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Birds of Noosa Shire BIRDS OF NOOSA SHIRE Emu * Eastern Koel Magpie Goose Channel-billed Cuckoo Plumed Whistling-Duck Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Wandering Whistling-Duck Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Blue-billed Duck * Little Bronze-Cuckoo Pink-eared Duck * Fan-tailed Cuckoo Black Swan Brush Cuckoo Hardhead Pallid Cuckoo Australasian Shoveler Oriental Cuckoo * Pacific Black Duck Australian Bustard * Grey Teal Marbled Frogmouth * Chestnut Teal Tawny Frogmouth Freckled Duck White-throated Nightjar Australian Wood Duck Large-tailed Nightjar * Cotton Pygmy-goose Australian Owlet-nightjar Australian Brush Turkey White-throated Needletail Brown Quail Fork-tailed Swift King Quail Lewin’s Rail Australasian Grebe Buff-banded Rail Hoary-headed Grebe Australian Spotted Crake * Great Crested Grebe Baillon’s Crake Rock Dove Spotless Crake White-headed Pigeon Pale-vented Bush-hen Spotted Dove Purple Swamphen Brown Cuckoo-Dove Dusky Moorhen Wonga Pigeon Black-tailed Native-hen * Common Bronzewing Eurasian Coot Brush Bronzewing * Brolga * Crested Pigeon Bush Stone-curlew Peaceful Dove Beach Stone-curlew Bar-shouldered Dove Australian Pied Oystercatcher Brown-capped Emerald Dove Sooty Oystercatcher Wompoo Fruit-Dove Red-necked Avocet Superb Fruit-Dove * Pied Stilt Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Grey Plover * Topknot Pigeon Pacific Golden Plover Pheasant Coucal Red-capped Plover 1 Double-banded Plover White-fronted Tern * Lesser Sand Plover Common Tern Greater Sand Plover Arctic Tern * Hooded Plover * Lesser Crested Tern Black-fronted Dotterel Crested Tern Banded Lapwing * Wedge-tailed Shearwater Masked Lapwing Short-tailed Shearwater Red-kneed Dotterel Fluttering Shearwater * Comb-crested Jacana Black-necked Stork Whimbrel Australian Pelican Eastern Curlew Australasian Bittern * Bar-Tailed Godwit Black Bittern Ruddy Turnstone Nankeen Night Heron Great Knot Striated Heron Red Knot Cattle Egret Sharp-tailed Sandpiper White-necked Heron Curlew Sandpiper Great Egret Red-necked Stint Intermediate Egret Sanderling White-faced Heron Latham’s Snipe Little Egret Terek Sandpiper Eastern Reef Egret Common Sandpiper Australian White Ibis Grey-tailed Tattler Straw-necked Ibis Wandering Tattler Yellow-billed Spoonbill Common Greenshank Royal Spoonbill Marsh Sandpiper Glossy Ibis Red-backed Button-quail * Lesser Frigatebird * Black-breasted Button-quail Great Frigatebird * Painted Button-quail * Australasian Gannet Australian Pratincole * Brown Booby * Brown Skua * Little Pied Cormorant Common Noddy * Great Cormorant Black Noddy * Little Black Cormorant Silver Gull Pied Cormorant Little Tern Australasian Darter Australian Gull-billed Tern Osprey Caspian Tern Black-shouldered Kite Whiskered Tern Square-tailed Kite White-winged Black Tern Pacific Baza Roseate Tern* Wedge-tailed Eagle 2 Little Eagle Ground Parrot Swamp Harrier Little Lorikeet Spotted Harrier Rainbow Lorikeet Grey Goshawk Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Brown Goshawk Coxen’s Fig-Parrot # Collared Sparrowhawk Noisy Pitta White-bellied Sea-Eagle Green Catbird Whistling Kite Regent Bowerbird Brahminy Kite Satin Bowerbird Black Kite White-throated Treecreeper Eastern Grass Owl Red-browed Treecreeper * Greater Sooty Owl * Brown Treecreeper * Masked Owl * Variegated Fairy-wren Barn Owl * Superb Fairy-wren Powerful Owl Red-backed Fairy-wren Barking Owl Dusky Honeyeater Southern Boobook Scarlet Honeyeater Rainbow Bee-eater Striped Honeyeater Dollarbird Noisy Friarbird Azure Kingfisher Little Friarbird Forest Kingfisher Brown Honeyeater Collared Kingfisher New Holland Honeyeater Sacred Kingfisher White-cheeked Honeyeater Laughing Kookaburra Blue-faced Honeyeater Blue-winged Kookaburra Black-chinned Honeyeater* Nankeen Kestrel White-throated Honeyeater Australian Hobby White-naped Honeyeater Brown Falcon Eastern Spinebill Peregrine Falcon Lewin’s Honeyeater Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater* Glossy Black-Cockatoo Little Wattlebird Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Red Wattlebird Galah Mangrove Honeyeater Long-billed Corella Fuscous Honeyeater Little Corella Yellow-faced Honeyeater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Yellow-tufted Honeyeater * Australian King-Parrot Bell Miner Red-winged Parrot Noisy Miner Crimson Rosella * Spotted Pardalote Pale-headed Rosella Striated Pardalote 3 Brown Gerygone Rufous Fantail Fairy Gerygone Grey Fantail White-throated Gerygone Torresian Crow Mangrove Gerygone Leaden Flycatcher Weebill Satin Flycatcher Yellow-throated Scrubwren Shining Flycatcher White-browed Scrubwren Restless Flycatcher Large-billed Scrubwren Magpie Lark Yellow-rumped Thornbill Spectacled Monarch Yellow Thornbill White-eared Monarch Striated Thornbill Black-faced Monarch Brown Thornbill Paradise Riflebird * Australian Logrunner Rose Robin Grey-crowned Babbler Jacky Winter Varied Sitella Eastern Yellow Robin Barred Cuckoo-Shrike Pale-yellow Robin Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike Mistletoebird White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike Olive-backed Sunbird * Cicadabird Chestnut-breasted Mannikin White-winged Triller Red-browed Finch Varied Triller Double-barred Finch Rufous Whistler House Sparrow Golden Whistler Australasian Pipit Little Shrike-thrush Horsfield’s Bushlark * Grey Shrike-thrush Golden-headed Cisticola Crested Shrike-tit Brown Songlark * Eastern Whipbird Tawny Grassbird Australasian Figbird Little Grassbird Olive-backed Oriole Australian Reed-Warbler Pied Currawong White-backed Swallow * Australian Magpie Fairy Martin Pied Butcherbird Tree Martin Grey Butcherbird Welcome Swallow Masked Woodswallow * Silvereye White-browed Woodswallow * Common Starling Dusky Woodswallow Common Myna Black-faced Woodswallow * Blue Rock-Thrush * White-breasted Woodswallow Bassian Thrush * Spangled Drongo Russet-tailed Thrush Willie Wagtail 4 List uses the species sequence and nomenclature of Birdlife Australia’s Working List of Australian Birds v2.1 Species are included on basis of recorded sightings since 1990 in the datasets of either Birdlife Australia’s BirdData, Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird, or the Queensland Wader Studies Group *denotes sightings of 5 or less # denotes unverified sightings October 2017 Russ Lamb 5 .
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