Cape York 2024

Camped nights 1 and 2 at Rainforest campground site 2. Camped nights 3 and 4 at Gordon Creek site 2.

Locals: John Pritchard, Peter. In old Land cruiser. Horticulturalist, biosecurity. Has Regan Jensen, Wendy Cooper visiting. Lived on Restoration Island, now in Lockhart.

Rangers: Carl (head, relieving, from Atherton); Craig (from Mareeba); Catherine (local, Lockhart); Shimona? (Mum from Lockhart)

NS Contracting FNQ P/L

Birders:
Rob and Kayleen Bilson (Aldershot; formerly Atherton)
Greg Hunt & Caroline (from Melbourne)
Yu Ota's tour group
Jonathan from US

Bird list for Wenlock River east, including Iron Range NP:

Brown booby
Lesser frigatebird
Austrian pelican
Australian darter
Little pied cormorant
Silver gull
Caspian tern
Australian gull-billed tern
Crested tern
Little tern
Australian pied oystercatcher
Pacific golden plover
Red-capped plover
Masked lapwing
White-faced heron
Reef egret
Striated heron
Australian white ibis
Red-necked crake (h) @ Rainforest site 2
Australian brush turkey (ssp purpureicollis)*
Orange-footed scrubfowl
Brahminy kite
Whistling kite
Nankeen kestrel
Pacific baza (h)
Peregrine falcon
Swamp harrier
Marbled frogmouth*
Papuan frogmouth
Eclectus parrot*
Red-cheeked parrot*
Double-eyed Fig-parrot (ssp marshalli)*
Palm cockatoo*
Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Rainbow lorikeet
Brown cuckoo-dove
Peaceful dove
Bar-shouldered dove
Wompoo fruit-dove
Rose-crowned fruit-dove
Superb fruit-dove
Pacific emerald dove
Chestnut-breasted cuckoo (many calling; juvenile apparently being fed by Tropical Scrubwrens @ west Old Coen track)
Brush cuckoo
Shining bronze-cuckoo
Little bronze-cuckoo
Pheasant coucal
Yellow-billed kingfisher* (many calling, mostly dawn and dusk; v hard to see)
Forest kingfisher
Sacred kingfisher
Torresian kingfisher
Azure kingfisher
Rainbow bee-eater
Australian swiftlet
Welcome swallow
Noisy pitta
Tropical scrubwren
Fairy gerygone
Large-billed gerygone
Striated pardalote
Lovely fairy-wren
Red-becked fairy-wren
Varied honeyeater
Yellow honeyeater
White-gaped honeyeater (h)
White-throated honeyeater
Yellow-spotted honeyeater
Graceful honeyeater
Brown-backed honeyeater
Banded honeyeater
Dusky honeyeater
Brown honeyeater
Green-backed honeyeater*
White-streaked honeyeater
Tawny-breasted honeyeater*
Blue-faced honeyeater
Helmeted (hornbill) friarbird
Silver-crowned friarbird
Little friarbird
Cicadabird
Varied triller
Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
White-bellied cuckoo-shrike
Barred cuckoo-shrike
White-breasted woodswallow
Pied currawong
Black-backed butcherbird
Black butcherbird
Torresian crow
Magnificent rifelbird*
Trumpet manucode*
Black-eared catbird*
Fawn-breasted bowerbird* (and bower!)
Australasian figbird
Yellow oriole
Spangled drongo
Shining flycatcher
Leaden flycatcher
Spectacled monarch
Black-faced monarch
Frill-necked monarch*
White-eared monarch
Yellow-breasted boatbill
Rufous fantail
Yellow-legged fly-robin*
White-faced robin*
White-browed robin (h)
Mangrove robin (h)
Northern scrub-robin*
Rufous whistler
Grey whistler
Rufous shrike-thrush
Grey shrike-thrush
Olive-backed sunbird
Mistletoebird
Silvereye
Metallic starling
Red-browed finch

Ringed birds seen at West Old Coen track: Tropical Scrubwren, Yellow-spotted honeyesterBaca lagi