Birds of Mount Painter, ACT

This list has been compiled from records made in the Mount Painter Reserve between 1986 and 2006 by members of the Canberra Ornithologists Group.

Friends of Mt Painter are grateful to COG for making their information available.

Common Name

/ Scientific name / Reporting rate %*
Crimson Rosella /

Platycercus elegans

/ 4.7
Australian Magpie / Gymnorhina tibicen / 4.7
Pied Currawong / Strepera graculina / 4.4
Common Starling / Sturnus vlugaris / 4.4
Red Wattlebird / Anthochaera carunculata / 4.2
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo / Cacatua galerita / 4.0
Grey Fantail / Rhipidura albiscapa / 3.7
Superb Fairy-wren / Malurus cyaneus / 3.4
Yellow-rumped Thornbill / Acanthiza chrysorrhoa / 3.4
Magpie-lark / Grallina cyanoleuca / 3.4
Eastern Rosella / Platycercus eximius / 3.0
Willie Wagtail / Rhipidura leucophrys / 3.0
Australian Raven / Corvus coronoides / 3.0
Laughing Kookaburra / Dacelo novaeguineae / 2.9
Galah / Cacatua roseicapilla / 2.7
Silvereye / Zosterops lateralis / 2.7
Noisy Friarbird / Philemon corniculatus / 2.5
Eastern Spinebill / Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris / 2.3
Striated Pardalote / Pardalotus striatus / 2.2
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike / Coracina novaehollandiae / 2.2
House Sparrow / Passer doemsticus / 2.2
Common Blackbird / Turdus merula / 2.2
Yellow-faced Honeyeater / Lichenostomus chrysops / 1.3
Brown Falcon / Falco berigora / 1.2
Spotted Pardalote / Pardalotus punctatus / 1.2
Weebill / Smicrornis brevirostris / 1.2
Scarlet Robin / Petroica multicolor / 1.2
Black-shouldered Kite / Elanus axillaris / 1.0
Crested Pigeon / Ocyphaps lophotes / 1.0
Nankeen Kestrel / Falco cenchroides / 0.8
Buff-rumped Thornbill / Acanthiza reguloides / 0.8
European Goldfinch / Carduelis carduelis / 0.8
Wedge-tailed Eagle / Aquila audax / 0.7
Australian King-Parrot / Alisterus scapularis / 0.7
Red-rumped Parrot / Psephotus haematonotus / 0.7
Dollarbird / Eurystomus orientalis / 0.7
White-throated Treecreeper / Climacteris leucophaeus / 0.7
Varied Sittella / Daphoenositta chrysoptera / 0.7
Leaden Flycatcher / Myiagra rubecula / 0.7
Red-browed Finch / Emblema temporalis / 0.7
Brown Goshawk / Accipiter axillaris / 0.5
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo / Chrysococcyx lucidus / 0.5
Southern Boobook / Ninox novaeseelandiae / 0.5
White-throated Needletail / Hirundapus caudacutus / 0.5
Yellow Thornbill / Acanthiza nana / 0.5
Southern Whiteface / Aphelocephala leucopsis / 0.5
White-eared Honeyeater / Lichenostomus leucotis / 0.5
White-naped Honeyeater / Melithreptus lunatus / 0.5
Rufous Whistler / Pachycephala rufiventris / 0.5
Grey Shrike-thrush / Colluricincla harmonica / 0.5
Dusky Woodswallow / Artamus cyanopterus / 0.5
Grey Currawong / Strepera versicolora / 0.5
Common Myna / Acridotheres tristis / 0.5
Common Bronzewing / Phaps chalcoptera / 0.3
Channel-billed Cuckoo / Scythrops novaehollandiae / 0.3
Brown Treecreeper / Climacteris picumnus / 0.3
Brown Thornbill / Acanthiza pusilla / 0.3
White-plumed Honeyeater / Lichenostomus penicillatus / 0.3
Olive-backed Oriole / Oriolus sagittatus / 0.3
White-winged Chough / Corcorax melanorhamphos / 0.3
Welcome Swallow / Hirundo neoxena / 0.3
Stubble Quail / Coturnix novaezelandiae / 0.2
Australian Wood Duck / Chenonetta jubata / 0.2
Collared Sparrowhawk / Accipiter cirrhocephalus / 0.2
Little Eagle / Hieraaetus morphnoides / 0.2
Australian Hobby / Falco longipennis / 0.2
Masked Lapwing / Vanellus miles / 0.2
Peaceful Dove / Geopelia placida / 0.2
Rainbow Lorikeet / Trichoglossus haematodus / 0.2
Sacred Kingfisher / Halcyon sanctus / 0.2
White-browed Scrubwren / Sericornis frontalis / 0.2
Speckled Warbler / Sericornis sagittata / 0.2
Western Gerygone / Gerygone fusca / 0.2
Brown-headed Honeyeater / Melithreptus brevirostris / 0.2
Flame Robin / Petroica phoenicea / 0.2
Golden Whistler / Pachycephala pectoralis / 0.2
Rufous Fantail / Rhipidura rufifrons / 0.2
Masked Woodswallow / Artamus personatus / 0.2
White-browed Woodswallow / Artamus superciliosus / 0.2
Richard's Pipit / Anthus novaeseelandiae / 0.2
Double-barred Finch / Poephila bichnovii / 0.2
Diamond Firetail / Stagonopleura guttata / 0.2
Rufous Songlark / Cinclorhamphus mathewsi / 0.2
Brown Songlark / Cinclorhamphus cruralis / 0.2

Key: ‘Reporting rate %’ is the percentage of records in which a species was recorded, that is, Crimson Rosella and Magpie were the most commonly reported, and songlarks were among the least commonly reported. Because of the way in which the data were collected, it is probable that the reporting rates for the rarer birds over-represent their occurrence compared with that of the commoner birds.