Mulligan River Survey
There were 68 sites to be surveyed at Mulligan River Nature Refuge, and
in spite of hot weather (up to 42 degrees) and the need to shift camp from
Bore 41 to Kidman Bore because of the deteriorating road conditions into
the campsite., the group managed to do all but 4 sites from 21 September
to 29 September.
This trip we found 123 species compared with 90 species found during the
2006 survey. 
A bonus was the finding of two ephemeral wetlands (still
with water) – Lakes Amaroo and Namabooka. The presence of the
wetlands helped contribute significantly to the increase in bird species
found (list below).
The species total for the Reserve now stands at 136. Of the 46 new species found about 30 were associated with the wetlands and of these 11 were waders. A full report will be available later this year.
Bird Species Mulligan River Nature Refuge (21-29 Sep 2007 - Bold; 23 Jun-6 Jul 2006 - Italic)
| Emu Stubble Quail Brown Quail Plumed Whistling-Duck Freckled Duck Black Swan Australian Shelduck Australian Wood Duck Pacific Black Duck Grey Teal Pink-eared Duck Hardhead Australasian Grebe Darter Little Pied Cormorant Little Black Cormorant Great Cormorant Australian Pelican White-faced Heron Little Egret White-necked Heron Great Egret Nankeen Night-Heron Glossy Ibis Royal Spoonbill Black-shouldered Kite Black-breasted Buzzard Black Kite Whistling Kite Spotted Harrier Brown Goshawk Collared Sparrowhawk Wedge-tailed Eagle Little Eagle Brown Falcon Australian Hobby Black Falcon Peregrine Falcon Nankeen Kestrel Brolga Black-tailed Native-hen Eurasian Coot Australian Bustard Little Button-quail Red-chested Button-quail Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank |
Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Red-necked stint Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Black-winged Stilt Red-necked Avocet Red-capped Plover Oriental Plover Inland Dotterel Black-fronted Dotterel Red-kneed Dotterel Masked Lapwing Australian Pratincole Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Whiskered Tern Common Bronzewing Flock Bronzewing Crested Pigeon Spinifex Pigeon Diamond Dove Peaceful Dove Galah Little Corella Cockatiel Australian Ringneck Budgerigar Pallid Cuckoo Fan-tailed cuckoo Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Southern Boobook Spotted Nightjar Australian Owlet-nightjar Red-backed Kingfisher Sacred Kingfisher Rainbow Bee-eater Variegated Fairy-wren White-winged Fairy-wren Rufous-crowned Emu-wren Red-browed Pardalote Inland Thornbill Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Yellow-throated Miner Singing Honeyeater Grey-headed Honeyeater White-plumed Honeyeater |
Black Honeyeater
Pied Honeyeater Crimson Chat Orange Chat Yellow Chat Gibberbird Jacky Winter Red-capped Robin Hooded Robin White-browed Babbler Chiming Wedgebill Cinnamon Quail-thrush Varied Sittella Crested Bellbird Rufous Whistler Grey Shrike-thrush Magpie-lark Grey Fantail Willie Wagtail Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike White-winged Triller White-breasted Woodswallow Masked Woodswallow Black-faced Woodswallow Australian Magpie Australian Raven Little Crow Torresian Crow Singing Bushlark Richard’s Pipit Zebra Finch Painted Finch Pictorella Mannikin Mistletoebird White-backed Swallow Welcome Swallow Tree Martin Fairy Martin Clamorous Reed-Warbler Little Grassbird Rufous Songlark Brown Songlark Total Species: 136 Species 2007: 123 Species 2006: 90 |