Checklist of the Birds
Recorded on Fitzroy Island, Australia
by
Leanne
K. Malone, Ranger
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Cairns, Australia
Sea and Shore Birds
Red footed
booby
Sula sula
Brown
booby
Sula leucogaster
Black-naped tern
Sterna sumatrana
Bridled
tern
Sterna anaethetus
Crested
tern
Sterna bergii
Lesser crested
tern
Sterna bengalensis
Little tern
Stern albifrons
Eastern reef egret
Ardea sacra (both white and gray colour morphs)
Greater frigatebird
Fregata ariel
Lesser frigatebird
Fregata minor
Red-tailed tropic
bird
Phaeton rubricauda
Beach stone
curlew
Esacus neglectus
Eastern
curlew
Nummenius madagasca
Pied
oystercatcher
Haematopus longirostris
Sooty
oystercatcher
Haematopus fulginosus
Pied
cormorant
Phalacrocorax varius
Whimbrel
Numennius phaeopus
Lesser golden
plover
Pluvialis dominica
Wandering
tattler
Heteroscelis incana
Gray-tailed
tattler
Heteroscelis brevipes
Common
sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Silver
gull
Larus novaehollandiae
Birds of Prey
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Brahminy
kite
Milvus indus
White-bellied sea
eagle
Haliaetus
leucogaster
Gray
goshawk
Accipiter novaehollandiae
Forest Birds
Orange-footed scrub
fowl Megapodius reinwardti
Pheasant coucal
Centopus phasianinus
Red-backed button
quail Turnix maculosa
Rose-crowned fruit
dove Ptilinopus regina
Wompoo fruit
dove
Ptilinopus magnificus
Torresian (pied) imperial
pigeon
Ducula bicolor
Peaceful
dove
Geopelia placida
Spotted turtle
dove
Steptopelia chinensis (introduced, non-native)
Emerald ground
dove
Chalcophaps indica
Channel-billed
cuckoo
Scythrops novaehollandiae
Shining bronze
cuckoo Chrysococcyx
lucidus
Black-faced cuckoo shrike Coracina
novaehollandiae
White-bellied cuckoo shrike Coracina papuensis
Sulfur-crested
cockatoo Cacatua
galerita
Sacred
kingfisher
Halcyon sancta
Buff-breasted paradise
kingfisher
Tanysiptera sylvia
Forest
kingfisher
Todiramphus macleayii
Dollar
bird
Eurystomus orientalis
Rainbow
bee-eater
Merops ornatus
Noisy pitta
Pitta versicolor
Varied triller
Lalage leucomela
Little shrike
thrush
Colluricincla megarhyncha
Spectacled
monarch
Monarcha trivirgatus
Black-faced
monarch
Monarcha milanopsis
Leaden
flycatcher
Myiagra rubecula
Satin
flycatcher
Myiagra cyanoleuca
Rufous
fantail
Rhipidura rufifrons
Northern
fantail
Rhipidura rufiventris
Large-billed gerygone
Gerygone magnirostris
Brown-backed honeyeater Ramsayornis
modestus
Dusky
honeyeater
Myzomela obscura
Yellow-bellied
sunbird
Nectarina jugularis
Mistletoe
bird
Dicaeum hirundinaceum
Silvereye
Zosterops lutea
Metallic
starling
Aplonis metallica
Spangled dronge
Dicrurus bracteatus
Rainbow
lorikeet
Trichoglossus haematodus
Helmeted
friarbird
Philemon buceroides
White-rumped swiftlet
Collocalia spondiopygius
White-breasted woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus
