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Common All year

Around House

Common Seasonally

Occasional sightings

Rare

C

AH

CS

OS

R

  1. 1. Rare means seen once or twice a year, though I have only seen a male Noisy Pitta  thrice, once in 2001 then during Autumn 2009 and in early Spring 2010, in very different locations. 

  2. 2. Occasional sightings means seen on and off, not frequent, eg Spine-tailed Swifts seen whenever a major frontal system is moving through.  Or just not seen often because I’m not looking. 

  3. 3. Common Seasonally would be the Brush Turkeys, quite common when they are nesting but not seen when they are not, perhaps the testosterone levels are not high enough in some to come out of hiding. 

  4. 4. Common All year would be the Eastern Yellow Robin, they are always keeping an eye on you, looking for anything you might disturb that they can eat. 

  5. 5. Common can also mean we are part of a territory, e.g. Yellow-tailled Black Cockatoo where we are visited regularly, once or twice a week. 

  6. 6. Some birds are only seen overhead, e.g. the swifts, some alight only rarely, e.g. eagles. 

  7. 7. There are many other water birds seen overhead, landing in neighbouring dams, I have only seen one in either Mooral Creek or our internal creek. 

  8. 8. There are many other Raptors but I have only been able to reliably identify one, the Wedge-tailed Eagle. 

  9. 9. There are an awful lot of smaller and very small birds and I’m quite certain some of these are not included in the listing because I have not taken the time to try and identify them.  Alternatively they may spend most of their time out of sight high up in the canopy or they are only ever silhouetted against the sky.  Or, I just don't hear them.    

  10. 10. Around House means usually seen only on the ground or in the trees around the House and Garden Paddocks.  Those that are common there and on other parts of Sassafras are just C, e.g. Satin Bower Birds.  Those that over fly are not considered to be around the house, e.g. White-headed Pigeon or Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike fly over the house to land on other parts of Sassafras, that is they are generally         not birds of open country but they get an X because we see them from the house quite often, daily at times. 

  11. 11. Identification and naming from Field Guide to Australian Birds by Michael Morecombe 

 

 

Scientific Name

Common Name

Around house

On block

Frequency

  1. 1. Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris 

Eastern Spinebill

X

X

C

  1. 2. Acridotheres tristris 

Common Myna

X

 

AH

  1. 3. Alcedo azurea 

Azure Kingfisher

X

 

R

  1. 4. Alectura lathami 

Brush Turkey

 

X

CS

  1. 5. Apus pacificus 

Fork-tailed Swift

X

X

OS

  1. 6. Aquila audax 

Wedge-tailed Eagle

X

X

OS

  1. 7. Ardea novaehollanidiae 

White-faced Heron

 

X

CS

  1. 8. Cacatua  roseicapilla 

Galah

X

 

OS

  1. 9. Calyptorhynchus funereus 

Yellow-tailled Black Cockatoo

X

X

C

  1. 10. Chalcophaps indica 

Emerald Dove

 

X

CS

  1. 11. Columba leucomela 

White-headed Pidgeon

X

X

CS

  1. 12. Coracina novaehollandiae 

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

X

X

CS

  1. 13. Corvus coronoides 

Australian Raven

X

X

C

  1. 14. Coturnix 

Quail

 

X

OS

  1. 15. Cracticus nigrogularis 

Pied Butcher Bird

X

 

AH

  1. 16. Dacelo novaeguineae 

Laughing Kookaburra

X

X

AH

  1. 17. Eopsaltria australis 

Eastern Yellow Robin

X

X

C

  1. 18. Eudynamys scolopacea 

Common Koel

X

X

C

  1. 19. Eurystomus orientalis 

Dollarbird

X

X

CS

  1. 20. Gergoyne mouki 

Brown Gergoyne

 

X

OS

  1. 21. Grallina cyanoleuca 

Magpie-lark

X

 

AH

  1. 22. Gymnorhina tibicen 

Black-backed Magpie

X

 

AH

  1. 23. Hirundo neoxena 

Welcome Swallow

X

 

AH

  1. 24. Malurus cyaneus 

Superb Fairy-wren

X

X

AH

  1. 25. Merops ornatus 

Rainbow Bee-eater

X

 

R

  1. 26. Monarcha melanopsis 

Black-faced Monarch

X

X

C

  1. 27. Myiagra inquieta 

Restless Flycatcher

X

 

AH

  1. 28. Myzomela sanguinolenta 

Scarlet Honeyeater

X

 

CS

  1. 29. Ocyphaps lophotes 

Crested Pidgeon

X

X

OS

  1. 30. Pachycephala pectoralis 

Golden Whistler

X

X

CS

  1. 31. Phaps chaloptera 

Common Bronzewing

 

X

OS

  1. 32. Philemon corniculatus 

Noisy Friarbird

X

 

OS

  1. 33. Pitta versicolor 

Noisy Pitta

 

X

R

  1. 34. Playtcerus elegans elegans 

Crimson Rosella

X

X

C

  1. 35. Probable sightings 

Treecreeper

 

X

OS

  1. 36. Psophodes olivaceus 

Eastern Whipbird

X

X

C

  1. 37. Ptilonorhynchus violaceus 

Satin Bowerbird

X

X

C

  1. 38. Rhipidura fuliginosa 

Grey Fantail

X

X

C

  1. 39. Rhipidura rufifons 

Rufous Fantail

X

X

C

  1. 40. Scythrops novaehollandiae 

Channel-billed Cuckoo

X

 

OS

  1. 41. Sericornus frontalis 

White-browed Scrubwren

 

X

C

  1. 42. Sericulus chrysocephalus 

Regent Bowerbird

X

X

CS

  1. 43. Stagonopleura guttata 

Diamond Firetail

X

X

C

  1. 44. Strepera graculina 

Pied Currawong

X

X

C

  1. 45. Zosterops lateralis 

Silvereye

X

X

C

  1. 46. Various 

Owls

X

 

OS

  1. 47. Various 

Other Pigeons

 

X

OS

 

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