Best place to see Chestnut Rail - either from the Elizabeth River Bridge
(near Palmerston) or Stuart Pk mangroves (if you don't mind getting muddy).
Channel Island bridge good for Great-billed Heron.
Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon - Bardejdilidji. Also Banded Fruit-dove. Or
if the Carpentaria Palms at the beginning of the Nourlangie walk are
fruiting, Banded will be feeding there.
Hooded Parrot- often hanging around streets in Pine Creek.
Little Kingfisher-best spot Howard Springs on trunks of trees.
Green-backed Gerygone - monsoon vine-thicket on way to Wickham Pt,
Palmerston
Gouldian Finch - sites depend on whether rain has fallen or fire. I've just
expanded on this in an article I sent to Simon Mustoe on my trip with
Jonathon Franzen.
I could go on, but have other work to do. Good luck
--
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on 1/4/12 1:46 PM, Tom and Mandy Wilson at
wrote:
> Hi All
> I will be spending about 10 days in the Darwin/Kakadu/Katherine region in
> early July - the reason this RFI is so far in advance is to help with my
> trip planning. This will be my second visit (almost 20 years after my first
> in September 1992) and I am looking for a few species I missed that time and
> tidying up a few sightings which, in retrospect, were perhaps not as good as
> I would accept now. I have already raided the birding-aus archives, read my
> (old) Thomas & Thomas and Bransbury looking at sites, but would be
> interested in some perhaps more up to date info/sites for the species listed
> below. I'm trying to track down a copy of Niven McRie's book, but the only
> copy in the NSW public library system seems to be in the State Library, so
> I'm now probably going to purchase one if I can.
>
> We will be camping for a week and then have a couple of days in Darwin
> itself to finish off, with the route running (roughly) Darwin - Kakadu
> (Ubirr or Jabiru/Cooinda/Gunlom) - Katherine - Litchfield park - Darwin .
> Plans already include a stop at Adelaide River, Yellow Waters and Katherine
> Gorge Cruises, visiting Territory Wildlife Park and visit to Fogg Dam. (As
> this is a family trip, a visit to Leanyer Sewage works probably not on the
> cards! A diversion toward Victoria River is also highly unlikely.)
>
> Looking forward to seeing a load of species I've not seen for some time, but
> the specific target list, together with possible sites noted so far, is:
> - Great Billed Heron (Buffalo Creek, Adelaide River. Yellow Waters; Darwin
> Hbr - Middle Arm)
> - Red Goshawk (along Arnhem Hwy; Mataranka/Katherine areas - keep eyes
> peeled as July is when they start displaying?)
> - Chestnut Rail (Buffalo Creek; Charles Darwin NP; Darwin Hbr - Middle Arm -
> aware that I need to get the tide conditions right)
> - Red backed Button Quail (Holmes Jungle; Leaning Tree lagoon)
> - Chestnut Backed Button Quail (areas around Ubirr, Nourlangie)
> - Chestnut Quilled Rock Pigeon (Gunlom, Katherine up on the tops)
> - Banded Fruit Dove (sandstone outcrops at Ubirr, Nourlangie etc)
> - Hooded Parrot (Pine Creek but better info sought on specific
> site/Katherine areas)
> - Rufous Owl (Botanic Gardens; Howard Springs?; Waterfall Creek Gunlom)
> - Little Kingfisher (Yellow Waters, Buffalo Creek)
> - Rainbow Pitta (Monsoon Rainforest - Howard Springs, Fogg Dam; East Point)
> - White Throated Grasswren (Gunlom - are they still there?)
> - Green Backed Gerygone (seem to be common in several habitats - not sure
> how I missed these in 1992)
> - Buff Sided Robin (riverine woodland; Yellow Waters; Waterfall Creek
> Gunlom)
> - White Breasted Whistler (mangroves - Buffalo Creek etc - anywhere I'd be
> looking for Chestnut Rail presumably)
> - Mangrove Golden Whistler (mangroves (duh!) - esp. Adelaide River)
> - Arafura Fantail (monsoon rainforest pockets as for Rainbow Pitta;
> paperbark swamps - varied habitats)
> - Mangrove Grey Fantail (mangroves (duh again!) - Buffalo Creek)
> - Star Finch (bit light on info on this and the next 2)
> - Yellow Rumped Mannikin
> - Pictorella Mannikin
> - Gouldian Finch (around Pine Creek but better info sought on specific site;
> Bird Billabong)
> - Zitting Cisticola (swampy grasslands)
> - Yellow White Eye (mangroves, monsoon thickets)
>
> I was wondering whether it is worth lugging my scope and tripod with me - as
> I assume that lots of waders will be up north breeding but there may be a
> reasonable overwintering population to be seen at East Point, Lee Point etc,
> so would be interested in thoughts on that front.
> Also, is there a site other than Eremaea where NT sightings are discussed?
> I see my trip coincides with Arnhem Land bird week - hope all the birds
> aren't being paid to be over there for the bird week punters!
> Cheers
> Tom Wilson
>
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