The Omeo Region Set high in the Great Dividing Range, the Omeo Region is one of Birds Victoria’s best kept secrets and a great base for a birdwatching holiday. that may be seen in the
Omeo is a pioneering farming town known for its gold rush history and High Country cattlemen and is steeped in history with many impressive 19th century buildings including the Omeo Omeo Region
Post Office 1881 and Courthouse 1893, The Omeo Historic Museum and Justice Precinct where the courthouse still in operation.
Adjacent to Omeo is the Heritage listed Oriental Claims, the On the web at highest alluvial gold fields in Australia and one of Australia’s www.birdlife.org.au/locations/ largest alluvial gold sluicing operations, a mining method banned birdlife-east-gippsland in 1904. Looming cliff faces and underground mazes set alongside the beautiful Livingstone Creek provide an ideal setting for bird watching and the discovery of wild flowers. Walking tracks and interpretive signage guides you through the history of the area and the stories of the Chinese and European miners and Postal Address their families. Box 825 Bairnsdale, Victoria, 3875
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Flame Robin. Jack Winterbottom
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Other Brochures available: gippsland/publica ons-eg
Birding Guides are available for Bairnsdale, Bruthen & Nowa Nowa, Buchan, Lake Tyers, Lakes Entrance, Lindenow & Mitchell
River Na onal Park, Mallacoota, Marlo, Metung, Nicholson, Omeo and Paynesville.
Bird Check Lists are available for Buchan Caves, Cann River, Den of Nargun, Fairy Dell, Gippsland Lakes, Lake Tyers & Fishermans Updated Jan 2019 Landing, Macleod Morass, Nyerimilang, Omeo, Oneonta, and Raymond Island. Marlo and Mallacoota have 2 brochures each, (1. Waterbirds and 2. Bush birds).
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Emu Crimson Rosella Olive-backed Oriole Pacific Black Duck Eastern Rosella Pied Currawong Grey Teal Superb Lyrebird Grey Currawong Australian Wood Duck Satin Bowerbird Australian Magpie Australasian Grebe White-throated Treecreeper Grey Butcherbird Wonga Pigeon Superb Fairy-wren Dusky Woodswallow Common Bronzewing Noisy Friarbird Willie Wagtail Crested Pigeon Crescent Honeyeater Rufous Fantail Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo New Holland Honeyeater Grey Fantail Shining Bronze-Cuckoo White-eared Honeyeater Little Raven Fan-tailed Cuckoo Brown-headed Honeyeater Australian Raven Brush Cuckoo White-naped Honeyeater Leaden Flycatcher Pallid Cuckoo Eastern Spinebill Satin Flycatcher White-throated Needletail Lewin's Honeyeater Restless Flycatcher Eurasian Coot Little Wattlebird Magpie-lark Masked Lapwing Red Wattlebird White-winged Chough White-faced Heron White-plumed Honeyeater Flame Robin Straw-necked Ibis Yellow-faced Honeyeater Scarlet Robin Little Pied Cormorant Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Jacky Winter Great Cormorant Bell Miner Eastern Yellow Robin Little Black Cormorant Spotted Pardalote Mistletoebird Wedge-tailed Eagle Striated Pardalote Diamond Firetail Brown Goshawk White-browed Scrubwren Red-browed Finch Whistling Kite Yellow-rumped Thornbill House Sparrow Nankeen Kestrel Yellow Thornbill Australasian Pipit Peregrine Falcon Striated Thornbill European Goldfinch Rainbow Bee-eater Brown Thornbill Rufous Songlark Sacred Kingfisher Buff-rumped Thornbill Australian Reed-Warbler Laughing Kookaburra Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Tree Martin Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Spotted Quail-thrush Welcome Swallow Gang-gang Cockatoo Rufous Whistler Silvereye Galah Golden Whistler Common Starling Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Grey Shrike-thrush Bassian Thrush Australian King-Parrot Eastern Whipbird Common Blackbird