Australian Brush-turkey Nankeen Night-Heron Wood Sandpiper White-throated Gerygone Magpie-lark Red-rumped Swallow - R Orange-footed Scrubfowl Glossy Ibis Red-necked Stint Buff-rumped Thornbill Pied Monarch - E Bassian Thrush Stubble Quail Australian White Ibis Pectoral Sandpiper Mountain Thornbill - E Yellow-breasted Boatbill Metallic Starling Brown Quail Straw-necked Ibis Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Spotted Pardalote Victoria's Riflebird - E Common Myna - I Magpie Goose Royal Spoonbill Ruff - R Striated Pardalote Pale-yellow Robin Mistletoebird Plumed Whistling-Duck Yellow-billed Spoonbill Red-backed Button-quail Eastern Spinebill Eastern Yellow Robin Olive-backed Sunbird Wandering Whistling-Duck Black-shouldered Kite Painted Button-quail Lewin's Honeyeater Grey-headed Robin - E Red-browed Finch Freckled Duck Square-tailed Kite Australian Pratincole Bridled Honeyeater - E Horsfield's Bushlark Nutmeg Mannikin - I Black Swan Pacific Baza Caspian Tern Yellow-faced Honeyeater Golden-headed Cisticola Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Radjah Shelduck White-bellied Sea-Eagle Whiskered Tern Noisy Miner Australian Reed-Warbler Australasian Pipit Australian Wood Duck Whistling Kite Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Scarlet Honeyeater Tawny Grassbird Eastern Yellow Wagtail Pink-eared Duck Brahminy Kite Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Brown Honeyeater Silvereye Cotton Pygmy-goose Black Kite Rainbow Lorikeet White-cheeked Honeyeater Barn Swallow 231 species Green Pygmy-goose Brown Goshawk Scaly-breasted Lorikeet White-throated Honeyeater Welcome Swallow Australasian Shoveler Collared Sparrowhawk Little Lorikeet White-naped Honeyeater Fairy Martin E - Wet Tropics endemics Grey Teal Grey Goshawk Crimson Rosella Blue-faced Honeyeater Tree Martin I - Introduced birds Chestnut Teal Spotted Harrier Pale-headed Rosella Noisy Friarbird Pacific Black Duck Swamp Harrier Pheasant Coucal Macleay's Honeyeater - E Hardhead Wedge-tailed Eagle Eastern Koel Eastern Whipbird List by members & friends of BirdLife. It includes Australasian Grebe Little Eagle Channel-billed Cuckoo Varied Sittella residents, seasonal migrants, and regular and irregular Hoary-headed Grebe Nankeen Kestrel Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike visitors. Species marked “R” are rare sightings reviewed Great Crested Grebe Brown Falcon Shining Bronze-Cuckoo White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike by national or state level Rarities Committees. Names Rock Dove - I Australian Hobby Little Bronze-Cuckoo Barred Cuckoo-shrike White-headed Pigeon Black Falcon Pallid Cuckoo Cicadabird and taxonomic order follow Systematics and Taxonomy of Brown Cuckoo-Dove Peregrine Falcon Fan-tailed Cuckoo White-winged Triller Australian Birds by L Christidis and W E Boles (CSIRO, Emerald Dove Sarus Crane Brush Cuckoo Varied Triller Melbourne, 2008). Crested Pigeon Brolga Oriental Cuckoo Crested Shrike-tit Diamond Dove Purple Swamphen Rufous Owl Golden Whistler Peaceful Dove Red-necked Crake Barking Owl Grey Whistler Bar-shouldered Dove Buff-banded Rail Southern Boobook Rufous Whistler Facilities Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Baillon's Crake Eastern Barn Owl Little Shrike-thrush Topknot Pigeon Spotless Crake Azure Kingfisher Bower's Shrike-thrush - E The 2-storey bird hide has panoramic views across part Tawny Frogmouth White-browed Crake Little Kingfisher Grey Shrike-thrush of the Swamp and neighbouring hills, and is part of the Australian Swiftlet Pale-vented Bush-hen Laughing Kookaburra Australasian Figbird White-throated Needletail Dusky Moorhen Blue-winged Kookaburra Olive-backed Oriole Queensland Heritage Trails Network. Birds Australia Fork-tailed Swift Eurasian Coot Forest Kingfisher White-breasted Woodswallow was instrumental in creation of the hide which includes Australasian Darter Australian Bustard Sacred Kingfisher Dusky Woodswallow displays featuring the Swamp’s birdlife and history. The Little Pied Cormorant Bush Stone-curlew Rainbow Bee-eater Pied Butcherbird Great Cormorant Black-winged Stilt Dollarbird Australian Magpie lower storey has wheelchair access. There are toilets, Little Black Cormorant Pacific Golden Plover White-throated Treecreeper Pied Currawong some parking and a grassed area but no outdoor tables. Pied Cormorant Black-fronted Dotterel Spotted Catbird Spangled Drongo Australian Pelican Red-kneed Dotterel Golden Bowerbird - E Rufous Fantail Black-necked Stork Masked Lapwing Satin Bowerbird Grey Fantail New or unusual sightings ? Black Bittern Comb-crested Jacana Red-backed Fairy-wren Northern Fantail White-necked Heron Australian Painted Snipe Yellow-throated Scrubwren Willie Wagtail Eastern Great Egret Latham's Snipe White-browed Scrubwren Torresian Crow Register with Eremaea Birds Intermediate Egret Swinhoe's Snipe - R Atherton Scrubwren - E Leaden Flycatcher Cattle Egret Black-tailed Godwit Large-billed Scrubwren Satin Flycatcher Pied Heron Common Sandpiper Brown Gerygone Restless Flycatcher White-faced Heron Common Greenshank Large-billed Gerygone Black-faced Monarch www.eremaea.com Little Egret Marsh Sandpiper Fairy Gerygone Spectacled Monarch WHO ARE WE? INFORMATION BirdLife Northern Queensland Hasties Swamp is an important remnant of the once is a branch of the national organisation BirdLife extensive Nyleta Wetlands, now mainly cleared.
Australia, formed in 2012 by the merger of Birds Aquatic habitats include open water, reeds, muddy edges Australia and BOCA. and sedgeland: their proportions change as the swamp follows its annual cycle of wet and dry. The surrounding BirdLife Northern Queensland organizes both scientific woodland contains patches of wet eucalypt and rainforest, and social activities. These include bird surveys, outings, linking Hasties Swamp with larger forests nearby. The workshops and presentations with guest speakers. The varied habitat attracts a wide range of resident and migrant regular field trips and campouts cater for all levels of birds. Birding highlights can include large numbers of expertise from beginner to professional and emphasise waterfowl, roosting Sarus Cranes (winter - Dry season) and Bird Checklist No 10 fun as well as worthwhile conservation projects. occasional rarities. Around 57 ha of the Swamp is protected as National Park. Members receive a quarterly newsletter Contact Call detailing local activities and also enjoy BirdLife Location Australia magazine dealing with national bird issues. 17o17’17.5”S 145o28’29.8”E (AUS 84)
You can join BirdLife Australia and help the 3km S of Atherton conservation of Australian birds at
www.birdlife.org.au From Atherton
Hide drive south along Herberton Road. BirdLife N Northern Queensland
Distributed by: Cross the railway
line at Platypus
Rd Park and Railco 1.3km Koci Koci Station, pass the Chinese Temple, continue 1.8 km
Hastie Rd then turn left into Hastie Rd.
1.8km Recross the rail HerbertonRd line, turn right Railco Station into Koci Road (gravel), continue Email [email protected] Updated May 2013 1.3 km to the Bird Web www.birdsaustralianq.org Atherton Hide. www.birdlife.org.au © BirdLife Northern Queensland Facebook Birdlife Northern Queensland Facilities note on inside pages