Bird Watching in SEQ

Requirements

This is a relatively inexpensive hobby. A decent set of binoculars with a wide angle view is preferrable. A notepad and pen is used to record the location and time the birds were viewed. Birds are often found in areas they have been seen before. Migratory birds will often return to the same areas.

Key to table

  1. cities, towns, gardens
  2. farmland
  3. wetlands, large creeks
  4. rainforest
  5. closed forest
  6. open forest
  7. heathland
  8. grassland
  9. coastal or estuarine
  10. migrant
  • D = definite chance of observation
  • C = common
  • R = rare or restricted range

    • Common birds of SEQ

    Scrub Turkey 1,4,5C Magpie Goose 3, 9 Australian Wood Duck 1,2,3, 8C
    Pacific Black Duck 1,3C Australasian Grebe 3 Darter 3, 9C
    Little Pied Cormorant 3, 9C Great Cormorant 9 Pelican 3, 9C
    White-faced Heron 3C Intermediate Egret 3, 9 Cattle Egret 2, 3, 9D
    Striated Heron 9 Australasian White Ibis 1, 2, 3, 8D Buff-banded Rail 2,3
    Dusky Moorhen 1, 3D Bush Stone-curlew 2, 6, 8R Pied Oystercatcher 9C
    Masked Lapwing 1, 2, 3, 8C Crested Tern 9 Spotted Turtle-dove 1, 2D
    Brown Cuckoo-dove 4, 5D Crested Pigeon 1, 2, 6, 8D Bar-shouldered Dove 3, 6C
    Wompoo Fruit-dove 4C Rose-crowned Fruit-dove 4, 5C Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo 5, 6R
    Galah 1, 2, 6, 8 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8C Rainbow Lorikeet 1, 6D
    Scaly-breasted Lorikeet 1, 2, 6C King Parrot 4, 5, 6 C Crimson Rosella 4, 5C
    Pale-headed Rosella 1, 2, 6C Fantailed Cuckoo 4, 5, 9C Common Koel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10
    Channel-billed Cuckoo 1, 2, 3, 10C Pheasant Coucal 1, 2, 3, 8R Southern Boobook 1, 2, 4, 5, 6C
    Tawny Frogmouth 1, 6C Kookaburra 1, 6D Sacred Kingfisher 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9C
    Rainbow bee-eater 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9C Dollarbird 1, 2, 6C Noisy Pitta 4R
    White-throated treecreeper 1, 5, 6D Sup./Varieg./Red-b. fairy wren 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8C Striated Pardalote 1, 5, 6C
    Red-Browed treecreeper 5, 6C Restless Fly Catcher 3,4,5 Leaden Fly Catcher 3,4,5
    Spotted Pardalote 1, 4, 5, 6C Noisy Friarbird 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9C Blue-faced Honeyeater 1, 2, 3, 6R
    Bell Miner 5R Noisy Miner 1, 2, 6D Lewin's Honeyeater 3, 4D
    Mangrove Honeyeater 9 White-throated honeyeater 3, 5, 6R Brown Honeyeater 1, 6, 9C
    Eastern Spinebill 4, 5, 6R Scarlet Honeyeater 4, 5C Eastern Yellow Robin 3, 4, 5, 6, 9C
    Golden Whistler 4, 5, 6C Grey Strike-thrush 4, 5, 6D Magpie Lark 1D
    Grey Fantail 4, 5C Rufous fantail 4, 5C Willie Wagtail 1, 6D
    Spangled Drongo 1, 4, 5, 6C Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike 1, 6C Figbird 1, 4, 5C
    Butcherbird 1, 2, 5, 6D Australian Magpie 1,2C Pied Currawong 1, 4, 5, 6C
    Torresian Crow 1, 2, 6D Satin Bowerbird 4R Silvereye 1, 2, 6C
    Brahminy Kite 3, 9R White-bellied Sea-Eagle 3, 9R Osprey 3, 9R
    Pacific Baza 1, 4, 5, 6R Whistling Kite 2, 3, 9R Wedge-tailed Eagle 5, 6R
    Grey Goshawk 4, 5, 6R Brown Goshawk 1, 2, 6R Collared Sparrowhawk 1, 2, 6, 7, 8R
    Black-shouldered Kite 1, 2, 5, 6, 8R Brown Falcon 6, 8R Peregrin Falcon (all)R
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