birds
hi hi hi! as of 2024 i've started getting into birdwatching and fallen in love. iam by no means a twitcher, but it's been nice to keep a little tally of which birds i've been lucky enough to spot. i usually engage with birds fairly passively/incidentally, and plan to stay fairly local to where i am - but hopefully i'll be able to make it out to some more regional spots. join me on my little big year!
last updated: 14.04.24
| bird | date spotted | notes |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Wood Duck | ? | i wrote down i saw one in an undated diary entry early this year. whoops |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | ? | "" |
| Australasian/Purple Swamp Hen | 12-01-24 | all of the birds dated from today were from my first intentional trip to go birding in a park and make an effort to identify. there'll be a bunch from today |
| Bell Miner | 12-01-24 | bip bip bip bip bip |
| Eurasion Coot | 12-01-24 | on this first birding journey, i was a little confused trying to figure out if swamphens, eurasian coots and dusky moorhens were the same bird. it was very fun to figure out each of their little distinctions. |
| Dusky Moorhen | 12-01-24 | |
| Noisy Miner | 12-01-24 | |
| Common/Indian Myna | 12-01-24 | |
| Pacific Black Duck | 12-01-24 | |
| Sulphur Crested Cockatoo | 12-01-24 | i love these birds they sound awful <3 |
| Australian Magpie | 12-01-24 | |
| Magpie-Lark/Peewee/Peewit | 12-01-24 | |
| Spotted Dove | 12-01-24 | |
| Little Wattlebird | 12-01-24 | |
| Red Wattlebird | 12-01-24 | i think these are maybe my "spark bird". i saw one hanging upside-down from a native flower last year on a walk home and i haven't stopped being able to think about it since |
| Rock Dove | 12-01-24 | i love how many different pluamges these fellas have |
| Fan-Tail Cucko | 15-01-24 | heard outside of my bedroom window at 3am. their call is. haunting. |
| Tawny Frogmouth | 15-01-24 | feel so lucky for this one. went for a rollerskate and forgot to bring shoes to walk uphill home. i decided to try walking up in my skates anyway and had to stop for a break - they were right there in the tree by the bench. about three of them. roughly 4/5pm |
| Superb Fairy Wren | 20-01-24 | another birding trip. these guys are so fun to watch |
| Grey Butcherbird | 20-01-24 | |
| Black Faced Cuckoo-Shrike | 20-01-24 | saw a mother and its baby. fun fact: these are neither a cuckoo or shrike! |
| White Plumed Honeyeater | 20-01-24 | took forever looking online trying to figure out who this guy was from memory |
| Silvereye | 25-01-24 | |
| Eastern Spinebill | 25-01-24 | honeyeaters are very fun to watch. these are a little braver than wattlebirds i've found. i see honeyeaters like to move very specifically behind foliage to not be seen (this is maybe nothing). i try not to scare them but it's fun to try and spot them in the sidelines of the path |
| House Sparrow | 26-01-24 | |
| Emu | 29-01-24 | went out for a wildlife reserve walk with mum. this was the first bird we saw that wasn't a myna or lorikeet. it was about 10/15 metres away. we heard it before we saw it and afterwards kept our distance |
| Australasian Grebe | 29-01-24 | |
| Little Black Cormorant | 29-01-24 | |
| Grey Fantail | 29-01-24 | >:^ |
| Black Swan | 29-01-24 | big |
| Crested Pigeon | 29-01-24 | sick haircut dude (these guys are also natives) |
| Masked Lapwing | 29-01-24 | |
| Little Raven | 29-01-24 | i want to talk to whoever named these the little raven |
| Pied Currawong | 30-01-24 | i'm kinda making up the rules as i go along but i keep hearing currawongs but never seeing them. finally found one! they have my favourite calls. |
| Brown Thornbill | 11-02-24 | little brown birds are so difficult to id. saw one that was polite enough to stick around for a while. thanks friend |
| Long Billed Corella | 16-02-24 | i regret not taking a photo of these guys. im not 100% on my id (could possibly be little corellas) but i remember a very distinct red plumage, more common with long billed corellas. i'm counting it anyway |
| Galah | 18-02-24 | |
| Common Starling | 28-02-24 | stood starstruck in the middle of the pavement seeing this little fella and got some strange looks from schoolchildren :) |
| White-Browed Scrubwren | 29-02-24 | was the only person that showed up for a local bird tour and the very lovely tour guide helped me distinguish some scrubwrens apart from thornbills! |
| Nankeen Night Heron | 29-02-24 | on said tour we came to a lake and the tour guide said she'd been told nankeen night herons have been seen around but she's never spotted any personally. on cue, a baby came out from the reeds. so magical |
| Common Blackbird | 29-02-24 | |
| White-Faced Heron | 03-03-24 | |
| Chicken | 03-03-24 | i don't know if these count these were at my cousins' place. i was told they were black orlington chickens. chickens don't have an eBird page funnily enough lol |
| Stubble Quail | 03-03-24 | "" thanks for the eggs bud |
| Brown Goshawk | 08-03-24 | baby's first bird of prey spotted |
| Australian Pelican | 17-03-24 | heard an anecdote on a bird podcast once about someone mistaking a pelican for an actual pteradactyl and honestly. do not blame them. absolutely sized and shaped creature. (all of the new birds from today were from a 9 minute allowance into the bird hide, just closing down for the day as i was stopping by inbetween places. so lucky i spotted so many new birds and they were so distinct so i could identify too! shoutout FESWI) |
| Pied Stilt | 17-03-24 | absolutely perfect name. these guys walk so good and i cannot believe how cute they are |
| Yellow-Billed Spoonbill | 17-03-24 | watching these birds look for food is incredible. also their name is stupid sorry |
| Australian White Ibis | 17-03-24 | i cannot believe it has took me this long my bin-wading friend |
| Crimson Rosella | 10-04-24 | went on a big hike today! these rosella's calls had a sound similar to a bell miners', i don't know if it's mimicry or just coincidence. |
| Eastern Yellow Robin | 10-04-24 | i love how these guys latch to trees - their grey backs blends in with bark. |
| Superb Lyrebird | 10-04-24 | i feel so lucky being having spotted a lyrebird. how absolutely gorgeous. saw this guy digging up worms by the path and stood by on the other side for a few minutes. it didn't seem to mind. |
| Laughing Kookaburra | 10-04-24 | was secretly hoping to see kookaburras the whole hike and just on the walk back to the train station, i spotted three! |
| Pied Butcherbird | 14-04-24 |