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1241 April 2019 April 1241 Wildcare Phone (07) 5527 2444 5527 (07) Phone Wildcare roost in the trees on upper Brisbane St every night. night. every St Brisbane upper on trees the in roost Get help for injured native birdlife native injured for help Get Ipswich CBD and fringing suburbs. Hundreds of Scaly-breasted Lorikeets Lorikeets Scaly-breasted of Hundreds suburbs. fringing and CBD Ipswich nightjars, Bush Stone-Curlew, Eastern Spinebill*, may be seen/heard in the the in seen/heard be may Spinebill*, Eastern Stone-Curlew, Bush nightjars, Mistletoebird, Superb Fairywren, Double-barred Finch, Australian Owlet- Australian Finch, Double-barred Fairywren, Superb Mistletoebird, Look out for birds while in the Ipswich CBD: Southern Boobook, Boobook, Southern CBD: Ipswich the in while birds for out Look Queensland and Ipswich City Council City Ipswich and Queensland Don’t forget to always carry water, wear sunscreen and protective clothing. protective and sunscreen wear water, carry always to forget Don’t the quiet side roads of Ironbark. Ironbark. of roads side quiet the A collaborative project by BirdLife Southern Queensland, Birds Birds Queensland, Southern BirdLife by project collaborative A south and south-west rural and semi-rural areas; Grey-crowned Babblers in in Babblers Grey-crowned areas; semi-rural and rural south-west and south please visit either: birdata.birdlife.org.au/ or www.ebird.org or birdata.birdlife.org.au/ either: visit please parts of Karalee; Black-necked Stork at local dams and wetlands in the the in wetlands and dams local at Stork Black-necked Karalee; of parts tion and management of Australia’s native birds. Depending on your methods, methods, your on Depending birds. native Australia’s of management and tion A few iconic Ipswich species: Apostlebirds in Chuwar (Horton Drive) and and Drive) (Horton Chuwar in Apostlebirds species: Ipswich iconic few A - conserva in aid to database sighting bird online an to lists your upload Please Queens Park Environmental Centre. Environmental Park Queens Editor: Dr Rochelle Steven Rochelle Dr Editor: Ipswich booklet, available from Ipswich City Council libraries and the the and libraries Council City Ipswich from available booklet, Ipswich White-eared Monarch - Ian and Jill Brown, Apostlebird - Julie Sarna Julie - Apostlebird Brown, Jill and Ian - Monarch White-eared been identified in Ipswich. A full list can be obtained via the Birds of of Birds the via obtained be can list full A Ipswich. in identified been Bugeja, Vince - Stork Black-necked Thomas, Ben - Plum Almost 300 bird species (approx. 47% of Queensland’s avifauna), have have avifauna), Queensland’s of 47% (approx. species bird 300 Almost Photographs: Backgroud image of Mt Blaine and Catherine from near Flinders Flinders near from Catherine and Blaine Mt of image Backgroud Photographs: BIRDING IN IPSWICH IN BIRDING Bird Places of Ipswich Project Team Project Ipswich of Places Bird Birds Queensland www.birdsqueensland.org.au Queensland Birds www.birdlife.org.au/locations/birdlife-southern-queensland www.birdlife.org.au/locations/birdlife-southern-queensland Queensland Southern BirdLife Finch. Contributing organisations: Contributing backed Oriole, Rose Robin*, Fairy Martin, Red-browed Finch, Double-barred Double-barred Finch, Red-browed Martin, Fairy Robin*, Rose Oriole, backed Fairywren, Eastern Spinebill*, Blue-faced Honeyeater, Golden Whistler*, Olive- Whistler*, Golden Honeyeater, Blue-faced Spinebill*, Eastern Fairywren, Comb-crested Jacana, Sacred Kingfisher*, Azure Kingfisher, Variegated Variegated Kingfisher, Azure Kingfisher*, Sacred Jacana, Comb-crested active. Use binoculars and have a good field guide available. guide field good a have and binoculars Use active. Royal Spoonbill, Little Pied Cormorant, Black-shouldered Kite, Eurasian Coot, Coot, Eurasian Kite, Black-shouldered Cormorant, Pied Little Spoonbill, Royal are birds most when sunrise, after hour an about birdwatching Go Cotton Pygmy-Goose, Hardhead, Australasian Grebe, Grebe, Australasian Hardhead, Pygmy-Goose, Cotton Blvd. Lakes Springfield Creek and a constructed lake. Opossum Creek section accessed via crossing crossing via accessed section Creek Opossum lake. constructed a and Creek on verges adjacent to busy roads. busy to adjacent verges on Urban park with remnant eucalyptus forest and wetland areas, on Opossum Opossum on areas, wetland and forest eucalyptus remnant with park Urban ability of off roadside verge parking. Care should be taken when parking parking when taken be should Care parking. verge roadside off of ability - 27.6757, 152.9159 27.6757, - - avail the or area parking car designated a include may parking Off-road 180 Springfield Lakes Boulevard, Springfield Lakes UBD 257 C 3 C 257 UBD Lakes Springfield Boulevard, Lakes Springfield 180 however this is rare. rare. is this however Discovery Lake & Opossum Creek Creek Opossum & Lake Discovery 36. areas are what is meant by accessible. Some have paved or concreted paths, paths, concreted or paved have Some accessible. by meant is what are areas Eastern Yellow Robin, Rose Robin*, Red-browed Finch. Red-browed Robin*, Rose Robin, Yellow Eastern sections are accessible. In general, meeting points and picnic picnic and points meeting general, In accessible. are sections Olive-backed Oriole, Spangled Drongo*, Rufous Fantail*, Leaden Flycatcher*, Flycatcher*, Leaden Fantail*, Rufous Drongo*, Spangled Oriole, Olive-backed Sites with access for mobility impaired vary in terms of which which of terms in vary impaired mobility for access with Sites browed Scrubwren, Eastern Whipbird, Common Cicadabird*, Golden Whistler*, Whistler*, Golden Cicadabird*, Common Whipbird, Eastern Scrubwren, browed throated Honeyeater, Yellow-faced Honeyeater*, Spotted Pardalote*, White- Pardalote*, Spotted Honeyeater*, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, throated seasonal basis. seasonal White-throated Treecreeper, Variegated Fairywren, Scarlet Honeyeater*, White- Honeyeater*, Scarlet Fairywren, Variegated Treecreeper, White-throated Migratory or nomadic species are marked with an * and can be seen on a a on seen be can and * an with marked are species nomadic or Migratory Cuckoo-Dove, Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Sacred Kingfisher*, Australian King Parrot, Parrot, King Australian Kingfisher*, Sacred Cuckoo, Fan-tailed Cuckoo-Dove, local birders. They follow the taxonomic ordering system as per IOC v 8.1. 8.1. v IOC per as system ordering taxonomic the follow They birders. local Dusky Moorhen, Brown Brown Moorhen, Dusky bush. through path concrete and track circular the via Species lists were compiled using data from eBird.org and cross-checked by by cross-checked and eBird.org from data using compiled were lists Species Ipswich Ipswich Mixed eucalypt forest with views of wetland at nearby golf course. Explore Explore course. golf nearby at wetland of views with forest eucalypt Mixed rectory known as the Downs-Lockyer Roads and Street Map is provided (D*L). (D*L). provided is Map Street and Roads Downs-Lockyer the as known rectory 58 Scoparia Drive, Brookwater UBD 236 N 14-15 -27.6578, 152.9007 -27.6578, 14-15 N 236 UBD Brookwater Drive, Scoparia 58 - di mapping local the to reference a applicable, not are references UBD Where of of Places Places Notes Site Opossum Creek Parklands Creek Opossum 35. Finch. backed Oriole, Rose Robin*, Australasian Reed-warbler, Silvereye, Red-browed Red-browed Silvereye, Reed-warbler, Australasian Robin*, Rose Oriole, backed Wagtail • Magpie-lark • Torresian Crow • Welcome Swallow. Welcome • Crow Torresian • Magpie-lark • Wagtail White-browed Scrubwren, White-throated Gerygone, Golden Whistler*, Olive- Whistler*, Golden Gerygone, White-throated Scrubwren, White-browed Pied Butcherbird • Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike • Australasian Figbird • Willie Willie • Figbird Australasian • Cuckoo-shrike Black-faced • Butcherbird Pied Bird Bird Honeyeater, White-throated Honeyeater, Blue-faced Fairywren, Variegated Noisy Miner • Striated Pardalote • Australian Magpie • Grey Butcherbird • • Butcherbird Grey • Magpie Australian • Pardalote Striated • Miner Noisy Dove, Azure Kingfisher, Little Corella, Australian King Parrot, Little Lorikeet, Lorikeet, Little Parrot, King Australian Corella, Little Kingfisher, Azure Dove, Lorikeet • Scaly-breasted Lorikeet • Brown Honeyeater • Noisy Friarbird • • Friarbird Noisy • Honeyeater Brown • Lorikeet Scaly-breasted • Lorikeet Cormorant, Pacific Baza, Brown Goshawk, Australasian Swamphen, Peaceful Peaceful Swamphen, Australasian Goshawk, Brown Baza, Pacific Cormorant, Fairywren • Superb Fairywren • Galah • Sulphur-crested Cockatoo • Rainbow Rainbow • Cockatoo Sulphur-crested • Galah • Fairywren Superb • Fairywren Great Egret, Little Pied Pied Little Egret, Great lagoons. several view to north-east then gully, across Crested Pigeon • Laughing Kookaburra • Rainbow Bee-eater • Red-backed Red-backed • Bee-eater Rainbow • Kookaburra Laughing • Pigeon Crested vegetation along Woogaroo Creek. Follow concrete bikeway/footpath bikeway/footpath concrete Follow Creek. Woogaroo along vegetation Australian Wood Duck • Masked Lapwing • Rock Dove • Spotted Dove • • Dove Spotted • Dove Rock • Lapwing Masked • Duck Wood Australian parks, to view birds in the very wide strip of remnant forest and riparian riparian and forest remnant of strip wide very the in birds view to parks, and are not included in the individual site descriptions. descriptions. site individual the in included not are and Walk on mown grass at edge of bush in Jane Gorry and Goodna Pony Club Club Pony Goodna and
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