FFNC Bird List for the Boonah Area

Blue-faced Honeyeater
(Photo L. Cross)

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The Fassifern Field Naturalists have been recording local flora and fauna both for Club outings, and individual member sightings for over 30 years. In that time we have recorded 270 species of birds. This is a summary of those records. 
All lists have their weaknesses. They depend on so many factors:
1) Human – the experience of the observers, the number of surveys in an area, the change in personnel of a group, etc.
2) Environmental – the areas surveyed, droughts, fires, floods, tree clearing, change in agricultural practices, building of dams, etc. Time of year and time of day/night.

E.g. Little Corellas were not recorded in this area before 2000, and only four times between 2000 and 2010. Now they are quite common, sometimes in flocks of ±1000. They build up in numbers when the Tipuana (Tipuana tipu) trees are in seed.

The list below is in order of frequency of reports. If you wish to have a taxonomical ordered list, please contact us via the email address in the left-hand margin.

Lastly, please contact us if you have any unusual sightings to report.

Legend:
VC = very commonly reported – almost every month
C = commonly reported – 6-8 times a year
O = occasionally reported - 3-5 times a year
UN = uncommonly reported - only 1-2 times a year

Common Name	Status		Common Name	Status
Torresian Crow	VC		Red-backed Fairy-wren	VC
Australian Magpie	VC		Pheasant Coucal	VC
Willie Wagtail	VC		White-faced Heron	VC
Magpie-lark	VC		Grey Shrike-thrush	VC
Pied Butcherbird	VC		Silvereye	VC
Noisy Miner	VC		Scaly-breasted Lorikeet	VC
Pale-headed Rosella	VC		Mistletoebird	VC
Welcome Swallow	VC		King Parrot	VC
Laughing Kookaburra	VC		Australasian Grebe	VC
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike	VC		Striped Honeyeater	VC
Rainbow Lorikeet	VC		Pied Currawong	VC
Brown Honeyeater	VC		Lewin's Honeyeater	VC
Crested Pigeon	VC		Blue-faced Honeyeater	VC
Striated Pardalote	VC		Dusky Moorhen	VC
Australian Wood Duck	VC		Grey-crowned Babbler	VC
Pacific Black Duck	VC		Brown Quail	VC
Masked Lapwing	VC		Little Pied Cormorant	VC
Superb Fairy-wren	VC		Wedge-tailed Eagle	VC
Galah	VC		Nankeen Kestrel	VC
Double-barred Finch	VC		Little Friarbird	VC
Rufous Whistler	VC		Rainbow Bee-eater	VC
Australasian Figbird	VC		Cattle Egret	VC
Common Myna	VC		Grey Butcherbird	VC
Grey Fantail	VC		Olive-backed Oriole	VC
Bar-shouldered Dove	VC		White-throated Honeyeater	VC
Straw-necked Ibis	VC		Sacred Kingfisher	VC
Peaceful Dove	VC		Channel-billed Cuckoo	VC
White-throated Gerygone	VC		Tree Martin	VC
Golden-headed Cisticola	VC		Grey Teal	VC
Australasian Pipit	C		Little Lorikeet	C
Brown Falcon	C		Little Corella	C
Dollarbird	C		Tawny Grassbird	C
Plumed Whistling-duck	C		Black-shouldered Kite	C
Spotted Dove	C		Common Starling	C
Purple Swamphen	C		Leaden Flycatcher	C
Yellow-rumped Thornbill	C		White-necked Heron	C
Noisy Friarbird	C		Chestnut-breasted Mannikin	C
Yellow-faced Honeyeater	C		Eastern Whipbird	C
Golden Whistler	C		Sulphur-crested Cockatoo	C
Eastern Koel	C		Scarlet Honeyeater	C
Spangled Drongo	C		Australasian Darter	C
Common Bronzewing	C		Varied Sittella	C
Little Black Cormorant	C		Red-browed Finch	C
Eastern Yellow Robin	C		Eastern Great Egret	C
Australian Pelican	C		Royal Spoonbill	C
Restless Flycatcher	C		Horsfield's Bushlark	C
Southern Boobook	C		Australian White Ibis	C
Spotted Pardalote	C		Brown Goshawk	C
Tawny Frogmouth	O		Great Cormorant	O
White-browed Scrubwren	O		Australian Reed-Warbler	O
Varied Triller	O		Azure Kingfisher	O
Black-winged Stilt	O		Black-fronted Dotterel	O
Hardhead	O		Rose Robin	O
White-throated Treecreeper	O		Yellow-billed Spoonbill	O
Brush Cuckoo	O		Pied Cormorant	O
Crimson Rosella	O		Little Bronze-cuckoo	O
Eurasian Coot	O		Jacky Winter	O
Fan-tailed Cuckoo	O		Horsfields Bronze-cuckoo	O
Black Swan	O		Spotted Harrier	O
Eastern Spinebill	O		Little Shrike-thrush	O
Whistling Kite	O		Shining Bronze-cuckoo	O
Buff-banded Rail	O		Australian Hobby
House Sparrow	O		White-throated Needletail	O
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo	O		Weebill	O
Fairy Martin	O		Glossy Black Cockatoo	O
Barn Owl	O		Bell Miner	O
Cockatiel	O		Brown Cuckoo-Dove	O
Satin Bowerbird	O		Rufous Songlark	O
Intermediate Egret	O		Cicadabird	O
Rufous Fantail	O		Peregrine Falcon	O
Zebra Finch	O		Brown Gerygone	O
White-bellied Sea-eagle	O		Ground Cuckoo-shrike	O
White-winged Triller	UN		Noisy Pitta	UN
Black-faced Monarch	UN		Red-kneed Dotterel	UN
Comb-crested Jacana	UN		Australian Brush-turkey	UN
White-naped Honeyeater	UN		Grey Goshawk	UN
Nankeen Night-Heron	UN		Black Kite	UN
White-throated Nightjar	UN		Pink-eared Duck	UN
Brown Thornbill	UN		Yellow-throated Scrubwren	UN
Variegated Fairy-wren	UN		Australian Logrunner	UN
Pacific Baza	UN		Red Wattlebird	UN
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater	UN		Stubble Quail	UN
Dusky Woodswallow	UN		Little Eagle	UN
Buff-rumped Thornbill	UN		Spectacled Monarch	UN
Striated Thornbill	UN		Wompoo Fruit-Dove	UN
Owlet Nightjar	UN		White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike	UN
Eastern Rosella	UN		Pallid Cuckoo	UN
Brown Songlark	UN		Powerful Owl	UN
Musk Lorikeet	UN		Collared Sparrowhawk	UN
Red-chested Button-quail	UN		White-headed Pigeon	UN
Australasian Shoveler	UN		Paradise Riflebird	UN
Speckled Warbler	UN		Albert's Lyrebird	UN
Large-billed Scrubwren	UN		Regent Bowerbird	UN
Rock Dove	UN		Great Crested Grebe	UN
Latham's Snipe	UN		Bush Stone-curlew	UN
Black-necked Stork (Jabiru)	UN		Caspian Tern	UN
Green Catbird	UN		Swamp Harrier	UN
Painted Button-quail	UN		Blue-winged Kookaburra	UN
Plum-headed Finch	UN		Emerald Dove	UN
Glossy Ibis	UN		Whiskered Tern	UN
Yellow Thornbill	UN		King Quail	UN
Topknot Pigeon	UN		Wandering Whistling-Duck	UN
Wonga Pigeon	UN		White-breasted Woodswallow	UN
Little Egret	UN		Bassian Thrush	UN
For a list of rareties and vagrants please apply to the Club Recorder by our email address in the left-hand margin.