birdssa.asn.au / Checklist for
ONKAPARINGA RIVER RECREATION PARK

-35.15833 °N 138.48444 °E

or new
……………. …………….. / 35°09’30” S 138°29’04” E
…………… …………….. / 54 270869 6106501
… …...... ………
Observers: …………………………………………………………………..
..………………………………………………………………………………. / Phone: (H) ……………………………… (M) …………………………………
Email: …………..……………………………………………………
Date: ……..…………………………. Start Time: ……………………… End Time: ………………………

Codes (leave blank for Present)

D = Dead / H = Heard / O = Overhead / B = Breeding / B1 = Mating
B2 = Nest Building / B3 = Nest with eggs / B4 = Nest with chicks / B5 = Dependent fledglings / B6 = Bird on nest

NON-PASSERINES Code No. NON-PASSERINES Code No. NON-PASSERINES Code No.

Cape Barren Goose / Eurasian Coot
Black Swan / Sooty Oystercatcher
Freckled Duck / White-headed Stilt
Australian Shelduck / Spur-winged Plover (Masked Lapwing)
Pink-eared Duck / Red-kneed Dotterel
Maned Duck / Red-capped Plover
Pacific Black Duck / Hooded Plover
Pacific Black Duck x *Mallard / Black-fronted Dotterel
Australasian Shoveler / Australian Painted Snipe
Grey Teal / Latham’s Snipe
Chestnut Teal / Black-tailed Godwit
Hardhead / Marsh Sandpiper
Blue-billed Duck / Common Greenshank
Musk Duck / Common Sandpiper
Stubble Quail / Red-necked Stint
Brown Quail / Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Australasian Grebe / Australian Pratincole
Hoary-headed Grebe / Silver Gull
Great Crested Grebe / Caspian Tern
Australian White Ibis / Greater Crested Tern
Straw-necked Ibis / Whiskered Tern
Glossy Ibis / *Feral Pigeon
Royal Spoonbill / *Spotted Dove
Yelow-billed Spoonbill / Common Bronzewing
Australasian Bittern / Brush Bronzewing
Nankeen Night Heron / Crested Pigeon
Great Egret / Peaceful Dove
Intermediate Egret / Fan-tailed Cuckoo
White-faced Heron / Nankeen Kestrel
Little Egret / Australian Hobby
Pacific Reef Heron / Brown Falcon
Australian Pelican / Black Falcon
Little Pied Cormorant / Peregrine Falcon
Little Black Cormorant / Galah
Pied Cormorant / Long-billed Corella
Great Cormorant / Little Corella
Australasian Darter / Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Osprey / Cockatiel
Black-shouldered Kite / Rainbow Lorikeet
Little Eagle / Musk Lorikeet
Wedge-tailed Eagle / Purple-crowned Lorikeet
Brown Goshawk / Adelaide Rosella (Crimson Rosella)
Collared Sparrowhawk / Eastern Rosella
Buff-banded Rail / Mulga Parrot
Lewin’s Rail / Elegant Parrot
Baillon’s Crake / Budgerigar
Australian Crake
Australasian Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Black-tailed Nativehen

If Species in BOLD are seen a “Rare Bird Record Report” should be submitted.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ONLY BIRDS SEEN WITHIN THE PARK ARE RECORDED ON THIS LIST. IF YOU SEE BIRDS OUTSIDE THE PARK PLEASE MARK ACCORDINGLY OR PREFERABLY USE A SEPARATE LIST.

Please return this sheet on completion to Birds SA Database Co-ordinator (Brian Blaylock) for inclusion in the database.

Email to: or post to: Birds SA c/- SA Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, 5000


birdssa.asn.au / Checklist for
ONKAPARINGA RIVER RECREATION PARK

-35.15833 °N 138.48444 °E

or new
……………. …………….. /

-35.15833 °N 138.48444 °E

or new
……………. …………….. /

-35.15833 °N 138.48444 °E

or new
……………. ……………..
Observers: …………………………………………………………………..
..………………………………………………………………………………. / Phone: (H) ……………………………… (M) …………………………………
Email: …………..……………………………………………………
Date: ……..…………………………. Start Time: ……………………… End Time: ………………………

Codes (leave blank for Present)

D = Dead / H = Heard / O = Overhead / B = Breeding / B1 = Mating
B2 = Nest Building / B3 = Nest with eggs / B4 = Nest with chicks / B5 = Dependent fledglings / B6 = Bird on nest

PASSERINES Code No. PASSERINES Code No. PASSERINES Code No.

Superb Fairywren / Australian Reed Warbler
Eastern Spinebill / Little Grassbird
New Holland Honeyeater / Golden-headed Cisticola
Crescent Honeyeater / Silvereye
Brown-headed Honeyeater / *Common Starling
White-naped Honeyeater / *Common Blackbird
White-fronted Chat / *House Sparrow
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater / Red-browed Finch
Red Wattlebird / Australian Pipit
Little Wattlebird / * European Greenfinch
Yellow-faced Honeyeater / * European Goldfinch
Noisy Miner
Singing Honeyeater
Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
White-browed Scrubwren
Weebill
Brown Thornbill
Buff-rumped Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Yellow Thornbill
Striated Thornbill
Southern Whiteface
White-browed Babbler
Dusky Woodswallow
Australian Magpie
Black-winged Currawong (Grey Currswong)
Black-faced Cuckooshrike
White-winged Triller
Black-capped Sittella (Varied Sittella)
Eastern Shriketit (Crested Shriketit)
Australian Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Grey Shrikethrush
Willie Wagtail
Grey Fantail
Magpielark
Little Raven
Scarlet Robin
*Eurasian Skylark
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
Tree Martin

If Species in BOLD are seen a “Rare Bird Record Report” should be submitted.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ONLY BIRDS SEEN WITHIN THE PARK ARE RECORDED ON THIS LIST. IF YOU SEE BIRDS OUTSIDE THE PARK PLEASE MARK ACCORDINGLY OR PREFERABLY USE A SEPARATE LIST.

Please return this sheet on completion to Birds SA Database Co-ordinator (Brian Blaylock) for inclusion in the database.

Email to: or post to: Birds SA c/- SA Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, 5000

ONKAPARINGA RIVER RECREATION PARK

Revised: 29 June 2017 152