CLARENCE VALLEY BIRD LIST Please report any additional sightings. Emu Kite, Whistling Plover, Double-banded Bronze-Cuckoo, Little Miner, Noisy Woodswallow, Quail, Brown Kite, Square-tailed Sand-plover, Lesser Bronze-Cuckoo, Shining Honeyeater, Lewin’s White-breasted Whistling-duck, Sparrowhawk, Collared Sand-plover, Greater Koel, Common Honeyeater, Yellow- Woodswallow, Wandering Osprey Dotterel, Red-kneed Cuckoo, Channel-billed faced White-browed Whistling-duck, Goshawk, Brown Dotterel, Black- Coucal, Pheasant Honeyeater, Mangrove Woodswallow, Masked Plumed Goshawk, Grey fronted Owl, Powerful Honeyeater, Fuscous Woodswallow, Dusky Wood Duck, Australian Sea-Eagle, White-bellied Lapwing, Masked Boobook, Southern Honeyeater, Black- Butcherbird, Grey Duck, Freckled Eagle, Little Gull, Silver Owl, Barn chinned Butcherbird, Pied Duck, Musk Eagle, Wedge-tailed Tern, Whiskered Frogmouth, Tawny Honeyeater, White- Magpie-lark Swan, Black Harrier, Spotted Tern, Caspian Needletail, White- throated Magpie, Australian Goose, Magpie Harrier, Swamp Tern, Gull-billed throated Honeyeater, White- Currawong, Pied Hardhead Falcon, Black Tern, Crested Kingfisher, Azure naped Drongo, Spangled Duck, Pacific Black Falcon, Brown Tern, Common Kookaburra, Laughing Honeyeater, White- Crow, Torresian Shoveler, Australasian Kestrel, Nankeen Tern, Little Kingfisher, Forest cheeked Chough, White-winged Duck, Pink-eared Falcon, Peregrine Tern, Sooty Kingfisher, Sacred Honeyeater, Tawny- Catbird, Green Teal, Grey Hobby, Australian Noddy, Common Bee-eater, Rainbow crowned Bowerbird, Regent Teal, Chestnut Brolga Noddy, Black Dollarbird Spinebill, Eastern Bowerbird, Satin Grebe, Australasian Rail, Buff-banded Turtle-Dove, Spotted Treecreeper, White- Honeyeater, Scarlet Pipit, Richard’s Shearwater, Wedge- Crake, Baillon’s Dove, Rock throated Honeyeater, Brown Finch, Double-barred tailed Moorhen, Dusky Dove, Peaceful Treecreeper, Brown Robin, Scarlet Finch, Red-browed Shearwater, Short-tailed Swamphen, Purple Dove, Bar-shouldered Fairy-wren, Superb Robin, Rose Firetail, Diamond Gannet, Australasian Coot, Eurasian Pigeon, Topknot Fairy-wren, Variegated Robin, Eastern Yellow Mannikin, Chestnut- Darter Stone-curlew, Bush Dove, Emerald Fairy-wren, Red-backed Babbler, Grey-crowned breasted Cormorant, Great Stone-curlew, Beach Bronzewing, Common Emu-wren, Southern Whipbird, Eastern Mannikin, Nutmeg Cormorant, Little Black Button-quail, Painted Pigeon, Wonga Pardalote, Spotted Quail-thrush, Spotted Sparrow, House Cormorant, Pied Snipe, Latham’s Pigeon, Crested Pardalote, Striated Sitella, Varied Mistletoebird Cormorant, Little Pied Godwit, Bar-tailed Pigeon, White-headed Scrubwren, Yellow- Shrike-tit, Crested Swallow, Welcome bird watcher’s paradise Stork, Black-necked Godwit, Black-tailed Fruit-Dove, throated Whistler, Golden Martin, Tree Pelican, Australian Curlew, Eastern Rose-crowned Scrubwren, Large-billed Whistler, Rufous Martin, Fairy Heron, White-necked Whimbrel Fruit-Dove, Wompoo Scrubwren, White- Shrike-thrush, Grey Reed-Warbler, Heron, White-faced Greenshank, Common Black-Cockatoo, Glossy browed Shrike-thrush, Little Clamorous Egret, Eastern Reef Sandpiper, Marsh Black-Cockatoo, Warbler, Speckled Monarch, Black-faced Grassbird, Tawny Egret, Cattle Sandpiper, Common Yellow-tailed Gerygone, Brown Monarch, Spectacled Grassbird, Little Egret, Little Tattler, Grey-tailed Galah Gerygone, Mangrove Flycatcher, Leaden Cisticola, Golden- Egret, Great Sandpiper, Terek Cockatoo, Sulphur- Gerygone, White- Flycatcher, Satin headed Egret, Intermediate Turnstone, Ruddy crested throated Flycatcher, Restless Silvereye Night Heron, Nankeen Knot, Red Lorikeet, Rainbow Thornbill, Brown Wagtail, Willie Starling, Common Heron, Striated Knot, Great Lorikeet, Scaly-breasted Thornbill, Yellow-rumped Fantail, Rufous Myna, Common Bittern, Black Stint, Red-necked Lorikeet, Little Thornbill, Striated Fantail, Grey Ibis, Glossy Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Lorikeet, Musk Thornbill, Yellow Cuckoo-shrike, Black- Uncommon Ibis, Straw-necked Sandpiper, Curlew King-Parrot, Australian Weebill faced after Pizzey & Knight: Ibis, Australian Jacana, Comb-crested Rosella, Eastern Wattlebird, Little Cuckoo-shrike, Field Guide to the Birds of White Oystercatcher, Pied Parrot, Ground Wattlebird, Red White-bellied Australia (1997) Spoonbill, Royal Oystercatcher, Sooty Cuckoo, Pallid Friarbird, Little Cicadabird Spoonbill, Yellow-billed Stilt, Black-winged Cuckoo, Fan-tailed Friarbird, Noisy Triller, White-winged Kite, Black-shouldered Avocet, Red-necked Cuckoo, Brush Honeyeater, Striped Triller, Varied Baza, Pacific Plover, Pacific Golden Bronze-Cuckoo, Honeyeater, Blue-faced Oriole, Olive-backed Kite, Brahminy Plover, Red-capped Horsefield’s Miner, Bell Figbird Brochure produced in collaboration with PO Box 555 Grafton 2460 p> 02 6642 4677 f> 02 6643 1927 routes www.clarencetourism.com r i v e r t o u r i s m Bird Updated December 2005 © Clarence Valley Birdos of the Clarence Valley Bald Knob Road: South another 2.8 km on highway, turn left Continue past ferry to Munro’s Lane 2.3 km on left - nest used NOTE: Routes 1and 2 start from the Clarence River Visitor into Wells Crossing Flora Reserve. Road passes through woodland by both Osprey and Black-necked Stork in dead tree (0.7 km). Information Centre, Pacific Highway, South Grafton, and are and some palm forest - suitable for 2WD at least to Browns Knob Continue to Roberts Creek Road (1.6 km), turn right (wetlands suitable for 2WD unless otherwise indicated. Fire Tower turnoff. 4WD may continue to Station Creek (Little Tern beside road). Turn left at South Arm Road (3.4 km); after 0.5 km breed here November-January - please observe warning signs) turn left again along Elbow Creek Road until it rejoins Roberts Routes 3 to 10 start from the Lower Clarence River Visitor via Bald Knob Road, Newfoundland Road and Barcoongere Road Creek Road (3.3 km). Continue until Wants Lane (2.1 km (right) Information Centre (“Ferry Park”), Pacific Highway, Maclean, (Turquoise Parrot known to visit). National Park fees apply at and Russell Road (1.9 km left) - bush birds including Grey-crowned and are suitable for 2WD unless otherwise indicated. Station Creek (Yuraygir National Park). Babblers. Proceed until Golf Links Road (1.0 km) thence right into Lawrence Road (3.8 km) and back to Maclean. The Washpen: Drive north along highway, turn right after 5.3 km into Swan Lane. After 0.4 km turn right at cattle yards and drive Route 1 NORTH GRAFTON & environs down lane. Seasonal swamp (private land but good viewing from Route 5 ASHBY road) - Black Swan, Black-necked Stork, Black-winged Stilt, various From Information Centre proceed to roundabout, right to Grafton egret and duck, raptors. Continue to end of Swan Lane, then a From Ferry Park travel north on Pacific Highway across Clarence Bridge and Fitzroy Street, right into Prince Street (main street), left further 1.3 km to Four Mile Lane (bitumen) - small permanent at clocktower into Pound Street, right at See Park into Turf Street, River to Watts Lane (7.7 km). Turn left, proceed 2.1 km to Royal swamp on left - Royal Spoonbill, Black Swan, Comb-crested Spoonbill rookery (best September-November). Turn left over left into Oliver Street, right into Howe Street, left into Fry Street, Jacana. thence to railway crossing - total 5.7 km. Park. Cross railway bridge after 1.6 km; a further 4.2 km on is an Osprey nest on a line to Carrs Creek Bridge - Tawny Grassbird, Little Grassbird, Return to Grafton via Four Mile Lane, right into Washpool Road, left power pole on left. Just beyond is large Moreton Bay fig on left Clamorous Reed-Warbler, Nutmeg Mannikin, Fairy Martin, Darter, at Pacific Highway. - many birds there. Turn left after 0.5 km at T-intersection towards Comb-crested Jacana and many others. Across the bridge towards Ashby - turn right at saw mill on corner (1.0 km) and proceed Cowans Pond Wetland Reserve: West on Gwydir Highway 5.5 through village - a total of 3.5 km from T-intersection to old ferry the horse paddock are Richard’s Pipit and Golden-headed Cisticola. km. Water birds, Tree Martin, White-breasted Woodswallow and Return to vehicle - reset trip meter. approach. Clamorous Reed-warbler, Superb Blue-Wren, finches and various parrots; Magpie Goose and Comb-crested Jacana on raptors along this stretch, and sometimes koalas in red gums near Turn left into Orara Street, left into North Street, right into Marlowe occasions. Picnic tables, information board and bird hide. Ashby Dock (on left). Continue from ferry approach to gate (2 km) Street and Back Lane, left into Carrs Peninsula Road. Cross - a good walk for small bush birds in cane and mangroves. railway line - birds on left in Carrs Creek. Continue and veer left - at 6.2 km from Orara Street view birds on the river and bank - Black Route 3 LAWRENCE & environs Opposite the saw mill is Ashby reserve - picnic facilities, toilets, Swan, Hardhead, other water birds. Continue a further 2.1 km to playground - and a good spot for birds, as is the next kilometre junction with Summerland Way, turn right for 4.7 km, then left into Proceed to Lawrence Ferry from Ferry Park (12.1 km - see Route of the road to the left to Ashby Island. Retrace route to Harwood Butter Factory Lane - look for Plumed Whistling-Duck. 4) or from Grafton (see map). Egret Rookery 0.7 km after ferry Bridge, then follow signs to either Maclean or Yamba along the [egrets, waterbirds], Post Office (0.6 km) [Pied Oystercatcher, river. Continue to T-junction with Grafton-Lawrence Road (6.0 km). Turn cormorants],