Twitch twitch, twitch twitch…..
Cruising along the Kimberley coast you cannot help but sit back and take notice of nature; the rustle of the trees, the lapping of the waves and the song of the many birds that call the Kimberley home. Pure serenity…
For some, bird watching is a serious quest to sight that particular bird found only here in the Kimberley. Some see this as a challenge and for others it is just the thrill when they finally do catch a glimpse of that bird yet to be ticked off the list!!!
There are indeed numerous activities to enjoy in the Kimberley and bird watching is certainly popular. Needing just a pair of binoculars you can twitch anywhere at anytime on your travels.
Below are some of the species you may find on your Kimberley adventures…binoculars poised, let’s twitch…
Brown Quail Magpie Goose Plumed Whistle Duck Wandering Whistling Duck Black Swan Australian Shelduck Pacific Black Duck Grey Teal Garganey Pink-eared Duck Hardhead Australasian Grebe Australian Pelican White-faced Heron Little Egret Eastern Reef Egret White-necked Heron Great-billed heron Great Egret Intermediate Egret Cattle Egret Striated Heron Nankeen-night Heron Glossy Ibis Australian White Ibis Straw-necked Ibis Royal Spoonbill Yellow-billed Spoonbill Black-necked Stork Black-shouldered Kite Black-Breasted Buzzard Square-tailed Kite Black Kite Whistling Kite Brahminy Kite White-bellied Sea Eagle Swamp Harrier Brown Goshawk Grey Goshawk Collared Sparrowhawk Wedgetailed Eagle Little Eagle Brown Falcon Australian Hobby Grey Falcon Black Falcon Peregrine Falcon Nankeen Kestrel Brolga Buff-banded Rail Baillon’s Crake Spotless Crake Australian Spotted Crake White-Browed Crake Chestnut Rail Purple Swamphen Black-tailed Native-hen Eurasian Coot Australian Bustard Swinhoe’s Snipe Black-tailed Godwit Bar-Tailed Godwit Little Curlew Whimbrel Eastern Curlew Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank Wood Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Grey-tailed Tatler Red Knot Red-necked Stint Long-toed Stint Pectoral Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Broad-billed Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Ruff Black-winged Stilt Red-necked Avocet Pacific Golden Plover Grey Plover Little-ringed Plover Red-capped Plover Lesser Sand Plover Greater Sand Plover Oriental Plover Black-fronted Dotterel Red-kneed Dotterel Masked Lapwing Oriental Pratincole Australian Pratincole Silver Gull Gull-billed tern Caspian Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Rufous Songlark Brown Songlark Yellow White eye |
Rose-crowned Fruit Pigeon Common Bronzewing Flock Bronzewing Crested Pigeon Peaceful Dove Diamond Dove Bar-shouldered Dove Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Galah Little Corella Cockatiel Rainbow Lorikeet Varied Lorikeet Red-winged Parrot Budgerigar Oriental Cuckoo Pallid Cuckoo Brush Cuckoo Black-eared Cuckoo Horsefield Bronze Cuckoo Little Bronze Cuckoo Common Koel Channel-billed Cuckoo Pheasant Coucal Southern Boobook Barn Owl Tawny Frogmouth Fork-tailed swift Blue winged Kookaburra Red-backed Kingfisher Sacred Kingfisher Collared Kingfisher Rainbow Bee-eater Dollarbird Variegated Fairy Wren Red-backed Fairy Wren Red-browed Pardalote Striated Pardalote Weebill Dusky Gerygone Mangrove Gerygone White-throated Gerygone Silver-crowned Friar Bird Little Friar Bird Yellow-throated Miner Singing Honeyeater White-gaped honeyeater Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Black-chinned Honeyeater Brown Honeyeater Bar-breasted Honeyeater Rufous-throated Honeyeater Banded Honeyeater Red-headed Honeyeater Crimson Chat Yellow Chat Jacky Winter Lemon-bellied Flycatcher Mangrove Robin Grey-crowned Babbler Varied Sittella Mangrove Golden Whistler Rufous Whistler White-breasted Whistler Grey Shrike-thrush Broad-billed Flycatcher Leaden Flycatcher Shining Flycatcher Restless Flycatcher Magpie-lark Mangrove Fantail Northern Fantail Willie Wagtail Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike White-winged Triller Olive-backed Oriole White-breasted Woodswallow Black-faced Woodswallow Masked Woodswallow Little Woodswallow Pied Butcherbird Australian Magpie Torresian Crow Great Bowerbird Singing Bushlark Richard’s Pipit Yellow wagtail Black-backed wagtail Zebra Finch Double-barred Finch Long-tailed Finch Star Finch Mistletoebird Barn Swallow Welcome Swallow Tree Martin Fairy Martin Clamorous Reed-warbler Little Grassbird Golden-headed Cisticola Source: Derby Visitor Centre |