Birds of the Coorong - BIRD COUNTS

The below bird survey was conducted onboard one of our public tours Sunday 6th October 2024. Representing 7870 individual Birds sighted across 60 species…

  • Australasian Darter, 7

  • Australian Hobby, 2

  • Australian Magpie, 6

  • Australian Pelican, 563

  • Australian Pied Oystercatcher, 50

  • Australian White Ibis, 20

  • Bar-tailed Godwit, 11

  • Black Swan, 256

  • Black-faced Cormorant, 163

  • Caspian Tern, 25

  • Chestnut Teal, 68

  • Common Greenshank, 3

  • Common Starling, 8

  • Dusky Moorhen, 12

  • Emu, 3

  • Eurasian Coot, 49

  • European Goldfinch, 2

  • Galah, 2

  • Great Cormorant, 2193

  • Great Crested Grebe, 194

  • Great Egret, 6

  • Great Pied Cormorant, 364

  • Great Pied Cormorant, 63

  • Greater Crested Tern, 137

  • Greater Crested Tern, 267

  • Grey Teal, 3

  • Grey Teal, 2236

  • Hardhead, 8

  • Hoary-headed Grebe, 9

  • Little Black Cormorant, 162

  • Little Egret, 2

  • Little Pied Cormorant, 94

  • Little Raven, 6

  • Magpie-lark, 1

  • Masked Lapwing, 2

  • Musk Duck, 1

  • Nankeen Kestrel, 2

  • New Holland Honeyeater, 1

  • Pacific Black Duck, 56

  • Pacific Gull, 6

  • Pied Stilt, 2

  • Purple Swamphen, 27

  • Rainbow Lorikeet, 7

  • Red Wattlebird, 3

  • Red-necked Avocet, 447

  • Rock Dove, 1

  • Royal Spoonbill, 18

  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, 3

  • Silver Gull, 65

  • Singing Honeyeater, 3

  • Sooty Oystercatcher, 28

  • Straw-necked Ibis, 30

  • Swamp Harrier, 7

  • Wedge-tailed Eagle, 2

  • Welcome Swallow, 9

  • Whiskered Tern, 25

  • Whistling Kite, 6

  • White-faced Heron, 5

  • Willie Wagtail, 1

  • Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo, 118

As part of the ‘Aussie Bird Count’ we have been conducting 20-minute bird observation surveys onboard our regular tours. The below graph shows a snapshot of bird species & individual bird numbers during a twenty minute period in the Coorong’s northern lagoon.

AUSSIE BIRD COUNT - 16/10/2024