Bird List

Species Recorded at Creery Wetlands Nature Reserve and/or Samphire Cove Nature Reserve

If you have seen birds at Creery Wetlands Nature Reserve or Samphire Cove Nature Reserve that do not appear on this list, we would like to hear from you. Email us at feedback@creerywetlands.info

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Ducks and Swans

• Musk Duck
• Black Swan
• Australian Shelduck
• Pacific Black Duck
• Grey Teal
• Australasian Grebe
• Hoary-headed Grebe

Cormorants

• Darter
• Little Pied Cormorant
• Pied Cormorant
• Little Black Cormorant
• Great Cormorant

Large Wading Birds

• Australian Pelican
• White-faced Heron
• Little Egret
• Great Egret
• Australian White Ibis
• Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Birds of Prey

• Osprey
• Black-shouldered Kite
• Whistling Kite
• White-bellied Sea-Eagle
• Swamp Harrier
• Collared Sparrowhawk
• Nankeen Kestrel

Shore Birds

• Buff-banded Rail
• Australian Spotted Crake
• Baillon’s Crake
• Pied Oystercatcher
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Whimbrel
• Eastern Curlew
• Common Greenshank
• Grey-tailed Tattler
• Great Knot
• Red Knot
• Red-necked Stint
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Black-winged Stilt
• Banded Stilt
• Red-necked Avocet
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Grey Plover
• Red-capped Plover
• Greater Sand Plover

Gulls and Terns

• Silver Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Crested Tern
• Fairy Tern
• Whiskered Tern

Bush Birds

• Laughing Turtle-Dove
• Spotted Turtle-Dove
• Galah
• Australian Ringneck (Twenty-eight Parrot)
• Red-capped Parrot
• Pallid Cuckoo
• Fan-tailed Cuckoo
• Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
• Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
• Sacred Kingfisher
• Rainbow Bee-eater
• Splendid Fairy-wren
• Striated Pardalote
• White-browed Scrubwren
• Weebill
• Red Wattlebird
• Singing Honeyeater
• Brown Honeyeater
• White-fronted Chat
• Magpie-lark
• Willie Wagtail
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
• Grey Butcherbird
• Australian Magpie
• Australian Raven
• Richard's Pipit
• Welcome Swallow
• Tree Martin
• Little Grassbird
• Silvereye