QLD Trip Lifers

Here is a list of new birds I saw on the south-east QLD trip with Martin Cake (with links to my photos from the trip):

  • Australian Brush-turkey: ubiquitous in the rain forest areas;
  • Black-breasted Button-Quail: the platelets gave away their presence;
  • Magpie Goose: seen on a metropolitan lake (and if Martin hadn’t pointed them out I would have written them off as manky farm ducks…);
  • Wandering Whistling-Duck;
  • Cotton Pygmy-goose;
  • Royal Spoonbill: finally found one, beginning to think they were mythical;
  • Wandering Tattler;
  • Comb-crested Jacana;
  • Pacific Baza: a wonderful surprise;
  • Topknot Pigeon;
  • Brown Cuckoo-Dove;
  • Wonga Pigeon;
  • Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo;
  • Scaly-breasted Lorikeet: good views high in a tree;
  • Australian King-Parrot;
  • Pale-headed Rosella: probably my favourite new parrot of the trip;
  • Crimson Rosella;
  • Noisy Pitta: a wonderful bird, seen at three different locations (sorry John);
  • Albert’s Lyrebird: brief but spectacular sighting;
  • Brown Thornbill;
  • Superb Fairy-wren;
  • Red-backed Fairy-wren: a really spectacular Fairy-wren;
  • Large-billed Scrubwren;
  • Yellow-throated Scrubwren;
  • Fairy Gerygone;
  • Brown Gerygone;
  • Little Wattlebird;
  • Noisy Friarbird;
  • Little Friarbird;
  • Blue-faced Honeyeater;
  • Noisy Miner;
  • Bell Miner: surprisingly hard to get good views of;
  • Lewin’s Honeyeater;
  • Mangrove Honeyeater: seen in mangroves (as expected?);
  • Fuscous Honeyeater;
  • Eastern Spinebill;
  • Scarlet Honeyeater;
  • Eastern Whipbird: heard more often than seen, but we had great views as well;
  • Logrunner: seen running along logs (as expected?);
  • Eastern Yellow Robin;
  • Pale-yellow Robin;
  • Rufous Fantail: a really neat little bird;
  • Leaden Flycatcher;
  • Spectacled Monarch;
  • White-eared Monarch;
  • Spangled Drongo;
  • Olive-backed Oriole;
  • Australian Figbird;
  • Paradise Riflebird: a brilliant bird we saw high in the rainforest canopy;
  • Green Catbird: a very weird call;
  • Regent Bowerbird: seen at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat;
  • Satin Bowerbird: seen at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat;
  • Varied Triller: an unexpected surprise, we initially thought it was a White-winged Triller;
  • Pied Currawong;
  • Double-barred Finch: my only new finch for the trip;
  • Bassian Thrush;
  • Russet-tailed Thrush;
  • Common Miner.
These take my Australian Bird lifelist to 327.

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