Birds sighted in the vicinity of the Argyle Diamond Mine

Frank O'Connor

8C Hardy Road

Nedlands WA 6009

Phone : (08) 93865694

Birds sighted in the vicinity of the Argyle Diamond Mine (S16 40 E128 22)

216 species (75 breeding) up to June 2005

Birds sighted in the vicinity of the Argyle Diamond Mine

Emu

Brown Quail

Magpie Goose 

Plumed WhistlingDuck

Wandering WhistlingDuck 

Black Swan 

Radjah Shelduck 

Green Pygmygoose 

Pacific Black Duck

Grey Teal 

Garganey 

Pinkeared Duck 

Hardhead 

Australasian Grebe 

Hoaryheaded Grebe 

Great Crested Grebe 

Darter 

Little Pied Cormorant 

Pied Cormorant 

Little Black Cormorant 

Great Cormorant 

Australian Pelican

Whitefaced Heron

Little Egret 

White-necked Heron

Pied Heron 

Great Egret 

Intermediate Egret 

Cattle Egret 

Nankeen Night Heron

Little Bittern 

Black Bittern 

Glossy Ibis 

Australian White Ibis 

Strawnecked Ibis

Royal Spoonbill 

Yellowbilled Spoonbill 

Blacknecked Stork

Osprey 

Blackshouldered Kite

Square-tailed Kite

Blackbreasted Buzzard

Black Kite

Whistling Kite

Brahminy Kite 

Whitebellied SeaEagle 

Spotted Harrier

Swamp Harrier 

Brown Goshawk

Grey Goshawk 

Collared Sparrowhawk

Wedgetailed Eagle

Little Eagle 

Brown Falcon

Australian Hobby

Grey Falcon Ÿ

Black Falcon 

Peregrine Falcon

Nankeen Kestrel

Brolga

Buff-banded Rail 

Baillon's Crake 

Australian Spotted Crake 

White-browed Crake 

Purple Swamphen 

Blacktailed Nativehen 

Eurasian Coot 

Australian Bustard

Red-backed Button-quail 

Little Buttonquail

Redchested Buttonquail

Swinhoe's Snipe 

Blacktailed Godwit 

Little Curlew 

Marsh Sandpiper 

Common Greenshank 

Wood Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper 

Ruddy Turnstone 

Rednecked Stint 

Longtoed Stint 

Pectoral Sandpiper 

Sharptailed Sandpiper 

Curlew Sandpiper 

Ruff 

Painted Snipe §

Combcrested Jacana 

Bush Stone-curlew 

Blackwinged Stilt

Red-necked Avocet §

Pacific Golden Plover 

Redcapped Plover 

Oriental Plover 

Blackfronted Dotterel

Redkneed Dotterel 

Masked Lapwing

Oriental Pratincole 

Australian Pratincole

Gullbilled Tern 

Caspian Tern 

Whiskered Tern 

White-winged Black Tern 

Flock Bronzewing §

Crested Pigeon

Spinifex Pigeon

Whitequilled RockPigeon 

Diamond Dove

Peaceful Dove

Barshouldered Dove

Redtailed BlackCockatoo

Galah

Little Corella

Sulphurcrested Cockatoo

Cockatiel

Rainbow Lorikeet

Varied Lorikeet

Redwinged Parrot

Northern Rosella

Budgerigar

Oriental Cuckoo (dead) 

Pallid Cuckoo

Brush Cuckoo 

Blackeared Cuckoo ٤

Horsfield's BronzeCuckoo 

Shining BronzeCuckoo 

Common Koel 

Channelbilled Cuckoo 

Pheasant Coucal

Barking Owl

Southern Boobook

Barn Owl

Tawny Frogmouth

Spotted Nightjar

Australian Owletnightjar

Forktailed Swift 

Azure Kingfisher 

Bluewinged Kookaburra

Forest Kingfisher 

Redbacked Kingfisher

Sacred Kingfisher

Rainbow Beeeater

Dollarbird

Blacktailed Treecreeper

Purple-crowned Fairy-wren 

Variegated Fairywren 

Redbacked Fairywren

Redbrowed Pardalote

Striated Pardalote

Weebill

Whitethroated Gerygone 

Silvercrowned Friarbird

Little Friarbird

Bluefaced Honeyeater 

Yellowthroated Miner

Singing Honeyeater

Whitegaped Honeyeater

Greyfronted Honeyeater

Yellowtinted Honeyeater

Blackchinned Honeyeater

Whitethroated Honeyeater

Brown Honeyeater

Barbreasted Honeyeater

Rufousthroated Honeyeater

Banded Honeyeater

Crimson Chat 

Yellow Chat 

Jacky Winter

White-browed Robin 

Greycrowned Babbler

Varied Sittella

Rufous Whistler

Sandstone Shrikethrush 

Grey Shrikethrush

Restless Flycatcher

Magpielark

Grey Fantail 

Northern Fantail

Willie Wagtail

Blackfaced Cuckooshrike

Whitebellied Cuckooshrike

Ground Cuckooshrike

Whitewinged Triller

Olivebacked Oriole

Whitebreasted Woodswallow 

Masked Woodswallow 

White-browed Woodswallow

Blackfaced Woodswallow

Little Woodswallow

Grey Butcherbird 

Pied Butcherbird

Australian Magpie

Little Crow

Torresian Crow

Great Bowerbird

Singing Bushlark

Richard's Pipit

Zebra Finch

Doublebarred Finch

Longtailed Finch

Masked Finch

Crimson Finch

Star Finch 

Painted Finch 

Yellowrumped Mannikin 

Chestnutbreasted Mannikin 

Pictorella Mannikin

Gouldian Finch

Mistletoebird

Tree Martin

Fairy Martin

Clamorous Reedwarbler 

Tawny Grassbird 

Spinifexbird 

Rufous Songlark

Brown Songlark 

Goldenheaded Cisticola 

Birds sighted in the vicinity of the Argyle Diamond Mine

 These have been seen by me since 1988 but they were not recorded in the 1983 ERMP survey.

§ These have been reported by others but were not recorded in the 1983 ERMP survey.

Ÿ These were seen in the 1983 ERMP survey but have not been seen since by me.

The species in bold have been recorded breeding.