Bird Life

List of birds seen or heard at Captain James Cook Memorial Caravan Park

The park is an excellent stop-over for anyone interested in birds.  The area between the cabins and the creek and right along the creek up behind the house, is excellent birding habitat.

Endemic species:
Australian Wood Duck  
Little Black Cormorant Pacific Black Duck
White-bellied Sea-Eagle White-faced Heron
Pacific Gull

Masked Lapwing
Silver Gull Kelp Gull
Swift Parrot

Green Rosella
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Horsfield’s Bronze-cuckoo (seen on the opposite bank of the creek)
Shining-Bronze-cuckoo Superb Fairy-wren
Striated Pardalote (nesting in eucalypt hollow at back of house) White-browed (Tasmanian) Scrubwren
Brown Thornbill Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Yellow-throated Honeyeater

Yellow Wattlebird

Strong-billed Honeyeater Black-headed Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater Forest Raven

Tree Martin

 Silvereye
Beautiful Firetail Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Introduced species:
House Sparrow Common Blackbird
Common Starling  

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