Gulf CountryTour 18 to 29 May 2005

checklist of species recorded

Tour leader: Philip Maher, Patricia Maher

Participants: Don Jennings, Rhonda Jennings, Mike Doyle,
Rosemary Ryan, Colin Officer

Larger numbers are approximate, S=seen, H=heard, PR=pair, RK=road kill, BV=black vent, WV=white vent

This tour set off from Cairns; no birding was done in Cairns and we had only the briefest stop in the rainforest on the Atherton Tablelands en route to Georgetown

Trip report
Species                            May
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Emu
S
Australian Brush-turkey
S
S
Brown Quail
S
S
Plumed Whistling-Duck
150
S
Freckled Duck
1
1
Radjah Shelduck
S
Australian Wood Duck
S
S
S
S
S
Green Pygmy-goose
S
S
Pacific Black Duck
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Grey Teal
S
S
S
S
S
S
Pink-eared Duck
S
S
S
S
S
S
Hardhead
S
S
S
S
S
S
Australasian Grebe
S
S
S
S
S
S
Great Crested Grebe
S
S
S
Darter
S
S
S
S
S
Little Pied Cormorant
S
S
S
S
S
S
Pied Cormorant
S
Little Black Cormorant
S
S
S
S
Great Cormorant
S
Australian Pelican
S
S
S
S
S
S
White-faced Heron
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Little Egret
S
S
S
S
White-necked Heron
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Great Egret
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Intermediate Egret
S
S
S
Cattle Egret
S
S
S
Striated Heron
S
S
Nankeen Night Heron
S
S
Glossy Ibis
S
Australian White Ibis
S
S
S
S
Straw-necked Ibis
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Royal Spoonbill
S
S
S
S
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
S
Black-necked Stork (Jabiru)
S
S
S
S
Osprey
pr
S
Black-shouldered Kite
S
S
S
S
Black-breasted Buzzard
S
S
S
Black Kite
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Whistling Kite
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Brahminy Kite
S
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
S
S
S
Spotted Harrier
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Brown Goshawk
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Grey Goshawk (white)
S
Collared Sparrowhawk
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Wedge-tailed Eagle
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Little Eagle
S
S
Brown Falcon
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Australian Hobby
S
S
S
Black Falcon
S1
Peregrine Falcon
S1
Nankeen Kestrel
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Sarus Crane
S
S
S
S
?
Brolga
S
S
300
?
100
S
50
S
Aust Spotted Crake
S1
Purple Swamphen
S
S
Dusky Moorhen
S
S
S
S
Eurasian Coot
S
S
Australian Bustard
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Little Button-quail
S
Whimbrel
20
Eastern Curlew
20
Marsh Sandpiper
40
S
Common Greenshank
S
S
Grey-tailed Tattler
S
Red-necked Stint
S
Comb-crested Jacana
S
S
Pied Oystercatcher
S
S
Black-winged Stilt
100
50
S
S
S
Red-necked Avocet
S
Red-capped Plover
50
S
Black-fronted Dotterel
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Red-kneed Dotterel
S
S
S
S
Masked Lapwing
S
S
S
S
S
S
Australian Pratincole
S
S
S
Silver Gull
S
S
S
S
Gull-billed Tern
S
S
Caspian Tern
S
S
S
Rock Dove