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2015 QUEENSLAND TWITCHATHON 18 - 28 September 2015 2015 QUEENSLAND TWITCHATHON 18 - 28 September 2015 IOC Alphabetical Checklist of the Birds of Queensland: Source http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist. Team Name: Race Category: Total Number of Species: Photographic Category Only. Photos vetted by: Results (number of counted species) must be received by phone (0488 636 010) by 8pm Monday 28 September. Results (this list with counted species marked) must be received by email to [email protected] by 8pm Friday, 2 October. Column1 Column2 Column3 1 Albert's Lyrebird 2 Apostlebird 3 Arafura Fantail 4 Atherton Scrubwren 5 Australasian Bittern 6 Australasian Darter 7 Australasian Figbird 8 Australasian Gannet 9 Australasian Grebe 10 Australasian Shoveler 11 Australian Brushturkey 12 Australian Bustard 13 Australian Crake 14 Australian Golden Whistler 15 Australian Hobby 16 Australian King Parrot 17 Australian Logrunner 18 Australian Magpie 19 Australian Masked Owl 20 Australian Owlet-nightjar 21 Australian Painted-snipe 22 Australian Pelican 23 Australian Pied Cormorant 24 Australian Pipit 25 Australian Pratincole 26 Australian Raven 27 Australian Reed Warbler 28 Australian Ringneck 1/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 29 Australian Shelduck 30 Australian Swiftlet 31 Australian White Ibis 32 Azure Kingfisher 33 Baillon's Crake 34 Banded Honeyeater 35 Banded Lapwing 36 Banded Stilt 37 Banded Whiteface 38 Bar-breasted Honeyeater 39 Bar-shouldered Dove 40 Bar-tailed Godwit 41 Barking Owl 42 Barn Swallow 43 Barred Cuckooshrike 44 Bassian Thrush 45 Beach Stone-curlew 46 Bell Miner 47 Black Bittern 48 Black Butcherbird 49 Black Falcon 50 Black Honeyeater 51 Black Kite 52 Black Swan 53 Black-backed Bittern 54 Black-backed Butcherbird 55 Black-breasted Buttonquail 56 Black-breasted Buzzard 57 Black-chinned Honeyeater 58 Black-eared Cuckoo 59 Black-faced Cuckooshrike 60 Black-faced Monarch 61 Black-faced Woodswallow 62 Black-fronted Dotterel 63 Black-naped Tern 64 Black-necked Stork 65 Black-shouldered Kite 66 Black-tailed Godwit 67 Black-tailed Nativehen 68 Black-tailed Treecreeper 69 Black-throated Finch 70 Black-winged Monarch 71 Black-winged Stilt 72 Blue Rock Thrush 73 Blue-billed Duck 74 Blue-faced Honeyeater 75 Blue-faced Parrotfinch 76 Blue-winged Kookaburra 77 Blue-winged Parrot 78 Bluebonnet 79 Bourke's Parrot 80 Bower's Shrikethrush 81 Brahminy Kite 82 Bridled Honeyeater 83 Broad-billed Flycatcher 84 Broad-billed Sandpiper 85 Brolga 86 Brown Cuckoo-Dove 2/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 87 Brown Falcon 88 Brown Gerygone 89 Brown Goshawk 90 Brown Honeyeater 91 Brown Quail 92 Brown Songlark 93 Brown Thornbill 94 Brown Treecreeper 95 Brown-backed Honeyeater 96 Brown-headed Honeyeater 97 Brush Bronzewing 98 Brush Cuckoo 99 Budgerigar 100 Buff-banded Rail 101 Buff-breasted Buttonquail 102 Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher 103 Buff-rumped Thornbill 104 Buff-sided Robin 105 Bush Stone-curlew 106 Carpentarian Grasswren 107 Caspian Tern 108 Channel-billed Cuckoo 109 Chestnut Teal 110 Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo 111 Chestnut-breasted Mannikin 112 Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush 113 Chestnut-crowned Babbler 114 Chestnut-rumped Heathwren 115 Chestnut-rumped Thornbill 116 Chiming Wedgebill 117 Chirruping Wedgebill 118 Chowchilla 119 Cinnamon Quail-thrush 120 Clamorous Reed Warbler 121 Cockatiel 122 Collared Kingfisher 123 Collared Sparrowhawk 124 Comb-crested Jacana 125 Common Blackbird 126 Common Bronzewing 127 Common Cicadabird 128 Common Greenshank 129 Common Myna 130 Common Ringed Plover 131 Common Sandpiper 132 Common Starling 133 Common Tern 134 Cotton Pygmy Goose 135 Crested Bellbird 136 Crested Pigeon 137 Crested Shriketit 138 Crimson Chat 139 Crimson Finch 140 Crimson Rosella 141 Curlew Sandpiper 142 Diamond Dove 143 Diamond Firetail 144 Double-banded Plover 3/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 145 Double-barred Finch 146 Double-eyed Fig Parrot 147 Dusky Moorhen 148 Dusky Myzomela 149 Dusky Woodswallow 150 Eastern Barn Owl 151 Eastern Bristlebird 152 Eastern Cattle Egret 153 Eastern Grass Owl 154 Eastern Ground Parrot 155 Eastern Osprey 156 Eastern Rosella 157 Eastern Spinebill 158 Eastern Whipbird 159 Eastern Yellow Robin 160 Eastern Yellow Wagtail 161 Eclectus Parrot 162 Emu 163 Eungella Honeyeater 164 Eurasian Coot 165 Eurasian Tree Sparrow 166 Eyebrowed Thrush 167 Eyrean Grasswren 168 Fairy Gerygone 169 Fairy Martin 170 Fairy Tern 171 Fan-tailed Cuckoo 172 Far Eastern Curlew 173 Fawn-breasted Bowerbird 174 Fernwren 175 Flame Robin 176 Flock Bronzewing 177 Forest Kingfisher 178 Forest Raven 179 Freckled Duck 180 Frill-necked Monarch 181 Fuscous Honeyeater 182 Galah 183 Gibberbird 184 Glossy Black Cockatoo 185 Glossy Ibis 186 Glossy Swiftlet 187 Golden Bowerbird 188 Golden-headed Cisticola 189 Golden-shouldered Parrot 190 Gouldian Finch 191 Graceful Honeyeater 192 Great Bowerbird 193 Great Cormorant 194 Great Crested Grebe 195 Great Egret 196 Great Frigatebird 197 Great Knot 198 Great-billed Heron 199 Greater Crested Tern 200 Greater Sand Plover 201 Greater Sooty Owl 202 Green Catbird 4/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 203 Green Oriole 204 Green Pygmy Goose 205 Green-backed Honeyeater 206 Grey Butcherbird 207 Grey Falcon 208 Grey Fantail 209 Grey Goshawk 210 Grey Grasswren 211 Grey Honeyeater 212 Grey Plover 213 Grey Shrikethrush 214 Grey Teal 215 Grey Wagtail 216 Grey Whistler 217 Grey-crowned Babbler 218 Grey-fronted Honeyeater 219 Grey-headed Honeyeater 220 Grey-headed Robin 221 Grey-tailed Tattler 222 Ground Cuckooshrike 223 Gull-billed Tern 224 Hall's Babbler 225 Hardhead 226 Helmeted Guineafowl 227 Hoary-headed Grebe 228 Hooded Dotterel 229 Hooded Robin 230 Hornbill Friarbird 231 Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo 232 Horsfield's Bush Lark 233 House Sparrow 234 House Swift 235 Inland Dotterel 236 Inland Thornbill 237 Intermediate Egret 238 Isabelline Wheatear 239 Jacky Winter 240 Kalkadoon Grasswren 241 Kelp Gull 242 King Quail 243 Large-billed Gerygone 244 Large-billed Scrubwren 245 Large-tailed Nightjar 246 Latham's Snipe 247 Laughing Kookaburra 248 Leaden Flycatcher 249 Lemon-bellied Flyrobin 250 Lesser Crested Tern 251 Lesser Frigatebird 252 Lesser Sand Plover 253 Lesser Sooty Owl 254 Letter-winged Kite 255 Lewin's Honeyeater 256 Lewin's Rail 257 Little Bittern 258 Little Black Cormorant 259 Little Bronze Cuckoo 260 Little Buttonquail 5/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 261 Little Corella 262 Little Crow 263 Little Curlew 264 Little Eagle 265 Little Egret 266 Little Friarbird 267 Little Grassbird 268 Little Kingfisher 269 Little Lorikeet 270 Little Pied Cormorant 271 Little Shrikethrush 272 Little Tern 273 Little Wattlebird 274 Little Woodswallow 275 Long-billed Corella 276 Long-billed Cuckoo 277 Long-tailed Finch 278 Long-toed Stint 279 Lovely Fairywren 280 Macleay's Honeyeater 281 Magnificent Riflebird 282 Magpie Goose 283 Magpie-lark 284 Major Mitchell's Cockatoo 285 Mallard 286 Maned Duck 287 Mangrove Fantail 288 Mangrove Gerygone 289 Mangrove Golden Whistler 290 Mangrove Honeyeater 291 Mangrove Robin 292 Marbled Frogmouth 293 Marsh Sandpiper 294 Masked Finch 295 Masked Lapwing 296 Masked Woodswallow 297 Metallic Starling 298 Mistletoebird 299 Mountain Thornbill 300 Mulga Parrot 301 Musk Duck 302 Musk Lorikeet 303 Nankeen Kestrel 304 Nankeen Night Heron 305 New Holland Honeyeater 306 Noisy Friarbird 307 Noisy Miner 308 Noisy Pitta 309 Northern Fantail 310 Northern Rosella 311 Northern Scrub Robin 312 Olive Whistler 313 Olive-backed Oriole 314 Olive-backed Sunbird 315 Orange Chat 316 Orange-footed Scrubfowl 317 Oriental Cuckoo 318 Oriental Dollarbird 6/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 319 Oriental Plover 320 Pacific Baza 321 Pacific Black Duck 322 Pacific Emerald Dove 323 Pacific Golden Plover 324 Pacific Gull 325 Pacific Koel 326 Pacific Reef Heron 327 Pacific Swift 328 Painted Buttonquail 329 Painted Finch 330 Painted Honeyeater 331 Pale-headed Rosella 332 Pale-vented Bush-hen 333 Pale-yellow Robin 334 Pallid Cuckoo 335 Palm Cockatoo 336 Paperbark Flycatcher 337 Papuan Frogmouth 338 Paradise Riflebird 339 Peaceful Dove 340 Pectoral Sandpiper 341 Peregrine Falcon 342 Pheasant Coucal 343 Pictorella Mannikin 344 Pied Butcherbird 345 Pied Currawong 346 Pied Heron 347 Pied Honeyeater 348 Pied Monarch 349 Pied Oystercatcher 350 Pink-eared Duck 351 Plains-wanderer 352 Plum-headed Finch 353 Plumed Whistling Duck 354 Powerful Owl 355 Purple Swamphen 356 Purple-crowned Fairywren 357 Rainbow Bee-eater 358 Rainbow Lorikeet 359 Raja Shelduck 360 Red Goshawk 361 Red Junglefowl 362 Red Knot 363 Red Wattlebird 364 Red-backed Buttonquail 365 Red-backed Fairywren 366 Red-backed Kingfisher 367 Red-bellied Pitta 368 Red-browed Finch 369 Red-browed Pardalote 370 Red-browed Treecreeper 371 Red-capped Flowerpecker 372 Red-capped Plover 373 Red-capped Robin 374 Red-cheeked Parrot 375 Red-chested Buttonquail 376 Red-collared Lorikeet 7/11 Column1 Column2 Column3 377 Red-kneed Dotterel 378 Red-necked Avocet 379 Red-necked Crake 380 Red-necked Stint 381 Red-rumped Parrot 382 Red-rumped Swallow 383 Red-tailed Black Cockatoo 384 Red-winged Parrot 385 Redthroat 386 Regent Bowerbird 387 Regent Honeyeater 388 Restless Flycatcher 389 Rock Dove 390 Rose Robin 391 Rose-crowned Fruit Dove 392 Royal Spoonbill 393 Ruddy Turnstone 394 Ruff 395 Rufous Fantail 396 Rufous Fieldwren 397 Rufous Owl 398 Rufous Scrubbird 399 Rufous Songlark 400 Rufous Whistler 401 Rufous-banded Honeyeater 402 Rufous-crowned Emu-wren 403 Rufous-sided Gerygone 404 Rufous-throated Honeyeater 405 Russet-tailed Thrush 406 Sacred Kingfisher 407 Sanderling 408 Sandstone Shrikethrush 409 Sarus Crane 410 Satin Bowerbird 411 Satin Flycatcher 412 Scaly-breasted Lorikeet 413
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