Black Swan, Swan river !
Rainbow Bee-eater
Papuan Frogmouth
Emu family
Wedgetail eagle
Blue winged Kookaburra
Gouldian finch
Cassowary
Australian Bustard
Jabiru
Willie Wagtail
Longtailed Nightjar
Brolga dance
White-bellied sea eagle
Major Mitchell
Heron
Golden Whistler
Kingfisher at Fogg Dam
Brolga dance
Crimson Rosella
Scarlet Robin
Tasmanian Native Hen
Yellow-bellied sunbird
Yellow Whiteeye
LBJ
Striated Pardalote
Darter
Glossy Black Cockatoo
Superb Fairy Wren
Spoonbill
Black Kites
Rainbow Bee-eater
Tawny Frogmouth
Crimson finch
Western Thornbill
I set myself the challenge to spot 300 species on the trip using my camera and the Pizzey & Knight Birds of Australia book as a field guide to identify them. As an amateur I am trying to take photos to help with the identification, though it proved much harder to get good quality photos with my lenses! Apologies but only a handful of photos because I didn’t get enough good ones (that would require a trip of its own).
The tally in alphabetical order below was 324. We saw and heard heaps more, just couldn’t positively identify them and have left them off the list. I might need to structure this page better for readability but for now here is a raw version :
| Bird | Place | Region | State |
| Apostlebird | Wilpena Pound | South Australia | |
| Australasian Bittern | Margaret River | WA | |
| Australasian Grebe | Nawarntapu NP | Tasmania | |
| Australasian Shoveller | Nawarntapu NP | Tasmania | |
| Australian Bustard | Cocklebiddy | WA | |
| Australian hobby | Ningaloo Homestead | WA | |
| Australian Pratincole | Fogg Dam | Darwin | NT |
| Australian raven | Wilpena Pound | SA | |
| Australian Shelduck | Jacks Point | Coorong | South Australia |
| Australian Wood Duck | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Banded honeyeater | Silent grove, El Questro | Kimberley | WA |
| Banded Lapwing | Ningaloo Homestead | WA | |
| Banded Stilt | Jacks Point | Coorong | South Australia |
| Bar breasted honeyeater | Tunnel creek | Kimberley | WA |
| Bar shouldered dove | Winjana Gorge | Kimberley | WA |
| Barn Owl | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Barred Cuckoo Shrike | Lake Eacham | Atherton Highlands | QLD |
| Bassian thrush | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Beach stone curlew | Honeymoon Bay | Kimberley | WA |
| Beautiful Firetail | 42 Mile Crossing | Coorong | South Australia |
| Bellbird (Miner) | Mt Seaview | NSW | |
| Black faced cormorant | Memory Cove | SA | |
| Black faced cuckoo shrike | Chain of Lagoons | Bay of Fires | Tasmania |
| Black Faced Monarch | Home Rule | Cape York | QLD |
| Black faced woodswallow | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Black fronted dotterel | Windjana gorge | GRR, Ooodnadatta Track | SA, WA |
| Black Kite | Pilbara | WA | |
| Black Naped Tern | Fraser Island | QLD | |
| Black necked stork | Port Hedland | WA | |
| Black shouldered heron | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Black shouldered kite | Hutt River Province | WA | |
| Black winged stilt | Ooodnadatta Track | Ooodnadatta Track | SA |
| Blackbird | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Black-tailed native hen | D’Estrees Bay | Kangaroo Island | South Australia |
| Blue billed duck | Nawarntapu NP | Tasmania | |
| Blue faced honeyeater | Katherine | NT | |
| Blue winged Kookaburra | Millstream NP | WA | |
| Blue winged parrot | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Bourke’s parrot | Wooleen Station | WA | |
| Brahminy Kite | Goombaragin | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Bridled Honeyeater | Hypermi NP | QLD | |
| Broad billed Flycatcher | Winjana Gorge | Kimberley | WA |
| Brolga | Marree | Ooodnadatta Track | SA |
| Brown Cuckoo Dove | Cape Tribulation | Cape York | QLD |
| Brown Gerygone | Dorrigo NP | NSW | |
| Brown Honeyeater | Eyre Bird Observatory | WA | |
| Brown Quail | Mitchell Plateau | Kimberley | WA |
| Brown Songlark | Ningaloo Station | WA | |
| Brown thornbill | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Brown-headed Honeyeater | Eyre Bird Observatory | WA | |
| Brush bronzewing | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Brush Cuckoo | Tewantin | QLD | |
| Brush Turkey | Hypermi NP | QLD | |
| Budgerigar | Memory cove, Wooleen Station | SA, WA | |
| Buff banded Rail | Vancouver lake | Tongarup NP | WA |
| Bush Stone Curlew | Katherine Gorge | NitmilukNP | NT |
| Cape Barren geese | Coorong | Coorong | South Australia |
| Caspian Tern | Fraser Island | QLD | |
| Cassowary | Cape Tribulation | Cape York | QLD |
| Cattle egret | Drysdale homestead | Kimberley | WA |
| Channel-billed cuckoo | LawnHill | Boudjamulla NP | NT |
| Chestnut Quail Thrush | Ooodnadatta Track | Ooodnadatta Track | SA |
| Chestnut quilled rock pigeon | Nourlangie rock | Kakadu NP | NT |
| Chestnut teal | Jacks Point | Coorong | South Australia |
| Common Bronzewing | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Common Noddy | Osprey Bay | Cape Range | WA |
| Common Sandpiper | Cape Arid NP | Cape Arid NP | WA |
| Common Tern | Mapoon | Cape York | QLD |
| Coot | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Cotton Pygmy goose | Cumberland Chimney | Queensland | QLD |
| Crested Bellbird | Gemtree | Plenty Highway | NT |
| Crested Pigeon | Old Telegraph Track | QLD | |
| Crimson finch | Silent grove | Kimberley | WA |
| Crimson Rosella | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Darter | Winjana Gorge | Kimberley | WA |
| Diamond dove | Wooleen Station | WA | |
| Dollarbird | Wallaman Falls | QLD | |
| Double barred finch | Goombaragin | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Dusky Grasswren | Simpsons Gap | NT | |
| Dusky Honeyeater | Cascades | Litchfield NP | NT |
| Dusky Moorhen | Longreach billabong | Elliot | NT |
| Dusky Woodswalllow | Memory Cove | SA | |
| Eainbow Lorikeet | Silent grove | Kimberley | WA |
| Easern Bristlebird | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Eastern reef egret (dark morph) | Middle lagoon | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Eastern Ringneck | 42 Mile Crossing | Coorong | South Australia |
| Eastern Rosella | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Eastern Spinebill | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Eastern Whipbird | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Eastern yellow robin | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Eclectus Parrot | Roaring Meg Falls | Cape York | QLD |
| Emerald Dove | Somerset Beach | Cape York | QLD |
| Emu | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Fairy Gerygone | Somerset Beach | Cape York | QLD |
| Fawn Breasted Bowerbird | South Jardine River | Old Telegraph Track | QLD |
| Figbird | Mareeba | QLD | |
| Flame robin | Yarrangobilly | NSW | |
| Forest raven | Nawarntapu NP | Tasmania | |
| Galah | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Gang Gang cockatoo | Green Patch | Victoria | |
| Gannet | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Glossy Black Cockatoo | Stokes Bay | Kangaroo Island | South Australia |
| Glossy Ibis | Coorong | Coorong | South Australia |
| Golden Pacific Plover | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Golden Whistler | Conto Campsite | Leuwin Naturaliste NP | WA |
| Goldfinch | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Gouldian finch | Ellenbrae station | Kimberley | WA |
| Graceful Honeyeater | Tyto Wetlands | QLD | |
| Great bowerbird | Goombaragin | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Great Cormorant | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Great crested grebe | Longreach billabong | Elliot | NT |
| Great Egret | WA | WA | |
| Green backed Honeyeater | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Green Catbird | Dorrigo NP | NSW | |
| Green Pygmy Goose | Fogg Dam | Darwin | NT |
| Green Rosella | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Grey Butcher bird | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Grey crowned babbler | DeGreys | WA | |
| Grey Currawong | Stokes Bay | Kangaroo Island | South Australia |
| Grey Falcon | Pilbara | WA | |
| Grey fantail | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Grey headed honeyeater | Home valley station | Ooodnadatta Track | SA,WA |
| Grey Plover | Mapoon | Cape York | QLD |
| Grey shrike thrush | Tasmania | ||
| Grey tailed Tattler | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Grey Teal | Cumberland Chimney | Queensland | QLD |
| Grey Wagtail | Green Patch | Victoria | |
| Grey Whistler | Kakadu NP | NT | |
| Grey-headed Robin | Hypermi NP | QLD | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Wooleen Lake | Wooleen Station | WA |
| Hoary headed grebe | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Hooded Plover | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Horsfields bronze cuckoo | Lake Corangamite | Victoria | |
| House crow | Wilpena Pound | SA | |
| House Sparrow | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Intermediate Egret | WA | WA | |
| King Parrot | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Koel | Lennox Head | NSW | |
| Kookaburra | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Lathams Snipe | Home Rule | Cape York | QLD |
| Leaden Flycatcher | Edith Falls | NitmilukNP | NT |
| Lesser frigate bird | Middle lagoon | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Leuwins Honeyeater | Cockatoo Creek | Old Telegraph Track | QLD |
| Little black cormorant | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Little Corella | Bicton | Perth | WA |
| Little Eagle | Pilbara | Pilbara | WA |
| Little Egrets | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Little friarbird | Gib River Road | Kimberley | WA |
| Little penguin | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Little pied cormorant | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Little Tern | Ningaloo Homestead | WA | |
| Little Wattlebird | Great Ocean Road | Victoria | |
| Long billed Corella | Bicton | Perth | WA |
| Long tailed finch | Goombaragin | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Long tailed Nightjar | Usher Point | Cape York | QLD |
| Long toed stint | Middle lagoon | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Lorikeets | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Lovely Fairy Wren | Coen Track | QLD | |
| Magnificent Riflebird | Usher Point | Cape York | QLD |
| Magpie | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Magpie Goose | Marglu Billabong | Kimberley | WA |
| Magpie lark | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Major Mitchell | Yalata | SA | |
| Mangrove golden whistler | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Mangrove grey fantail | Cobourg Peninsula | NT | |
| Masked finch | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Masked Lapwing | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Masked woodswallow | Hamelin Pool | WA | |
| Metallic Starlings | Cairns | QLD | |
| Mistletoe bird | Goombaragin | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Mulga parrot | Gemtree | Plenty Highway | NT |
| Musk duck | Nawarntapu NP | Tasmania | |
| Nankeen kestrel | NSW | NSW | |
| Nankeen Night Heron | Cockatoo Lagoon | Keep NP | NT |
| New Holland honeyeater | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Noisy Miner | Wilpena Pound | South Australia | |
| Noisy Pitta | Wallaman Falls | QLD | |
| Northen rosella | Mitchell Plateau | Kimberley | WA |
| Northern Fantail | Cobourg Peninsula | NT | |
| Olive backed Oriole | Buley Rockholes | Litchfield NP | NT |
| Orange-legged scrub fowl | Berry Springs | Darwin | NT |
| Osprey | D’Estrees Bay | Kangaroo Island | South Australia |
| Pacific Baza | Katherine Gorge | NitmilukNP | NT |
| Pacific black duck | Nawarntapu NP | Tasmania | |
| Pacific gull | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Pacific Mynah | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Painted finch | Yardie Creek | Cape Range | WA |
| Pale-headed Rosella | Cumberland Chimney | Queensland | QLD |
| Palm Cockatoo | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Papuan Frogmouth | Alau Beach | Cape York | QLD |
| Peaceful Dove | Winjana Gorge | Kimberley | WA |
| Pelican | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Pheasant Coucal | El Questro | Kimberley | WA |
| Pied Butcher bird | Mitchell Plateau | Kimberley | WA |
| Pied Currawong | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Pied Heron | Fogg Dam | Darwin | NT |
| Pied imperial pigeon | Cairns | QLD | |
| Pied oystercatcher | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Plumed Whistling Duck | Fogg Dam | Darwin | NT |
| Purple crowned fairy wren | LawnHill | Boudjamulla NP | NT |
| Purple crowned lorikeet | Quaggi Beach | WA | |
| Purple gaped honeyeater | WA | WA | |
| Purple Swamphen | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Radjah shelduck | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Red Backed Fairy wren | Tyto Wetlands | QLD | |
| Red browed Finch | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Red capped parrot | Cosy Corner | Albany | WA |
| Red capped plover | Jacks Point | Coorong | South Australia |
| Red capped robin | Rottnest Island | WA | |
| Red crowned Jacarana | Fogg Dam | Darwin | NT |
| Red necked Stint | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Red tailed Black Cockatoo | Leuwin Naturaliste NP, Kimberkley | Leuwin Naturaliste NP, Kimberkley | WA |
| Red wattlebird | Great Ocean Road | Victoria | |
| Red winged parrot | Karijini NP | Pilbara | WA |
| Red-necked Avocet | Jacks Point | Coorong | South Australia |
| Red-rumped parrot | Wilpena Pound | SA | |
| Reef Egret (Dark Morph) | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Restless flycatcher | Goombaragin | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Richard’s Pipit | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Rock Parrot | 42 Mile Crossing | Coorong | South Australia |
| Rose crowned Fruit Dove | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Royal Spoonbill | Narrung | Coorong | South Australia |
| Rufous Fantail | Beauchamp Falls walk | Victoria | |
| Rufous throated Honeyeater | Cumberland Chimney | Queensland | QLD |
| Rufous treecreeper | Gloucester | WA | |
| Rufous Whistler | Karijini NP | Pilbara | WA |
| Sacred Kingfisher | Fogg Dam | Alpine Highway | Victoria, NT |
| Sanderling | Port Macdonald | South Australia | |
| Sarus Crane | Lakefield NP | Lakefield NP | QLD |
| Satin Bowerbird | Yadboro | Victoria | |
| Satin Flycatcher | Home Rule | Cape York | QLD |
| Scaley Breasted Lorikeet | Roaring Meg Falls | Cape York | QLD |
| Scarlet Honeyeater | Broke River | Eungella NP | QLD |
| Scarlet robin | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Sharp-tailed sandpiper | Tyto Wetlands | Cairns | QLD |
| Shining Bronze Cuckoo | Cape Tribulation | Cape York | QLD |
| Shining Flycatcher | Buttons Crossing | Kimberley | WA |
| Short billed black cockatoo | Conto Campsite | Leuwin Naturaliste NP | WA |
| Silver crowned friarbird | Silent grove | Kimberley | WA |
| Silver gull | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Silvereye | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Singing Honeyeater | Cape Ottway | Victoria | |
| Sooty oystercatcher | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Southern Boobok Owl | Bicton | Perth | WA |
| Spangled Drongo | Litchfield NP | NT | NT |
| Spectacled Monarch | Somerset Beach | Cape York | QLD |
| Spinifex pigeon | Millstream NP | WA | |
| Splendid Fairy Wren | Conto Campsite | Leuwin Naturaliste NP | WA |
| Spotted Catbird | Lake Eacham | Atherton Highlands | QLD |
| Spotted Harrier | Cape Arid NP | Cape Arid NP | WA |
| Starling | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Straw necked ibis | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Striated Heron | Middle lagoon | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| Striated Pardalote | Huonville, Mitchell Plateau | Tasmania, WA | |
| Sulphur crested cockatoo | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Superb Fairy Wren | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Superb Lyrebird | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Swallow | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Swamp Harrier | Millstream NP | WA | |
| Swift | Green Patch | NSW | |
| Tasmanian Native Hen | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Tasmanian scrubwren | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Tawny Frogmouth | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Tooth Billed Bowerbird | Lake Eacham | Atherton Highlands | QLD |
| Torresian crow | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Tree Martin | Fitzgerald River NP | WA | |
| Varied Lorikeet | Longreach billabong | Elliot | NT |
| Varied Sitella | Cumberland Chimney | Queensland | QLD |
| Varied Triller | Cobourg Peninsula | NT | |
| Variegated Fairy Wren | Green Patch | Cape Peron | NSW, WA |
| Victoria Riflebird | Lake Eacham | Atherton Highlands | QLD |
| Wandering whistling duck | Fogg Dam | Darwin | NT |
| Wedgetail Eagle | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| Weebill | Karijini NP | Pilbara | WA |
| Western Bower Bird | Yardie Creek | Cape Range | WA |
| Western Corella | Busselton | WA | |
| Western ringneck parrot | Nullabor | SA | |
| Western rosella | Gloucester | WA | |
| Western Yellow Robin | Memory Cove | Memory Cove | SA |
| Whimbrel | Cape Arid NP | Cape Arid NP | WA |
| Whiskered Tern | Jacks Point | Coorong | South Australia |
| Whistling Kite | Pilbara | WA | |
| White backed swallow | Eagles Bluff | WA | |
| White breasted robin | Cosy Corner | Albany | WA |
| White breasted woodswallow | Middle lagoon | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| White browed Robin | Mitchell Plateau | Kimberley | WA |
| White Browed scrubwren | Dorrigo NP | NSW | |
| White Chinned Honeyeater | Fraser Island | QLD | |
| White Eared Honeyeater | Mooraback | Werrikimbe NP | NSW |
| White faced heron | Victoria | Victoria | |
| White fronted chat | Tasmania | Tasmania | |
| White gaped honeyeater | Cape Levique | Dampier peninsula | WA |
| White naped Honeyeater | Slaty Creek | Vic | |
| White necked Heron | Victoria | Victoria | |
| White quilled rock pigeon | Mitchell Plateau | Kimberley | WA |
| White Rumped Swiftlet | Home Rule | Cape York | QLD |
| White tailed black cockatoo | Victoria | Victoria | |
| White Throated Honeyeater | South Jardine River | Old Telegraph Track | QLD |
| White throated Needletail | Lennox Head | NSW | |
| White Throated Treecreeper | Ebor Falls | QLD | |
| White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike | Cobourg Peninsula | NT | |
| White-bellied Sea Eagle | Stokes Bay | Kangaroo Island | South Australia |
| White-browed Babbler | Gemtree | Plenty Highway | NT |
| white-browed scrub wren | Victoria | Victoria | |
| White-cheeked honeyeater | Quaggi Beach | WA | |
| White-eared honeyeater | McDermid Rock | WA | |
| White-plumed honeyeater | Port Hughes | Yorke Peninsula | South Australia |
| White-throated Gerygone | Edith Falls | NitmilukNP | NT |
| White-winged Triller | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Willie wagtail | Mitta Mitta river | Victoria | |
| Wonga Pigeon | Lennox Head | NSW | |
| Woompoo Fruit Dove | South Jardine River | Old Telegraph Track | QLD |
| Yellow Bellied Sunbird | Somerset Beach | Cape York | QLD |
| Yellow Faced Honeyeater | Gillies Lagoon | QLD | |
| Yellow Honeyeater | Cumberland Chimney | Queensland | QLD |
| Yellow Oriole | Merl Camp | Kakadu NP | NT |
| Yellow rumped Thornbill | Coorong | Coorong | South Australia |
| Yellow Spotted Honeyeater | Chilli Beach | Iron Range NP | QLD |
| Yellow throated honeyeater | Tasmania | SA | |
| Yellow throated miner | Wilpena Pound | SA | |
| Yellow tinted honeyeater | Durack river | Kimberley | WA |
| Yellow whiteeye | Home valley station | Kimberley | WA |
| Yellow-billed Spoonbllls | Victoria | Victoria | |
| Zebra finch | Wooleen Station | Ooodnadatta Track | SA |
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