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Yarrie Lake – Bird List

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Ratites

Emu

Pheasants and Quail

Brown Quail

Ducks, Geese and Swans

Plumed Whistling Duck Black Swan

Australian Wood Duck Grey Teal

Pacific Black Duck Hardhead

Grebes

Australasian Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

Pigeons and Doves

Common Bronzewing

Crested Pigeon

Diamond Dove

Peaceful Dove

Bar-shouldered Dove

Frogmouths

Tawny Frogmouth

Owlet-nightjars

Australian Owlet-Nightjar

Swifts and Swiftlets

White-throated Needletail

Fork-Tailed Swift

Darter

Australian Darter

Cormorants and Shags

Little Pied Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Little Black Cormorant

Pied Cormorant

Pelican

Australian Pelican

Storks

Black-necked Stork*

Herons, Egrets and Bitterns

White-necked Heron

Great Egret

Intermediate Egret

Cattle Egret

White-faced Heron

Little Egret

Nankeen Night-Heron

Ibis and Spoonbills

Glossy Ibis

Australian White Ibis

Straw-necked Ibis

Royal Spoonbill

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Eagles, Kites, Goshawks and Osprey

Black-shouldered Kite

Square-tailed Kite*

Whistling Kite

Brown Goshawk

Spotted Harrier*

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Falcons

Nankeen Kestrel

Brown Falcon

Hobby

Black Falcon*

Crakes, Rails and Swamphens

Purple Swamphen

Australian Spotted Crake

Black-tailed Native-hen

Dusky Moorhen

Eurasian Coot

Stilts and Avocets

Black-winged Stilt Red-necked Avocet

Plovers, Dotterel and Lapwings

Black-fronted Dotterel

Red-kneed Dotterel

Masked Lapwing

Button-quail

Painted Button-quail

Gulls, Terns, Noddies

Whiskered Tern

Silver Gull

Cockatoos and Corellas

Glossy-black Cockatoo*

Galah

Little Corella

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Cockatiel

Parrots, Lorikeets, Rosellas

Red-winged Parrot

Superb Parrot*

Eastern Rosella

Pale-headed Rosella

Australian Ringneck

Blue Bonnet

Red-rumped Parrot

Budgerigar

Cuckoos

Shining Bronze-Cuckoo

Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Hawk-Owls

Barking Owl*

Southern Boobook

Tree Kingfishers

Laughing Kookaburra

Red-backed Kingfisher

Sacred Kingfisher

Bee-eaters , Dollarbird

Rainbow Bee-eater

Dollarbird

Treecreepers

White-throated Treecreeper

Brown Treecreeper*

Bowerbirds

Spotted Bowerbird

Fairy-wrens

Superb Fairy-wren

White-winged Fairy-wren

Variegated Fairy-wren

Thornbills and Gerygones

Speckled Warbler* Weebill

Western Gergone

White-throated Gerygone

Striated Thornbill

Yellow Thornbill

Yellow-rumped Thornbill

Buff-rumped Thornbill

Inland Thornbill

Pardalotes

Spotted Pardalote

Striated Pardalote

Honeyeaters and Chats

Yellow-faced Honeyeater

Singing Honeyeater

White-eared Honeyeater

White-plumed Honeyeater

Noisy Miner

Yellow-throated Miner

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater

Red Wattle-bird

Brown Honeyeater

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Noisy Friarbird

Little Friarbird Striped Honeyeater

Painted Honeyeater*

Australian Babblers

Grey-crowned Babbler*

White-browed Babbler

Cuckoo-shrikes, Trillers

Black-faced Cuckooshrike

White-bellied Cuckooshrike

White-winged Triller

Whistlers, Shrike-thrushes and Allies

Golden Whistler

Rufous Whistler

Grey Shrike-thrush

Orioles and Figbirds

Olive-backed Oriole

Woodswallows, Currawongs, Butcherbirds and Magpies

White-breasted Woodswallow

Masked Woodswallow

White-browed Woodswallow

Grey Butcherbird

Pied Butcherbird

Australian Magpie

Pied Currawong

Fantails

Grey Fantail

Willie Wagtail

Crows and Ravens

Australian Raven

Little Raven

Monarchs and Flycatchers

Restless Flycatcher

Magpie-lark

Chough and Apostlebird

White-winged Chough

Apostlebird

Australian Robins

Jacky Winter

Red-capped Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Larks

Horsfields Bushlark

Cisticolas

Golden-headed Cisticola

Reed-Warblers

Australian Reed-Warbler

Grassbirds

Little Grassbird

Rufous Songlark

Brown Songlark

True Babblers

Silvereye

Swallows and Martins

Welcome Swallow Fairy Martin

Tree Martin

Starlings

Common Starling+

Common Myna+

Flowerpeckers

Mistletoebird

Weaver Finches

Double-barred Finch

Plum-headed Finch

Diamond Firetail*

House Sparrow

Pipits, Wagtails

Australasian Pipit

Taxonomic Order based upon Christidis and Boles (2008).

Christidis L. and Boles W.E. (2008).

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. CSIRO Publishing.

* Threatened Species

+ Introduced Species

Data sourced from Birdata Atlas (2013), Eremaea Birds Atlas database (2013), Pilliga Forest Bird Observers records (2010-2013),

NSW OEH NSW Atlas of Wildlife


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