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Red-browed finch Photo: Robert Ashdown © Qld Govt Department of Environment and Science K’gari () World Heritage Area

Mound-builders Hutton’s Shearwater Striated Little Button-quail Australian Brush-turkey Little Shearwater Nankeen Night Heron Painted Button-quail Short-tailed Shearwater Black Bittern Black-breasted Button-quail Quails and Pheasants Sooty Shearwater Brown Quail Ibises and Spoonbills Curlews, Sandpipers, Snipes Wedge-tailed Shearwater King Quail and Godwits Straw -necked Ibis Latham’s Snipe Geese, and Black-browed Royal Spoonbill Black-tailed Godwit Black Buller’s Albatross Bar-tailed Godwit Green Pygmy-goose Storks Grey-headed Albatross Little Curlew Australian Wood Black-necked Stork Light-mantled Sooty Albatross Whimbrel Musk Duck Osprey Eastern Curlew Pacific Black Duck Sooty Albatross Osprey Marsh Sandpiper Wandering Whistling-Duck Common Greenshank *Mallard Kites, Goshawks, Eagles Terek Sandpiper Chestnut Teal Storm Petrels and Harriers Common Sandpiper Pacific Baza Grey Teal Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Grey-tailed Tattler Black-shouldered Kite Hardhead White-bellied Storm-Petrel Wandering Tattler Black-breasted Buzzard Ruddy Turnstone Grebes Great Knot Australasian Grebe Red-tailed Whistling Kite Red Knot Great Crested Grebe White-tailed Tropicbird Brahminy Kite Sanderling Hoary-headed Grebe White-bellied Sea-eagle and Red-necked Stint Penguins Australasian Broad-billed Sandpiper Little Penguin Masked Curlew Sandpiper Grey Goshawk Pectoral Sandpiper Petrels and Shearwaters Collared Sparrowhawk Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Black-winged Petrel Red Goshawk Blue Petrel Wedge-tailed Eagle Stone-curlews Cape Petrel Little Eagle Bush Stone-curlew Gould’s Petrel Little Pied Beach Stone-curlew Great-winged Petrel Falcons Pied Cormorant Kerguelen Petrel Brown Falcon Oystercatchers Mottled Petrel Australian Hobby Pied Oystercatcher Northern Giant-Petrel Peregrine Falcon Sooty Oystercatcher Nankeen Kestrel Providence Petrel Pelicans Stilts and Avocets Southern Fulmar Petrel Cranes Black-winged Stilt Southern Giant-Petrel Red-necked Avocet Tahiti Petrel White-headed Petrel Great Rails, Crakes, Swamphens , and Dotterels Antarctic Prion and Coots Double-banded Broad-billed Prion , and Bitterns Buff-banded Greater Sand Plover Fairy Prion White-faced Heron Lewin’s Rail Grey Plover Salvin’s Prion Little Baillon’s Crake Lesser Sand Plover Slender-billed Prion Eastern Reef Egret Spotless Crake Oriental Plover Black Petrel White-necked Heron Purple Swamphen Pacific Golden Plover Westland Petrel Great-billed Heron Dusky Moorhen Red-capped Plover Buller’s Shearwater Great Egret Eurasian Coot Ringed Plover Black-fronted Dotterel Flesh-footed Shearwater Intermediate Egret Button-quails Masked Fluttering Shearwater Red-backed Button-quail Pratincoles Pallid Oriental Pratincole Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Rufous-throated White-breasted Pheasant Coucal Scarlet Honeyeater Woodswallow and White-cheeked Honeyeater White-browed Great Skua Hawk Owls White-naped Honeyeater Woodswallow Pomarine Jaeger Powerful Owl White-throated Honeyeater Long-tailed Jaeger Barking Owl Yellow -faced Honeyeater Pacific Southern Boobook Robins Barn Owls Pied Jacky Winter Masked Owl Franklin’s Gull Rose Robin Crows Barn Owl Arctic Pale-yellow Robin Black-naped Tern and Nightjars Bridled Tern Tawny *House Crow Babblers Caspian Tern White-throated Nightjar Grey-crowned Babbler Catbirds and Common Tern Large-tailed Nightjar Green Catbird Crested Tern Australian Owlet-nightjar Wedgebills, Quailthrushes Regent Gull-billed Tern and Whipbirds Swifts Satin Bowerbird Lesser Crested Tern Eastern Whipbird White-rumped Swiftlet Little Tern Larks White-throated Needletail Roseate Tern Singing Bushlark Fork-tailed Swift Varied Pipits and Wagtails House Swift Whiskered Tern Whistlers and Shrikethrushes Richard’s Pipit White-fronted Tern Kingfishers, Bee-eaters Golden Whistler Black-backed Wagtail White-winged Black Tern and Rollers Rufous Whistler Weavers and Waxbills Common Noddy Azure Kingfisher Little -thrush *House Sparrow Laughing Kookaburra Grey Shrike-thrush Grey Ternlet Forest Kingfisher Red-browed Finch White Tern Red-backed Kingfisher Monarchs, Flycatchers, Diamond Firetail Sacred Kingfisher and Magpie-lark Double-barred Finch Pigeons and Doves Collared Kingfisher Black-faced Monarch Chestnut-breasted Mannikin *Rock Dove Spectacled Monarch Rainbow Bee-eater Gold Finches White-headed Pigeon White-eared Monarch Dollarbird *European Goldfinch *Spotted Turtle-Dove Leaden Flycatcher Brown Cuckoo-Dove Pittas Satin Flycatcher Emerald Dove Noisy Pitta Shining Flycatcher Common Bronzewing Restless Flycatcher Australian Treecreepers and Martins Brush Bronzewing Magpie-lark White-throated Barn Rufous Treecreeper Welcome Swallow Bar-shouldered Dove Grey Fantail Tree Martin Peaceful Dove Australian-Papuan Fairy Martin Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Variegated Fairy- Spangled Drongo Superb Fruit-Dove Red-backed Fairy-wren Old World Warblers Cuckoo- Wompoo Fruit-Dove Clamorous Reed-Warbler ,Scrubwrens, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Topknot Pigeon Tawny Grassbird Thornbills and Australian Barred Cuckoo-shrike Little Grassbird Warblers White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike Cockatoos and Golden-headed Cisticola Galah Spotted Cicadabird Glossy Black-Cockatoo Striated Pardalote White-winged Triller White-eyes Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo White-browed Scrubwren Varied Triller Silvereye Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Large-billed Scrubwren Orioles and Figbirds Old World Thrushes Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Olive-backed Oriole Russet-tailed Thrush Cockatiel Brown Gerygone Mangrove Gerygone Figbird Rainbow Lorikeet Starlings and Mynas Fairy Gerygone Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Woodswallows, Butcherbirds * White-throated Gerygone Little Lorikeet and Metallic Starling Brown Thornbill Australian King- * Striated Thornbill Red-winged Parrot * Buff-rumped Thornbill Pale-headed Rosella Yellow -rumped Thornbill Budgerigar Turquoise Parrot and * Introduced Ground Parrot Australian Chats This list was compiled from the published literature, Museum Little Wattlebird specimen records and observations made by Departmental Staff and Parasitic and Coucals experienced naturalists. Bibliographic information can be obtained from Little Friarbird Fraser Island Ranger Stations. Interested persons are most welcome to Channel-billed Cuckoo contribute their records. New and unusual sightings will be substantiated Blue-faced Honeyeater Common Koel before they can be included on any revised list. Brown Honeyeater Fan-tailed Cuckoo Dusky Honeyeater Common names follow Christidis, L. and Boles, W.E. (1994) The Horsefield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Eastern Spinebill and species of birds of and its territories. RAOU Monograph 2. Little Bronze-Cuckoo Lewin’s Honeyeater Oriental Cuckoo List compiled June 2010 by:

Mangrove Honeyeater R. Hobson & I. Thrash, Natural Resource Rangers, K’gari (Fraser Island) Bp2029