Bird Watching

Scientific Name: (Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne) A large, noisy bird with a distinctive call (‘karak, karak’) and a crest that can be brought above the head…

Scientific Name: (Neophema pulchella) The Turquoise Parrot favours open, grassy woodland with dead trees near permanent water. It also inhabits coastal heaths and pastures with…

Scientific Name: (Lathamus discolor) Another migrating parrot. Swift Parrots breed only in Tasmania and then fly across Bass Strait to forage on the flowering eucalypts…

Scientific Name: (Neophema chrysogaster) Fascinatingly one of the only parrots in the World that migrates each year between feeding grounds and breeding grounds. The Orange-bellied…

Scientific Name: (Pezoporus wallicus)The Ground Parrot lives mostly in dense coastal and subcoastal heathlands, sedgelands and buttongrass plains, where there is a high diversity of…

Scientific Name: (Menura novaehollandiae)The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is an Australian songbird, one of two species from the family Menuridae. It is one of the…

Scientific Name: (Ninox strenua)The largest of Australia’s owls, the Powerful Owl usually inhabits the moist forests of eastern Australia. Its main item of prey is…

Scientific Name: (Charadrius ruficapillus)The Red-capped Plover is the most common and widespread of Australia’s beach-nesting shorebirds. They occur along virtually the entire Australian coastline.

Scientific Name: (Thinornis rubricollis) In eastern Australia, the Hooded Plover inhabits sandy ocean beaches that are exposed to the constant might of the swell. There…

The Cape Barren Goose is about the same size as a domestic goose. It has pale grey plumage with black markings near the tips of…

The Little Penguin is the smallest of the world’s 17 penguins and the only one which breeds in Australia. The male is a little larger…