27/10/19
It’s been a more than a month since the 2019 Twitchathon but I’ve either been flat out at work or abroad so had no time for a write-up. But I have done one for each of the last 4 years, so here’s the story of our 2019 effort.
Ian, Paul and Sam^2 got together again as The Belair Twitch Project for another run in the 12-hour “Big Day” race. As in previous years our main competition seemed to loom from Lakeside Lorikeets, whom we had pipped last year 164 vs 162 and beaten the previous year by a bigger margin. But newcomers the Skulking Crakes were dark horses, a late scratching from the 3-hr event upgraded to 12-hr participation.
The team scouted a bit in the weeks leading up and decided on some tweaks to our previous route that we felt better suited the conditions this year. We decided on Sunday because Sam M was only available that day, but it was the better day weather-wise anyway. The forecast was looking ideal until a few days before when it took a slight turn for the worse, but the rain stayed away and the breeze of 15-20Km/h ended up not being too problematic.
0415, Toorak Gardens, 0 species, 0km
As has become customary, we assembled early at my house in the eastern suburbs and headed off in the Kluger. At 6.15 we arrived in the servo at Blanchetown to refill and grab a coffee, then a few minutes later we rolled into the parking space below the bridge at Lock One.
0624, Blanchetown, 0 species
At 6.24 we started the clock running and within 5 minutes were able to add number of obvious species. The main reason we were here is that it is a good spot for Darter and sure enough there were a couple immediately obvious. Numerous parrot species are usually here and we rapidly ticked off easy birds like Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Little Corella, Galah, Yellow (Crimson) Rosella, as well as – less expected for the site – Red-rumped Parrot and Purple-crowned Lorikeet. We also added Great Cormorant, Silver Gull, Little Raven, Australian Magpie, Australian Pelican, Eurasian Coot, Pacific Black Duck, Willie Wagtail, White-plumed and New Holland Honeyeaters, Blackbird and Noisy Miner in quick succession. A few Whistling Kites were on the dead gums north of the bridge and drifting overhead, and a Peaceful Dove hooted gently from the cliff above. It stopped calling before we all registered and it took a minute or two before it started again to some relief; normally they would be a gimme in the mallee but in our scouting the week before Sam and I came across very few. Meantime we scanned upwards and located numerous Welcome Swallow, Fairy Martin (which nest under the bridge) and Rock Dove. In the reed-bed Little Grassbird and Reed Warbler were both singing away.
As we pulled away we noticed a family of Australian Wood Duck, an Australasian Swamphen grazed on the bank, and a Laughing Kookaburra put in appearance in almost exactly the same spot as last year. We’d see more later in the day but I’ve had days when I fail to see or hear any so this one was gratefully scribed onto the list. Passing the lock itself as I drove slowly up and away I spied a black and white bird cross the weir and disappear so we took the time to relocate it – a Pied Cormorant was swimming around among dozens of Pelicans.
As we left Blanchetown we took a slight diversion into a patch of scrub opposite the servo. In this spot last week Sam G and I had had a Pied Butcherbird and our (then) bird-of-the-day Regent Parrot. Sam’s keen ears picked out the chattering of some Chestnut-crowned Babblers, we added Black Kite, Singing Honeyeater, House Sparrow and Southern Whiteface, but we left without either of the two key species that we’d had just a few days earlier. We knew that both were low probability, but this was our only site for either. We know that the only way to build a really good total is to pick up these low chance birds, so already we felt slightly on the back foot.
0652, Brookfield, 33 species
From a few hundred metres inside the main gate at Brookfield we added White-winged Chough, Chestnut-rumped Thornbill and White-fronted Honeyeater (just about the commonest bird there on the day) as well as Striated Pardalote, Red Wattlebird, Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater and the very familiar song of Crested Bellbird a regular sound-track to a Brookfield visit. We also picked up two of the Brookfield specialties on the drive in, Australian Raven (not available hereafter on our route) and Eastern Bluebonnet. We headed for the bluebush, but this proved to be a mistake. It was cool and overcast and we drove out after 10 mins of wasted time with no new birds to speak of.
Driving towards the first proper mallee we picked up Yellow-throated Miner and Crested Pigeon before pulling up near the fork in the track. Immediately we heard Red-backed Kingfisher and Sam M realised that he’d actually already been hearing it when we wandered the bluebush. Our only Mulga Parrots of the day put in an appearance and then a goodie, Chestnut Quailthrush. It was pretty quiet but we still got a couple more before moving on: Brown Treecreeper and Yellow-plumed Honeyeater.
Driving further we grabbed Yellow-rumped Thornbill and Black-faced Cuckooshrike before we heard a parrot-like clack and I looked up to see two smallish parrots flying away. Based on call alone Sam G speculated “Regent Parrot?”, but we all immediately backtracked as soon as we saw them. These birds were grey! Could they be Cockatiel? A quick review of the call on our phones and the id was unequivocal, Cockatiel! An SA tick for me and a first for any of us at Brookfield.
The drive north along the park boundary was not nearly as productive as last year, very quiet, though we did pick up Weebill and Grey Currawaong. Our next stop, at a spot scoped by Sam G and me the previous week produced two of the good-looking residents of Brookfield that it’s important to get, Red-capped Robin and Splendid Fairywren. In fact we had them both in the same bush. Though custom might dictate these were only worth “one in the hand”, twitchathon rules mean we get full value of 2 for the pair ;-).
We also scored Spotted Pardalote, nice to get because we have missed this in the past. Across the track we found a small flock of White-winged Triller. In other years this would be a good bird to get (and was a lifer for Sam M last year) but this year there has been an influx and I even have one singing outside my house in the suburbs! Even so it was gratefully scribed onto the list. In this back stretch we also got Grey Shrikethrush and White-browed Babbler before heading back to the bluebush for another crack at White-winged Fairywren and Redthroat. Now that it had warmed up a bit the insectivores were more prominent and almost immediately we heard (then saw) a lovely Redthroat.
We’d missed Gilbert’s Whistler which has steadfastly refused to sing while we are here, but otherwise done pretty well for the Brookfield specialities and scored with our bird of the day, Cockatiel; it was time to hit Sturt Hwy again.
0936 Freeling, 64 species
We’d added Common Starling and Welcome Swallow by the time we pulled into Neldner Rd outside Freeling. An Australian Pipit (unaccountably missed last year) and White-fronted Chat were immediately obvious but further down the road, where a week earlier Sam and I nailed down a Spotted Harrier nesting, there was no sign. Local mate Chris Steeles confirmed a day later that the nest has apparently failed. We did have another commoner raptor a little way along, where Peregrines are nesting.
I bombed south along Horrocks Hwy then came to an abrupt halt having spied another raptor on power lines. We noted this as Brown Falcon, but as we were about to get in the car I realised that a faint sound was a quail calling! We all fell silent then after an agonising wait (of probably less than a minute) we all clocked the wee-whit of Stubble Quail. We also heard a Brown Songlark and trundled happily along Molloy Rd on the way to Pengilly Scrub. A lark on the fence-line was too rufous for Skylark and Sam G pointed out what we should have seen straight away, this was a Horsfield’s Bushlark. Our diversion between Sturt Hwy and Pengilly might have failed to produce the harrier, but we got most of the other species we were hoping for.
1012, Pengilly, 74 species
In Pengilly we didn’t actually have that many targets, and in retrospect we saw little here that we didn’t get elsewhere, but it’s an important and reliable spot for Neophemas and Woodswallows, so we planned 20 minutes here. Sure enough we picked up the three Woodswallow species quickly – Dusky, White-browed and Masked – and we also found our first Rainbow Bee-eaters of the day (another Pengilly speciality).
It was then a bit of a flog to the coast in the first of our route adjustments. By the time we pulled up to Port Gawler we had added Eurasian Skylark as the only new bird of the journey.
1055, Port Gawler, 78 species
This new addition to our itinerary, scoped out for us during their regular surveys by Sam G, was nicely productive. A pair of Masked Lapwings greeted us by the side of the road and we easily found Great Crested Grebe and Musk Duck on the lake to the north of the road in the same spot as Sam had been seeing them over the last few weeks. We also rapidly added Nankeen Kestrel, Australian White Ibis, Spotted Dove, Red-kneed Dotterel, Whiskered Tern, Royal Spoonbill, Little Egret, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and Little Pied Cormorant.
Down on the beach we also quickly found Red-capped Plovers but worryingly the tide was completely out and there were no stints to be seen. We drove another 400m down a sandy track and again scanned and scoped, fortunately finding a pair of Red-necked Stints, but the diversion cost us precious minutes.
In the mangroves we had three main targets, and again these fell quickly without too much stress: Inland Thornbill, Slender-billed Thornbill and White-browed Scrub-wren. This last species is interesting because in the new IOC taxonomy it has been split as Spotted Scrubwren, counted as a distinct species from White-browed which is also possible (and which we got) in the hills west of Adelaide. Sadly Birdlife is using an older taxonomy so we only got to count one species. We also found Superb Fairywren, Grey Fantail, Silvereye and Rufous Whistler in the mangroves so as we drove back east along Port Gawler Rd we reflected that this new stop had well-and-truly delivered and been well worth the change in route. One final bird was worth a shot. We pulled up by a long sandy bund where Sam G has sometimes had White-winged Fairywren, though they warned us not to get our hopes up. However within seconds a Fairywren sung and was instantly recognisable as the more fluid song of White-winged for our hundredth species of the day; we had clawed back the dip from Brookfield and felt like the twitch was really back on track. As we drove off I stopped again because one of the Sams had seen some ducks in flight. Their gut feeling was a good instinct: these were Australian Shelduck.
1151, St Kilda, 104 species
As we pulled up at the turn off to St Kilda on Port Wakefield Rd everyone scanned the verges. Though Sam G and I had failed a week earlier, we knew that a Cattle Egret had been seen here recently. There was nothing to be seen until as I pulled through the intersection the cry went up and in a field with a horse or two, a mere 20m from the road, was a summer-plumaged Cattle Egret.
The tide times were not kind to us this year, with our arrival at St Kilda coinciding with pretty-much low tide. We had to rely on careful scanning of distant birds, and, since we had not seen Banded Stilts here at low tide in any of our several scouting trips, we were resigned to dipping on this bird that is normally regular here.
Because of the tide it took longer than we would have liked to accumulate the species we needed here. Straight away we found some Sooty Oystercatcher and there were of course dozens of Black Swan on the extensive mudflats. But we saw almost nothing else from the beach so headed around to the carpark to scan from the groyne. A European Goldfinch called as we drove and we were also able to add White-faced Heron and Great Egret. Fortunately we also finally picked up a single Pied Oystercatcher. We were struggling for another bird we needed here (possible but missed at Port Gawler) until finally we found two waders together and luck was on our side because one was the sought-after Common Greenshank and the other a complete bonus Bar-tailed Godwit. A glaring miss here was Pacific Gull. This was our only site for this species but had never let us down previously but despite scanning a huge area we did not find even a possible. As we drove out of the car-park Sam M called out from the back of the car. I slammed into reverse and we added Black-tailed Nativehen. Final bird here, hawking from wires near the yacht club were several Tree Martin.
1235, Magazine Rd and Greenfields Wetlands, 115 species
The extra time taken by the addition of Port Gawler this year meant we had to shave time from other spots. Magazine Rd wetlands was a candidate for the chop completely but a week earlier Sam G and I decided it might be worth a quick scan, even if we couldn’t afford the time to get out of the car. This proved to be a very worthwhile short diversion. I drove a short way down Salisbury Hwy, pulled into the little slip road and we immediately ticked off Little Black Cormorant and Pied Stilt. Then from the hard shoulder just before rejoining the highway northbound we scanned some likely looking white blobs on an island beyond the closest pond. These were mainly Royal Spoonbill (which we already had in the bag from Port Gawler) but one larger bird roosting behind shows enough of its yellow bill for us to be able to add Yellow-billed Spoonbill to our list.
To get onto the southbound carriageway of Port Wakefield Rd I needed to cross the bridge and turn around near the café at the more manicured northerly section of Greenfields. This was another worthwhile minor diversion because a Blue-billed Duck was swimming around with Grey Teal. We dipped on Greenfinch here but decided not to spend more than a minute or two.
Our next main stop was set to be Horsnell Gully. We easily picked up Rainbow Lorikeet and Common Blackbird in the suburbs en route but another minor diversion was not as productive as hoped. I stopped just off O.G. road at a reliable spot for Barbary Dove, and where I’d had one each of my last 3 visits. Sadly it was nowhere to be found in the few minutes we had to spare. We added Little Wattlebird, which was good to get to avoid another suburban diversion, but we were now missing gettable birds and falling behind again.
1333, Horsnell Gully, 122 species
At Horsnell Gully we immediately heard the distinctive song of Yellow-faced Honeyeater, which is a constant accompaniment here and shortly afterwards we gratefully noted the screech of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo and low cooing of Brush Bronzewing. As we walked quickly up the overgrown track a Mistletoebird sang, but we then had to wait for some time to pick up other key species here. The distinctive song of Australian Golden Whistler rang out and we located a beautiful male singing above us. Worryingly, though we could not hear or see Crescent Honeyeater or White-naped Honeyeater. Fortunately we eventually heard the former. A pair of Musk Lorikeets performed nicely in the gums and a White-throated Treecreeper sang as we descended to the car, having given up on White-naped Honeyeater.
I had devised a route through some back streets of the suburbs from here to the bottom of Greenhill Rd in the hope that it would help with a tricky suburban species and fortunately I was right: as we drove the back streets of Stoneyfell on our way to Greenhill Rd an Eastern Rosella swooped up from a front lawn to an phone line and we added this potentially tricky species without major diversion from our most direct route between sites.
1413, Mt Lofty, 132 species
Like previous years we’d decided to take the slower back-route up to Mt Lofty because of the chance it might yielded some singing species, especially cuckoos (I heard and saw a Fan-tailed Cuckoo while scouting the week before). We wound our way up Greenhill Rd and then onto Summit Rd adding only Striated Thornbill until I pulled up at the corner of Spring Rd.
We all jumped out of the car and soon we heard (then saw) an Eastern Spinebill. As I walked across the road a twittering above me that sounded a bit like several small birds sounded very familiar until after much whirring of cogs in my brain I suddenly realised I was hearing a Scarlet Robin. I excitedly pointed this out to the others, and this was one of my favourite moments of the day – a bird I thought was very low probability clutched from the jaws of defeat. Similarly, Sam G was first to notice that a chrrr-chrrr was a White-naped Honeyeater which then put in an appearance in a tree right above where I’d parked the car, possibly nesting there!
At Mt Lofty Botancial Gardens we stopped for a well-earned lunch break. Before stopping the clock at 1421 we had heard Common Bronzewing, and Sam G, on the ball as usual, processed an unusual twittering and speculated it was Sittellas. Sure enough, they were spot on, as we landed bins on a couple of Varied Sittella at the top of the Rhododendron Gully (a species I have rarely seen here).
As driver, I used much of the break for 40 winks while the others also dozed a bit but also stretched their legs in the gardens. We were hoping for two more hills species here straight after our 1 hour break finished, but there was no sign of Brown Thornbill in spots that I expected, and although Paul saw Red-browed Finch during the lunch break, they were nowhere to be found when the clock started again.
So the hills gave with one hand, but took away with the other, and we had missed some more gettable species.
1610, Laratinga Wetlands, 138 species
At this point, though we didn’t know it at the time, we were one species and 55 minutes behind last year’s pace. Not looking good! As we drove along Bald Hills Rd we spied some Corellas in a field to the east. Within a minute of stopping Sam M announced one was Long-billed. We all found which one and noted the more extensive pink on the face and pink breast band, grateful to add this species which we picked up in a similar spot last year, but which had been absent in all our scouting expeditions.
Peering down to the poo-ponds we rapidly added Hardhead, Australasian Shoveler, Pink-eared Duck and Dusky Moorhen. But in the main wetland the area we hoped would be good for crakes and rails was once more under water, with little exposed mud to attract the secretive specialties of this location. On the bigger ponds we easily found Chestnut Teal, Australasian Grebe and Freckled Duck but it was not until we were walking back to the car having spent double the time here that we hoped that Sam G found a Spotted Crake. We left without two key birds we had expected here and seen only a few days earlier, Spotless Crake and Black-fronted Dotterel, not to mention Baillon’s Crake that is also present and seen on both of our last two twitchathons.
The drive to our next site was some 25 minutes and we scanned from the car for raptors to no avail, though we did note Straw-necked Ibis as new for the day, before rolling across the railway line near the gate into Kinchina, a relatively new conservation Park not far from the also-recently-gazetted Monarto Woodlands (which includes Browns Rd).
1720, Kinchina, 147 species
We added this site because of some local celebrities that have recently and unexpectedly made this their temporary home. This year, presumably vacating drought-affected areas in the interior, there has been an influx of Crimson Chats to the southern part of the state, and some have decided that the fence-line between Kinchina and Monarto Zoo is a good spot to raise a family. In fact I had not even heard of this spot until the chats were reported by someone on South Aussie Birding but had made a couple a visits to catch up with the chats and scope it out as a site for the twitchathon. As it turns out, those missions suggested that with Browns Rd very quiet (and Diamond Firetails unreliable), we should make our second main swap on the day from previous twitchathons and go to Kinchina instead.
As we were piling through the gate this immediately paid dividends as an accipiter drifted across. We all got enough on the rounded tail to be confident in a ID of Brown Goshawk. Then right next to the gate we clawed back one of the dips from Brookfield, Hooded Robin. We had not been too worried the dip earlier precisely because we still believed Kinchina was a good bet, and our confidence was not misplaced on this occasion.
Likewise we still needed Purple-backed Fairywren, but about 50 metres into the park past the second gate a fairywren scratching seemed good for this species and sure enough we were all able to lay bins on a nice male and his consorts in scrub on the side of the track.
A possible bonus bird here is one that we have only had once before on a twitchathon, and is unreliable at Monarto C.P, Southern Scrub Robin. Paul and I had a remarkably cooperative one here a few days ago, and for once our scouting and on-the-day experience were consistent, with a Scrub-robin singing in the same spot as we’d had it before, despite the late afternoon hour.
Next up we crossed over to the fence-line and quickly noted our main reason for the new site, Crimson Chat. We spent a few more minutes here trying to extend our list further, and we were surrounded by Woodswallows and other high-quality species, but none were new for the day until we picked up a distant raptor whose heavy wingbeat and v-shaped stance in the air were diagnostic of Wedge-tailed Eagle.
Back at the car we made a spur-of-the-moment decision to check out an owlet-nightjar roost that Sam M found in a different part of the park a few days earlier. We walked briskly a few hundred metres along an unfamiliar track probably twice as far as Sam’s memory had suggested, only to find an empty hollow! We did pick up Brown-headed Honeyeater along the way, so the trip is not entirely wasted, but once again we end the twitchthon without the cutest night-bird, despite having multiple possible sites for it. even worse, the diversion has cost us another 10-15 minutes.
1809, Monarto Conservation Park, 154 species
We made a very quick foray into Monarto C.P. which might have delivered another 4 or more species. We heard Tawny-crowned Honeyeater unequivocally, and also managed to claw back Yellow Thornbill which we’d expected at Kinchina but dipped. However there were no Shy Heathwrens or Purple-gaped Honeyeaters to be seen (or heard) and we needed to get going to avoid running out of time for the Tolderol specialties.
1835, Boggy Lake, 156 species
Though we didn’t know it at the time, we arrived at the excellent Boggy Lake lookout exactly tracking our previous year’s score – though we had 20 mins less time in hand. It’s a big area to scan, but also an excellent viewpoint and we found Swamp Harrier, Cape Barren Goose and Caspian Tern quickly and moved on.
1855, Tolderol Game Reserve, 159 species
We arrived at Tolderol, somewhat to our surprise, with last year’s score in sight, and still with 29 minutes to get there. In fact we thought we were on 157 having failed to count a few earlier birds. There were, as usual, a number of Greater Crested Tern, roosting in the centre of pond 17 with the Caspians, and we easily picked out a few Red-necked Avocet in the same area.
I drove around to the causeway between 4 and 17 and we found several Curlew Sandpiper and a Marsh Sandpiper amongst the stints and sharpies. A Horsfield’s Bronze-cuckoo was heard singing briefly by only half the team so we couldn’t initially count it, but as I drove the southern edge of 4 it sang again and this time we all heard it, to equal last year’s score (not that we realised at the time).
I then drove around to 5 and 6 where we had Wood Sandpiper and then heard our final bird of the day Golden-headed Cisticola. Ten minutes later it was all over for another year.
Exhausted, and just a little bit deflated because we thought we’d failed again to beat our score from the previous two years, we arrived at The Victoria Arms in Strathalbyn for a welcome meal and drink.
On a recount the next day, Sam G and Paul both found missing species in their lists (Sam’s hand-written, Paul’s done on ebird en route) so our score was retrospectively upgraded to 166, nice to have gone past the previous two years’ marker.
However later the next night when I got the scores in from other teams I discovered that we’d been soundly beaten by the Lakeside Lorikeets. Their route which also started up near Blanchetown took them east of the hills, through Kinchina and Tolderol, but then on to Murray Mouth where they picked up the waders that we’d made the low-tide trip to the coast for. They’ve had a dream run, missing very little to finish on a very impressive 175. 2-all eh?!
| 1 | Darter | |
| 2 | Peaceful Dove | heard |
| 3 | Rock Dove | |
| 4 | Australian Reed Warbler | heard |
| 5 | White-plumed Honeyeater | |
| 6 | Little Grassbird | heard |
| 7 | Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | |
| 8 | Whistling Kite | |
| 9 | Great Cormorant | |
| 10 | Crimson Rosella | |
| 11 | Fairy Martin | |
| 12 | Little Corella | |
| 13 | Magpielark | |
| 14 | Australian Pelican | |
| 15 | Eurasian Coot | |
| 16 | Maned (Australian Wood) Duck | |
| 17 | Laughing Kookaburra | |
| 18 | Noisy Miner | |
| 19 | Australasian (Purple) Swamphen | |
| 20 | Australian Magpie | |
| 21 | Pacific Black Duck | |
| 22 | Galah | |
| 23 | Silver Gull | |
| 24 | Willie Wagtail | |
| 25 | Australian Pied Cormorant | |
| 26 | New Holland Honeyeater | |
| 27 | House Sparrow | |
| 28 | Little Raven | |
| 29 | Black Kite | |
| 30 | Singing Honeyeater | |
| 31 | Purple-crowned Lorikeet | |
| 32 | Red-rumped Parrot | |
| 33 | Southern Whiteface | |
| 34 | White-winged Chough | |
| 35 | White-fronted Honeyeater | |
| 36 | Striated Pardalote | |
| 37 | Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater | |
| 38 | Crested Bellbird | |
| 39 | Red Wattlebird | |
| 40 | Australian Raven | |
| 41 | Eastern (Greater) Bluebonnet | |
| 42 | Yellow-throated Miner | |
| 43 | Crested Pigeon | |
| 44 | Red-backed Kingfisher | heard |
| 45 | Mulga Parrot | |
| 46 | Chestnut Quailthrush | |
| 47 | Brown Treecreeper | |
| 48 | Yellow-plumed Honeyeater | |
| 49 | Australian Ringneck | |
| 50 | Chestnut-rumped Thornbill | |
| 51 | Yellow-rumped Thornbill | |
| 52 | Black-faced Cuckooshrike | |
| 53 | Grey Butcherbird | heard |
| 54 | Cockatiel!!!!! | |
| 55 | Weebill | |
| 56 | Grey Currawong | |
| 57 | Splendid Fairywren | |
| 58 | Red-capped Robin | |
| 59 | Spotted Pardalote | |
| 60 | Grey Shrikethrush | |
| 61 | White-winged Triller | |
| 62 | White-browed Babbler | |
| 63 | Redthroat | |
| 64 | Chestnut-crowned Babbler | heard |
| 65 | Common Starling | |
| 66 | Welcome Swallow | |
| 67 | Australian Pipit | |
| 68 | White-fronted Chat | |
| 69 | Peregrine Falcon | |
| 70 | Brown Falcon | |
| 71 | Brown Songlark | heard |
| 72 | Stubble Quail | heard |
| 73 | Horsfield’s Bushlark | |
| 74 | White-browed Woodswallow | |
| 75 | Dusky Woodswallow | |
| 76 | Rainbow Bee-eater | |
| 77 | Elegant Parrot | |
| 78 | Masked Woodswallow | |
| 79 | Eurasian Skylark | |
| 80 | Masked Lapwing | |
| 81 | Nankeen Kestrel | |
| 82 | Australian White Ibis | |
| 83 | Spotted Dove | |
| 84 | Red-kneed Dotterel | |
| 85 | Whiskered Tern | |
| 86 | Royal Spoonbill | |
| 87 | Little Egret | |
| 88 | Great Crested Grebe | |
| 89 | Hoary-headed Grebe | |
| 90 | Musk Duck | |
| 91 | Little Pied Cormorant | |
| 92 | Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | |
| 93 | Red-capped Plover | |
| 94 | Red-necked Stint | |
| 95 | Superb Fairywren | |
| 96 | White-browed (+ Spotted) Scrubwren | |
| 97 | Slender-billed Thornbill | |
| 98 | Grey Fantail | |
| 99 | Rufous Whistler | heard |
| 100 | Silvereye | |
| 101 | Inland Thornbill | |
| 102 | White-winged Fairywren | heard |
| 103 | Australian Shelduck | |
| 104 | Cattle Egret | |
| 105 | Sooty Oystercatcher | |
| 106 | Black Swan | |
| 107 | European Goldfinch | |
| 108 | White-faced Heron | |
| 109 | Pied Oystercatcher | |
| 110 | Great Egret | |
| 111 | Bar-tailed Godwit | |
| 112 | Common Greenshank | |
| 113 | Black-tailed Nativehen | |
| 114 | Tree Martin | |
| 115 | Little Black Cormorant | |
| 116 | Pied Stilt | |
| 117 | Yellow-billed Spoonbill | |
| 118 | Grey Teal | |
| 119 | Blue-billed Duck | |
| 120 | Rainbow Lorikeet | |
| 121 | Common Blackbird | |
| 122 | Little Wattlebird | |
| 123 | Yellow-faced Honeyeater | |
| 124 | Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo | |
| 125 | Brush Bronzewing | heard |
| 126 | Mistletoebird | heard |
| 127 | Australian Golden Whistler | |
| 128 | Crescent Honeyeater | |
| 129 | Musk Lorikeet | |
| 130 | White-throated Treecreeper | |
| 131 | Eastern Rosella | |
| 132 | Striated Thornbill | |
| 133 | Eastern Spinebill | |
| 134 | Scarlet Robin | |
| 135 | White-naped Honeyeater | |
| 136 | Common Bronzewing | |
| 137 | Varied Sittella | |
| 138 | Long-billed Corella | |
| 139 | Hardhead | |
| 140 | Australasian Shoveler | |
| 141 | Pink-eared Duck | |
| 142 | Dusky Moorhen | |
| 143 | Chestnut Teal | |
| 144 | Australasian Grebe | |
| 145 | Freckled Duck | |
| 146 | Australian (Spotted) Crake | |
| 147 | Straw-necked Ibis | |
| 148 | Brown Goshawk | |
| 149 | Hooded Robin | |
| 150 | Purple-backed Fairywren | |
| 151 | Southern Scrub Robin | heard |
| 152 | Crimson Chat | |
| 153 | Wedge-tailed Eagle | |
| 154 | Brown-headed Honeyeater | |
| 155 | Tawny-crowned Honeyeater | |
| 156 | Yellow Thornbill | heard |
| 157 | Swamp Harrier | |
| 158 | Cape Barren Goose | |
| 159 | Caspian Tern | |
| 160 | Greater Crested Tern | |
| 161 | Red-necked Avocet | |
| 162 | Curlew Sandpiper | |
| 163 | Marsh Sandpiper | |
| 164 | Horsfield’s Bronze Cuckoo | heard |
| 165 | Wood Sandpiper | |
| 166 | Golden-headed Cisticola | heard |
