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Brisbane Metropolitan Area 2016 list (1 Viewer)

timsg80

timsg80

Gregor Tims
I've decided to start my first-ever year list for the Brisbane area. The metropolitan area has a fantastic selection of habitats and consequently a great number of birds, so this should be a very fun challenge! Sadly I will be restricted by being a full-time student from February and having lived in Brisbane for only four months, I am still getting to know the birding sites! I don't want to set a target just yet, but one may come later this year! The area stretches from Redcliff Point in the north, south to Logan City, east to North Stradbroke and Moreton Islands and west to D'Aguilar NP. It contains many wild areas, with rainforest at D'Aguilar, dry forest at Mount Coot-tha and several other places and numerous wetlands. I can't wait to carry on exploring it!

So far I've only had a brief morning in the city, without any effort put into birding. I will be back in two days time to continue to build the list!

January 1st, Windsor
1. Tawny Frogmouth- great start to the year!
2. Australian White Ibis
3. Pied Currawong
4. Blue-faced Honeyeater
5. Welcome Swallow
6. Spotted Dove
7. Rainbow Lorikeet
8. Noisy Miner

Brisbane Airport
9. Torresian Crow
10. Feral Pigeon
11. White-throated Needletail
12. Eastern Cattle Egret
13. Masked Lapwing

Chermside
14. White-breasted Woodswallow
15. Straw-necked Ibis
16. Common Myna

Windsor
17. Magpie-lark
18. Australian Magpie
19. Pied Butcherbird

North Lakes
20. Little Black Cormorant

A slow start, but it should have increased by a lot by the end of next week!
 
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4th January, Carseldine
21. Galah

Grange Forest Park
22. Crested Pigeon
23. Grey Butcherbird
24. Laughing Kookaburra
25. Black-fronted Dotterel
26. Sacred Kingfisher
27. Australian Reed Warbler
28. Red-backed Fairywren
29. Red-browed Finch
30. Channel-billed Cuckoo
31. Willie Wagtail
32. Superb Fairywren (Brisbane tick)
33. Great White Egret
34. Brown Honeyeater
35. White-browed Scrubwren
36. Dusky Moorhen
37. Pacific Black Duck
38. White-faced Heron
39. Maned Duck
40. Silvereye
41. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
42. Australasian Figbird
43. Brown Goshawk
44. Little Friarbird
45. Black-faced Cuckooshrike
46. Double-barred Finch
47. Little Pied Cormorant
48. Tawny Grassbird
49. Rainbow Bee-eater
50. Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
51. Lewin's Honeyeater
52. Australian Brushturkey

Windsor
53. Noisy Friarbird
 
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6th January, City Botanical Gardens
54. Bush Stone-curlew
55. Tree Martin
56. Little Corella

Brisbane River
57. Silver Gull

Kokoda Park
58. Fairy Martin

It has been a slow start to my year list with some really horrible weather in Brisbane in the last couple of days. Thankfully it brightened up today, so I made the trip I was going to have to do at some point, into the CBD for the Bush Stone-curlews!
 
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7th January, Toombull Shopping Centre
59. House Sparrow

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve
60. Striated Pardalote
61. Australasian Darter
62. White-bellied Sea Eagle
63. Golden-headed Cisticola
64. Spotted Harrier (Brisbane tick)
65. White-headed Stilt
66. Mangrove Gerygone
67. Mangrove Honeyeater
68. Grey Fantail
69. Scaly-breasted Munia
70. Chestnut Teal
71. Black Swan (Brisbane tick)
72. Australian Pipit
73. Australian Pelican
74. Brahminy Kite
75. Intermediate Egret

Kalinga Park
76. Pheasant Coucal
 
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9th January, Sandy Camp Road Wetlands
77. Royal Spoonbill
78. Magpie Goose (Brisbane tick)
79. Leaden Flycatcher
80. Brown Quail
81. Australasian Grebe
82. Little Egret
83. Spangled Drongo
84. Australasian Swamphen
85. Bar-shouldered Dove (Brisbane tick)
86. Rufous Whistler
87. White- throated Honeyeater
88. Comb-crested Jacana
89. Common Cicadabird
90. Olive-backed Oriole
91. Striped Honeyeater
92. Grey Shrikethrush
93. Wandering Whistling Duck (Brisbane tick)
94. Hardhead
95. Oriental Dollarbird

Overall, a very successful day!!
 
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11th January, Mount Coot-tha Forest
96. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
97. Pale-headed Rosella

A very brief trip this evening finally brought me some Sulphur-crested Cockatoos!
 
13th January, Anstead Bushland Reserve
98. Little Lorikeet- first lifer of the year!
99. Oriental Cuckoo- an extremely pleasing bird to find here
100. Common Bronzewing (Brisbane tick)

Again, I sadly only had time for a quick evening walk today, but what a great success it was!
 
16th January, Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve
101. Black-shouldered Kite
102. Greater Crested Tern
103. Striated Heron

Kedron Brook
104. Whimbrel

Nudgee Golf Course
105. Grey Teal (Brisbane tick)
106. Whistling Kite
107. Australian Hobby (Brisbane tick)

Nudgee Waterhole Reserve
108. Eurasian Coot
109. Variegated Fairywren

Nudgee Beach
110. Pied Oystercatcher
111. Pacific Golden Plover (Brisbane tick)
112. Lesser Sandplover (Brisbane tick)
113. Red-necked Stint (Brisbane tick)
114. Greater Sandplover (Brisbane tick)
115. Curlew Sandpiper (Brisbane tick)
116. Far Eastern Curlew
117. Little Tern (Brisbane tick)
118. Bar-tailed Godwit
119. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

A very successful day! I will have my car on Monday, which will certainly allow me a lot more opportunities to go birding!
 
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17th January, Nudgee Beach
120. Torresian Kingfisher
121. Gull-billed Tern

I returned this evening, with my telescope this time, but I was unable to find anything rare among the waders. Next time hopefully!
 
21st January, D'Aguilar NP
122. Brown Cuckoo-Dove
123. Large-billed Scrubwren
124. Rufous Fantail
125. Brown Thornbill
126. Eastern Spinebill (Brisbane tick)
127. Mistletoebird (Brisbane tick)
128. Brown Gerygone
129. Eastern Yellow Robin
130. Topknot Pigeon
131. Australian Golden Whistler
132. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
133. Scarlet Myzomela
134. Black-faced Monarch
135. White-throated Treecreeper

A nice trip to somewhere I will be hopefully be spending a lot of time this year! My main aim for today was finding some of the dry forest birds, so next time I will travel to one of the wetter areas in search of some rainforest specialities!
 
23rd January, Anstead Bushland Reserve
136. Apostlebird
137. Pacific Swift
138. Black Kite

A great morning with two lifers! I am really looking forward to spending more time at this reserve this year!
 
24th January, Nathan Road Wetlands
139. Swamp Harrier (Brisbane tick)
140. Pectoral Sandpiper
141. Marsh Sandpiper (Brisbane tick)

Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate
142. Whiskered Tern (Brisbane tick)

Nudgee Beach
143. Eastern Osprey

The Pec Sand was my first-ever twitch in Australia, so that was pleasing to see! Sadly I failed miserably in my search for the Latham's Snipes and Wood Sandpipers seen at the same reserve yesterday. Hopefully I'll have another chance to find these later this year.
 
25th January, D'Aguilar NP
144. Bell Miner
145. Yellow- throated Scrubwren
146. Australian Logrunner
147. Eastern Whipbird
148. Pale-yellow Robin
149. Russet-tailed Thrush
150. Australian King Parrot
151. Wompoo Fruit Dove (Brisbane tick)
152. Buff-rumped Thornbill
153. Rose-crowned Fruit Dove
154. Satin Bowerbird
155. Wedge-tailed Eagle
156. Little Shrikethrush

Another great morning in the park. Annoyingly I missed a few of the wet forest birds. I'll certainly be back again this year though!
 
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27th January, Grange Forest Park
157. Collared Sparrowhawk

It was nice to get a year-tick after a day-and-a-half of solid birding without any additions!
 
29th January, Lake Samsonvale
158. Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Brisbane tick)
159. Great Crested Grebe (Brisbane tick)
160. Mallard
161. Australian Pied Cormorant
162. Great Cormorant
163. White-bellied Cuckooshrike (Brisbane tick)
 
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10th February, Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve
165. Buff-banded Rail

It was very nice to get my first addition to this list in some time today! It has been a very past ten days or so, and with university just twelve days away, I will continue to be busy sadly. I will try my best to get some birding in!
 
15th February, D'Aguilar NP
166. Noisy Pitta
167. Green Catbird
168. White-headed Pigeon
169. Grey Goshawk
170. Crimson Rosella

It was great to have my first birding success for some time this morning, with some fantastic birds seen. There are still plenty more species to find in this park, so I will certainly be back several more times this year!
 
19th February, Mount Coot-tha Forest
173. Wonga Pigeon (Brisbane tick)
174. Spectacled Monarch

I start at university on Sunday, so I doubt that I'll get any more additions to this list for a little while, but there is still plenty more to find this year!
 
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