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April 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

New mapping now shows month by month bird species visits to the Park:

2011 2012

Wetland-dependent & Raptors

 Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb
*Musk Duck
Black Swan 3 3 3 4 8 8 3 6 3 4 1 2
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck 3 2
Pink-eared Duck
Australasian Shoveler
Grey Teal 4 10 24
Chestnut Teal 36 38 7 19 28 15 38 21 22 30 54 65
Mallard
Pacific Black Duck 3 6 10 10 3 9 13 7 14 11 15 14
Hardhead 200 240 33 9 32 90 18 12
Blue-billed Duck
Australasian Grebe 7 16 24 18 42 40 20 14 14 13 12 24
Hoary-headed Grebe 2 9 4 12 8 3
Great Crested Grebe
*Australasian Gannet
Darter 1 3 2 1
Little Pied Cormorant 3 4 12 2 1 5 7 8 3 7
*Great Cormorant 1 2
Little Black Cormorant 2 12 5 5 8 22 41 14
*Pied Cormorant 1 2 1
Australian Pelican 2 4
White-necked Heron 1 2 8 1
Eastern Great Egret 25 1 1 1 1 5
Intermediate Egret 1
White-faced Heron 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 2
Little Egret
Nankeen Night-Heron 3 37 1 40 2 5
Australian White Ibis 8 2 2 8 5 1 4 7
Straw-necked Ibis 2 3 2 50 10 10 1
Royal Spoonbill 1 1
Black-shouldered Kite 1
Brown Goshawk 1 1 1
Collared Sparrowhawk 1
Swamp Harrier 1
Little Eagle
Nankeen Kestrel 1 1 1 1 1 1
Brown Falcon 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Australian Hobby 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Purple Swamphen 6 13 9 3 6 9 3 11 11 9 18 20
Buff-banded Rail 1 2 4 4 1 2
Baillon’s Crake 1 1
Spotted Crake 1
Black-tailed Native-hen
Dusky Moorhen 22 34 40 20 44 36 36 24 31 17 38 30
Eurasian Coot 19 16 22 21 36 35 70 120 150 160 160 65
*Aust. Pied Oyster catcher 2
Black-winged Stilt 26 6 8 9 9 17 21
Red-cappped Plover
Black-fronted Dotterel 2 3 2 4 3 1 1 2
Red-kneed Dotterel
Masked Lapwing 7 8 2 2 3 6 2 4 9
Latham’s Snipe
*Common Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
*Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
*Crested Tern 3 2
*Pacific Gull 2 1
Silver Gull 24 30 40 30 180 90 60 220 120 90 160 152
Golden-headed Cisticola 1 1 1 1
Australian Reed-Warbler 1 4 2 3 1
Little Grassbird 1 3 3 2 2

Land-based

 Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb
Stubble Quail 1 1 2
Brown Quail 1
Rock Dove 13 100 20 4 2 8 5 5 8 17 12
Spotted Turtle-Dove 11 33 28 6 17 17 20 24 21 20 21 25
Diamond Dove
Crested Pigeon 5 14 1 2 1 2 2 5 8 4
Common Bronzewing
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Galah 6 14 6 12 2 3 4 6
Sulphur crested cockatoo 1 2 1
Little Corella 20 10
Long-billed Corella 12 10
Rainbow Lorikeet 32 21 50 40 50 17 9 20 6 8 14 8
Musk lorikeet 4 2 6 8 2 3
Little Lorikeet
Purple-crowned Lorikeet
Crimson Rosella 1
Eastern Rosella 1 1
Red-rumped Parrot
Blue-winged Parrot
Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo 1 2 1 1
Fan-tailed Cuckoo 1 1 1
Southern Boobook 1 1
Barn Owl 1
Sacred Kingfisher 1 1 1
Superb Fairy-wren 35 30 40 2 25 35 25 30 14 19 26 33
White-browed Scrubwren 2 10 11 1 11 3 12 5 5 5 9 8
Spotted Pardalote 1 9 1 17 6 5 2 1 1
Striated Pardalote
Singing Honeyeater
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater 22 45 50 30 65 60 65 75 40 45 35 60
Noisy Miner
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater 1 5 22 16 20 20 30 4
Little Wattlebird 4 20 14 3 16 22 30 25 15 4 7
Red Wattlebird 13 10 25 19 25 30 35 40 40 17 5 35
White-fronted Chat
New Holland Honeyeater 10 30 35 8 65 25 45 40 35 10 15 17
White-naped Honeyeater
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike 1 1 1
White-winged Triller
Golden Whistler 1
Grey Shrike-thrush
Grey Butcherbird 1 1 1 1 1
Australian Magpie 2 3 2 2 2 2 5 3 3 5
Rufous fantail
Grey fantail 1 20 5 2
Willie Wagtail 7 9 6 2 9 3 6 6 6 8 9 9
Little Raven 2 31 47 4 10 18 24 34 35 18 11 2
Magpie-lark 9 11 13 12 16 11 12 18 18 10 17 15
Flame Robin 8 3 1 1
Eurasian Skylark
Rufous Songlark
Brown Songlark
Silvereye 10 9 2 6
Welcome Swallow 10 25 20 2 25 50 40 50 40 40 100 60
Fairy Martin
Tree Martin
Common Blackbird 3 12 15 9 18 9 19 19 13 14 15 8
Song Thrush
Common Starling 120 200 180 16 170 130 80 350 35 15 65 160
Common Myna 40 30 20 8 17 10 16 20 15 7 13 32
Red-browed Finch
House Sparrow 45 120 45 40 70 50 20 25 30 45 40 70
Australasian Pipit
European Goldfinch 3 9 1 2 2 3 2 5 8 4
European Greenfinch 10 6 2 11 2 3 13 8 22 8 9
Total Number of Species 35 41 43 29 39 40 39 47 48 46 51 46
* Species seen at/along Yarra River only.
Note:
- Numbers shown in red and underlined are for opportunistic sightings between surveys
- The total number of species is for those seen on surveys only, and does not include opportunistic sightings
 

Prepared by Andrew McCutcheon & Friends of Westgate Park

 

Filed Under: Bird sightings, Fauna

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