Hi birders
I had a fewminutes spare this afternoon, so I wandered down to the site in
Melbourne where that filthy feral, the Red-whiskered Bulbul, is regularly
recorded - Wilson Reserve off The Boulevard in Ivanhoe.
I heard 2 bulbuls while I was there (for about an hour), but didn't manage
to actually see one. The bushland here is heavily infested with various
kinds of environmental weeds (poplar, cotoneaster, etc.), so it has a kind
of European feel if you ignore the omnipresent Bell Miners! There were a
few Olive-backed Orioles about - mostly in the poplar groves - and just for
a minute there it gave the impression of birding in the south of France with
Eurasian Golden-Orioles! Not bad birding for a weed-infested suburban
location.
Bird list follows:
Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
Grey Teal Anas gracilis
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
Spotted Turtle-Dove Streptopelia chinensis
Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus
Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea
Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza uropygialis
Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
Brush Wattlebird Anthochaera chrysoptera
Bell Miner Manorina melanophrys
White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris
Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis
Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa
Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus
Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
Little Raven Corvus mellori
Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus
Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
Common Blackbird Turdus merula
Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
44 species
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