This new list shows 140 bird species have been recorded in the Park, 121 of them discovered since 2007 when the Friends started monthly surveys.
This Superb Fairy Wren, obsessed with its own image, has hung around cars near the compound for at least a month!
| List prepared by Andrew McCutcheon and Friends of Westgate Park. Includes species along Yarra River | |||||||
| Species | Status | ||||||
| Stubble Quail | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Musk Duck | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Black Swan | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Australian Shelduck | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Australian Wood Duck | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Pink-eared Duck | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Australasian Shoveler | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Grey Teal | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Chestnut Teal | Common Resident | ||||||
| Pacific Black Duck | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Hardhead | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Blue-billed Duck | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Australasian Grebe | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Hoary-headed Grebe | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Great Crested Grebe | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Rock Dove | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Spotted Turtle-Dove | Common Resident | ||||||
| Diamond Dove | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Common Bronzewing | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Crested Pigeon | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| *Australasian Gannet | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Darter | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Little Pied Cormorant | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| *Great Cormorant | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Little Black Cormorant | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| *Pied Cormorant | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Australian Pelican | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| White-necked Heron | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Eastern Great Egret | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Intermediate Egret | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Little Egret | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| White-faced Heron | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Nankeen Night Heron | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Australian White Ibis | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Straw-necked Ibis | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Royal Spoonbill | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Yellow-billed Spoonbill | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Black-shouldered Kite | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Whistling Kite | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Brown Goshawk | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Collared Sparrowhawk | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Swamp Harrier | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Little Eagle | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Nankeen Kestrel | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Brown Falcon | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Australian Hobby | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Peregrine Falcon | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Purple Swamphen | Resident | ||||||
| Lewin’s Rail | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Buff-banded Rail | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Baillon’s Crake | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Spotted Crake | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Spotless Crake | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Black-tailed Native-hen | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Dusky Moorhen | Common Resident | ||||||
| Eurasian Coot | Common Resident | ||||||
| *Aust. Pied Oyster catcher | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Black-winged Stilt | Frequent/Seasonal Visitor | ||||||
| Red-necked avocet | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Red-cappped Plover | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Black-fronted Dotterel | Resident | ||||||
| Red-kneed Dotterel | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Masked Lapwing | Resident | ||||||
| Latham’s Snipe | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Common Sandpiper | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Common greenshank | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Ruff | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Red-necked Stint | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Caspian Tern | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Whiskered Tern | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Crested Tern | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| *Pacific Gull | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Silver Gull | Common Resident | ||||||
| Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Galah | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Long-billed Corella | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Little Corella | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Musk lorikeet | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Little Lorikeet | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Purple-crowned Lorikeet | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Crimson Rosella | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Eastern Rosella | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Red-rumped Parrot | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Shining Bronze-Cuckoo | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Pallid Cuckoo | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Fan-tailed Cuckoo | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Southern Boobook | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Barn Owl | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Sacred Kingfisher | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Superb Fairy-wren | Common Resident | ||||||
| White-browed Scrubwren | Resident | ||||||
| Spotted Pardalote | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Striated Pardalote | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Singing Honeyeater | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Yellow-tufted Honeyeater | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Fuscous Honeyeater | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| White-plumed Honeyeater | Common Resident | ||||||
| Noisy Miner | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater | Regular Seasonal Visitor | ||||||
| Little Wattlebird | Very Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Red Wattlebird | Very Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| White-fronted Chat | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| New Holland Honeyeater | Common Resident | ||||||
| White-naped Honeyeater | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| White-winged Triller | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Golden Whistler | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Grey Shrike-thrush | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Grey Butcherbird | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Australian Magpie | Resident | ||||||
| Rufous fantail | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Grey fantail | Seasonal Visitor | ||||||
| Willie Wagtail | Resident | ||||||
| Little Raven | Resident | ||||||
| Magpie-lark | Resident | ||||||
| Scarlet Robin | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Flame Robin | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Eurasian Skylark | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Golden-headed Cisticola | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Clamorous Reed-Warbler | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Little Grassbird | Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Rufous Songlark | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Brown Songlark | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Silvereye | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Welcome Swallow | Very Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Fairy Martin | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Tree Martin | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Common Blackbird | Common Resident | ||||||
| Song Thrush | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| Common Starling | Very Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Common Myna | Common Resident | ||||||
| Red-browed Finch | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| House Sparrow | Common Resident | ||||||
| Australasian Pipit | Very Occasional Visitor | ||||||
| European Goldfinch | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
| Common Greenfinch | Frequent Visitor | ||||||
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| Notes: | |||||||
| - * denotes species seen at or along Yarra River only | |||||||
| - bold denotes recorded since surveys commenced March 07 | |||||||
| - Wetland dependent species and raptors indicated in blue | |||||||
| This update adds species recorded in 1995 by Deakin Uni for Melb Parks & Waterways (now Parks Victoria) | |||||||
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