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Birds of Cape Ferguson, North Queensland

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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A key to 74 species of bird found at Cape Ferguson, north Queensland. Birds covered in the key are mainly foliage (bush) birds but include some raptors, water birds and others; sea birds and waders are not covered. Additional notes are provided for some birds. To provide a key to birds commonly seen in the locality of Cape Ferguson. Species: Australian crow, bar shouldered dove, black backed magpie, black faced cuckoo shrike, black headed pardalote, black kite, blue faced honeyeater, blue winged kookaburra, brahminy kite, brolga, brown honeyeater, brown winged pigeon, channel billed cuckoo, crested pigeon, dollar bird, double bar finch, dusky honeyeater, fairy martin, fantail cuckoo, forest kingfisher, greater bowerbird, grey fantail, grey butcher bird, helmeted friar bird, jabiru, koel, laughing kookaburra, leaden flycatcher, Lewin honeyeater, little cuckoo shrike, magpie lark, masked lapwing, mistletoe bird, nankeen kestrel, noisy friar bird, olive backed oriole, osprey, pale headed rosella, peaceful dove, pheasant coucal, pied butcher bird, pied currawong, rainbow bee-eater, rainbow lorikeet, red backed wren, red browed finch, red tailed black cockatoo, red winged parrot, rufous shrike thrush, rufous whistler, sacred kingfisher, satin flycatcher, scaly breasted lorikeet, scrub turkey, shining flycatcher, southern figbird, southern stone curlew, spangled drongo, spice finch, straw necked ibis, sulphur crested cockatoo, tree martin, varied triller, wedge tailed eagle, whistling kite, white breasted sea eagle, white breasted wood swallow, white faced heron, white ibis, white naped honeyeater, white throated honeyeater, willie wagtail, yellow breasted sunbird, yellow honeyeater.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Birds of Cape Ferguson, North Queensland
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/5997f9ed-7325-4e6b-bfcd-f7bf5a1ef906
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
adc@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 30/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Birds of Cape Ferguson, North Queensland". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/birds-of-cape-ferguson-north-queensland1