Last weekend saw an opportunity to get back to the Capertee Valley to
welcome in the glorious spring. While the purpose of the trip was to check
out the Regent Honeyeater situation, and show Simon Kennedy where the
really smart Swift Parrots go, a bird list was compiled. A total of 92
species were encountered, not bad considering we were working only in areas
where we expected to see Regents and, as a result, did not cover a lot of
habitat types.
Simon and myself were accompanied by Kerryn Herman (about to start an
Honours project on Regents in the valley), Iain Paterson, Graham Fry,
Graham Cam and Annette Cam. Simon saw his first Regent Honeyeaters and we
saw the Londonderry Swift Parrots (now among a racket of Noisy Friarbirds)
on the way back to Sydney. Simon's highligts in the valley also included
Barking Owls, Painted Honeyeater and Plum-headed Finch.
202 Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
208 Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
211 Grey Teal Anas gracilis
188 White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
221 Brown Goshawk Accipter fasciatus
224 Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax
225 Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides
239 Brown Falcon Falco berigora
240 Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides
059 Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
144 Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops
133 Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
034 Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
043 Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
030 Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida
273 Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
269 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
260 Little Lorikeet Glossopsitta pusilla
281 Australian King-Parrot Alisterus scapularis
282 Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
288 Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
295 Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus
302 Turquoise Parrot Neophema pulchella
337 Pallid Cuckoo Cuculus pallidus
338 Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis
342 Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx basalis
344 Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx lucidus
246 Barking Owl Ninox connivens
322 Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
350 Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae
558 White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea
555 Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus
529 Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
536 Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti
565 Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
976 Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus
504 Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittata
465 Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris
486 Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
466 Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis
638 Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
585 Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata
645 Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus
603 Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia
634 Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
614 Yellow-faced Honeyeater Lichenostomus chrysops
619 Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops
613 Fuscous Honeyeater Lichenostomus fuscus
625 White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
580 Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis
583 Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris
578 White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus
598 Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta
631 New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
377 Jacky Winter Microeca fascinans
385 Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata
392 Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
445 White-browed Babbler Pomatostomus superciliosus
421 Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus
549 Varied Sittella Daphoenositta chrysoptera
416 Crested Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus
398 Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis
408 Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
369 Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta
415 Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
361 Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
364 Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
424 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
425 White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike Coracina papuensis
671 Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus
547 Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus
702 Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus
700 Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis
705 Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
694 Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
930 Australian Raven Corvus coronoides
693 White-winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos
647 Richard?s Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae
995 House Sparrow Passer domesticus
653 Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata
655 Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii
661 Plum-headed Finch Neochmia modesta
662 Red-browed Firetail Neochmia temporalis
652 Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata
564 Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum
358 White-backed Swallow Cheramoeca leucosternus
357 Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
359 Tree Martin Hirundo nigricans
360 Fairy Martin Hirundo ariel
509 Rufous Songlark Cinclorhamphus mathewsi
574 Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
999 Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Number of taxa 92
David Geering & Simon Kennedy
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