Raymond Island Birds is a small island in the in eastern , , about 300 km from . that may be seen on

The island is approximately 6 km long by 2 km wide, and is just 200 m off the coast, across from the town of Paynesville. The island is named after William Odell Raymond, originally a magistrate from New South Wales who established himself as Raymond Island a squatter in Gippsland in the 1840s.

Raymond Island is well-known locally for its large koala population, originally introduced to the island in On the web at 1953, for the variety of birds and for the Raymond Island www.birdlife.org.au/locations/ Ferry, a chain ferry that links the island to Paynesville on the birdlife-east-gippsland mainland.

Postal Address Box 825 , Victoria, 3875

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Spotted Pardalote. Ron Mackenzie

See also Birding Guide Paynesville

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Other Brochures available: gippsland/publicaons-eg

Birding Guides are available for Bairnsdale, Bruthen & Nowa Nowa, Buchan, Lake Tyers, Lakes Entrance, Lindenow & Mitchell River National Park, Mallacoota, Marlo, , Nicholson, and Paynesville.

Bird Check Lists are available for Buchan Caves, Cann River, Den of Nargun, Fairy Dell, Gippsland Lakes, Lake Tyers & Fishermans Landing, Macleod Morass, Nyerimilang, Omeo, Oneonta, and Raymond Island. Marlo and Mallacoota have 2 brochures each, (1. Waterbirds and 2. Bush birds). Updated May 2018

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Black Swan Pied Cormorant White-browed Scrubwren Australian Shelduck Australasian Darter Yellow-rumped Thornbill Pacific Black Duck Black-shouldered Kite Yellow Thornbill Grey Teal Wedge-tailed Eagle Striated Thornbill Chestnut Teal Little Eagle Brown Thornbill Australian Wood Duck Brown Goshawk Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Hoary-headed Grebe White-bellied Sea-Eagle Rufous Whistler Great Crested Grebe Whistling Kite Golden Whistler Spotted Dove Southern Boobook Grey Shrike-thrush Common Bronzewing Sacred Kingfisher Olive-backed Oriole Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Laughing Kookaburra Pied Currawong Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Peregrine Falcon Grey Currawong Fan-tailed Cuckoo Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Australian Magpie Pallid Cuckoo Gang-gang Cockatoo Grey Butcherbird Tawny Frogmouth Galah Willie Wagtail Eurasian Coot Little Corella Grey Fantail Australian Pied Oystercatcher Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Little Raven Black-winged Stilt Australian King-Parrot Forest Raven Masked Lapwing Crimson Rosella Australian Raven Silver Gull Eastern Rosella Magpie-lark Pacific Gull Musk Lorikeet Eastern Yellow Robin Caspian Tern Rainbow Lorikeet Mistletoebird Crested Tern White-throated Treecreeper Red-browed Finch Australian Pelican Superb Fairy-wren Tree Martin Nankeen Night-Heron New Holland Honeyeater Welcome Swallow Great Egret White-eared Honeyeater Silvereye White-faced Heron Eastern Spinebill Common Starling Australian White Ibis Little Wattlebird Common Myna Straw-necked Ibis Red Wattlebird Common Blackbird Little Pied Cormorant Yellow-faced Honeyeater Great Cormorant Noisy Miner Little Black Cormorant Spotted Pardalote Black-faced Cormorant Striated Pardalote