Thanks Jason! This indeed looks promising! There are of course dozens of other birds on my list, so let’s hope they are just as easy with Peter leading the way. But in the end we only get what we get, and that’s it. A lot relies on good luck and coincidence. But still wishing for a real life wild koala… That would definitely be the highlight of my trip. Cheers, -Harry P.S. My extended list below with emphasis on the ones written in *bold* (don’t mind the impossible ones): *Emu Australian Brush-turkey Malleefowl King Quail *Whistling Duck (either one) *Musk Duck Freckled Duck *Australian Shelduck Blue-billed Duck Yellow-billed Spoonbill Australasian Bittern Black Bittern *Nankeen Night Heron *(Any Booby or Frigatebird) Square-tailed Kite *Pacific Baza *Brahminy Kite Eastern Osprey Crakes and Rails (only have Buff-breasted) Brolga *Buttonquails, any will do *Stone-curlews, either one *Oystercatchers, Pied or Sooty Banded Lapwing *Red-kneed Dotterel Inland Dotterel (one can always hope) Any Plovers or Dotterels (excl. Black-fronted) Australian Painted Snipe Any Sandpiper or Stint Pratincoles? Fairy Tern Little Tern Sooty Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Black Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern *Pacific Gull White-headed Pigeon Brown Cuckoo-dove Emerald Dove Brush Bronzewing Diamond Dove Bar-shouldered Dove Wonga Pigeon Wompoo Fruit-dove Superb Fruit-dove? Rose-crowned Fruit-dove Topknot Pigeon Pheasant Coucal Pacific (Eastern) Koel (not there yet?) Channel-billed Cuckoo (not there yet?) *Black-eared Cuckoo Shining Bronze-cuckoo Pallid Cuckoo Fan-tailed Cuckoo Brush Cuckoo *Owls! (of course I already have Powerful Owl) Nightjars! Australian Owlet-nightjar Dollarbird (not there yet?) Kingfishers (I have Sacred and Kookaburra) Rainbow Bee-eater (not there yet?) Glossy Black Cockatoo Gang-gang Cockatoo Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo *Long-billed Corella *Cockatiel *Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Musk Lorikeet Little Lorikeet (photos) Australian Ringneck Mulga Parrot *Turquoise Parrot Budgerigar Eastern Ground Parrot Australian King Parrot Superb Parrot Noisy Pitta Superb Lyrebird *Rufous Scrubbird *Green Catbird Regent Bowerbird Satin Bowerbird *Red-browed Treecreeper *Variegated Fairy-wren Splendid Fairy-wren* *Red-backed Fairy-wren? White-winged Fairy-wren Southern Emu-wren Scarlet HE *Tawny-crowned HE *Crescent HE *White-cheeked HE *Painted HE *White-naped HE Black-chinned HE White-eared HE *Crimson Chat *Orange Chat *Yellow-tufted HE Bell Miner *Mangrove HE? Lewin’s HE Eastern Bristlebird Pilotbird *Rockwarbler Chestnut-rumped Heathwren *Speckled Warbler Yellow-throated Scrubwren Large-billed Scrubwren Mangrove Gerygone White-throated Gerygone Inland Thornbill Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Buff-rumped Thornbill Southern Whiteface *Australian Logrunner Eastern Whipbird Spotted Quail-thrush Woodswallows Grey Currawong *Ground Cuckoo-shrike White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike *Common Cicadabird *White-winged Triller *Varied Sittella *Crested Bellbird *Crested Shriketit *Olive Whistler *Gilbert’s Whistler Golden Whistler Rufous Whistler *Little Shrikethrush *Spangled Drongo Rufous Fantail Black-faced Monarch Leaden Flycatcher Satin Flycatcher *Pale-yellow Robin Hooded Robin *Rose Robin Flame Robin Scarlet Robin *Horsfield’s Bush Lark Red-whiskered Bulbul White-backed Swallow Brown Songlark Tawny Grassbird Little Grassbird *Bassian Thrush Beautiful Firetail Diamond Firetail (photos) Plum-headed Finch Zebra Finch Double-barred Finch* 2015-09-04 2:33 GMT+03:00 Jason McHattan < jmchattan@ambertech.com.au>: > That sounds like a great trip Harry. > > Just a few comments to your list as it relates to the Northern Beaches of > Sydney: > > > -Australian Brushturkey > -Eastern Whipbird > -Variegated Fairy-wren > -Scarlet HE > -Robins (Rose) > If you’re heading to Warriewood, you could see all these at Irrawong > Reserve, which adjoins the wetlands <1km. > The first three are definites, the last two are quite possible. > > -Little Penguin > By the harbour around Manly, Little Manly, Collins Beach area. I’ve never > actually gone looking for them as I usually > see them on the water either in Middle Harbour or Pittwater where they are > a regular occurrence. > > -Pacific Baza > -Pacific Koel > -Channel-billed Cuckoo > It’s probably still a bit early for these. They come to the Northern > Beaches in Summer. > > -Glossy Black Cockatoo > In the area around Kimbriki Waste Recycling Centre and the Terrey Hills > area. Usually very conspicuous when in flight. > > -Australian King Parrot > Most places on the Northern Beaches, though not as common as the Rainbow > Lorikeet. > > -Australian Golden Whistler > Narrabeen Lake. It’s worth a walk around the lake, 8.5km for a full > circuit, or just go out and back along the > Southern shore between Jamieson Park and Middle Creek Reserve. Lots of > birds to see along that stretch. > > Regards, > Jason. > > >
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