Bird Watching 

 

Woodlands in South Eastern Australia are renowned for their rich and varying birdlife. Unfortunately 1 in 5 woodlands birds are threatened or decline. Although only 13% of native vegetation cover remains. The South East of South Australia provides significant habitat for a diverse range of woodland birds, including several threatened species. 

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Padthaway Caravan Park is a sancutary for local birdlife. For more information on the local birds, please download the Woodlands Birds - South East PDF brochure.

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Here is a list of all the birds that have been sighted in the Padthaway Conservation Park (updated 2020).

 

*All Photos by Luke Leddy  

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1. Australasian pipit

2. Australian hobby

3. Australian magpie

4. Australian owlet-nightjar

5. Australian raven

6. Australian ringneck (Mallee race)

7. Australian shelduck

8. Australian white Ibis (Flying over)

9. Australian wood duck

10. Black kite

11. Black-eared cuckoo (Rare)

12. Black-faced cuckooshrike

13. Black-shouldered kite

14. Blue-winged parrot

15. Brown falcon

16. Brown goshawk

17. Brown quail

18. Brown thornbill

19. Brown treecreeper

20. Brown-headed honeyeater

21. Buff-rumped thornbill

22. Collared sparrowhawk

23. Common blackbird

24. Common bronzewing

25. Crested pigeon

26. Crimson rosella

27. Dusky woodswallow

28. Eastern barn owl

29. Eastern rosella

30. Eastern spinebill

31. Emu

32. Fan-tailed cuckoo

33. Galah

34. Australian golden whistler

35. Grey butcherbird

36. Grey currawong

37. Grey fantail

38. Grey shrikethrush

39. Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo

40. House sparrow

41. Hooded robin

42. Jacky winter

43. Laughing kookaburra

44. Little corella

45. Little eagle

46. Little raven

47. Little wattlebird

48. Long-billed corella

49. Magpie-lark

50. Masked Woodswallow

51. Mistletoebird

52. Musk lorikeet

53. Nankeen kestrel

54. New Holland honeyeater

55. Noisy miner

56. Peaceful dove

57. Peregrine falcon

58. Rainbow lorikeet

59. Red wattlebird

60. Red-rumped parrot

61. Red-tailed black-cockatoo           (Endangered)

62. Restless flycatcher

63. Rock dove

64. Rufous songlark

65. Rufous whistler

66. Sacred kingfisher

67. Scarlet robin

68. Shining-Bronze cuckoo

69. Shy heathwren

70. Silvereye

71. Southern boobook

72. Spotted pardalote

73. Straw-necked ibis (Flying over)

74. Striated pardalote

75. Sulphur-crested cockatoo

76. Superb fairy-wren

77. Tawny frogmouth

78. Tawny-crowned honeyeater

79. Tree martin

80. Varied sittella

81. Variegated fairy-wren

82. Wedge-tailed eagle

83. Weebill

84. Welcome swallow

85. Whistling kite

86. White-browed Scrubwren

87. White-browed woodswallow 

88. White-eared honeyeater

89. White-fronted chat

90. White-fronted honeyeater (Rare)

91. White-naped honeyeater

92. White-plumed honeyeater

93. White-throated gerygone (Rare)

94. White-throated needletail (Flying  over)

95. White-throated treecreeper

96. White-winged triller

97. Willie wagtail

98. Yellow-faced honeyeater

99. Yellow-plumed honeyeater (Rare)

100. Yellow-tailed black-cockatoo

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