"Complete" list of birds seen in Erskineville

I'll try to make a complete list of everything I've seen while living here. The area that I'll include as being in Erskineville for this purpose is basically Sydney Park as the southern boundary, to King Street as the western, the train line from MacDonaldtown Station to Newtown station as the northern and Mitchell Road as the eastern boundary. It's an area thats probably a couple of square km's, and has a variety of habitat.

Sydney Park has some scrubby bush, some stands of Eucalypt, lots of wide parkland, and most importantly, some wetland areas for birds to breed and feed. As a result, there's quite a variety of birdlife that you can find there.

Erskineville itself is also a reasonably leafy suburb, with several small parks in a pretty heavily built up location. Like most areas of Sydney, you will find a large amount of introduced species - Common Myna, Common Starling, Pigeon, and House Sparrows. But there is also a reasonable number of natives in the area. Anyway - here we go.

It is in taxonomic order and with names consistent with the Birds Australia Draft Working List of Birds of Australia and Australian Territories (10 September 2003). I will be adding to this over time. This is far from being an exhaustive list of every bird in the area - one day maybe, but not quite now.

Australian Wood Duck - Chenonetta jubata
Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos
Pacific Black Duck - Anas supercilliosa - Pic 1 Pic 2
Grey Teal - Anas gracilis - Pic 1
Chestnut Teal - Anas castanea - Pic 1
Hardhead - Aythya australis - Pic 1
Australasian Grebe - Tachybaptus novaehollandiae - Pic 1
Hoary-headed Grebe - Poliocephalus poliocephalus
Little Pied Cormorant - Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Little Black Cormorant - Phalacrocorax sulcirostris - Pic 1
Australian Pelican - Pelecanus conspicillatus - Pic 1
White-faced Heron - Ardea novaehollandiae - Pic 1
Australian White Ibis - Threskiornis aethiopica
Brown Falcon - Falxo berigora
Purple Swamphen - Porphyrio porhyrio - Pic 1
Dusky Moorhen - Gallinula tenebrosa - Pic 1
Eurasian Coot - Fulica atra - Pic 1
Red Knot - Calidris canutus
Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus
Double-banded Plover - Charadrius bicinctus
Black-fronted Dotterel - Elseyomis melanops - Pic 1
Masked Lapwing - Vanellus miles
Silver Gull - Larus novaehollandiae
Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) - Columba livia
Spotted Turtle-Dove - Streptopelia chinensis
Crested Pigeon - Ocyphaps lophotes
Galah - Cacatua roseicapilla
Little Corella - Cacatua pastinator
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - Cacatua galerita
Rainbow Lorikeet - Trichoglosses haematodus
Crimson Rosella - Platycercus elegans
Red-rumped Parrot - Psephotus haematonotus
Common Koel - Eudynamix scolopacea - Pic 1
Laughing Kookaburra - Dacelo novaeguineae
Superb Fairy-wren - Malurus cyaneus
Brown Thornbill - Acanthiza pusilla
Red Wattlebird - Anthochaera carunculata
Noisy Miner - Monorina melanocephala
White-plumed Honeyeater - Lichenostomus penicillatus
New Holland Honeyeater - Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
Magpie-lark - Grallina cyanoleuca - Pic 1
Willy Wagtail - Rhipidura leucophrys - Pic 1
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike - Coracina novaehollandiae
Figbird - Sphecotheres viridis
Pied Butcherbird - Cracticus nigrogularis
Australian Magpie - Gymnorhina tibicen
Pied Currawong - Strepera graculina
Australian Raven - Corvus coronoides
House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
Welcome Swallow - Hirundo neoxena - Pic 1
Fairy Martin - Hirundo ariel
Tawny Grassbird - Megalurus timoriensis
Red-whiskered Bulbul - Pyconotus jocosus
Silvereye - Zosterops lateralis
Common Starling - Sturnus vulgaris
Common Myna - Acridotheres tristis