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BIRD species

Many different kinds of birds call the Park their home. Passerines are known as perching birds, and are characterised by the way their toes give them the ability to grip branches, allowing them to perch. These birds include songbirds, magpies and many others.

Non passerine birds include all other species that don’t have the unique passerine toes. This group includes birds like pelicans, cormorants, and even birds of prey like owls and the great wedge-tailed eagle.

Non-passerines

Brown Goshawk

Australian Grey Teal

Pacific Black Duck

Wedge-tailed Eagle

White-faced Heron

Pacific Heron

Australasian Bittern

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Galah 

Horsefield's Bronze-Cuckoo

Feral Pigeon

Stubble Quail 

Laughing Kookaburra

Great Egret 

Black-Shouldered Kite

Brown Falcon

Australian Kestrel

Peregrine Falcon 

Dusky Moorhen

Sacred Kingfisher

Whistling Kite

Little Eagle

White-throated Needletail

Silver Gull 

Rainbow Bee-eater 

Southern Boobook 

Nankeen Night Heron

Australian Pelican

Great Cormorant

Little Pied Cormorant

Common Bronzewing

Yellow-billed Spoonbill 

Crimson Rosella

Eastern Rosella

Red rumped Parrot

Spotted Turtle-Dove

Australasian Grebe

Australian Shelduck 

Straw-necked Ibis 

Barn Owl 

Masked Lapwing

Accipiter fasciatus

Anas gracilis

Anas superciliosa

Aquila audax

Ardea novaehollandiae

Ardea pacifica

Botaurus poiciloptilus

Cacatua galerita

Cacatua roseicapilla

Chrysococcyx basalis

Columba livia

Coturnix pectoralis

Dacelo novaeguineae

Egretta alba

Elanus notatus

Falco berigora

Falco cenchroides

Falco peregrinus

Gallinula tenebrosa

Halcyon sancta

Haliastur sphenurus

Hieraaetus morphnoides

Hirundapus caudacutus

Larus novaehollandiae

Merops ornatus

Ninox novaeseelandiae

Nycticorax caledonicus

Pelecanus conspicillatus

Phalacrocorax carbo

Phalacrocorax melanoleucos

Phaps chalcoptera

Platalea flavipes

Platycercus elegans

Platycercus eximius

Psephotus haemotonotus

Streptopelia chinensis

Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

Tadorna tadornoides

Threskiornis spinicollis

Tyto alba

Vanellus miles

Passerines

Yellow-rumped Thornbill 

Striated Thornbill 

Yellow Thornbill

Brown Thornbill 

Eastern Spinebill

Common Mynah

Australian Reed Warbler

Red Wattlebird

Skylark

Richard's Pipit 

Little Raven

Euopean Goldfinch 

Brown Songlark

Golden-headed Cisticola

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Australian Raven

Mistletoebird 

Red-browed Firetail

White-fronted Chat

Magpie-lark

Australian Magpie

Welcome Swallow

Yellow-faced Honeyeater 

Fuscous Honeyeater 

Yellow-tufted Honeyeater 

White-plumed Honeyeater

Superb Blue Wren

Brown-headed Honeyeater 

White-naped Honeyeater 

Golden Whistler

Rufous Whistler

Spotted Pardelote

Striated Pardelote

House Sparrow

Scarlet Robin

Flame Robin

New Holland Honeyeater

Grey Fantail 

Willy Wagtail 

Rufous Fantail 

White-browed Scrubwren

Common Starling

Blackbird 

Silvereye 

Acanthiza chrysorrhoa

Acanthiza lineata

Acanthiza nana

Acanthiza pusilla

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

Acridotheres tristis

Acrocephalus australis

Anthochaera carunculata

Anthus arvensis

Anthus novaeseelandiae

Australian Raven

Carduelis caruelis

Cinclorhamphus cruralis

Cisticola exilis

Coracina novaehollandiae

Corvus coronoides

Dicaeum hirundinaceum

Emblema temporalis

Ephthianura albifrons

Grallina cyanoleuca

Gymnorhina tibicen

Hirundo neoxena

Lichenostomus chrysops

Lichenostomus fuscus

Lichenostomus melanops

Lichenostomus penicillatus

Malurus cyaneus

Melithreptus brevirostris

Melithreptus lunatus

Pachycephala pectoralis

Pachycephala rufiventris

Pardalotus punctatus

Pardalotus striatus

Passer domesticus

Petroica multicolor

Petroica phoenica

Phylidonyris novaehollandiae

Rhipidura fuliginosa

Rhipidura leucophyrs

Rhipidura rufifrons

Sericornis frontalis

Sturnus vulgaris

Turdus merula

Zosterops lateralis

Acknowledgement of Country

The Friends of the Organ Pipes National Park pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and volunteer, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their deep ongoing connection to, and care of, this land. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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