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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • WETLANDS • Great Crested Grebe Australasian Grebe Hardhead Grey Teal Darter Plumed Whistling-Duck Magpie Goose Wandering Whistling-Duck Australian Wood Duck BlackSwan CottonPygmy-goose

White-necked Heron Baillon’sCrake Bush-hen PurpleSwamphen Eurasian Coot DuskyMoorhen Yellow-billed Spoonbill Straw-necked Ibis GlossyIbis

UNCA • • • • • FOREST • Black-shouldered Kite Square-tailed Kite Orange-footed Scrubfowl Collared Sparrowhawk Brown Goshawk Australian Hobby Brown Falcon LittleEagle Wedge-tailed Eagle Peregrine Falcon Nankeen Kestrel

Brown Quail SpottedHarrier Brolga Australian Bustard CattleEgret Red-backed Button-quail • • • • • • • • • GRASSLANDS • Whistling Kite LittlePied Cormorant LittleBlackCormorant Pied Cormorant Australian Pelican EasternReefEgret

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • SEASHORE • TEGO Australian Brush-turkey BlackKite White-bellied Sea-Eagle Brahminy Kite Grey Goshawk SwampHarrier White-faced Heron RadjahShelduck LittleEgret Great-billed Heron Great Egret Intermediate Egret Striated Heron Black-necked Stork RoyalSpoonbill Australian WhiteIbis MANGROVES Osprey TOWNS RIS WA ED nded Rail TER BIRDS R This listexcludes mostpelagic, vagrant, rare and one-o

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Comb-crested Jacana

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • WETLANDS • Black-fronted Dotterel Red-kneed Dotterel Latham’sSnipe

Marsh Sandpiper

• • FOREST • W ORS Australian King-Parrot White-headed Pigeon Brown Cuckoo-Dove Emerald Dove Crested Pigeon Bar-shouldered Dove Wompoo Fruit-Dove SuperbFruit-Dove Topknot Pigeon

Red-chested Button-quail Painted Button-quail Squatter Pigeon • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • GRASSLANDS •

LesserSand Plover Double-banded Plover Red-cappedPlover Grey Plover

Greater Sand Plover Ruddy Turnstone

RedKnot Sanderling

Gull-billedTern Red-necked Stint Caspian Tern Sharp-tailedSandpiper LesserCrested Tern CurlewSandpiper Crested Tern Common Tern LittleTern

Whiskered Tern Pied Oystercatcher White-winged BlackTern SootyOystercatcher Black-tailedGodwit

Bar-tailedGodwit

Terek Sandpiper Black-winged Stilt • • • • • • • • • Galah • SEASHORE • BeachStone-curlew Whimbrel EasternCurlew Common Greenshank Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove Pied Imperial-Pigeon Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

• • • • • • • • MANGROVES • Common Sandpiper Grey-tailed Tattler Great Knot Rainbow Lorikeet Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Masked Lapwing Silver Gull Bush Stone-curlew Rock Dove(Feral Pigeon) Spotted Turtle-Dove Peaceful Dove TOWNS Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo ADERS G Bird List ULLS , TERNS P

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FOREST • • Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Eastern Spinebill White-throated Noisy Pitta Blue-winged Kookaburra Red-backed Fairy-wren Crimson Rosella SpottedPardalote Pale-headed Rosella Pallid Cuckoo Pheasant Coucal White-browed Scrubwren BrushCuckoo Barking Owl Large-billed Scrubwren Fan-tailedCuckoo Tawny Frogmouth Southern Boobook Weebill

Large-tailed Nightjar White-throated Needletail White-rumpedSwiftlet Fork-tailedSwift White-throated Gerygone Brown Thornbill Noisy Friarbird Lewin’sHoneyeater Eungella Honeyeater Yellow-faced Honeyeater FuscousHoneyeater White-cheeked White-throated Bar-breasted Ho I GEONS GRASSLANDS BarnOwl • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • SEASHORE •

LittleBronze-Cuckoo Gould’sBronze-Cuckoo Striated Pardalote Grass Owl Brown Gerygone Mangrove Gerygone

Large-billed Gerygone FairyGerygone

LittleFriarbird

Mangrove Honeyeater

• • • • • • • • • • MANGROVES rown Honeyeater Dollarbird Rainbow Bee-eater Laughing Kookaburra Common Koel Channel-billed Cuckoo Helmeted Friarbird Blue-faced Honeyeater Yellow Honeyeater B Treecreeper TOWNS Honeyeater Honeyeater , DO VES reasted Paradise- , ET C CUCK OOS N neyeater htings.

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FOREST • • HT B • • • • Jacky Winter Lemon-bellied Flycatcher EasternYellow Robin Pied Currawong Regent Bowerbird EasternWhipbird Varied Sittella Double-barred Finch Rufous Whistler Golden Whistler Grey Shrike-thrush Tree Martin Barred Cuckoo-shrike Bassian Thrush Metallic Starling Russet-tailedThrush

Varied Triller Olive-backed Oriole

Richard’s Pipit

Nutmeg Mannikin

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SEASHORE • • • • • • • • White-winged Triller • IRDS

ScarletHoneyeater BlackButcherbird Mangrove Robin

White-browed Robin

LittleShrike-thrush Red-browed Finch Black-faced Monarch

SpectacledMonarch Mistletoebird White-eared Monarch Leaden Flycatcher Rufous Fantail Grey Fantail

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MANGROVES • • • • • Figbird Dusky Honeyeater White-breasted Pied Butcherbird Australian Magpie Torresian Crow House Sparrow Great Bowerbird Yellow-bellied Sunbird Chestnut-breasted Welcome Swallow Magpie-lark Fairy Martin Red-whiskered Bulbul Willie Wagtail Spangled Drongo Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Silve Woodswallow Mannikin TOWNS shrike K I NGFISHE RS H ONEYEATER S FLYCATCHERS Gooseponds Creek. Access from Heaths Windmill Motel for Caneland Shopping honeyeaters, gulls, Centre towards the River Boardwalk. Road orbehind terns and waders. city. You maysee Follow the walk waterbirds. from behind Access thiswetland from Valley Street.

The Gooseponds.

always present. Bush birds and waterbirds are

Check withPark manage- for ducks, bush birds and environs are good areas th Andergrove Caravan ment for permission. Birdwatching aroundMackay Park. The Park and nded Rail. nearby streets, inPlanlands Mackay RegionalBotanic entrance inLagoon Street. There isagood variety of birds. The Red-whiskered to Mackay withthe main species, including water- and East Gordon Street. Gardens Bulbul can befound in the southern entrance are located at and atVines Creek, Barnes Creek and Creek are excellent wader sitesand summer. Try Town Beach, Illawong Beach, HarbourBeach, Slade Point lagoon and the mouth of Shellgrit The Beaches. Heron hasbeenseenoccasionally easily accessible. The Great-billed and Blacks Beach Spit.The tidal Bassett Basinnear EastPoint. seen inthe grassy paddocks beside through the melaleucas to abird Keeleys Road. the road. Ashort distance from Keeleys Road-Slade Point Road T-junction, aboardwalk runs hide overlooking wetlands. Waders canbeseen Brolgas are often waders, terns, oystercatchers and Beach Stone-curlews. There is4-wheel drive Pioneer River (South). eastern end of River Street and walk along the embankment towards the access from EastGordon Street. corner of HarbourRoad and Harbour Wetlands waders and terns. Slade Point Road provide habitat for waterbirds, Teal Street orJansen Street. This Slade Point Reserve. Orange-footed Scrubfowl usually provides good bush birding with Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove and CAIRNS no publicaccess. TOWN dunal vegetation provide excel- estuary, the mangroves and the lent habitatfor a great number feeding inthe shallows onthe Follow the road from Mulherin incoming tide. Flocks of Little of pelicans, cormorants, gulls Park southto East Point. The seen and/or heard. Tern are present insummer. and terns canoften beseen of species, including many SVILLE Pioneer River (North). PROS Startatthe BOWEN There is onthe ERPINE ROCKH Enter from GLADSTONE 80kms radius 80kms MACKAY AMPTON

St Helens Beach Turn o way 1 at Calen and follow the signs. There is good bush Cape Hillsborough birding and sometimes (and Mangrove Boardwalk). Oystercatchers. Rose-crowned Fruit-Doves have often been seen. In McEwens Beach summer Metallic Starlings Turn o way 1, nest between Halliday 7.8 kms south of the Bay turn-o nd Calen Smalleys Beach Information Centre. It turn-o thanks the following people for their help is an excellent area for with the production of this brochure: waterbirds and mangrove species. Club members for collecting and collating the list of birds and the nest near the creek information about the various sites Seaforth is a reliable place for mouth. Bird images reproduced with waders and the Great kind permission from Bowerbird (and bower). Simpson and Day’s Field Guide to Mt Ossa Bush Stone-curlews can the Birds of A ustralia, sixth edition, be seen in home gardens. Penguin Books Australia Ltd Mount Charlton. Mangrove reasted Paradise Honeyeaters are Tom Marshall for the design and common at pre-press work between November and Finlaysons Shoal Point March and Point. nest in the The Natural Environment Levy area. Padaminka Wildlife Reserve has helped fund this project Mt Charlton Bucasia at Walkerston can be Eimeo visited by appointment One hundred and sixty species have been recorded includ- Slade Point ing Bush-hen and Lemon-bellied Flycatcher.

Harbour Farleigh

Eungella

Finch Hatton Pinnacle Mackay Gargett Marian Walkerston Mirani Broken Racecourse River

Teemburra Kinchant Dam Dam

Eungella National Park is situated in the Clarke Mac’s Truck Stop Range, the only place Council Parks and Reserves o leasant is on Highway 1 about in the world where and peaceful rest areas and good birding. Kinchant Dam. 7 kms past the McEwens the Eungella The large wetland is Beach turn-o Water - Honeyeater can Never enter private property without excellent for waterbirds Eton birds are common and be found. seeking the permission of the owner. including Cotton Pygmy- Brolgas are some- geese and nesting Great times present. Permits are required to enter State Forests Crested Grebes. Bush Bar-breasted and are obtainable at Qld Parks & Wildlife, Stone-curlews can usually Honeyeaters nest Wood Street, Mackay. We welcome birders be found on the in the melaleucas to our area. For more information contact grassy slope on behind the service Birdlife Mackay on 4959 3382 the approach to station. the picnic area.