Short trip report, Cooma area, NSW.

[Lawrie Conole <>]

Hi birders

I spent a few days last week roaming around the Cooma area in the NSW Southern
Highlands.  Avian diversity is not particularly high there (particularly
on the cusp of winter), but a couple of sites were interesting.  Coornartha
Nature Reserve (off the Cooma - Numerella Road) produced Spotted Quail-thrush
and a Pink Robin "brown bird", as well as numerous Scarlet Robins, etc.  The
spot on the Murrumbidgee River near the Cooma water treatment plant turned
up Speckled Warbler and Hooded Robin amongst the odd other thing.  A private
property not far from Coornartha turned up Double-barred Finch and Diamond
Firetail together, plus Banded Lapwings nearby - and of surprise to me at
least, some feral Pigs!

Cheers, Lawrie


COOMA AREA - MONARO TABLELAND - NSW SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS.  
20-22/5/2003    
Lawrie Conole    
    
    
Australian Wood Duck                     Chenonetta jubata
Straw-necked Ibis                        Threskiornis spinicollis
Wedge-tailed Eagle                       Aquila audax
Brown Falcon                             Falco berigora
Eurasian Coot                            Fulica atra
Banded Lapwing                           Vanellus tricolor
Common Bronzewing                        Phaps chalcoptera
Crested Pigeon                           Ocyphaps lophotes
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo             Calyptorhynchus funereus
Galah                                    Cacatua roseicapilla
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo                 Cacatua galerita
Crimson Rosella                          Platycercus elegans
Eastern Rosella                          Platycercus eximius
Red-rumped Parrot                        Psephotus haematonotus
Tawny Frogmouth                          Podargus strigoides
White-throated Treecreeper               Cormobates leucophaeus
Superb Fairy-wren                        Malurus cyaneus
White-browed Scrubwren                   Sericornis frontalis
Speckled Warbler                         Chthonicola sagittata
Weebill                                  Smicrornis brevirostris
Brown Thornbill                          Acanthiza pusilla
Buff-rumped Thornbill                    Acanthiza reguloides
Yellow-rumped Thornbill                  Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Striated Thornbill                       Acanthiza lineata
Southern Whiteface                       Aphelocephala leucopsis
Red Wattlebird                           Anthochaera carunculata
White-eared Honeyeater                   Lichenostomus leucotis
Brown-headed Honeyeater                  Melithreptus brevirostris
Scarlet Robin                            Petroica boodang
Flame Robin                              Petroica phoenicea
Pink Robin                               Petroica rodinogaster
Hooded Robin                             Melanodryas cucullata
Eastern Yellow Robin                     Eopsaltria australis
Spotted Quail-thrush                     Cinclosoma punctatum
Grey Shrike-thrush                       Colluricincla harmonica
Restless Flycatcher                      Myiagra inquieta
Magpie-lark                              Grallina cyanoleuca
Australian Magpie                        Gymnorhina tibicen
Pied Currawong                           Strepera graculina
Australian Raven                         Corvus coronoides
Little Raven                             Corvus mellori
White-winged Chough                      Corcorax melanorhamphos
Skylark                                  Alauda arvensis
Australian Pipit                         Anthus australis
House Sparrow                            Passer domesticus
Double-barred Finch                      Taeniopygia bichenovii
Diamond Firetail                         Stagonopleura guttata
Silvereye                                Zosterops lateralis
Common Starling                          Sturnus vulgaris
Common Wombat                            Vombatus ursinus
Eastern Grey Kangaroo                    Macropus giganteus
Fox                                      Vulpes vulpes
Rabbit                                   Oryctolagus cuniculus
Pig                                      Sus scrofa
Common Eastern Froglet                   Crinia signifera
55 species    


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Lawrie Conole
Senior Ecologist
Ornithology & Terrestrial Ecology
 
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