Exclusive Birds

There are many species of birds on the Atherton Tablelands, some are common to a large part of Australia some are only found in Far North Queensland, and some inhabit a strip of the top part of Australia.

I will only mention those breeding in these places:

Far North Queensland only

Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

Buff-breasted Button-quail Turnix olivei

Chestnut Rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris

Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor

Gould’s Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcys m. russatus

Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto multipuctata

Papuan Frogmouth Podargus papuensis

Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera Sylvia

Yellow-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus flaviventer

Black-winged Monarch Monarcha frater

Mountain Thornbill Acanthiza katherina

Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Meliphaga notata

Graceful Honeyeater Meliphaga gracilis

Varied Honeyeater Lichenostomus virescens

Yellow Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavus

White-streaked Honeyeater Trichodere cockerelli

Blue-faced Finch Erythrura trichroa

Golden Bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana

Spotted catbird Ailuroedus melanotis

Pied Monarch Arses kaupi

Grey-headed Robin Poecilodryas albispecularis

Bower’s Shrike-thrush Colluricincla boweri

Chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii

Atherton Scrubwren Sericornis keri

Bridled Honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus

Tooth-billed Bower bird Scenopoeetes dentirostris

Victoria’s riflebird Ptiloris victoriae

cape york only

Palm cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus

Eclectus Parrot Eclectus roratus

Red-cheeked Parrot Geoffroyus geoffroyi

Golden-shouldered Parrot Psephotus chrysopterygius

Yellow-billed Kingfisher Syma torotoro

Red-bellied Pitta Pitta erythrogaster

Yellow-legged Flycatcher Microeca griseoceps

White-faced Robin Tregellasia leucops

Frilled Monarch Arses telescopthalmus

Lovely Fairy-wren Malurus amabilis

Macleay’s honeyeater Xanthotis macleayana

Tawny-breasted Honeyeater Xanthotis flaviventer

Green-backed Honeyeater Glycichaera fallax

Fawn-breasted Bowerbird Chlamydera cerviniventris

Magnificent Riflebird Ptiloris magnificus

Trumpet Manucode Manucodia keraudrenii

Black-backed Butcherbird Cracticus mentalis

Top of Western Australia – Northern Territory – Far North Queensland

Pied Heron Ardea picata

Radjah Shelduck Tadorna radjah

Orange footed Scrubfowl Megapodius reinwardt

White-browed Crake Poliolimnas cinereus

Sarus Crane Grus antigone

Torresian imperial pigeon Ducula bicolor

Rufous Owl –Ninox rufa

Grey Whistler Pachycephala simplex

Broad-billed Flycatcher Muiagra ruficollis

Northern fantail Rhipidura rufiventris

Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides

Rufous-banded Honeyeater Ramsayornis fasciatus

Banded Honeyeater Certhionyx pectoralis

Red-headed Honeyeater Myzomela erythrocephala

Masked Finch Poephila personata

Gouldian Finch Erythrura gouldiae