This is from Alastair Smith who has had trouble getting it onto the
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Following the other recent postings about the Hattah Kulkyne national
park, I thought that it would be opportune to add mine. We visited
the Park from 30 Sep to 4 Oct and I had a good feeling about the park
when, on arrival, we were met by a Major Mitchell's cockatoo in a
tree at the visitor's centre. We saw 90 species, including four
lifers, the highlight of which was a malleefowl on the Nowingi track.
The malleefowl was seemingly unperturbed by our presence and I was
able to watch it for some time without binos and then for about 15
minutes with binos and scope before it disappeared into the mallee. I
cannot comment on the location of its mound as I thought I had
disturbed it enough and didn't go looking for it. While I won't post
it here, I have the lat/long for this sighting if anyone is heading
that direction and would like to try and find it again.
As with other visitors, we found the black-tail native hens thick on
the ground, in flocks of 200-300 birds. Unfortunately we dipped out
on some of the smaller mallee birds such as the mallee emu wren and
striated grasswren, but not for want of looking and of course there
is always next year. It is still frustrating to read that other
people saw the bird where we had looked such as the Hattah nature
walk that we visited three times!
In all I would recommend a visit, though it will be Pink Lakes for us
next year. We camped at Lake Mournpoul and the species list below is
from the vicinity of lakes Mournpoul and Hattah, Nowingi track and
the Lake Warepil walk:
Emu
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Little Pied Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Musk Duck
Black Swan
Grey Teal
Pacific Black Duck
Hardhead
White-faced Heron
White-necked Heron
Black-shouldered Kite
Whistling Kite
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Brown Falcon
Nankeen Kestrel
Malleefowl
Brown Quail
Black-tailed Native-hen
Eurasian Coot
Black-winged Stilt
Red-kneed Dotterel
Black-fronted Dotterel
Masked Lapwing
Whiskered Tern
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Regent Parrot
Australian Ringneck
Crimson Rosella
Red-rumped Parrot
Mulga Parrot
Galah
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Little Corella
Pallid Cuckoo
Barn Owl
Southern Boobook
Tawny Frogmouth
Laughing Kookaburra
Red-backed Kingfisher
Sacred Kingfisher
Brown Treecreeper
Splendid Fairy-wren
Variegated Fairy-wren
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Brown Thornbill
Inland Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
Weebill
Southern Whiteface
Singing Honeyeater
White-eared Honeyeater
Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater
Little Friarbird
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Red Wattlebird
Jacky Winter
Red-capped Robin
Hooded Robin
Rufous Whistler
Grey Shrike-thrush
White-browed Babbler
Chestnut Quail-thrush
White-winged Chough
Apostlebird
Willie Wagtail
Grey Fantail
Australian Raven
Masked Woodswallow
White-browed Woodswallow
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Grey Currawong
Magpie-lark
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
White-winged Triller
Common Starling
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
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