Birds of Sassafras

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Common All year	Around House	Common Seasonally	Occasional sightings	Rare
C	AH	CS	OS	R

1. Rare means seen once or twice a year.
2. Occasional sightings means seen on and off, not frequent, eg Spine-tailed Swifts seen whenever a major frontal system is moving through. Or just not seen often because I’m not looking.
3. Common Seasonally would be the Brush Turkeys, quite common when they are nesting but not seen when they are not.
4. Common All year would be the Eastern Yellow Robin, they are always keeping an eye on you, looking for anything you might disturb that they can eat.
5. Common can also mean we are part of a territory, e.g. Yellow-tailled Black Cockatoo where we are visited regularly, once or twice a week.
6. Some birds are only seen overhead, e.g. the swifts, some alight only rarely, e.g. eagles.
7. There are many other water birds seen overhead, landing in neighbouring dams, I have only seen one in either Mooral Creek or our internal creek.
8. There are many other Raptors but I have only been able to reliably identify one, the Wedge-tailed Eagle.
9. There are an awful lot of smaller and very small birds and I’m quite certain some of these are not included in the listing because I have not taken the time to try and identify them. Alternatively they may spend most of their time out of sight high up in the canopy or they are only ever silhouetted against the sky. Or, I just don't hear them.
10. Around House means usually seen only on the ground or in the trees around the House and Garden Paddocks. Those that are common there and on other parts of Sassafras are just C, e.g. Satin Bower Birds. Those that over fly are not considered to be around the house, e.g. White-headed Pigeon or Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike fly over the house to land on other parts of Sassafras, that is they are generally not birds of open country but they get a ✔ because we see them from the house quite often, daily at times.
11. Identification and naming from Field Guide to Australian Birds by Michael Morecombe (2001).

Scientific Name	Common Name	Around house	On block	Frequency
1. Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris	Eastern Spinebill	✔	✔	C
2. Acridotheres tristris	Common Myna	✔		AH
3. Alcedo azurea	Azure Kingfisher	✔		OS
4. Alectura lathami	Brush Turkey		✔	CS
5.Alisterus scapularis	Australian King Parrot		✔	OS
6. Apus pacificus	Fork-tailed Swift	✔	✔	OS
7. Aquila audax	Wedge-tailed Eagle	✔	✔	OS
8. Ardea novaehollanidiae	White-faced Heron		✔	CS
9. Cacatua roseicapilla	Galah	✔		OS
10. Calyptorhynchus funereus	Yellow-tailled Black Cockatoo	✔	✔	C
11. Chalcophaps indica	Emerald Dove		✔	CS
12. Columba leucomela	White-headed Pidgeon	✔	✔	CS
13. Coracina novaehollandiae	Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike	✔	✔	CS
14. Corvus coronoides	Australian Raven	✔	✔	C
15. Coturnix ?????	Quail		✔	OS
16. Cracticus nigrogularis	Pied Butcher Bird	✔		AH
17. Dacelo novaeguineae	Laughing Kookaburra	✔	✔	AH
18. Eopsaltria australis	Eastern Yellow Robin	✔	✔	C
19. Eudynamys scolopacea	Common Koel	✔	✔	C
20. Eurystomus orientalis	Dollarbird	✔	✔	CS
21. Gergoyne mouki	Brown Gergoyne		✔	OS
22. Grallina cyanoleuca	Magpie-lark	✔		AH
23. Gymnorhina tibicen	Black-backed Magpie	✔		AH
24. Hirundo neoxena	Welcome Swallow	✔		AH
25. Malurus cyaneus	Superb Fairy-wren	✔	✔	AH
26. Merops ornatus	Rainbow Bee-eater	✔		R
27. Monarcha melanopsis	Black-faced Monarch	✔	✔	C
28. Myiagra inquieta	Restless Flycatcher	✔		AH
29. Myzomela sanguinolenta	Scarlet Honeyeater	✔		CS
30.Neochmia temporalis	Red-browed Finch	✔	✔	C
31. Ocyphaps lophotes	Crested Pidgeon	✔	✔	OS
32. Pachycephala pectoralis	Golden Whistler	✔	✔	CS
33.Petroica rosea	Rose Robin		✔	OS
34. Phaps chaloptera	Common Bronzewing		✔	OS
35. Philemon corniculatus	Noisy Friarbird	✔		OS
36. Pitta versicolor	Noisy Pitta		✔	OS
37. Playtcerus elegans elegans	Crimson Rosella	✔	✔	C
38. Probable sightings	Treecreeper		✔	OS
39. Psophodes olivaceus	Eastern Whipbird	✔	✔	C
40. Ptilonorhynchus violaceus	Satin Bowerbird	✔	✔	C
41. Rhipidura fuliginosa	Grey Fantail	✔	✔	C
42. Rhipidura rufifons	Rufous Fantail	✔	✔	C
43. Scythrops novaehollandiae	Channel-billed Cuckoo	✔		OS
44. Sericornus frontalis	White-browed Scrubwren		✔	C
45. Sericulus chrysocephalus	Regent Bowerbird	✔	✔	CS
46. Strepera graculina	Pied Currawong	✔	✔	C
47. Zosterops lateralis	Silvereye	✔	✔	C
48. Various	Owls	✔		OS
49. Various	Other Pigeons		✔	OS

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