Westgate Park Bird Species List (Includes species along Yarra River) Bird names and taxonomic order in accordance with the Australian Checklist, Christidis L. & Boles W.E. (2008).

Species Status Species Wetland dependent & Raptors Land based Stubble Quail V Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Magpie Goose V Galah *Musk Duck P Long-billed Corella Black Swan FB Little Corella Australian Shelduck V Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Australian Wood Duck V Rainbow Lorikeet Pink-eared Duck V Musk lorikeet Australasian Shoveler O Little Lorikeet Grey Teal F Purple-crowned Lorikeet Chestnut Teal CB Crimson Rosella Pacific Black Duck FB Eastern Rosella Hardhead F Red-rumped Parrot Blue-billed Duck P Blue-winged Parrot Australasian Grebe FB Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Hoary-headed Grebe F Black-eared Cuckoo Great Crested Grebe P Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Rock Dove F Pallid Cuckoo Spotted Dove C Fan-tailed Cuckoo Diamond Dove V Southern Boobook Common Bronzewing V Barn Owl Crested Pigeon F Laughing Kookaburra *Australasian Gannet P Sacred Kingfisher Australasian Darter O Superb Fairy-wren Little Pied Cormorant F White-browed Scrubwren *Great Cormorant O Yellow-rumped Thornbill Little Black Cormorant F Brown Thornbill *Pied Cormorant F Spotted Pardalote Australian Pelican O Striated Pardalote Australasian Bittern P Singing Honeyeater White-necked Heron V Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Eastern Great Egret F Fuscous Honeyeater Intermediate Egret V White-plumed Honeyeater Cattle Egret V Noisy Miner Little Egret P Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater White-faced Heron F Little Wattlebird Nankeen Night Heron V Red Wattlebird Glossy Ibis P White-fronted Chat Australian White Ibis O New Holland Honeyeater Straw-necked Ibis O White-naped Honeyeater Royal Spoonbill O Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Yellow-billed Spoonbill V White-winged Triller Black-shouldered Kite O Golden Whistler Whistling Kite V Grey Shrike-thrush Black Kite V Grey Butcherbird Brown Goshawk O Australian Magpie Collared Sparrowhawk V Pied Currawong Swamp Harrier V Rufous fantail Little Eagle V Grey fantail Nankeen Kestrel O Willie Wagtail Brown Falcon O Little Raven Australian Hobby O Satin Flycatcher Peregrine Falcon O Magpie-lark Purple Swamphen RB Scarlet Robin Lewin's Rail P Flame Robin Buff-banded Rail FB Horsfield's Bushlark Baillon’s Crake V Eurasian Skylark Spotted Crake V Golden-headed Cisticola Spotless Crake P Clamorous Reed-Warbler Black-tailed Native-hen V Little Grassbird Dusky Moorhen CB Rufous Songlark Eurasian Coot CB Brown Songlark *Aust. Pied Oyster catcher V Silvereye Black-winged Stilt SB Welcome Swallow Red-necked avocet P Fairy Martin Red-cappped Plover P Tree Martin Black-fronted Dotterel RB Common Blackbird Red-kneed Dotterel F Song Thrush Masked Lapwing R Common Starling Latham's Snipe V Common Myna *Common Sandpiper P Red-browed Finch *Common greenshank P House Sparrow Ruff P Australasian Pipit Red-necked Stint V European Goldfinch *Sharp-tailed Sandpiper P Common Greenfinch *Caspian Tern P Whiskered Tern V *Crested Tern O *Pacific Gull O Silver Gull A Bird names and taxonomic order in accordance with the Australian Checklist, Christidis L. & Boles W.E. (2008).

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