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Hi All
Just spent a wet Easter weekend, birding the Paluma Range
Ranger National
Park. Paluma is a small rainforest village about 1.5
hours north of
Townsville in Nth Queensland, were the majority of our
rainforest endemics
can be found.
Not a great deal of time spent birding due to wet conditions
but I caught up
on reading my three Aussie birding mags.
Below is a list of birds seen with maximum number of birds
seen over the
weekend. This includes travelling to and from
Paluma.
White-faced Heron 2
Black Kite 6
Whistling Kite 3
Grey Goshawk 1
Australian Kestrel 4
Australian Brush Turkey 10
Masked Lapwing 20
White-headed Pigeon 1
Crested Pigeon 10
Squatter Pigeon 12
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo 10
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 6
Rainbow Lorikeet 30
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet 6
Australian King Parrot 10
Crimson Rosella 10
Fan-tailed Cuckoo 4
Laughing Kookaburra 8
Forest Kingfisher 15
Rainbow Bee-eater 20
Dollarbird 5 juv.
Noisy Pitta 6
Fairy Martin 50
Yellow-eyed Cuckoo Shrike 4
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike 4
Eastern-yellow Robin
4
Pale-yellow Robin 3
Grey-headed Robin
10
Golden Whistler
4
Grey Whistler 3
Little Shrike-thrush 8
Bower's Shrike-thrush 6
Grey Shrike-thrush 1
Black-faced Monarch, heard only
Spectacled monarch 4
Rufous Fantail 3
Grey Fantail 10
Willie Wagtail 20
Chowchilla 20
Eastern Whipbird 2
Large-billed Scrubwren 4
Yellow-throated Scrubwren 6
White-browed Srubwren 2
Weebill 1
Brown Gerygone 20
Little Treecreeper 2
Yellow-throated Miner 6
Macleay's Honeyeater 15
Lewin's Honeyeater 10
Bridled Honeyeater 20
White-cheeked Honeyeater 8
Eastern Spinebill 15
Dusky Honeyeater 2
Spotted Pardalote 6
Red-browed Firetail 8
Spangled Drongo 4
Golden Bowerbird 1 (three bowers visited only one still
active)
Spotted Catbird 4
Tooth-billed Bowerbird 1
Victoria's Riflebird 6
Magpie Lark 20
White-breasted Woodswallow 20
Black-faced Woodswallow 15
Grey Butcherbird 4
Pied Butcherbird 2
Australian Magpie 10
Pied Currawong 4
Torresian Crow 20
Apostlebird 4 family groups
Regards
Ian Clayton
Birds &
Bush Tours
PO Box 6037, TMC, Townsville, Qld,
Australia. 4810
Phone/Fax: 07 4721 6489
Phone/Fax
International: + 61 7 4721 6489
Email:
To a man ornithologists are tall, slender, and
bearded, so
that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly
trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal
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