In our tropical landscape it is difficult to define the seasons and there are considerable variations within the norm of what we can expect to experience. These factors can influence the movement of some of our migratory species and so the following list should only be taken as a guide.

We consider the following birds to be regular visitors or resident species... although they may not be seen every day:

Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Australian Brush-Turkey

Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Egret
Black Bitterns (September to March)

Brahminy Kite
Whistling Kite
Brown Goshawk
Grey Goshawk
Pacific Baza

Red-necked Crake
Bush-hen
Buff-banded Rail

Spotless Crake
White-browed Crake
Bush Stone Curlew

Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Emerald Ground-Dove
Pied Imperial-Pigeon (August to March)
Superb Fruit-Dove
Wompoo Fruit-Dove

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Double-eyed Fig-Parrot

Brush Cuckoo (calls in warmer months so is more evident)
Fan-tailed Cuckoo (breeds here from September to January, and moves north in the cooler months)
Gould's Bronze-Cuckoo
Common Koel (breeds August to May, and moves north in cooler months)
Channel-billed Cuckoo (breeds August to May, and moves north in cooler months)
Pheasant Coucal

Lesser Sooty Owl
Barking Owl
Papuan Frogmouth (nesting in old tree Jan '05)
Large-tailed Nightjar
Australian Owlet-nightjar

White-rumped Swiftlet
Little Kingfisher
Azure Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Forest Kingfisher
Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher (October to April)

Rainbow Bee-eater
Dollarbird (summer breeding migrant September to April)

Lovely Fairy-Wren (several families living on the property)
Large-billed Gerygone
Fairy Gerygone

Helmeted Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird (blossom nomad)
Little Friarbird
Dusky Honeyeater
Lewin's Honeyeater (altitudinal migrant to lowlands June – August)
Yellow-spotted Honeyeater
Graceful Honeyeater
Macleay's Honeyeater
Bridled Honeyeater (occasional winter visitor)
Brown-backed Honeyeater (migratory or seasonally nomadic, approx. September to April for breeding)
Yellow-breasted Boatbill

Grey Whistler
Little Shrike-Thrush

Black-faced Monarch (more common May to September)
Spectacled Monarch (more common May to September)
Pied Monarch
Leaden Flycatcher
Shining Flycatcher
Rufous fantail (resident from May to September)
Grey fantail (resident in our winter months)
Spangled Drongo

Varied Triller
Barred Cuckoo-shrike (more likely September to January depending on available fruit)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (more likely July to September)
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (more likely July to September)
Cicadabird (often heard calling September to March)
Yellow Oriole
Olive-backed Oriole (sometimes present in winter months)
Yellow Figbird
Black Butcherbird
Victoria's Riflebird
Spotted Catbird

Mistletoe-bird
Sunbird
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
Silver eye
Shining Starling (resident September to early April)

These birds may be seen intermittently on our wetlands:

Magpie Geese
Pacific Black Duck
Wandering Whistling Duck
Green Pygmy-Goose
Hardhead
Grey Teal
Australasian Grebe
Comb crested Jacana
Black-fronted Dotterel
Little Black Cormorant
Great-Billed Heron
Black-necked Stork
White-faced Heron
White-necked Heron
Little Egret
Intermediate Egret
Nankeen Night Heron
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Straw-necked Ibis
Australian White Ibis
Clamorous Reed-warbler

Occasional visitors:

Australian Pelican - 3 visited regularly during August 2002
Little Bittern
White-bellied Sea Eagle
Black-shouldered Kite
Collared sparrowhawk
Latham's Snipe (frequently recorded on exposed mudflats of wetland during the dry months of August to November)
Masked Lapwing
Topknot Pigeon
Oriental Cuckoo (non-breeding migrant September to May)
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo

Fork-tailed Swift (occasionally seen prior to summer storms)
Needle-tailed Swift (occasionally seen prior to summer storms)
Red-backed Fairy Wren (sometimes sighted January to April)
Satin Flycatcher (passing through north – south in October)
Pale-yellow Robin