Daintree Bird List

Varied vegetation on the property ensures regular seasonal visits by a wide range of bird species. Birders will find that the bungalows provide perfect birdwatching accommodation, each having it's own private verandah overlooking water and many species of old- and new-growth rainforest trees.

There are also numerous tropical fruit trees and nectar-producing flowering plants which attract honeyeaters; the dam is visited by many water-birds such as the Black Bittern and a large variety of Egrets and Herons. Yellow-bellied Sunbirds and Macleay's, Yellow-spotted and Graceful Honeyeaters are permanent residents.

During the day the valley echoes to the call of the Yellow Oriole, and on moonlit nights to the Bush-stone Curlews.

The following is a list of birds which have so far been identified at Daintree Valley Haven and guests are invited to add new sightings to the Bird Log:

Australasian Grebe Australian Brush Turkey Australian King Parrot Australian Pelican Australian White Ibis Azure Kingfisher Barred Cuckoo-shrike Bar-Shouldered Dove Black Bittern Black Butcherbird Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Black-faced Monarch Black Kite Black-necked Stork (Jabiru) Brahminy Kite Bridled Honeyeater Brown Cuckoo-dove Brown Goshawk Buff-banded Rail Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher Bush Hen Bush Stone-curlew Cattle Egret Channel-billed Cuckoo Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Cicadabird Common Koel Darter Dollarbird Double-eyed Fig Parrot Dusky Honeyeater Dusky Moorhen Emerald Dove Eurasian Coot Fairy Gerygone Fan-tailed Cuckoo Figbird

Forest Kingfisher Graceful Honeyeater Great Billed Heron Great Egret Green Pygmy-goose Grey Fantail Grey Goshawk Grey Whistler Helmeted Friarbird Intermediate Egret Large-billed Scrubwren Laughing Kookaburra Leaden Flycatcher Lewin's Honeyeater Little Black Cormorant Little Egret Little Kingfisher Little Pied Cormorant Little Shrike-thrush Long-tailed Nightjar Lovely Fairy Wren Macleay's Honeyeater Magpie Goose Magpie-lark Masked Lapwing Metallic Starling Mistletoebird Nankeen Night Heron Olive-backed Oriole Orange-footed Scrubfowl Oriental Cuckoo Pacific Baza Pacific Black Duck Papuan Frogmouth Pheasant Coucal Pied Currawong Pied Monarch Rainbow Bee-eater

Rainbow Lorikeet Red-backed Fairy Wren Red-necked Crake Royal Spoonbill Rufous Fantail Rufous Shrike-thrush Russet-tailed Thrush Satin Flycatcher Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Shining Flycatcher Silvereye Spangled Drongo Spectacled Monarch Spotted Catbird Spotted Turtle-dove Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Superb Fruit Dove Tawny Grassbird Topknot Pigeon Tree Martin Varied Triller Victoria's Riflebird Wandering Whistling Duck Welcome Swallow Whistling Kite White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike White-breasted Woodswallow White-browed Scrubwren White-eared Monarch White-faced Heron White-necked Heron White-rumped Swiftlet Wompoo Fruit Dove Yellow Oriole Yellow-bellied Sunbird Yellow-billed Spoonbill Yellow-breasted Boatbill Yellow-spotted Honeyeater

Wildlife photography courtesy of Jonathan Munro, Lex Mealing and Daphne Titus-Rees