eater, Dogbird, Happy Family, Happy Jack, Hopper, Jumper, Parsonbird, Pine-bird, Quackie, Re-breasted Babbler, Yahoo
Grey Falcon	Falco hypoleucos	Open habitats, semi-deserts, grassy inland plains, timbered watercourses, pastoral lands	Falconidae Falcons	Somewhat hoarse ‘chak-chak-chak-chak’ or loud ‘cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck’ Also known as Blue or Smoke Hawk
Grey Fantail	Rhipidura fuliginosa	Almost any cover with some moisture, from coastal scrubs and mangroves to rainforests, inland scrubs and vegetation lining watercourses and rocky gorges	Rhipidura Fantails	An oft-repeated, fairly sharp ‘dek’ Also known as Cranky Fan, Mad Fan, Snapper, White-fronted or White-shafted Fantail
Grey Shrike-thrush	Colluricincla harmonica	Most forests and woodlands, coastal scrubs, mallee and other inland scrubs, vegetation along watercourses	Colluricincla Shrike-thrushes	Typically ‘purr-purr-purr quee yule’, ‘yo-ho-ee’, ‘pip-pip-pip-pip-ho-ee’, ‘e-all, queel’ or ‘crook crook per kweee’, last syllable rising strongly. In winter utters single loud ringing note ‘dite’, ‘yorrick’ or ‘ching’ Also known as Duke Wellington, Jock Whitty, Joe Wickie, Pluff, Whistling Dick
Grey Ternlet	Procelsterna albivittata	Oceanic islands and oceans	Laridae Gulls, Terns, and Noddies	Round breeding colonies: rolling or purring ‘cror-r-r-‘ Also known as Grey Noddy
Ground Parrot	Pezoporus wallicus	Low ground-cover, usually in extensive swampy heaths, preference for drier ridges in same.	Platycercidae Broad-tailed Parrots	Calls described as thin and high-pitched, or beautiful and sweet: three or four measured bell-like notes ‘tee…tee…stit’,
Gull-billed Tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	Grasslands, plains, ploughed lands, airfields	Laridae Gulls, Terns, and Noddies	Throaty rasping ‘ka-huk, ka-huk’ or ‘za-za-za’, an insect-like buzz and a stuttered ‘kerr’ and ‘tirruck-tirruck’ Also known as Long-legged tern
Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo	Chrysococcyx basalis	Open woodlands, scrublands and most open or partly open country, mallee, mulga and saltbush in inland to saltmarsh, samphire or mangroves on coast, roadsides, golf courses, orchards, gardens	Cuculidae Cuckoos	Single long-descending ‘tseeeuw’, ‘prrelll’ or ‘pir-r-r, repeated persistently Also known as Narrow-billed or Rufous-tailed Bronze-cuckoo
House Sparrow
Indian Myna
Jacky Winter
King Parrot
King Quail
Large-billed Scrubwren
Laughing Kookaburra
Leaden Flycatcher
Lewin’s Honeyeater
Lewin’s Rail
Little Black Cormorant
Little Bronze-Cuckoo
Little Eagle
Little Egret
Little Friarbird
Little Grassbird
Little Lorikeet
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Shrike-thrush
Little Wattlebird
Logrunner
Lorikeet
Magpie Goose
Magpie-lark
Maned Duck
Marbled Frogmouth
Masked Booby
Masked Lapwing
Mistletoebird
Nankeen Kestrel
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Noisy Pitta
Nutmeg Mannikin
Olive-backed Oriole
Oriental Cuckoo
Osprey
Pacific Baza
Pacific Black Duck
Pacific Heon
Painted Button-quail
Pale-headed Rosella
Pale-vented Bush-hen
Pale-yellow Robin
Pallid Cuckoo
Paradise Riflebird
Peaceful Dove
Peewee
Peregrine Falcon
Pheasant Coucal
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Cormorant
Pied Currawong
Pied Oystercatcher
Plumed Whistling-Duck
Powerful Owl
Purple Swamphen
Rainbow Bee-eater
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red-backed Button-quail
Red-backed Fairy-Wren
Red-browed Finch
Red-browed Firetail
Regent Bowerbird
Restless Flycatcher
Richard’s Pipit
Rock Dove
Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
Rose Robin
Royal Spoonbill
Rufous Fantail
Rufous-throated Honeyeater
Rufous Whistler
Russet-tailed Thrush
Sacred Ibis
Sacred Kingfisher
Satin Flycatcher
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Scarlet Honeyeater
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Shining Flycatcher
Short-tailed Shearwater
Silvereye
Silver Gull
Spectacled Monarch
Sooty Owl
Sooty Oystercatcher
Southern Boobook
Southern Emu-wren
Spangled Drongo
Spotless Crake
Spotted Turtle-Dove
Spotted Pardalote
Square-tailed Kite
Strawneck Egret
Straw-necked ibis
Striated Pardalote
Striated Thornbill
Striped Honeyeater
Superb Fairy-wren
Superb Fruit-dove
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Tawny Frogmouth
Tawny Grassbird
Torresian Crow
Tree Martin
Varied Sittella
Varied Thriller
Variegated Fairy-Wren
Wandering Tattler
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Welcome Swallow
Whipbird
Whiskered Tern
Whistling Kite
White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
White-breasted Woodswallow
White-browed Scrubwren
White-cheeked Honeyeater
White-eared Monarch
White-eyed Duck
White-faced Heron				incorrectly also called ‘Blue Crane’
White-headed Pigeon
White Pygmy-goose			Cairininae Perching Ducks	Also known as Cotton Teal
White-tailed Tropicbird
White-throated Gerygone
White-throated Honeyeater
White-throated Needletail
White-throated Nightjar
White-throated Treecreeper
White-winged Tern
White-winged Triller
Willie Wagtail
Wompoo Fruit-dove
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
Yellow Thornbill

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