I've been mightily amused and challenged by the variety of posts on the
favourite/ non-existent/best birds topic. After deep cogitation, I
decided that I needed three lists. All of the birds listed were/are to be
found in SE Queensland (I don't get away from home much, or very far).
(1) BASTARD BIRDS
( I know they're there ----- sometimes I've heard the suckers ------
but do you think I can spot them???)
- Noisy pitta
- Rose-crowned fruit dove
- Ground parrot
- Southern emu-wren
- Brush cuckoo
- Barking owl
(And another kind of bastard bird -- the ones that had me (a newbie birder)
in knots, but turned out to be boringly usual)
- Golden-headed cisticola
- Mystery duck (mallard/domestic muscovy hybrid)
(2) BONUS BIRDS
(Birds that thrilled me because I totally did not expect to see them).
- Apostlebird (Chuwar, Ipswich)
- Great crested grebe (Swanbank, Ipswich)
- Brolga (Toorbul)
- Black-necked stork (Toorbul)
- Pacific baza (Boonah)
- Buff-banded rail (Bundamba, Ipswich)
- Australasian shoveller (Lake Wivenhoe)
- Powerful owl (Kholo, Ipswich)
(3) BACKYARD BIRDS
(Nicest birds seen in my own back yard).
- White-headed pigeon
- Oriental cuckoo
- Satin flycatcher
- Black-faced monarch
- Double-barred finch
- Rose robin
- King parrot
- Eastern whipbird (pair)
- Fairy-wrens (three species resident within 200m of my home. Superb are
back yard residents: variegated are visitors from across the road:
red-backed down by the creek across the street).
I'm tempted to go on and on about the finches, whistlers, gerygones,
scrub-wrens, fantails, drongos, dollar-birds, kingfishers, raptors etc etc
that are regular locals -- but I won't. But by gee, they ensure that
there's always one bright spot in my days!
Cheers,
Vicki PS
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