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Macleay’s Honeyeater

…rainforest honeyeater, feeds on fruit and insects.

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May 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We searched for days to finally catch a glimpse of this Wompoo Fruit-Dove aka wompoo pigeon & magnificent fruit dove. Despite its bright colouring so hard to see high in the canopy foraging

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May 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Pacific Emerald Dove. Forages on the ground for fallen fruit, seeds and a wide variety of low-lying plants. Spends little time in trees except when roosting! Usually solitary.

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June 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Lovely Fairywren. Marked sexual dimorphism - males adopt a highly visible breeding plumage of brilliant iridescent blue & chestnut. Eat insects, including caterpillars. Found only in NE QLD

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June 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Australasian Figbird
Figs are a popular part of their diet also soft fruits & berries in the canopy. Insects too.
Male has bare red skin around the eye. Females look completely different

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May 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Victoria's Riflebird - named after Queen Victoria of the UK - Riflebird from the likeness of their black velvety plumage to the uniform of the British Army Rifle Brigade

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July 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Azure Kingfisher
…never far from water preferring freshwater rivers creeks billabongs lakes swamps & dams usually in shady overhanging vegetation where it plunges into water to catch prey

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May 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Lewin’s Honeyeater
There are two similarly ear-patched but smaller species Yellow-spotted & Graceful - difficult to distinguish unless together! Feed on berries, fruits, insects & nectar.

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June 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Yellow-throated Scrubwren - small, ground-dwelling bird with a distinctive black face mask & forehead. Found in rainforests & wet, timbered gullies with dense vegetation.

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June 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Striated Pardalote - the least colourful & most common of the 4 pardalote species more often heard than seen foraging noisily for lerps & other small creatures in the treetops. Only in Aust

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June 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Spangled Drongo showing its blue spangles & gorgeous red eye. An omnivore, expert aerial hunter catches insects mid-air. Also eats fruit, nectar & sometimes small birds & lizards

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May 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dusky Honeyeater. Small, entirely brown honeyeater. Active & fast moving, often hovering to take insects or nectar from flowers in the upper storey. Found in S New Guinea & N & E Australia.

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June 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Chestnut-breasted Munia - social bird, most often seen in flocks. Found in reed beds, long grasses, swamps & mangroves. Feeds on grass seeds usually on the stalk rather than from the ground

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July 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Common Myna - native to Asia & introduced widely. In 2000 it was declared one of the world's worst invasive species that pose a threat to biodiversity, agriculture & human interests.

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June 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Magpie Goose
Found in floodplains & wet grasslands in Northern Australia & Southern New Guinea. Feeds on aquatic vegetation wild rice swamp grass seeds dry grasses & bulbs of spike-rush.

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June 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Victoria’s Riflebird
It’s our last full day in FNQ & this is an astonishing bird we saw Day 1!! The male displays dancing swaying raising wings to flash its colours to attract a mate 🖤💛💙😍

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May 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Pale-headed Rosella - endemic to NE & E Australia. Found in pairs rather than flocks. Feed mainly on the ground on seeds & fruits of grasses, shrubs & trees, flowers, insects & their larvae

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June 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Black-necked Stork - carnivores that forage in a variety of natural & artificial wetland habitats. Perform a dance-like display. Aka Jabiru but that is a stork species found in the Americas

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June 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Olive-backed Sunbird
…very active garden visitor Eats insects off leaves & flowers & probes flowers with its long curved bill for nectar, often hovers to do so. Males have iridescent throat

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May 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pale Yellow Robin

…build neat cup-shaped nests usually along a creek, often in vines. Females incubate the eggs & the male regularly feeds her small insects foraged from the forest floor

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May 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Satin Bowerbird (F) frugivores- thrive on raw fruits or fruit-like produce of plants such as roots shoots nuts & seeds but nestlings are fed on beetles, grasshoppers etc until they can fly

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July 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Yellow-Breasted Boatbill - found in FNQ & New Guinea. Its large black bill is wide, long & flat with a distinct keel on the upper mandible, resembling the shape of a boat, hence its name.

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June 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
White-bellied Cuckooshrike aka Papuan/Little. Thrives in many different habitats & vegetation types Feeds on insects, fruit & seeds. Both adults construct a cup nest decorated with lichen

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June 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Spangled Drongo
…has glossy black plumage, with iridescent blue-green spots and blood red eyes. Easily recognised by its characteristic forked tail…mermaid tail we say 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️

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May 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Wandering Whistling-Duck - named for their loud whistling calls & the whistling noise their wings make during flight.

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July 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM