Birds of the Strathbogie Tableland

In recent years, 158 species of bird have been recorded from the Strathbogie Tableland area, in the Eastern Strathbogie Ranges. The bird fauna has been divided into 17 groups of similar and related species – below.

Parrots and Cockatoos

1. Australian King-Parrot
2. Blue-winged Parrot
3. Cockatiel
4. Crimson Rosella
5. Eastern Rosella
6. Galah
7. Gang-gang Cockatoo
8. Little Lorrikeet
9. Long-billed Corella
10. Musk Lorrikeet
11. Peaceful Dove
12. Purple-crowned Lorrikeet
13. Red-rumped Parrot
14. White Cockatoo
15. Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo

Larger Black,Grey and Pied Birds

1. Australian Magpie
2. Australian Raven
3. Dollarbird
4. Grey Butcherbird
5. Grey Currawong
6. Little Raven
7. Pied Currawong
8. White-winged Chough
9. White-winged Triller

Singing Birds

1. Brown Songlark
2. Common Blackbird
3. Golden Whistler
4. Grey Shrike-thrush
5. Rufous Songlark
6. Rufous Whistler
7. Singing Bushlark

Birds of the Paddock & Open Spaces

1. Common Starling
2. Goldfinch
3. House Sparrow
4. Little Button-Quail
5. Magpie-lark
6. Masked Lapwing
7. Painted Button-quail
8. Rainbow Bee-eater
9. Red-browed Finch
10. Richard’s Pipit
11. Skylark
12. Stubble Quail
13. White-fronted Chat
14. Willie Wagtail
15. Yellow-rumped Thornbill

Small Birds of the Tree Canopy

1. Crested Shrike-tit
2. Little Lorrikeet
3. Mistletoebird
4. Musk Lorrikeet
5. Purple-crowned Lorikeet
6. Silvereye
7. Spotted Pardalote
8. Striated Pardalote
9. Striated Thornbill
10. Varied Sittella
11. White-throated Gerygone

Small Birds Lower Down

1. Brown Thornbill
2. Brown Treecreeper
3. Buff-rumped Thornbill
4. Red-browed Treecreeper
5. Superb Fairy Wren
6. White-browed Scrubwren
7. White-throated Treecreeper

Other Forest Birds

1. Bassian Thrush
2. Cicadabird
3. Eastern Whipbird
4. Olive-backed Oriole
5. Satin Bowerbird
6. Speckled Warbler

Kingfishers

1. Laughing Kookaburra
2. Sacred Kingfisher

Flycatchers and Fantails

1. Jacky Winter
2. Leaden Flycatcher
3. Restless Flycatcher
4. Satin Flycatcher

Robins

1. Flame Robin
2. Pink Robin
3. Red-capped Robin
4. Scarlet Robin
5. Yellow Robin

Honeyeaters

1. Brown-headed Honeyeater
2. Eastern Spinebill
3. Noisy Friarbird
4. Red Wattlebird
5. White-eared Honeyeater
6. White-naped Honeyeater
7. White-plumed Honeyeater
8. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
9. Yellow-tufted Honeyeater

Swallows, Martins & Swifts

1. Dusky Woodswallow
2. Fairy Martin
3. Grey Fantail
4. Tree Martin
5. Welcome Swallow
6. White-browed Woodswallow
7. White-throated Needletail

Cuckoos

1. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
2. Brush Cuckoo
3. Fan-tailed Cuckoo
4. Horsefield’s Bronze-cuckoo
5. Pallid Cuckoo
6. Shining Bronze-cuckoo

Birds of the Night

1. Barking Owl
2. Barn Owl
3. Owlet-nightjar
4. Powerful Owl
5. Southern Boobook
6. Tawny Frogmouth

Birds of Prey (Raptors)

1. Black Kite
2. Black-shouldered Kite
3. Brown Falcon
4. Brown Goshawk
5. Collared Sparrowhawk
6. Grey Goshawk
7. Little Eagle
8. Marsh Harrier
9. Nankeen Kestrel
10. Peregrine Falcon
11. Spotted Harrier
12. Wedge-tailed Eagle
13. Whistling Kite

Birds in and around Dams & Wetlands

1. Australasian Shoveler
2. Australian Grebe
3. Australian Pelican
4. Australian Shelduck
5. Australian Wood duck
6. Banded Lapwing
7. Black Duck
8. Black Swan
9. Black-fronted Plover
10. Darter
11. Dusky Moorhen
12. Eurasian Coot
13. Golden-headed Cisticola
14. Great Cormorant
15. Great Egret
16. Grey Teal
17. Hardhead
18. Hoary-headed Grebe
19. Latham’s Snipe
20. Lewin’s Rail
21. Little Black Cormorant
22. Little Pied Cormorant
23. Purple Swamphen
24. Reed Warbler
25. Royal Spoonbill
26. Rufous Night Heron
27. Sacred Ibis
28. Straw-necked Ibis
29. White-faced Heron
30. White-necked Heron
31. Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Pigeons

1. Brush Bronzewing
2. Common Bronzewing
3. Crested Pigeon
4. Peaceful Dove
5. Wonga Pigeon