Potential birds seen on the northern beaches
The area is home or visited by approximately 300 different species. This is about 40% of Australia’s bird species.
Dee Why Lagoon
Eastern Great Egret, Little Egret, Black Swan, Australia Pelican, Pacific Black Duck, Chestnut Teal, Grey Teal, Hardhead, Eurasian Coot, Australian Swamphen, Silver Gull, Caspian Tern, Cormorants, Osprey, Peregrine, Corella, Lorikeets, Yellow Thornbill, Whipbird, Grey Butcherbird, Olive-backed Oriole, Welcome Swallow, Tawny Grassbird, Red-browed Firetail
Long Reef Golf Course
Cormorants, Magpie, Hardhead, Australian Swamphen, Maned Duck, Masked Lapwing, Australian Pipit, Black-Shouldered Kite, Nankeen Kestrel, Little Wattlebird, Superb Fairy-wren, New Holland Honeyeater
Long Reef Aquatic Reserve
Cormorants, Red-necked Stint, Ruddy Turnstone, Sooty Oystercatcher, Grey-tailed Tattler, Pacific Golden Plover, Shearwater, Petrels, Albatross, Osprey, White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Warriewood Wetlands
Ducks, Teal, Cormorants, Rails and Crakes, Egrets and Herons, Goshawk, Cockatoos, Honeyeaters, Whipbirds, Australian Brush-Turkey, Brown Gerygone
Irrawong
Goshawk, Powerful Owl, Kingfisher, Dollarbird, Cockatoo, Honeyeater, Pardalotes, Scrubwren, Thornbill, Golden Whistler, Grey Fantail, Eastern Yellow Robin, Superb Lyrebird
Chiltern Trail
Kookaburra, Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Honeyeaters, Wattlebirds, Silvereye, Eastern Spinebill, Mistletoebird
