The following birds were all sighted along the Stumer’s Creek bund
from the bridge at Beach Rd to the Coolum Peregian Swimming Pool.

Australian Brush Turkey			Brown Quail
Plumed Whistling Duck			Black Swan
Australian Wood Duck			Pacific Black Duck
Darter					Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant			Pied Cormorant
Little Egret				White-faced Heron
Great Egret				Cattle Egret
Intermediate Egret			White-necked Heron
Striated Heron				Glossy Ibis
Australian White Ibis			Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill				Osprey
Pacific Baza				Black-shouldered Kite
Brahminy Kite				Whistling Kite
White-bellied Sea Eagle			Buff banded Rail
Masked Lapwing				Spotted Turtle Dove
Brown Cuckoo Dove			Crested Pigeon
Bar-shouldered Dove			Peaceful Dove
Yellow-tailed Cockatoo			Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Galah					Scaly- breasted Lorikeet
Rainbow Lorikeet			Pale-headed Rosella
Fan-tailed Cuckoo			Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Koel					Channel-billed Cuckoo
Pheasant Coucal				White-throated Needletail
Azure Kingfisher			Laughing Kookaburra
Forest Kingfisher			Sacred Kingfisher
Rainbow Bee Eater			Dollarbird
Variegated Fairy-wren			Red-backed Fairy-wren
Southern Emu-wren (rare sighting)	Striated Pardalote
White-browed Scrubwren			White-throated Gerygone
Brown Thornbill				Little Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird				Blue-faced Honeyeater
Noisy Miner				Lewin’s Honeyeater
White-throated Honeyeater		Brown Honeyeater
White-cheeked Honeyeater		New Holland Honeyeater
Scarlet Honeyeater			Eastern Yellow Robin
Eastern Whipbird			Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler				Little Shrike-thrush
Grey Shrike-thrush			Black-faced Monarch
Spectacled Monarch			Leaden Flycatcher
Magpie-lark				Grey Fantail
Rufous Fantail				Willie Wagtail
Spangled Drongo				Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Varied Triller				Olive-backed Oriole
Figbird					White-breasted Woodswallow
Pied Butcherbird			Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie			Pied Currawong
Torresian Crow				Double-barred Finch
Red-browed Finch			Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
Mistletoebird				Welcome Swallow
Clamorous Reed-warbler			Little Grassbird
Tawny Grassbird				Golden-headed Cisticola
Silvereye 			        
                         Total 103	     

Ground parrot not seen but known

Birds that breed and could be affected by disturbance to 
the reeds and sedges along Stumers Creek

The following birds have been observed by Pat Deece at Stumers

NAME					BREEDING TIME

Plumed Whistling Duck			Feb – May

Black Swan				Anytime after rain

Australian Wood Duck			Jan – Mar

Pacific Black Duck			Jan – Feb

All Ibis				Feb – Apr 

Buff banded Rail			Feb – Apr

Clamorous Reed Warbler			Sept – Jan

Tawny Grassbird				Aug – Apr

Little Grassbird			Aug – Jan

Golden Headed Cisticola			Sept – Mar


Chestnut breasted Mannikins, Finches, Fairy Wrens all 
feed in the reeds when there is food available.

The following birds have not been seen by Pat Deece but 
could be in the area.

Bush hen				Sept-Apr

Purple Swamphen				Dec – Apr

Dusky Moorhen				Jan – Apr

Eurasian Coot				Influenced by rain

Lewin’s Rail				Aug – Jan

Baillon’s Crake				Dec – Apr

Aust Spotted Crake			Aug – Feb

Spotless Crake				Aug – Jan

Grass Owl				Mar – Jun

Ground Parrot	 Known to be in area	Sep - Dec