Common Birds in Tilligerry Habitat Dedicated bird enthusiasts have kindly contributed to this sequence of 106 bird species spotted in the habitat over the last few years

Kookaburra Red-browed Finch Black-faced Cuckoo- shrike

Magpie-lark Tawny Frogmouth Noisy Miner Spotted Dove [1] Crested Pigeon Australian Raven

Olive-backed Oriole Whistling Kite Grey Butcherbird Pied Butcherbird Australian Magpie Noisy Friarbird

Galah Long-billed Corella Eastern Rosella Yellow-tailed black Rainbow Lorikeet Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Cockatoo Tawny Frogmouth c Noeline Karlson [1] ( ) Common Birds in Tilligerry Habitat

Variegated Fairy- Yellow Faced Superb Fairy-wren White Cheeked Scarlet Honeyeater Blue-faced Honeyeater wren Honeyeater Honeyeater

White-throated Brown Gerygone Brown Thornbill Yellow Thornbill Eastern Yellow Robin Silvereye Gerygone

White-browed Eastern Spinebill [2] Spotted Pardalote Grey Fantail Little Wattlebird Red Wattlebird Scrubwren

Willie Wagtail Eastern Whipbird Welcome Swallow Leaden Flycatcher Golden Whistler Rufous Whistler

Eastern Spinebill c Noeline Karlson [2] ( ) Common Sea and shore birds

Silver Gull White-necked Heron Little Black Australian White Ibis Masked Lapwing Crested Tern Cormorant

Little Pied Cormorant White-bellied Sea-Eagle [3] Pelican White-faced Heron Uncommon Sea and shore birds

Caspian Tern Pied Cormorant White-necked Heron Great Egret Little Egret

Great Cormorant Striated Heron Intermediate Egret

[3] White-bellied Sea-Eagle (c) Noeline Karlson Uncommon Birds in Tilligerry Habitat

Grey Goshawk Australian Hobby Black-shouldered Kite Collared Sparrowhawk Pied Currawong

Mistletoebird White-breasted Satin Bowerbird Bar-shouldered Dove Fan-tailed Cuckoo Woodswallow

White-throated Brown Honeyeater Lewin’s Honeyeater White-naped Brown-headed Treecreeper Honeyeater Honeyeater

Brown Gerygone Musk Lorikeet Southern Boobook Varied Sittella Black Faced Monarch Summer Rare Birds in Visitors the Habitat

Sacred Kingfisher Eastern Curlew

White-headed Pigeon Top-knot Pigeon

Bar-tailed Godwit Black Swan Eastern Koel A special mention here … In 2007 a Godwit was tracked Yellow-tufted Honeyeater with longest non- Fuscous Honeyeater stop flight of over 11,000km in 9 days from NZ to China! Channel-billed Dollarbird Cuckoo Rufous Fantail Winter Visitors Australian King-Parrot

Nankeen Night Heron Rose Robin Spangled Drongo Brown Goshawk Threatened Species

Regent Honeyeater Osprey Beach Stone-curlew

Critically endangered. Hunter Valley Listed as vulnerable One of the world's largest Important Bird Area is vital for the on the NSW coast shorebirds, classified as Near survival of this flagship species Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Sooty Oystercatcher Australian Pied Oystercatcher Swift Parrot

Prefers rocky coastlines, but will Listed as endangered in NSW. May face extinction by 2031 due to occasionally live in estuaries. Listed Recognized by the 5–8 cm long predation and loss of habitat. as endangered in New South Wales orange-red beak, slender pink legs Hunter Valley Important Bird Area and black and white plumage is vital for the survival of this species