“Hey, what’s that?” was the cry at breakfast. A pair of Black-faced cuckoo-shrikes were flying about the garden, from the washing line to the gum tree to the apricot and back. OK, it must be about time that I wrote down all the birds we’ve seen in — or above — our garden. The following table is from the Monash city council, I’ve added in a column for our house!
Bird species. An asterisk (*) denotes an exotic species.
| Common Name | Scientific Name | Mill road |
|---|---|---|
| White-faced Heron | Egretta novaehollandiae | |
| Brown Goshawk | Accipiter fasciatus | |
| Dusky Moorhen | Gallinula ventralis | |
| Australian Wood Duck | Chenonetta jubata | |
| Pacific Black Duck | Anas superciliosa | |
| Chestnut Teal | Anas castanea | |
| Blue-billed Duck | Oxyura australis | |
| Latham’s Snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | |
| Masked Lapwing | Vanellus miles | |
| Black-fronted Dotterel | Elseyornis melanops | |
| Common Bronzewing | Phaps chalcoptera | |
| Crested Pigeon | Ocyphaps lophotes | + |
| *Spotted Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia chinensis | + |
| *Rock Dove | Columba livia | + |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Trichoglossus haematodus | + |
| Musk Lorikeet | Glossopsitta concinna | |
| Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo | Calyptorhynchus funereus | |
| Galah | Eolophus roseicapillus | |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Cacatua galerita | + |
| Eastern Rosella | Platycercus eximius | |
| Crimson Rosella | Platycercus elegans | |
| Red-rumped Parrot | Psephotus haematonotus | |
| Laughing Kookaburra | Dacelo novaeguineae | |
| Powerful Owl | Ninox strenua | |
| Tawny Frogmouth | Podargus strigoides | |
| Fan-tailed Cuckoo | Cacomantis flabelliformis | |
| Red Wattlebird | Anthochaera carunculata | + |
| Little Wattlebird | Anthochaera chrysoptera | |
| Noisy Miner | Manorina melanocephala | + |
| Bell Miner | Manorina melanophrys | |
| White-plumed Honeyeater | Lichenostomus penicillatus | + |
| Eastern Spinebill | Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris | |
| Brown Thornbill | Acanthiza pusilla | + |
| Striated Thornbill | Acanthiza lineata | |
| Striated Pardalote | Pardalotus striatus | |
| Spotted Pardalote | Pardalotus punctatus | |
| Silvereye | Zosterops lateralis | + |
| White-browed Scrub-wren | Sericornis frontalis | |
| Superb Fairy-wren | Malurus cyaneus | |
| Magpie-lark | Grallina cyanoleuca | |
| Grey Fantail | Rhipidura fuliginosa | |
| Willie Wagtail | Rhipidura leucophrys | |
| Eastern Yellow Robin | Eopsaltria australis | |
| Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike | Coracina novaehollandiae | + |
| Mistletoebird | Dicaeum hirundinaceum | |
| Welcome Swallow | Hirundo neoxena | |
| Australian Magpie | Gymnorhina tibicen | + |
| Grey Butcherbird | Cracticus torquatus | + |
| Red-browed Finch | Neochmia temporalis | |
| Pied Currawong | Strepera graculina | + |
| Grey Currawong | Strepera versicolor | |
| Australian Raven | Corvus coronoides | |
| Little Raven | Corvus mellori | + |
| *Common Blackbird | Turdus merula | + |
| *Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
| *Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | + |
| *Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | + |
| *House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | + |
| *Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus |
Seems that we’ve also seen birds here that the Monash City Council doesn’t list, below are the rest of the ones we’ve seen either in the garden or flying overhead:
| Common Name | Scientific Name | Mill road |
|---|---|---|
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus/ | + |
| Silver gull | Larus novaehollandiae/ | + |
| Australian Pelican | Pelecanus conspicillatus/ | + |
