Birds seen in and around Hervey Bay


Great Egret at Arkarra Lagoons.
Photographed by Allan McDonald

These are the bird varieties seen by the Birdwatchers of Hervey Bay since the group was formed in 1997.

  • Avocet Red-necked
  • Babbler Grey-crowned
  • Bee-eater Rainbow
  • Bittern Black
  • Black-Cockatoo Glossy
  • Black-Cockatoo Red-tailed
  • Black-Cockatoo Yellow-tailed
  • Booby Brown
  • Booby Masked
  • Bowerbird Great
  • Bowerbird Regent
  • Brolga
  • Bronze-Cuckoo Gould's
  • Bronze-Cuckoo Horsfield's
  • Bronze-Cuckoo Little
  • Bronze-Cuckoo Shining
  • Bronzewing Common
  • Brush-turkey Australian
  • Butcherbird Grey
  • Bushlark Singing
  • Bustard, Australian
  • Butcherbird Pied
  • Button-quail Black-breasted
  • Button-quail Painted
  • Chough White-winged
  • Cicadabird
  • Cisticola Golden-headed
  • Cockatiel
  • Cockatoo Sulphur-crested
  • Coot Eurasian
  • Corella Little
  • Corella Long-billed
  • Cormorant Great
  • Cormorant Little Black
  • Cormorant Little Pied
  • Cormorant Pied
  • Coucal Pheasant
  • Crake Australian Spotted
  • Crake Baillon's
  • Crake Spotless
  • Crow Torresian
  • Cuckoo Brush
  • Cuckoo Channel-billed
  • Cuckoo Fan-tailed
  • Cuckoo Oriental
  • Cuckoo Pallid
  • Cuckoo-Dove Brown
  • Cuckoo-shrike Barred
  • Cuckoo-shrike Black-faced
  • Cuckoo-shrike White-bellied
  • Curlew Eastern
  • Curlew Little
  • Currawong Pied
  • Darter Australian
  • Dollarbird
  • Dotterel Black-fronted
  • Dotterel Red-kneed
  • Dove Bar-shouldered
  • Dove Emerald
  • Dove Peaceful
  • Dove Spotted Turtle
  • Drongo Spangled
  • Duck Australian Wood
  • Duck Freckled
  • Duck Musk
  • Duck Pacific Black
  • Duck Pink-eared
  • Eagle Little
  • Eagle Wedge-tailed
  • Egret Cattle
  • Egret Eastern Reef
  • Egret Great
  • Egret Intermediate
  • Egret Little
  • Fairy-wren Red-backed
  • Fairy-wren Variegated
  • Falcon Black
  • Falcon Brown
  • Falcon Grey
  • Falcon Peregrine
  • Fantail Grey
  • Fantail Rufous
  • Figbird
  • Finch Double-barred
  • Finch Plum-headed
  • Finch Red-browed
  • Finch Zebra
  • Flycatcher Leaden
  • Flycatcher Restless
  • Flycatcher Shining
  • Friarbird Little
  • Friarbird Noisy
  • Frogmouth Tawny
  • Fruit-Dove Rose-crowned
  • Fruit-Dove Superb
  • Fruit-Dove Wompoo
  • Galah
  • Gannet Australasian
  • Gerygone Fairy
  • Gerygone Mangrove
  • Gerygone White-throated
  • Godwit Bar-tailed
  • Godwit Black-tailed
  • Goose Magpie
  • Goshawk Brown
  • Goshawk Grey
  • Grassbird Little
  • Grassbird Tawny
  • Grebe Australasian
  • Grebe Great-crested
  • Greenshank Common
  • Gull Kelp
  • Gull Silver
  • Hardhead
  • Harrier Spotted
  • Harrier Swamp
  • Hawk Crested ( Pacific Baza)
  • Heron Nankeen Night
  • Heron Pied
  • Heron Striated
  • Heron White-faced
  • Heron White-necked
  • Hobby Australian
  • Honeyeater Blue-faced
  • Honeyeater Brown
  • Honeyeater Dusky
  • Honeyeater Fuscous
  • Honeyeater Lewins
  • Honeyeater Mangrove
  • Honeyeater Scarlet
  • Honeyeater Spiny-cheeked
  • Honeyeater Striped
  • Honeyeater White-cheeked
  • Honeyeater White-throated
  • Honeyeater Yellow-faced
  • Honeyeater Yellow-tufted
  • Ibis Australian White
  • Ibis Glossy
  • Ibis Straw-necked
  • Jacana Comb-crested
  • Jacky Winter
  • Kestrel Nankeen
  • Kingfisher Azure
  • Kingfisher Collared
  • Kingfisher Forest
  • Kingfisher Red-backed
  • Kingfisher Sacred
  • Kite Black
  • Kite Black-shouldered
  • Kite Brahminy
  • Kite Letter-winged
  • Kite Square-tailed
  • Kite Whistling
  • Knot Great
  • Knot Red
  • Koel
  • Kookaburra Laughing
  • Lapwing Masked
  • Lorikeet Little
  • Lorikeet Rainbow
  • Lorikeet Scaly-breasted
  • Magpie
  • Magpie Lark
  • Mallard
  • Mannikin Chestnut-breasted
  • Mannikin Nutmeg (Spice Finch)
  • Martin Fairy
  • Martin Tree
  • Miner Noisy
  • Mistletoebird
  • Monarch Black-faced
  • Monarch Spectacled
  • Monarch White-eared
  • Moorhen Dusky
  • Myna Common
  • Native-hen Black-tailed
  • Nightjar Large-tailed
  • Nightjar White-throated
  • Noddy Black
  • Noddy Common
  • Oriole Olive-backed
  • Osprey
  • Owl Powerful
  • Owl Southern Boobook
  • Owlet-nightjar Australian
  • Oystercatcher Pied
  • Oystercatcher Sooty
  • Painted Snipe
  • Pardalote Spotted
  • Pardalote Striated
  • Parrot Australian King
  • Peafowl Indian
  • Pelican Australian
  • Pigeon Crested
  • Pigeon Feral
  • Pigeon Topknot
  • Pigeon White-headed
  • Pigeon Wonga
  • Pipit Richards
  • Pitta Noisy
  • Plover Double-banded
  • Plover Greater Sand
  • Plover Grey
  • Plover Lesser Sand
  • Plover Pacific Golden
  • Plover Red-capped
  • Pratincole Australian
  • Pratincole Oriental
  • Pygmy-goose Cotton
  • Quail Brown
  • Rail Buff-banded
  • Reed-Warbler Clamorous
  • Robin Eastern Yellow
  • Robin Rose
  • Rosella Pale-headed
  • Sanderling
  • Sandpiper Broad-billed
  • Sandpiper Common
  • Sandpiper Curlew
  • Sandpiper Marsh
  • Sandpiper Sharptailed
  • Sandpiper Terek
  • Sandpiper Wood
  • Scrubwren Large-billed
  • Scrubwren White-browed
  • Sea-Eagle White-bellied
  • Shearwater Short-tailed
  • Shelduck Radjah
  • Shoveller Australasian
  • Shrike-thrush Grey
  • Shrike-thrush Little
  • Shrike-tit Crested
  • Silvereye
  • Sittella
  • Snipe Lathams
  • Snipe Painted
  • Songlark Brown
  • Songlark Rufous
  • Sparrow House
  • Sparrowhawk Collared
  • Spoonbill Royal
  • Spoonbill Yellow-billed
  • Starling Common
  • Starling Metallic
  • Stilt Black-winged
  • Stint Long-toed
  • Stint Red-necked
  • Stone-curlew Beach
  • Stone-curlew Bush
  • Stork Black-necked
  • Swallow Welcome
  • Swamphen Purple
  • Swan Black
  • Swift Fork-tailed
  • Swift White-throated Needletail
  • Tatler Grey-tailed
  • Tattler Wandering
  • Teal Chestnut
  • Teal Grey
  • Tern Caspian
  • Tern Common
  • Tern Crested
  • Tern Gull-billed
  • Tern Lesser Crested
  • Tern Little
  • Tern Whiskered
  • Thornbill Brown
  • Thornbill Buff-rumped
  • Thornbill Striated
  • Thornbill Yellow
  • Thornbill Yellow-rumped
  • Thrush Russet-tailed
  • Treecreeper Brown
  • Treecreeper White-throated
  • Triller Varied
  • Triller White-winged
  • Turnstone Ruddy
  • Wagtail Willie
  • Warbler, Speckled
  • Wattlebird Little
  • Weebill
  • Whimbrel
  • Whipbird Eastern
  • Whistler Golden
  • Whistler Rufous
  • Whistling-duck Plumed
  • Whistling-duck Wandering
  • Woodswallow Black-faced
  • Woodswallow Dusky
  • Woodswallow Little
  • Woodswallow White-breasted


Black Bittern Nestlings.
Photographed by Allan McDonald at Arkarra Lagoons

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