Birds on the Araucaria property, Scenic Rim, Queensland
I’ve just been looking back over our records of the birds we have been seeing over the past few years on the Araucaria property and the adjacent Andrew Drynan Reserve campground (where guests on our camping option stay)
Here’s a summary, more or less in order of frequency of sightings
Lewin's Honeyeater feeding on nectar from a bottlebrush flower
Very common (seen almost every day):
| Torresian crow |
| Lewin’s honeyeater |
| eastern whipbird |
| Australian magpie |
| barn owl |
| grey butcherbird |
| noisy miner |
| red-backed fairy-wren |
| pied currawong |
| kookaburra |
| welcome swallow |
Brown cuckoodove
Common (at least seasonally):
| galah |
| figbird |
| striated pardalote |
| rainbow lorikeet |
| brown cuckoodove |
| white-throated gerygone |
| sulphur-crested cockatoo |
| bar-shouldered dove |
| pheasant coucal |
| magpielark |
| channel-billed cuckoo |
| brush cuckoo |
| spangled drongo |
| common koel |
| willy wagtail |
| silvereye |
| olive-backed oriole |
| eastern yellow robin |
| scaly-breasted lorikeet |
white-faced heron in tree near creek
Reasonably common (at least seasonally)
| grey fantail |
| black duck |
| white-faced heron |
| topknot pigeon |
| masked lapwing |
| little pied cormorant |
| grey shrikethrush |
| white-throated honeyeater |
| white-browed scrubwren |
| pied butcherbird |
| pale-headed rosella |
| blackfaced cuckooshrike |
| brown thornbill |
| azure kingfisher |
| wood duck |
| variegated fairywren |
| varied triller |
| rufous whistler |
| golden whistler |
| fantailed cuckoo |
| eastern rosella |
| dollarbird |
osprey watching topknot pigeons on Araucaria property
Occasionally seen or heard:
| yellow-faced honeyeater |
| wonga pigeon |
| wedge-tailed eagle |
| superb fairywren |
| sitella |
| scarlet honeyeater |
| sacred kingfisher |
| red-browed finch |
| forest kingfisher |
| fairy martin |
| dusky moorhen |
| crested pigeon |
| cicadabird |
| brown quail |
| yellow-eyed cuckoo-shrike |
| rose-crowned fruitdove |
| regent bowerbird |
| pale-vented bush hen |
| Pacific baza |
| osprey |
| noisy pitta |
| noisy friarbird |
| mistletoebird |
| little corella |
| little black cormorant |
| leaden flycatcher |
| large-billed scrubwren |
| crimson rosella |
| crested skriketit |
| brush turkey |
| blue-faced honeyeater |
| black-faced monarch |
| blackbreased button-quail |
| buff-banded rail |
| glossy black cockatoo |
| jacky winter |
| little shrike-thrush |
| nankeen night heron |
| rainbow bee-eater |
| tawny frogmouth |
| white.belllied sea eagle |
| yellow-tailed black cockatoo |
