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Local Birds

Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher's nest

See the male enter nest from the right spending only a second  feeding insects, lizards, etc  to the chicks before flying off.
These kingfishers migrate to the Wet Tropics from New Guinea. Although hard to see, their calls and trills are common sounds in the Kuranda area from November-March. While here they nest in termite mounds usually at ground level.
Check out video footage of some of the activities at a nest of a pair of buff-breasted paradise kingfishers at Russett Park, Kuranda. 

A cat checks out the kingfisher's nest

The very narrow entrance is effective at preventing the entry of predators like this cat filmed at 0430 am.
MORE KINGFISHER NEST VIDEOS
The most exciting part of monitoring the birds in Kuranda EnviroCare's plantings is seeing them up close with binoculars and learning more about them from our volunteer ornithologist, Ray Pierce. The rainforest is often a canopy of dense foliage with tall trees. This makes bird observation difficult, so bird song becomes another way for identification. Many of the following rainforest birds are also found in gardens near rainforest fringes, monsoon and gallery forest (close to water's edge), coastal mangroves, wet sclerophyll and different types of vine forest in the Wet Tropics, North Queensland.  Place your cursor over the bottom of each bird image to learn more about the them and click onto images to open a new page and hear their calls etc.  
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Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius 1.5-1.75 m
Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami 60-70 cm
Australasian Figbird (male) Sphecotheres vieilotti 28-29 cm
Barred Cuckoo-shrike Coracina lineata 24-26 cm
Black butcherbird Cracticus quoyi 38-44 cm
Black-faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis 16 - 20 cm
Brown Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia amboinensis 40-45 cm
Buff-breasted Paradise-kingfisher Tanysiptera sylvia 33 cm
Double-eyed Fig-Parrot Cyclopsitta diophthalma 13-15 cm
Eastern Osprey Pandion cristatus 50-65 cm
Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus 25-30 cm
Emeral Ground-Dove Chalcophaps indica 23-27 cm
Grey Whistler Pachycephala simplex 14-15 cm
Helmeted Friarbird Philemon buceroides 32-37 cm
King Parrot (Australian) Alisterus scapularis 41-44 cm
Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus 25-28 cm
Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa multipunctata 40-50 cm
Lewins Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii 19-22 cm
Little Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites minutillus 14-15 cm
Little Kingfisher Ceyx pusilla 12-13 cm
Little Shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha 17-19 cm
Lovely Fairy-wren Malurus amabilis 13-14 cm
Lewins Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii 19-22 cm
Orange-footed Scrub Fowl Megapodius reinwardt 40-50 cm
Pale Yellow Robin Tregellasia capito 12-13.5 cm
Papuan Frogmouth Podargus papuensis 45-58 cm
Red-necked Crake Rallina tricolor 24-29 cm
Rufous Owl Ninox rufa Sub. Sp. queenslandica 45-55 cm
Shining (Metalic) Starling Aplornis metallica 22-24 cm
Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus 28-32 cm
Spectacled Monarch Symposiarchus trivirgatus sub. sp. melanorrhoa 15-16.5 cm
Spotted Catbird Ailuroedus melanotis 28-32 cm
Superb Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus superbus 22-24 cm
Victoria's Riflebird (male) Ptiloris paradisceus 24-28 cm
White-browed Robin Paecilodryas superciliosa 15-17 cm
Wompoo Pigeon Ptilinopus magnificus sub. sp. keri 38-48 cm
Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Meliphaga notata 17-19 cm
Cicadabird male Coracina tenuirostris 24-26 cm
Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus 26 -31 cm
Dusky Honeyeater Myzomela obscura 12 - 15 cm
Yellow-breasted Boatbill Machaerirhynchus flaviventer Sub. Sp. 11 - 12 cm
Noisy PItta Pitta versicolor 18-20 cm
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284 Myola Rd, Myola , Kuranda 4881
beyond the Kuranda Aquatic centre

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Saturday 10am - noon 
or ph. 0419 624 940 for appointment
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  • Home
  • About us
  • Projects
    • Frog Habitat Project
    • Frog logo and T shirt competiton winners
    • Connecting Corridors Project
    • Bird Monitoring Project
    • Frog Monitoring Project >
      • Frog Friendly Neighbourhood
    • Yellow Crazy Ant Taskforce
    • GROW Project 1
  • Nursery
    • Naturally native plant collections
  • Get involved
  • Contact
  • Shop
    • Sizing and Product desc
    • Men's T-Shirts Leaf Design
    • Men's T-Shirts Scroll Design
    • Women's T-Shirts Leaf Design
    • Women's T-Shirts Scroll Design
    • Shipping T-shirts
  • Regional planning
    • Land development history
    • Kurworld >
      • TOO BIG
      • WRONG PLACE
      • NOT ENOUGH WATER TOO MUCH WASTE
      • ROAD CONGESTION
      • EMPTY PROMISES
      • NO TRUST
      • KEC Position
      • Resources
      • Submission Form
  • Invasive species
  • Local threatened species
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Membership
    • Membership benefits >
      • Library
  • Citizen science blog
  • Shipping T-shirts