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Daintree Birds - Birding Checklist
Daintree Birding Checklist:
The following birds are found in the diverse habitats of the Daintree area. Some birds are common residents, others common migrants and others are more difficult to find. Unusual sightings have not been mentioned in this list, nor have waders.
| Southern Cassowary | UR | Lesser Sooty Owl | UR* | |
| Orange-footed Scrubfowl | CR | Barn Owl | UR | |
| Australian Brush-Turkey | CR | Papuan Frogmouth | CR | |
| Australian Pelican | UR | Large-tailed Nightjar | CR | |
| Darter | CR | White-rumped Swiftlet | CR | |
| Little Pied Cormorant | CR | White-throated Needletail | SM | |
| Great Cormorant | UR | Fork-tailed Swift | SM | |
| Little Black Cormorant | CR | Azure Kingfisher | CR | |
| Magpie Goose | WM | Little Kingfisher | CR | |
| Wandering Whistling-Duck | UR | Laughing Kookaburra | CR | |
| Pacific Black Duck | CR | Blue-winged Kookaburra | CR | |
| Grey Teal | UR | Forest Kingfisher | CR | |
| Green Pygmy Goose | CR | Sacred Kingfisher | WM | |
| Buff-banded Rail | CR | Collared Kingfisher | UR | |
| Red-necked Crake | UR | Buff-breasted Paradise KF | SM | |
| White-browed Crake | CR | Rainbow Bee-eater | SM | |
| Bush-hen | UR | Dollarbird | SM | |
| Dusky Moorhen | UR | Noisy Pitta | UR | |
| Purple Swamphen | UR | Lovely Fairy-wren | CR | |
| Great-billed Heron | CR | Red-backed Fairy-wren | CR | |
| White-necked Heron | CR | Fairy Gerygone | CR | |
| Pied Heron | UR | Large-billed Gerygone | CR | |
| White-faced Heron | CR | Helmeted Friarbird | CR | |
| Cattle Egret | CR | Noisy Friarbird | CR | |
| Great Egret | CR | Little Friarbird | CR | |
| Little Egret | CR | Macleay's Honeyeater | CR* | |
| Intermediate Egret | CR | Lewin's Honeyeater | WM | |
| Striated Heron | CR | Yellow-spotted Honeyeater | CR | |
| Nankeen Night Heron | CR | Graceful Honeyeater | CR | |
| Black Bittern | SM | Bridled Honeyeater | UR | |
| Australian White ibis | CR | Yellow Honeyeater | CR | |
| Straw-necked Ibis | CR | Brown Honeyeater | UR | |
| Royal Spoonbill | CR | Brown-backed Honeyeater | SM | |
| Black-necked Stork | CR | Dusky Honeyeater | CR | |
| Common Sandpiper | CR | Mangrove Robin | UR | |
| Common Greenshank | SM | Pale-yellow Robin | CR | |
| Latham's Snipe | UR | Little Shrike-thrush | CR | |
| Comb-crested Jacana | UR | Grey Whistler | CR | |
| Bush Stone-curlew | CR | Northern Fantail | WM | |
| Beach Stone-curlew | UR | Grey Fantail | WM | |
| Masked Lapwing | CR | Rufous Fantail | WM | |
| Black-fronted Dotterel | CR | Willie Wagtail | CR | |
| Black-winged Stilt | CR | Leaden Flycatcher | WM | |
| Pacific Baza | UR | Satin Flycatcher | WM | |
| Black-shouldered Kite | CR | Shining Flycatcher | CR | |
| Osprey | CR | Yellow-breasted Boatbill | UR | |
| Black Kite | CR | Black-faced Monarch | WM | |
| Whistling Kite | CR | Spectacled Monarch | CR | |
| Brahminy Kite | CR | Pied Monarch | UR* | |
| White-bellied Sea-Eagle | CR | Magpie Lark | CR | |
| Brown Goshawk | WM | Spangled Drongo | CR | |
| Collared Sparrowhawk | UR | Yellow Oriole | CR | |
| Grey Goshawk | UR | Olive-backed Oriole | UR | |
| Australian Hobby | UR | Figbird | CR | |
| Brown Falcon | WM | Victoria's Riflebird | UR* | |
| Nankeen Kestrel | CR | Spotted Catbird | CR | |
| Superb Fruit-Dove | UR | Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike | WM | |
| Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove | UR | Barred Cuckoo-shrike | SM | |
| Wompoo Fruit-Dove | CR | White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike | CR | |
| Pied Imperial-Pigeon | SM | Cicadabird | CR | |
| Topknot Pigeon | CR | Varied Triller | CR | |
| Spotted Turtle-Dove | UR# | White-breasted Woodswallow | CR | |
| Brown Cuckoo-Dove | CR | Black Butcherbird | CR | |
| Peaceful Dove | CR | Torresian Crow | UR | |
| Bar-shouldered Dove | CR | Welcome Swallow | CR | |
| Emerald Dove | CR | Tree Martin | CR | |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | CR | Fairy Martin | CR | |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | CR | Australian Pipit | CR | |
| Scaly-breasted Lorikeet | UR | Clamorous Reed-Warbler | UR | |
| Double-eyed Fig-Parrot | CR | Golden-headed Cisticola | UR | |
| Australian King Parrot | UR | Tawny Grassbird | UR | |
| Brush Cuckoo | CR | House Sparrow | CR# | |
| Fan-tailed Cuckoo | UR | Nutmeg Mannikin | CR# | |
| Gould's Bronze-Cuckoo | CR | Chesnut-breasted Mannikin | CR | |
| Common Koel | SM | Yellow-bellied Sunbird | CR | |
| Channel-billed Cuckoo | SM | Mistletoebird | CR | |
| Pheasant Coucal | CR | Silvereye | CR | |
| Rufous Owl | UR | Metallic Starling | SM | |
| Southern Boobook | UR | Common Myna | CR# |
| Code: | CR UR SM WM * # |
Commonly seen resident Uncommonly seen resident Summer migrant/visitor Winter migrant/visitor Endemic Introduced |
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Holly, Tina, Jim & Leilana Todd
- Address:
- 11 Stewart Street
Daintree Village Queensland
4873, Australia
