Birds of the Mary River Koala Corridor

The Maryborough Bird Watches have undertaken two surveys of the corridor, one on the 26 March 2013 and one on the 14 January 2013

Thank you to Ruby, Coryn and Bill with encouragement from Juanita.

Here's the complete list - the names in black are from 14 Jan, the names in blue are new species on 26 March. Pictures to come!

Little black cormorants

Little Pied Cormorant

White-faced Heron

Jabirus

Cattle Egret

Nankeen Night Heron

Great egret

Straw-necked Ibis

Pacific Black Duck

Chestnut Teal

Spotted Turtledove

Peaceful Dove

Bar-shouldered Dove

Crested Pigeon

Rainbow Lorikeet

Indian Koel (h)

Channel-billed Cuckoo

Pheasant Coucal (h)

Laughing Kookaburra

Forest Kingfisher

Azure kingfisher

Rainbow Bee-eater

Dollar Bird

Welcome Swallow

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Eastern Yellow Robin

Leaden Flycatcher (m)

Willie Wagtail

Lewin’s Honeyeater

White-throated Honeyeater

Brown Honeyeater

Mistletoe Bird (f)

Spotted Pardalote

Figbird (f)

Spangled Drongo

White-winged Choughs

Australian Mudlark (Peewit)

Noisy miner

Australian Magpie

Torresian Crow

Grey butcherbird

Little friarbird

Blue faced honeyeater

Striated pardalotes

White breasted sea eagle

Grey Shrike thrush

Black faced cuckoo shrike

Rufous whistler(m,h)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

(f) female  (m) male  (h) heard

Conditions: 

Bird list 14 Jan 2013 Smith Farm near Petrie Park, Tiaro 8am - 10.30am

Hot morning to 36C at 10.30 after six month drought.

Bird list 26 March 2013 Smith Farm near Petrie Park, Tiaro 8am - 10.30am (?)

Hot morning after two floods in January and February.

 

Pollinators homes created for Love Mary Day

Glenda and Juanita have experimented with some Bamboo donated by Steve Walked to create prototypes for the pollinators homes.

 

"We used garden saws to cut the bamboo to size, and secateurs for the smaller pieces.  We used an electric drill to make holes in either end of the large bamboo, to take wire threaded through to make a hanger.  We found a chisel worked well to remove the internal 'wall' of the bamboo to make it an open tube, and smoothed off the inside with a large file.  Then simply cut smaller pieces to length and fitted them into the tube until no more would fit, and they didn't fall out. 

We did another type, using plumbers pipe, and although I'm sure the insects and solitary bees wouldn't mind them, we feel they look a bit less wonderful than our first one." 

 

We've invited local school, Glendyne, to be part of this project and Love Mary day.