Friday, 5 February 2021

FEB 2021 BEGINNER BIRD WALK

 

“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;

  1. Pacific Black Duck
  2. Australasian Grebe
  3. White-headed Pigeon
  4. Brown Cuckoo-Dove
  5. Emerald Dove
  6. Crested Pigeon
  7. Topknot Pigeon
  8. Little Pied Cormorant
  9. Little Black Cormorant
  10. Australian White Ibis
  11. Purple Swamphen
  12. Dusky Moorhen
  13. Masked Lapwing
  14. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
  15. Galah
  16. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
  17. Rainbow Lorikeet
  18. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
  19. Australian King Parrot
  20. Pale-headed Rosella
  21. Eastern Koel
  22. Laughing Kookaburra
  23. Green Catbird
  24. Satin Bowerbird
  25. Lewin's Honeyeater
  26. Noisy Miner
  27. Little Wattlebird
  28. Blue-faced Honeyeater
  29. Eastern Whipbird
  30. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
  31. Australasian Figbird
  32. Grey Butcherbird
  33. Australian Magpie
  34. Pied Currawong
  35. Spangled Drongo
  36. Willie Wagtail
  37. Torresian Crow
  38. Magpie-Lark
  39. Welcome Swallow

 


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