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 |