Red-browed finch Photo: Robert Ashdown © Qld Govt Department of Environment and Science Birds K’gari (Fraser Island) World Heritage Area
Mound-builders Hutton’s Shearwater Striated Heron 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 Australian White Ibis and Godwits Albatrosses Straw -necked Ibis Latham’s Snipe Geese, Swans and Ducks Black-browed Albatross Royal Spoonbill Black-tailed Godwit Black Swan Buller’s Albatross Bar-tailed Godwit Green Pygmy-goose Storks Grey-headed Albatross Little Curlew Australian Wood Duck Black-necked Stork Light-mantled Sooty Albatross Whimbrel Musk Duck Shy Albatross Osprey Eastern Curlew Pacific Black Duck Sooty Albatross Osprey Marsh Sandpiper Wandering Whistling-Duck Wandering Albatross 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 Tropicbirds Black Kite Great Knot Australasian Grebe Red-tailed Tropicbird Whistling Kite Red Knot Great Crested Grebe White-tailed Tropicbird Brahminy Kite Sanderling Hoary-headed Grebe White-bellied Sea-eagle Gannets and Boobies Red-necked Stint Swamp Harrier Penguins Australasian Gannet Broad-billed Sandpiper Brown Goshawk Little Penguin Masked Booby Curlew Sandpiper Grey Goshawk Brown Booby Pectoral Sandpiper Petrels and Shearwaters Collared Sparrowhawk Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Black-winged Petrel Darters Red Goshawk Blue Petrel Darter Wedge-tailed Eagle Stone-curlews Cape Petrel Cormorants Little Eagle Bush Stone-curlew Gould’s Petrel Little Pied Cormorant Beach Stone-curlew Great-winged Petrel Falcons Pied Cormorant Kerguelen Petrel Brown Falcon Oystercatchers Little Black Cormorant Mottled Petrel Australian Hobby Pied Oystercatcher Great Cormorant Northern Giant-Petrel Peregrine Falcon Sooty Oystercatcher Nankeen Kestrel Providence Petrel Pelicans Stilts and Avocets Southern Fulmar Petrel Australian Pelican Cranes Black-winged Stilt Southern Giant-Petrel Brolga Red-necked Avocet Tahiti Petrel Frigatebirds White-headed Petrel Great Frigatebird Rails, Crakes, Swamphens Lapwings, Plovers and Dotterels Antarctic Prion Lesser Frigatebird and Coots Double-banded Plover Broad-billed Prion Herons, Egrets and Bitterns Buff-banded Rail Greater Sand Plover Fairy Prion White-faced Heron Lewin’s Rail Grey Plover Salvin’s Prion Little Egret 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 Lapwing Fluttering Shearwater Cattle Egret Red-backed Button-quail Pratincoles Pallid Cuckoo Noisy Miner Masked Woodswallow Oriental Pratincole Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Rufous-throated Honeyeater White-breasted Pheasant Coucal Scarlet Honeyeater Woodswallow Gulls and Terns White-cheeked Honeyeater White-browed Great Skua Hawk Owls White-naped Honeyeater Woodswallow Pomarine Jaeger Powerful Owl White-throated Honeyeater Grey Butcherbird Long-tailed Jaeger Barking Owl Yellow -faced Honeyeater Pied Butcherbird Pacific Gull Southern Boobook Australian Magpie Kelp Gull Robins Barn Owls Pied Currawong Silver Gull Jacky Winter Masked Owl Franklin’s Gull Rose Robin Crows Barn Owl Arctic Tern Pale-yellow Robin Australian Raven Black-naped Tern Frogmouths and Nightjars Eastern Yellow Robin Torresian Crow Bridled Tern Tawny Frogmouth *House Crow Babblers Caspian Tern White-throated Nightjar Grey-crowned Babbler Catbirds and Bowerbirds Common Tern Large-tailed Nightjar Green Catbird Crested Tern Australian Owlet-nightjar Wedgebills, Quailthrushes Regent Bowerbird Gull-billed Tern and Whipbirds Swifts Satin Bowerbird Lesser Crested Tern Eastern Whipbird White-rumped Swiftlet Little Tern Larks White-throated Needletail Sittellas Roseate Tern Singing Bushlark Fork-tailed Swift Varied Sittella Sooty Tern 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 Shrike-thrush *House Sparrow Black Noddy Laughing Kookaburra Grey Shrike-thrush Grey Ternlet Forest Kingfisher Red-browed Finch White Tern Red-backed Kingfisher Monarchs, Flycatchers, Diamond Firetail Sacred Kingfisher Drongo 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 Flowerpeckers Emerald Dove Noisy Pitta Shining Flycatcher Mistletoebird Common Bronzewing Restless Flycatcher Australian Treecreepers Swallows and Martins Brush Bronzewing Magpie-lark White-throated Barn Swallow Crested Pigeon Rufous Fantail Treecreeper Welcome Swallow Bar-shouldered Dove Grey Fantail Tree Martin Peaceful Dove Australian-Papuan Wrens Willie Wagtail Fairy Martin Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Variegated Fairy-wren Spangled Drongo Superb Fruit-Dove Red-backed Fairy-wren Old World Warblers Cuckoo-shrikes Wompoo Fruit-Dove Clamorous Reed-Warbler Pardalotes,Scrubwrens, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Topknot Pigeon Tawny Grassbird Thornbills and Australian Barred Cuckoo-shrike Little Grassbird Warblers White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike Cockatoos and Parrots Golden-headed Cisticola Galah Spotted Pardalote 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 Weebill 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 *Common Blackbird White-throated Gerygone Little Lorikeet and Currawongs Metallic Starling Brown Thornbill Australian King-Parrot Dusky Woodswallow *Common Starling Striated Thornbill Red-winged Parrot Little Woodswallow *Common Myna Buff-rumped Thornbill Pale-headed Rosella Yellow -rumped Thornbill Budgerigar Turquoise Parrot Honeyeaters and * Introduced species Ground Parrot Australian Chats This list was compiled from the published literature, Queensland Museum Little Wattlebird specimen records and observations made by Departmental Staff and Parasitic Cuckoos and Coucals Noisy Friarbird experienced naturalists. Bibliographic information can be obtained from Brush Cuckoo 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 taxonomy Horsefield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Eastern Spinebill and species of birds of Australia 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