With more thought I amend it to :
1. Western Ground Parrot (heard it several times on surveys)
2. Buff-breasted Button-quail (missed this)
3. Plains Wanderer (without Phil Maher)
4. Grey Falcon (only seen twice at Broome and SW Queensland)
5. White-throated Nightjar (only seen once near Julatten)
6. Superb Fruit-Dove (my 'bogey' bird which I have only seen once at Cape York)
7. King Quail (again only seen once, near Kununurra)
8. Scarlet-chested Parrot (only seen once in two attempts but maybe
the Neale Junction area is now a good chance)
9. Princess Parrot (saw lots on the Canning Stock Route in 1992, but
since then it has been much harder to find - again maybe Neale Junction area)
10. Bush-hen (only seen twice in N Queensland at Julatten and
Daintree on consecutive days)
For other proposed species :
1. Noisy Scrub-bird is easy at Cheyne Beach
2. Rufous-crowned Emu-wren is fairly easy at Millstream Chichester
NP, Karajini NP, and I have even seen it in Queensland at the first
place we looked.
3. Red-chested Button-quail can be fairly easy in the Kimberley in
the wet season
4. Masked Owl sometimes have a stakeout
5. Lewin's Rail is right up there (another 'bogey' bird - saw two on
Brunie Island in Tasmania, but missed at about half a dozen other
possible places)
6. Mallee Whipbird is easy at several places in the south west.
Western Whipbird is harder but there are a couple of places where it
can be seen now.
7. White-throated Grasswren is probably right up there. It used to be
a good chance at Gunlom, but I have heard that it is very hard to
find there now.
8. Australasian Painted Snipe is up there, but it gets reported
annually. McNeil Claypan at Carnarvon is always a good chance when it
has water, but needs a 4WD to get around the back.
9. Black Grasswren just needs time and patience at Mitchell Falls
10. Spotted Whistling-Duck might be up there, but I have heard it is
fairly easy at Weipa at the right time of year, but Weipa is out of the way.
11. Oriental Cuckoo is a migrant. Yes, we could include them, but
then where do you stop at when is a migrant a vagrant, and that opens
up seabirds which could fill the list. Besides, Oriental Cuckoo is
usually quite easy in the botanic gardens in Darwin late in the year.
12. Northern Shrike-tit might be up there. But if you do a trip of
the north Kimberley with George Swann, you will almost certainly see one.
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Only counting resident species :
1. Western Ground Parrot
2. Buff-breasted Button-quail
3. Plains Wanderer (without Phil Maher)
4. Grey Falcon
5. White-throated Nightjar
6. Superb Fruit-Dove
7. King Quail
8. Chestnut-breasted Whiteface
9. Red Goshawk (apart from Mataranka)
10. Australasian Bittern
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