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.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).
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