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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