Birds Australia North Queensland

Report of Birds Australia North Queensland Outing Cardwell to Kennedy, September 9th 2007

Starting from Cardwell Rainforest and Reef Information Centre, six members drove to Glenbora Waterhole, a site of significance to the indigenous people of the area and in early Caucasian settlement. This site is situated in a newly replanted forestry plantation but a corridor is to be planted to link it to other remnant vegetation to the north and south. The waterhole is surrounded by rainforest with paperbarks and Moreton Bay Ash. There are a few palms present and the canopy is closed in places. There is natural regeneration occurring around the edges and within the forest. Weeds under the closed canopy were not obvious but in the disturbed areas weed invasion is significant. It grows on an alluvium which shows signs of water logging in the wet. The morning was cool but soon warmed up and was hot in the sun by midday. Bird lists follow. Leader: Alan Gillanders».

Pale-yellow Robin. At Whitfield Creek, courtesy Ian Montgomery, Birdway».

Cardwell & Kennedy Birdlists		Yellow Oriole. At Glenbora Waterhole, courtesy Ian Montgomery, Birdway».
Glenbora Waterhole White-necked Heron White-faced Heron Darter Australian White Ibis Peaceful Dove Bar-shouldered Dove Wompoo Fruit-Dove White-rumped Swiflet Forest Kingfisher Lovely Fairy-Wren Large-Billed Gerygone Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Graceful Honeyeater White-throated Honeyeater Dusky Honeyeater Yellow Honeyeater Pale-yellow Robin Grey Whistler Rufous Whistler Little Shrike-thrush Spectacled Monarch Shining Flycatcher Leaden Flycatcher Grey Fantail Northern Fantail Willie Wagtail Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike Cicadabird Varied Triller Yellow Oriole White-breasted Woodswallow Black Butcherbird Red-browed Finch Yellow-bellied Sunbird Mistletoe Bird Silvereye	Whitfield Creek (north of Kennedy School) Black Kite Wompoo Fruit-Dove Fan-tailed Cuckoo Fairy Gerygone Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Graceful Honeyeater Dusky Honeyeater Pale-yellow Robin Grey Whistler Little Shrike-thrush Yellow Oriole Silvereye Other birds seen from Cardwell to Kennedy (not on the above lists) Osprey Forest Kingfisher Rainbow Bee-eater Spotted Turtle Dove Brown Honeyeater Spangled Drongo Welcome Swallow Fairy Martin Figbird Pied Currawong Common Myna House sparrow Chestnut-breasted Mannikin