Innisfail and District Bird Species

The Innisfail  Information Centre would like to thank Birds Australia North Queensland Group (BA-NQG) for providing us with this wonderful information on the bird species in and around the Innisfail area. If you would like to know more about North Queensland birds, birding and bird conservation please check out BA-NQG's website www.birdsaustralianq.org

 
If you would like to print a copy of this bird list below please click on the link  : Innisfail-No-15.pdf

Southern Cassowary	Eastern Curlew	Shining Bronze-Cuckoo	Grey-headed Robin - E
Australian Brush-turkey	Marsh Sandpiper	Little Bronze-Cuckoo	Chowchilla - E
Orange-footed Scrubfowl	Common Greenshank	Gould's bronze-Cuckoo	Grey-crowned Babbler
Brown Quail	Wood Sandpiper	Common Koel	Eastern Whipbird
Magpie Goose	Terek Sandpiper	Channel-billed Cuckoo	Varied Sittella
Plumed Whistling-Duck	Common Sandpiper	Pheasant Coucal	Golden Whistler
Wandering Whistling-Duck	Grey-tailed Tattler	Rufous Owl	Grey Whistler
Black Swan	Wandering Tattler	Barking Owl	Rufous Whistler
Australian Wood Duck	Ruddy Turnstone	Southern Boobook	Little Shrike-thrush
Cotton Pigmy-goose	Great Knot	Lesser Sooty Owl - E	Bower's Shrike-thrush - E
Pacific Black Duck	Red Knot	Masked Owl	Grey Shrike-thrush
Grey Teal	Red-necked Stint	Barn Owl	Yellow-breasted Boatbill
Pink-eared Duck	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Grass Owl	Black-faced Monarch
Hardhead	Curlew Sandpiper	Tawny Frogmouth	Spectacled Monarch
Australiasian Grebe	Broad-billed Sandpiper	Papuan Frogmouth	White-eared Monarch
Brown Booby	Painted Snipe	White-throated Nightjar	Pied Monarch - E
Darter	Comb-crested Jacana	Large-tailed Nightjar	Leaden flycatcher
Little Pied Cormorant	Bush Stone-curlew	Australian Owlet-nightjar	Satin Flycatcher
Pied Comorant	Beach Stone-curlew	White-rumped Swiftlet	Shining Flycatcher
Little Black Comorant	Pied Oystercatcher	White-throated Needletail	Restless Flycatcher
Great Comorant	Sooty Oystercatcher	Fork-tailed Swift	Magpie-Lark
Australian Pelican	Black-winged Stilt	Azure Kingfisher	Rufous Fantail
Great Frigatebird	Pacific Golden Plover	Little Kingfisher	Grey Fantail
White-faced Heron	Grey Plover	Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher	Northern Fantail
Little Egret	Red-capped Plover	Laughing Kookaburra	Willie Wagtail
Eastern Reef Egret	Lesser Sand Plover	Blue-winged Kookaburra	Spangled Drongo
White-necked Heron	Greater Sand Plover	Forest Kingfisher	Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Great-billed Heron	Black-fronted Dotterel	Red-Backed Kingfisher	Barred Cuckoo Shrike
Great Egret	Red-kneed Dotterel	Sacred Knigfisher	White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike
Striated Heron	Masked Lapwing	Collared Kingfisher	Barred Cuckoo-shrike
Little Bittern	Australian Pratincole	Rainbow Bee-eater	White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
Black Bittern	Silver Gull	Dollarbird	Cicadabird
Glossy Ibis	Gull-billed Tern	Noisy Pitta	White-winged Triller
Australian White Ibis	Capsian Tern	White-throated Treecreeper	Varied Triller
Straw-necked Ibis	Lesser Crested Tern	Brown Treecreeper	Yellow Oriole
Royal Spoonbill	Crested Tern	Lovely Fairy-wren	Olive-backed Oriole
Yellow-billed Spoonbill	Roseate Tern	Red-backed Fairy-Wren	Figbird
Black-necked Stork	Black-naped Tern	Spotted Pardalote	White-breasted Woodswallow
Osprey	Common Tern	Striated Pardalote	Black Butcherbird
Pacific Baza	Little Tern	Fernwren - E	Grey Butcherbird
Black-shouldered Kite	Bridled Tern	Yellow-throated Scrubwren	Pied Butcherbird
Square-tailed Kite	Sooty Tern	White-browed Scrubwren	Australian Magpie
Black Kite	Whiskered Tern	Large-billed Scrubwren	Pied Currawong
Whistling Kite	Common Noddy	Weebill	Victoria's Riflebird - E
Brahminy Kite	Black Noddy	Brown Gerygone	Australian Raven
White-bellied Sea-Eagle	Rock Dove #	Large-billed Gerygone	Torresian Crow
Spotted Harrier	White-headed Pigeon	Fairy Gerygone	Spotted catbird
Swamp Harrier	Spotted Turtle-dove #	White-throated Gerygone	Tooth-billed Bowerbird - E
Brown Goshawk	Brown Cuckoo-Dove	Helmeted Friarbird	Golden Bowerbird
Grey Goshawk	Emerald Dove	Noisy Friarbird	Satin Bowerbird
Collared Sparrowhawk	Common Bronzewing	Little Friarbird	Great Bowerbird
Wedge-tailed Eagle	Crested Pigeon	Blue-faced Honeyeater	Singing Bushlark
Little Eagle	Peaceful Dove	Noisy Miner	Richard's Pipit
Brown Falcon	Bar-shouldered Dove	Yellow-throated Miner	House Sparrow #
Australian Hobby	Wompoo Fruit-Dove	Macleay's Honeyeater - E	Double-barred Finch
Black Falcon	Superb Fruit-Dove	Lewin's Honeyeater	Crimson Finch
Peregrine Falcon	Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove	Yellow-spotted Honeyeater	Red-Browed Finch
Nankeen Kestrel	Pied Imperial-pigeon	Graceful Honeyeater	Nutmeg Mannikin #
Brolga	Topknot Pigeon	Bridled Honeyeater - E	Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
Red-necked Crake	Red-tailed Black- Cockatoo	Yellow-faced Honeyeater	Yellow-bellied Sunbird
Buff-banded Rail	Galah	Varied Honeyeater	Mistletoebird
Bush-hen	Sulphur-crested Cockatoo	White-gaped Honeyeater	Barn Swallow
White-browed Crake	Rainbow Lorikeet	Yellow honeyeater	Welcome Swallow
Purple Swamphen	Scaly-breasted Lorikeet	White-throated Honeyeater	Tree Martin
Dusky Moorhen	Little Lorikeet	White-naped Honeyeater	Fairy Martin
Eurasian Coot	Double-eyed Fig Parrot	Brown honeyeater	Clamorous Reed-Warbler
Australian Bustard	Australian King-Parrot	Brown-backed Honeyeater	Tawny Grassbird
Red-backed Button-quail	Red-winged Parrot	Eastern Spinebill	Rufous Songlark
Red-chested Button-quail	Crimson Rosella	Dusky Honeyeater	Golden-headed Cisticola
Painted Button-quail	Pale-headed Rosella	Scarlet Honeyeater	Silvereye
Latham's Snipe	Oriental Cuckoo	Lemon-bellied Flycatcher	Bassian Thrush
Black Tailed Godwit	Pallid Cuckoo	Pale-yellow Robin	Russet-tailed Thrush
Bar-tailed Godwit	Brush Cuckoo	Eastern Yellow Robin	Metallic Starling
Little Curlew	Fan-tailed Cuckoo	Mangrove Robin	Common Myna#
Whimbrel	Horsefield's Bronze -Cuckoo	White-browed Robin	E = Wet tropics endemic birds # = Introduced Birds