...and just to put my hand up for Armidale - our group outing to Gara Gorge
(formerly known and still locally known as "The Blue Hold") on 7 December
produced the following list of species, many of which were nesting:
Australian Wood-duck
Pacific Black Duck
Hardhead
Australasian Grebe
Great Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Whistling Kite
Dusky Woodswallow
Pallid Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Azure Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Sacred Kingfisher
Dollarbird
Little Corella
Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Red-rumped Parrot
Superb Lyrebird
Satin Bowerbird
White-throated Treecreeper
Superb Fairywren
Eastern Spinebill
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Red Wattlebird
Scarlet Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater
Noisy Friarbird
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
White-browed Scrubwren
Buff-rumped Thornbill
Brown Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Yellow Thornbill
White-throated Gerygone
Grey Butcherbird
Australasian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Black-faced Cuckooshrike
White-winged Triller
Common Cicadabird
Varied Sittella
Grey Shrike-Thrush
Rufous Whistler
Olive-backed Oriole
Spangled Drongo
Willie-wagtail
Grey Fantail
Magpie-lark
Leaden Flycatcher
Restless Flycatcher
Australian Raven
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
Australian Reed-Warbler
Rufous Songlark
Silver-eye
European Starling
Mistletoebird
Red-browed Firetail
Double-barred Finch
There were notable absences from this list that had been seen on other
occasions.
There is also a birding brochure available at the Armidale Visitor
Information Centre and exellent accommodation of every variety. So, next
time if you are in Armidale, look us up, and perhaps join us on the first
Sunday of each month...
Regards
Shirley
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