Birds of Sassafras

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All the birds in the Sassafras Wildlife Refuge that have been identified are listed in the following table.  The last update was on Wednesday, July 9, 2014.

Common All year

Around house

Common seasonally

Occasional sightings

Rare

C

AH

CS

OS

R

  1. 1.Rare means seen once or twice a year. 

  2. 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. 3.Common Seasonally would be the Brush Turkeys, quite common when they are nesting but not seen when they are not. 

  4. 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. 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. 6.Some birds are only seen overhead, e.g. the swifts, some alight only rarely, e.g. eagles. 

  7. 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. 8.There are many other Raptors but I have only been able to reliably identify one, the Wedge-tailed Eagle. 

  9. 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. 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. 11. Identification and naming from Field Guide to Australian Birds by Michael Morecombe (2001). 

Scientific Name

Common Name

Around house

On block

Frequency

  1. 1.  Acanthiza nana 

Yellow Thornbill

 

OS

  1. 2.  Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris 

Eastern Spinebill

C

  1. 3.  Acridotheres tristris 

Common Myna

 

AH

  1. 4.Ailuroedus crassirostris  

Green Catbird

 

OS

  1. 5.  Alcedo azurea 

Azure Kingfisher

 

OS

  1. 6.  Alectura lathami 

Brush Turkey

 

CS

  1. 7.  Alisterus scapularis 

Australian King Parrot

 

OS

  1. 8.  Apus pacificus 

Fork-tailed Swift

OS

  1. 9.  Aquila audax 

Wedge-tailed Eagle

OS

  1. 10.  Ardea novaehollanidiae 

White-faced Heron

 

CS

  1. 11.  Cacatua roseicapilla 

Galah

 

OS

  1. 12. Calyptorhynchus funereus 

Yellow-tailled Black Cockatoo

C

  1. 13. Chalcophaps indica 

Emerald Dove

 

CS

  1. 14. Cinclosoma punctatum 

Spotted Quail-thrush

 

OS

  1. 15. Columba leucomela 

White-headed Pigeon

CS

  1. 16. Coracina novaehollandiae 

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

CS

  1. 17. Cormobates leucophaeus 

White-throated Treecreeper

 

OS

  1. 18. Corvus coronoides 

Australian Raven

C

  1. 19. Coturnix ????? 

Quail

 

OS

  1. 20. Cracticus nigrogularis 

Pied Butcher Bird

 

AH

  1. 21. Dacelo novaeguineae 

Laughing Kookaburra

AH

  1. 22. Eopsaltria australis 

Eastern Yellow Robin

C

  1. 23. Eudynamys scolopacea 

Common Koel

C

  1. 24. Eurystomus orientalis 

Dollarbird

CS

  1. 25. Falcunculus frontatus 

Crested Shrike-tit

 

R

  1. 26. Geopelia humeralis 

Bar-shouldered Dove

 

R

  1. 27. Gerygone mouki 

Brown Gerygone

 

OS

  1. 28. Grallina cyanoleuca 

Magpie-lark

 

AH

  1. 29. Gymnorhina tibicen 

Black-backed Magpie

 

AH

  1. 30. Hirundo neoxena 

Welcome Swallow

 

AH

  1. 31. Malurus cyaneus 

Superb Fairy-wren

AH

  1. 32. Merops ornatus 

Rainbow Bee-eater

 

R

  1. 33. Monarcha melanopsis 

Black-faced Monarch

C

  1. 34. Myiagra inquieta 

Restless Flycatcher

 

AH

  1. 35. Myzomela sanguinolenta 

Scarlet Honeyeater

 

CS

  1. 36. Neochmia temporalis 

Red-browed Finch

C

  1. 37. Ocyphaps lophotes 

Crested Pigeon

OS

  1. 38. Pachycephala pectoralis 

Golden Whistler

CS

  1. 39. Petroica rosea 

Rose Robin

 

OS

  1. 40. Phaps chaloptera 

Common Bronzewing

 

OS

  1. 41. Philemon corniculatus 

Noisy Friarbird

 

OS

  1. 42. Pitta versicolor 

Noisy Pitta

 

OS

  1. 43. Playtcerus elegans elegans 

Crimson Rosella

C

  1. 44. Probable sightings 

Treecreeper

 

OS

  1. 45. Psophodes olivaceus 

Eastern Whipbird

C

  1. 46. Ptilonorhynchus violaceus 

Satin Bowerbird

C

  1. 47. Rhipidura fuliginosa 

Grey Fantail

C

  1. 48. Rhipidura rufifons 

Rufous Fantail

C

  1. 49. Scythrops novaehollandiae 

Channel-billed Cuckoo

 

OS

  1. 50. Sericornus frontalis 

White-browed Scrubwren

 

C

  1. 51. Sericulus chrysocephalus 

Regent Bowerbird

CS

  1. 52. Strepera graculina 

Pied Currawong

C

  1. 53. Zosterops lateralis 

Silvereye

C

  1. 54. Various 

Owls

 

OS

  1. 55. Various 

Other Pigeons

 

OS

 

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