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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chowchilla" data-source="post: 1906551" data-attributes="member: 61100">I've struggled to just 30 species in the eight months I've been in my current apartment, including the few fly overs I can see in gaps in the foliage! I'm surrounded by dense rainforest and not many birds like the understorey here for some reason. The preponderance of predatory Butcherbirds doesn't exactly help...Amazingly, in my old place in the middle of the city, all I had was a tiny balcony and yet in just over two years I had over 100 species, including flyovers, despite there being virtually no vegetation, other than a few palms, for birds to sit in.The 30 I've managed so far are:Superb Fruit Dove (deffo the best sighting).Helmeted Friarbird (very common).Rainbow Lorikeet (often shrieking in the trees out back).Yellow-bellied Sunbird (very occasional; the butcherbirds chase them away...)Brush Turkey (often seen rearranging the garden).Brown Honeyeater (just twice, again the butcherbirds have the final say).Black Butcherbird (no comment...).Figbird (common).Yellow Oriole (as above).Spangled Drongo (often around).Mistletoebird (keep to the tree tops, often heard, rarely seen).Pied Imperial Pigeon (common in summer).Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (commoner than I'd like).Spotted Turtle Dove (fairly common).Metallic Starling (often in large whizzing flocks in the evenings or feeding on the fruiting palms).Common Mynah (absent from the forest, but visible in the more isolated trees out front).Fig Parrot (only as a fly over, which is only occasional).Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (occasionally join the Rainbows).Laughing Kookaburra (a daily sound at dawn and dusk).Willy Wagtail (turn up every now and then).White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike (occasionally in the tree tops).Magpie Lark (even now and then out front).White-rumped Swiftlet (regular flyover).Yellow Honeyeater (getting commoner; took ages to see or hear the first).Varied Triller (occasional).White-breasted Woodswallow (occasional fly over).Bush Stone Curlew (often heard at night).Eastern Great Egret (flyover once).Leaden Flycatcher (had one turn up last week for the first time and stay for several days).Scrub Fowl (heard cackling in the forest the last few nights).I'm being a bit hard on myself mind, if I actually physically go out front into my street, the list goes up to about 80 species. Peaceful Doves for example are abundant in my street, but I have never seen or heard one from the apartment or my balcony.</blockquote>

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