The following page is my complete and up to date list of bird observations from the Newstead area. It dates back to the mid 1980′s.
I would love to hear of any interesting new bird sightings including those that add to the list below. To view other interesting local lists click here.
| Brown Quail | Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | Eastern Spinebill |
| Australian Wood Duck | Rainbow Lorikeet | White-fronted Chat |
| Musk Duck | Little Lorikeet | Jacky Winter |
| Black Swan | Purple-crowned Lorikeet | Flame Robin |
| Australian Shelduck | Musk Lorikeet | Scarlet Robin |
| Hardhead | Swift Parrot | Red-capped Robin |
| Pacific Black Duck | Crimson Rosella | Eastern Yellow Robin |
| Grey Teal | Eastern Rosella | Hooded Robin |
| Chestnut Teal | Red-rumped Parrot | White-browed Babbler |
| Hoary-headed Grebe | Pallid Cuckoo | Spotted Quail-thrush |
| Australasian Grebe | Fan-tailed Cuckoo | Varied Sitella |
| Darter | Horsfield’s Bronze-cuckoo | Crested Shrike-tit |
| Great Cormorant | Shining Bronze-cuckoo | Golden Whistler |
| Little Black Cormorant | Black-eared Cuckoo | Rufous Whistler |
| Pied Cormorant | Powerful Owl | Grey Shrike-thrush |
| Little Pied Cormorant | Barking Owl | Restless Flycatcher |
| Australian Pelican | Southern Boobook | Willie Wagtail |
| White-necked Heron | Barn Owl | Grey Fantail |
| White-faced Heron | Tawny Frogmouth | Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike |
| Cattle Egret | Australian Owlet-nightjar | White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike |
| Great Egret | Fork –tailed Swift | White-winged Triller |
| Nankeen Night Heron | White-throated Needletail | Olive-backed Oriole |
| Straw-necked Ibis | Laughing Kookaburra | White-browed Woodswallow |
| Australian White Ibis | Sacred Kingfisher | Masked Woodswallow |
| Yellow-billed Spoonbill | Rainbow Bee-eater | Dusky Woodswallow |
| Black-shouldered Kite | Painted Honeyeater | White-breasted Woodswallow |
| Black Kite | White-throated Treecreeper | Magpie-lark |
| Whistling Kite | Brown Treecreeper | Australian Magpie |
| Collared Sparrowhawk | Superb Fairy-wren | Pied Currawong |
| Brown Goshawk | Spotted Pardalote | Grey Currawong |
| Little Eagle | Striated Pardalote | Australian Raven |
| Wedge-tailed Eagle | White-browed Scrub-wren | Little Raven |
| Swamp Harrier | Chestnut-rumped Heathwren | White-winged Chough |
| Brown Falcon | Speckled Warbler | Richard’s Pipit |
| Australian Kestrel | Western Gerygone | Common Skylark* |
| Peregrine Falcon | White-throated Gerygone | Red-browed Firetail |
| Australian Hobby | Brown Thornbill | Diamond Firetail |
| Dusky Moorhen | Buff-rumped Thornbill | European Goldfinch* |
| Purple Swamphen | Yellow-rumped Thornbill | House Sparrow* |
| Eurasian Coot | Striated Thornbill | Mistletoebird |
| Black-tailed Native Hen | Yellow Thornbill | Welcome Swallow |
| Painted Button-Quail | Weebill | Tree Martin |
| Black-winged Stilt | Southern Whiteface | Fairy Martin |
| Red-capped Plover | Red Wattlebird | White-backed Swallow |
| Black-fronted Plover | Regent Honeyeater | Clamorous Reed-warbler |
| Masked Lapwing | Noisy Miner | Little Grassbird |
| Silver Gull | Yellow-faced Honeyeater | Brown Songlark |
| Whiskered Tern | White-eared Honeyeater | Rufous Songlark |
| Spotted Turtle-dove* | Yellow-tufted Honeyeater | Silvereye |
| Feral Pigeon* | Fuscous Honeyeater | Common Blackbird* |
| Peaceful Dove | White-plumed Honeyeater | Common Starling* |
| Common Bronzewing | Black-chinned Honeyeater | Common Mynah* |
| Crested Pigeon | Brown-headed Honeyeater | Pink-eared Duck |
| Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo | White-naped Honeyeater | Little Egret |
| Galah | New Holland Honeyeater | Noisy Friarbird |
| Long-billed Corella | Crescent Honeyeater | Brolga |
| Cockatiel | Spotted Harrier | Crested Bellbird |
| Satin Flycatcher | Black Honeyeater | Singing Bushlark |
| Blue-faced Honeyeater | Black Falcon | White-bellied Sea-eagle |
| Zebra Finch | Tawny-crowned Honeyeater | Blue-winged Parrot |
| Great Crested Grebe | Intermediate Egret | Blue-winged Shoveler |
| Little Corella | Black-winged Stilt | Latham’s Snipe |
| Red-kneed Dotterel | Whiskered Tern | Square-tailed Kite |
| Blue-billed Duck | Stubble Quail | Dollarbird |
| Scarlet Honeyeater | Painted Snipe | Australian Spotted Crake |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Royal Spoonbill | Buff-banded Rail |
| Banded Lapwing | Glossy Ibis | Pectoral Sandpiper |
| Leaden Flycatcher | Wood Sandpiper | Double-banded Plover |
205 species




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