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Gouldians at Coomalie Creek N.T

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Subject: Gouldians at Coomalie Creek N.T
From: Savannah Hardy <>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all,
Just a quick message to let you know that i saw a flock of 40 - 50 Gouldian 
Finches/and many immatures part of that number, sitting in a small leafless 
tree at
Coomalie Creek area near Litchfield N.P  Northern Territory .  They were seen 
at 7am on Sunday 9th September. They were unfortunately scared away by a 
passing freight train which sent them into the air. The morning before, i saw 
long tailed finches and no gouldians, so not sure if gouldians frequent the 
area near this creek regularly each day/week??     I havn't seen Gouldians 
since Lake Argyle W.A about 4 years ago...so this was a very welcome thing to 
see. 
Another thing worthy of note, was a lone budgie, sitting in the tree next to 
the gouldians like it was getting around with the group, and took off when the 
gouldians did....interesting i thought...

If your in the area and would like further details please email me at:   


Other birds of interest at Coomalie creek were:   Rainbow Pitta, Great 
Bowerbird (very nice bower of all snailshells, probably care of the Rainbow 
pitta's efforts no doubt :D  ), 
        Arafura Fantail(very vocal), white throated honeyeater, brown 
honeyeater, dusky honeyeater, Dollarbird, lemon bellied flycatcher,
   Yellow Oriole, azure kingfisher, Australasian figbird, mistletoe bird, 
Spangled Drongo (very vocal), rufous whistler, Blue winged                     
                                                         kookaburra, Northern 
Rosella, Torresian Crow, White gaped honeyeater, Varied Lorikeet (flying over 
often), Rainbow Lorikeet,    Red tailed black cockatoo, Red Winged parrot, 
Sulphur crested cockatoo, Shining Flycatcher (male/female- vocal)...
a lovely selection of birds in a small little area, have a look if your in the 
area of Coomalie Creek next time
Kirri 
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