Wallaman Falls Outing
Sunday 24 February 2008
Sunday 24 February 2008
This outing was planned to be at Wallaman Falls during the wet season so members could view a good flow of water going over the 305m high falls. The 16 members who attend were not disappointed as there was a good flow thundering into the gorge below.
For the day a bird list in excess of 90 species was compliled. The lists includes species seen from Townsville to Wallaman Falls and then from the falls to and including Tyto Wetlands at Ingham.
| Southern Cassowary | Red-winged Parrot | Dusky Honeyeater | Australian Magpie |
| Australian Brush Turkey | Brush Cuckoo (H) | Scarlet honeyeater | Australian Raven |
| Magpie Goose | Fan-tailed Cuckoo | Lemon-bellied Flycatcher | Torresian Crow |
| Wandering Whistling-Duck | Little Bronze-Cuckoo | Pale Yellow Robin | Spotted Catbird |
| Plumbed Whistling-Duck | Pheasant Cuckoo | Eastern Yellow Robin | Great Bowerbird |
| Pacific Black Duck | White-rumped Swiftlet | White-browed Robin | Singing Bushlark |
| White-faced Heron | White-throated Needletail | Grey-headed Robin | Richards Pipit |
| Australian White Ibis | Azure Kingfisher | Eastern Whipbird (H) | House Sparrow |
| Royal Spoonbill | Blue-winged Kookaburra | Golden Whistler | Crimson Finch |
| Black Kite | Forest Kingfisher | Little Shrike-thrush | Red-browed Finch |
| Whistling Kite | Rainbow Bee-eater | Spectacled Monarch | Nutmeg Mannikin |
| Brahmany Kite | Dollarbird | Pied Monarch | Chestnut-breasted Mannikin |
| Swamp Harrier | Red-backed Fairy-wren | Leaden Flycatcher | Mistletoebird |
| Nankeen Kestral | Striated Pardalote | Magpie Lark | Tree Martin |
| White-browed Crake | Large-billed Scrubwren | Northern Fantail | Golden-headed Cisticola |
| Bush-stone Curlew | Brown Gerygone | Willie Wagtail | Metallic Starling |
| Black-fronted Dotterel | Blue-faced Honeyeater | Spangled Drongo | Common Myna |
| Masked Lapwing | Lewin's Honeyeater | Barred Cuckoo-shrike | |
| Spotted Turtle-Dove | Graceful Honeyeater | White-bellied Cockoo-shrike | |
| Brown Cuckoo-Dove | Yellow-faced Honeyeater | Cicadabird | |
| Peaceful Dove | White-gaped Honeyeater | Varied Triller | |
| Pied Imperial Pigeon | Yellow Honeyeater | Yellow Oriole (H) | |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | White-throated Honeyeater | Figbird | |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Brown-backed Honeyeater | White-breasted Woodswallow | |
| Scaley-breasted Lorikeet | Rufous-throated Honeyeater | Black-faced Woodswallow |
The photo below is not the Cassowary seen on the outing but it represents the clear view of the bird that most members on the outing would have seen. Those in the leading vehicle had an excellent view as the vehicle had to be stopped while the bird walked off the road!
This photo of the Fan-tailed Cuckoo was taken by Ray Sutton during the lunch break in the Wallaman Falls picnic area.
