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Wiradjuri Capertee Valley Valley Capertee Swift Parrot hotline: phone 1800 665 766 766 665 1800 phone hotline: Parrot Swift Capertee Valley is within the traditional country of the the of country traditional the within is Valley Capertee Regent Honeyeater hotline: phone 1800 621 056 621 1800 phone hotline: Honeyeater Regent Welcome to the Capertee Valley Valley Capertee the to Welcome Reporting bird sightings bird Reporting Birds you may see Great Cormorant U Crested Pigeon C Sacred Kingfisher U Weebill C Ravens & Crows in the Capertee Valley Australasian Darter R Wonga Pigeon U Red-backed Kingfisher R Brown Gerygone R Little Raven U Azure Kingfisher U Australian Raven C Approximately 242 bird species Kites, Hawks & Eagles Diamond Dove R Western Gerygone U Rainbow Bee-eater C have been recorded in the Square-tailed Kite R Peaceful Dove C White-throated Gerygone C Australian Mudnesters Capertee Valley. Many of the Black-shouldered Kite C Bar-shouldered Dove U Lyrebirds Brown Thornbill U White-winged Chough C birds on this list are nomadic Black Kite R Cockatoos Superb Lyrebird U Buff-rumped Thornbill U Australian Robins or migratory; they may be in Whistling Kite R Glossy Black-Cockatoo U Bowerbirds Yellow-rumped Thornbill C Eastern Yellow Robin C the valley for only a few months White-bellied Sea-Eagle R Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo U Satin Bowerbird U Yellow Thornbill C Hooded Robin U each year. Striated Thornbill U Swamp Harrier R Gang-gang Cockatoo U Treecreepers Jacky Winter C Southern Whiteface U KEY: C = common in the Spotted Harrier U Galah C White-throated Treecreeper U Rose Robin U valley; U = uncommon; Grey Goshawk R Long-billed Corella R I Red-browed Treecreeper R Babblers, Whipbirds, etc. Flame Robin U R = rare in the valley; Brown Goshawk U Little Corella C Brown Treecreeper C Grey-crowned Babbler U Scarlet Robin U I = introduced Collared Sparrowhawk U Sulphur-crested Cockatoo C White-browed Babbler C Red-capped Robin U Fairy-wrens Wedge-tailed Eagle C Eastern Whipbird U Quails Parrots & Lorikeets Variegated Fairy-wren U Larks, Cisticolas, Little Eagle U Spotted Quail-thrush U Reed-Warblers, etc. Stubble Quail U Rainbow Lorikeet R Superb Fairy-wren C Brown Quail C Falcons Musk Lorikeet U Butcherbirds & allies Horsfield’s Bushlark U Honeyeaters Nankeen Kestrel C Little Lorikeet C Grey Butcherbird U Golden-headed Cisticola U Ducks, Geese & Swans Yellow-faced Honeyeater C Australian Hobby U Crimson Rosella U Pied Butcherbird U Australian Reed-Warbler U Black Swan R Singing Honeyeater R Brown Falcon C Eastern Rosella C Australian Magpie C Tawny Grassbird R Australian Shelduck R White-eared Honeyeater U Black Falcon R Red-rumped Parrot C Pied Currawong U Little Grassbird R Pink-eared Duck R Yellow-tufted Honeyeater C Peregrine Falcon U Turquoise Parrot U Grey Currawong R Rufous Songlark C Australian Wood Duck C Fuscous Honeyeater C Swift Parrot R Brown Songlark U Pacific Black Duck C Rails, Crakes & Water-hens White-plumed Honeyeater C Woodswallows Budgerigar R White-eyes Australasian Shoveler R Buff-banded Rail U Lewin’s Honeyeater R White-breasted Woodswallow R Australian King-Parrot U Silvereye C Grey Teal U Baillon’s Crake R Bell Miner U Masked Woodswallow U Red-winged Parrot R Chestnut Teal R Spotless Crake R Noisy Miner C White-browed Woodswallow C Swallows & Martins Hardhead U Purple Swamphen U Cuckoos Blue-faced Honeyeater R Dusky Woodswallow C White-backed Swallow U Blue-billed Duck R Dusky Moorhen C Eastern Koel U Black-chinned Honeyeater U Cuckoo-shrikes & Trillers
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