Welcome to my (casual) Big Year 2016! Here I will list in numbered order all unique bird species (including subspecies where I deem relevant) I see, hear and/or photograph over this year. The date and location is included and only the common name will be written. Let’s see how many birds I get!
My personal rules:
– If I am 100% on identification upon only sighting a bird, it doesn’t necessarily need to be photographed, however I am endeavouring to get pictures of all new birds
– Similarly, if the bird is not seen but a bird call is heard and I am absolutely positive of the species then this will also count
– Must be seen, heard and/or photographed in the wild. No birds from wildlife parks, zoos or domesticated pets
* indicates introduced species
# indicates a bird that I’ve never seen in the wild before
January 1st
Oakden/Hillcrest
1. Rainbow lorikeet
2. Rock dove*
3. Sulphur-crested cockatoo
4. Magpie-lark
5. Willie wagtail
6. Galah
7. Masked lapwing
8. Australian magpie
9. Noisy miner
10. Spotted turtle-dove*
11. Musk lorikeet
O.G Road, Klemzig (3 flying)
12. Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Kitchener Street, Netherby (large flock in trees)
13. Little corella
Waite Campus, Urrbrae
14. Long-billed corella #
15. Australian wood duck
Near or inside Waite Conservation Park
16. Eastern rosella
17. Laughing kookaburra
18. Red wattlebird
19. Adelaide rosella
Drive home from Kingswood (to Hillcrest)
20. Australian raven
21. Crested pigeon
January 2nd
Oakden wetlands
22. Australian pelican
23. Dusky moorhen
24. Australian white ibis
25. Pacific black duck
26. Eurasian coot
27. Welcome swallow
28. Silver gull
29. Purple swamphen
30. Australasian grebe
31. White-plumed honeyeater
January 3rd
Morialta Conservation Park
32. Grey shrike-thrush
33. Common blackbird*
34. New Holland honeyeater
35. Grey fantail
36. White-naped honeyeater
37. Superb fairy-wren
38. Grey currawong
39. Yellow-faced honeyeater
January 4th
Whites Road Wetlands
40. Chestnut teal
41. Northern mallard*
42. Hoary-headed grebe
43. Eastern great egret
44. Black-shouldered kite #
45. Black-tailed native-hen
46. Black-winged stilt
47. Little egret
48. White-faced heron
Bunnings, Windsor Gardens
49. House sparrow
January 6th
Sir Douglas Mawson Lake, Mawson Lakes
50. Little black cormorant
51. Hardhead
Greenfields Wetlands (Watershed Cafe)
52. Royal spoonbill
53. Black swan
54. Pied cormorant
January 17th
River Torrens Linear Park, Windsor Gardens
55. Collared sparrowhawk #
January 19th
Oakden wetlands
56. Nankeen night heron #
January 24th
Woodstock Winery, McLaren Flat
57. Golden whistler
58. Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
January 25th
Greenfields Wetlands
59. Barbary dove* #
60. Australian reed-warbler
61. Grey teal
January 26th
Tennyson Beach
62. Pacific gull