In January 2010
we welcomed a new decade, and 88 species of birds in the catchment area of the
Gazette. Thanks to several observers in:
Hoskinstown; the Molonglo Valley, Widgiewa Road, and Wanna Wanna Road. The list includes 2 new species for the project:
Little Black Cormorant and Stubble Quail. It is pleasing to say no Mynas nor Spotted Doves were reported.
Migrants are shown in italics below and species for which breeding has been observed this
month are underlined.
1 Waterbirds: Australian
Wood Duck; Pacific Black Duck; Australasian Grebe; Little Black
Cormorant; Little Pied Cormorant; White‑necked Heron; White-faced Heron;
Straw-necked Ibis; Eurasian Coot; Black‑fronted Dotterel; Masked Lapwing
2 Birds of Prey: Brown Goshawk; Collared Sparrowhawk;
Wedge-tailed Eagle; Little Eagle; Nankeen Kestrel; Brown Falcon; Australian
Hobby; Peregrine Falcon.
3 Parrots and
Relatives: Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo; Gang-gang
Cockatoo; Galah; Sulphur‑crested Cockatoo; Crimson Rosella; Eastern
Rosella; Red-rumped parrot
4 Kingfishers
and other non-songbirds: Stubble Quail; Rock Dove; Common
Bronzewing; Crested Pigeon; Tawny Frogmouth; Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo; Black-eared Cuckoo; Pallid Cuckoo; Fan‑tailed
Cuckoo; Southern boobook; Laughing Kookaburra;Sacred Kingfisher;
5 Honeyeaters: Eastern
Spinebill; Yellow-faced Honeyeater; White-eared
Honeyeater; Noisy Miner; Red Wattlebird;
New Holland Honeyeater; Brown‑headed Honeyeater; Noisy Friarbird
6 Flycatchers
and similar species: Rufous
Whistler; Grey Shrike-thrush; Grey Fantail; Willie Wagtail; Leaden Flycatcher; Magpie-lark; Welcome
Swallow; Fairy Martin; Tree Martin
7 Thornbills,
Finches and similar species: Superb
Fairy-wren; White-browed Scrubwren; Speckled warbler; Weebill; White-throated Gerygone; Striated Thornbill;
Yellow-rumped Thornbill; Buff‑rumped Thornbill; Brown Thornbill; Southern Whiteface;
Spotted Pardalote; Striated Pardalote; Silvereye; Red-browed Finch; Diamond
Firetail; House Sparrow; European Goldfinch
8 Other, smaller
birds: White-throated Treecreeper; Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike; White-winged
Triller; Dusky Woodswallow; Australian
Reed-warbler; Common Starling; Mistletoebird;
Australasian Pipit;
9 Other, larger birds: Satin Bowerbird;
Grey Butcherbird; Australian Magpie; Pied Currawong; Grey Currawong; Australian
Raven; Little Raven; White-winged Chough
3 Years in Review
This part of my Reports has usually contained a Bird of the
Month based upon ‘bringing birds back’ from Greening Australia. We have now worked through the list of birds
common in revegetation so I will be
writing about other topics (where to go birding in the area; seasonal
influences etc) in the future.
For this month I thought I would start with a review of what
has happened since I started these columns 3 years ago. It is a summary of my blog report at http://franmart.blogspot.com/2010/01/3-years-of-birding-in-carwoola.html,
which also contains a few photos.
Over the 3 years we have recorded 145 species of birds. Of these species 24 have been seen in every
month. 14 of the 24 are listed as common
in reveg ( a number of the ‘reveg birds’ are migrants so are unlikely to be
seen for a number of months every year.
20 additional species were added in 2009.
Using a broad definition of breeding (from display to
dependent young) 43 species have been recorded as breeding in the Gazette
area. 32 of these species were recorded
as breeding records in 2009.
Notable additions for 2009 are the Superb Parrots of
Hoskinstown; the sighting of White‑browed Woodswallows at Whiskers Creek and
Black-eared Cuckoo at Hoskinstown.
