Bird Species

Bird species that frequent the headland and cottage include lorikeets, glossy black cockatoos, osprey, white-bellied sea eagles, kookaburras, honeyeaters and terns If you would like hard copies of these bird and animal species lists, please contact us.

The website of Birds Australia will provide people with more information regarding bird species. Founded in 1901, Birds Australia is Australia's oldest national conservation organisation, dedicated to the study and conservation of native birds and their habitats.
See www.birdsaustralia.com.au

Here is a bird list, put together by visitors to the retreat.

Cottage and lookout - March 2000	Birds, additional to those listed above July – August 2000	Salty Lagoon August 2000 and January 2001
Roller	Scarlet Honeyeater	Many of these birds plus:
Pee Wee	Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike	Satin Flycatcher
Crested Tern	Weebill	Azure Kingfisher
Little Tern	Welcome Swallow	Black Swan
Masked Lapwing Plover	Variegated Fairy Wren	Rufous Whistler
Brahminy Kite	Little Egret	Pacific Black Duck
Whistling Kite	Eastern Yellow Robin	Great Egret
Nankeen Kestrel	Noisy Friar Bird	Pied Cormorant
Willy Wagtail	Little Friar Bird	White-faced Heron
White-faced Heron	Rainbow Lorikeet	Dollarbird
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet	Figbird	Black-necked Stork
Lewin’s Honeyeater	Eastern Whipbird	White-browed Scrubwren
White-cheeked Honeyeater	Rainbow Bee-eater	Silvereye
Little Wattle Bird	Silvereye	Little Wattlebird
Pee Wee	Yellow-faced Honeyeater	White-cheeked Honeyeater
Superb Blue Wren	Grey Shrike-thrush	Grey Fantail
Pied Oystercatcher	White-faced Heron
Little Black and Pied Cormorants	Bar-shouldered Dove
White-bellied Sea-Eagle	White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
Greenshank	Aust. Gammet
Red-capped Plover
Brown Quail
Pacific Black Ducks
Torresian Crow
Wattle Bird
Spangled Drongo
Wonga Pidgeon
Silver Gull
Pied Butcherbird

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