“Thank
you very much for the informative and entertaining excursion this morning.
Plenty to learn and I am looking forward to consolidating with some follow up
walks. “
It
was very much appreciated some nice feedback from our first Beginners Bird Walk
for 2021! Twenty two self-identified beginners joined me for a stroll around
the lilyponds in Mapleton to introduce birding. Naturally we were trying to
identify, by sight and sound, every bird species possible. One hour and a half
later we had a list of 39 species; not a bad effort considering our location.
It was excellent, to me, that over 20 people valued birds enough to volunteer
their time to join me for the stroll. I do hope that I have persuaded some to
join the ‘bird nerd’ brigade…. [To explain I was wearing a bird nerd T shirt at
the time and I am a nerd….]
We saw and / or heard the following species this morning;
- Pacific Black Duck
- Australasian Grebe
- White-headed Pigeon
- Brown Cuckoo-Dove
- Emerald Dove
- Crested Pigeon
- Topknot Pigeon
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Little Black Cormorant
- Australian White Ibis
- Purple Swamphen
- Dusky Moorhen
- Masked Lapwing
- Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
- Galah
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
- Australian King Parrot
- Pale-headed Rosella
- Eastern Koel
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Green Catbird
- Satin Bowerbird
- Lewin's Honeyeater
- Noisy Miner
- Little Wattlebird
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Eastern Whipbird
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
- Australasian Figbird
- Grey Butcherbird
- Australian Magpie
- Pied Currawong
- Spangled Drongo
- Willie Wagtail
- Torresian Crow
- Magpie-Lark
- Welcome Swallow
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