The first bird list was supplied by Mr Graham Carpenter, Native Vegetation Branch, Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The list is supplemented by observations by Mr Conway Smith and other Friends members.
Click on a bird name for information, photographs and sounds of that bird (where available).
| Common name | Scientific name | SA | ML | PK | Comments |
| Blackbird* | Turdus merula | C | C | C | |
| Southern boobook | Ninox novaeseelandiae | C | C | U | |
| Brush bronzewing | Phaps elegans | U | U | R | |
| Common bronzewing | Phaps chalcoptera | C | C | C | |
| Cockatiel | Nymphicus Hollandicus | R | One only seen | ||
| Sulphur-crested cockatoo | Cacatua galerita | U | Occ. groups | ||
| Yellow-tailed black cockatoo | Calyptorhynchus funereus | V | V | C | Wandering flocks all areas |
| Coot | Fulica atra | C | Resident | ||
| Little corella | Cacatua sanguinea | U | Occasional flocks | ||
| Large black cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | U | Visitor | ||
| Little black cormorant | Phalacrocorax sulcirostris | U | Visitor | ||
| Little pied cormorant | Phalacrocorex melanoleucos | U | Visitor | ||
| Marsh crake | Porzana pusilla | R | Unconfirmed, voice recording | ||
| Black-eared cuckoo | Chrysococcyx asculans | R/s | Unconfirmed voice | ||
| Horsefield’s bronze-cuckoo | Chrysococcyx basalis | C | C | U/s | |
| Shining bronze-cuckoo | Chrysococcyx lucidus | R | R | R/s | |
| Fantailed cuckoo | Cuculus pyrrhophanus | C | C | U/s | |
| Black-faced cuckoo-shrike | Coracina novaehollandiae | C | C | U | |
| Black-winged currawong One pair 1996, more 1997. |
Strepera melanoptera | U | One pair with white wing patch, others with no wing patch.?albino seen Nara, Stlg East | ||
| Grey currawong | Strepera versicolor | U | U | U | See black-winged |
| Spotted turtle-dove* | Streptopelia chinensis | C | C | U | |
| Black duck | Anas superciliosa | C | Resident | ||
| Mallard (hybrid) duck | U | None in 1996 | |||
| Mountain (hybrid) duck | U | One only, occ. on lake | |||
| White-eyed duck | Aythya australis | C | Autumn/winter | ||
| Wood duck | Chenonetta jubate | C | Resident – but moves about area | ||
| Wedge-tailed eagle | Aquila audux | U | |||
| Black falcon | Falco subniger | U | One only so far | ||
| Peregrine falcon | Falco peregrinus | U | |||
| Grey fantail | Rhipidura fuliginosa | C | C | C | |
| Red-browed firetail | Emblema temporalis | C | C | C | |
| Tawny frogmouth | Podargus strigoides | C | C | U | |
| Galah | Cacatua roseicapilla | C | C | C | Wanders all areas in groups |
| European goldfinch* | Carduelis carduelis | C | C | C/s | |
| Brown goshawk | Accipiter fasciatus | C | C | R | |
| Australian little grebe | Podiceps novaehollandiae | U | Irregular appearances | ||
| European greenfinch* | Carduelis chloris | C | C | U/s | |
| White-faced heron | Ardea novaehollandiae | U | Visitor | ||
| White-necked heron | Ardea pacifica | R | Visitor | ||
| Nankeen (“Rufous”) Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | C | R | ||
| Brown-headed honeyeater | Melithreptus brevirostris | C | C | U | |
| Crescent honeyeater | Phylidonyris Pyrrhoptera | C | C | C | |
| New Holland honeyeater | Phylidonyris novaehollandiae | C | C | C | |
| White-naped honeyeater | Melithreptus lunatus | C | C | C | Mostly summer |
| Yellow-faced honeyeater | Lichenostomus chrysops | C | C | C | |
| Kestrel | Falco cenchroides | U | Overhead soaring, summer | ||
| Sacred kingfisher | Halcyon sancta | C | C | U | Occ. summer vistor |
| Black-shouldered kite | Elanus notatus | U | |||
| Laughing kookaburra | Dacelo novaeguineae | C | C | C | Regular vocal renderings |
| Musk lorikeet | Glossopsitta concinna | C | C | U | Summer visitor |
| Purple-crowned lorikeet | Glossopsitta porphyrocephala | C | C | U | |
| Rainbow lorikeet | Trichoglossus haematodus | C | C | C | |
| Australian magpie | Gymnorhina tibicen | C | C | C | |
| Australian magpie-lark | Grallina cyanoleuca | C | C | U | |
| Tree martin | Cecropis nigricans | C | C | U | |
| Mistletoebird | Dicaeum hirundinaceum | C | C | U | |
| Dusky moorhen | Gallinula tenebrasa | C | Resident | ||
| Barking owl | Ninox connivens | U | Suspected voice source | ||
| Spotted pardalote | Pardalotus punctatus | U | U | U | |
| Striated pardalote | Pardalotus striatus | C | C | U | |
| Red-rumped parrot | Psephotus haematonotus | C | C | U | |
| Crested pigeon | Ocyphaps Lophotes | C | U | Madurta Reserve | |
| Masked plover (Australian spur winged plover) | Vanellus novaehollandiae | U/C | |||
| Little quail | Turnix velox | R | |||
| Little raven | Corvus mellori | C | C | C | |
| Scarlet robin | Petroica multicolor | C | C | U | |
| Adelaide rosella | Platycercus elegansxflaveolus | C | C | C | |
| Eastern rosella | Platycercus eximius | V | ?Sir Mark Oliphant Cons. Pk Scott Ck. | ||
| Crested shrike-tit | Falcunculus frontatus | V | V | R | Bred 1980 |
| Silvereye | Zosterops lateralis | C | C | C | |
| Black-capped sittella | Neositta pileata | U | Wooded area | ||
| Varied sittella | Daphoenositta chrysoptera | C | C | U | See black-capped |
| House sparrow* | Passer domesticus | C | C | U | |
| Eastern spinebill | Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris | C | C | C | |
| Common starling* | Sturnus vulgaris | C | C | C | |
| Welcome swallow | Hirundo neoexna | U | Occasional visitor | ||
| White-backed swallow | Cheramocca leucosterna | R | Irregular visitor | ||
| Fork tailed swift | Apus pacificus | R | On autumn mig. | ||
| Chestnut teal | Anas castana | U | Occ. winter visitor | ||
| Grey teal | Anas gibberfrons | U | Visitor | ||
| Brown thornbill | Acanthiza pusilla | C | C | U | |
| Buff-rumped thornbill | Acanthiza reguloides | C | C | U | |
| Yellow-rumped thornbill | Acanthiza chrysorrhoa | C | C | U | |
| Striated thornbill | Acanthiza lineata | C | C | C | |
| White’s thrush | Zoothera dauma | R | V | R | |
| Australian ground thrush | Zoothera dauma | U | Same name as Whites Thrush – W. Asia? | ||
| Grey shrikethrush | Colluricincla harmonica | C | C | C | |
| White-throated tree-creeper | Cormobates leucophaea | U | U | C | Heard more than seen |
| Willie wagtail | Rhipidura leucophrys | C | C | R | |
| Reed warbler | Acrocephalus australis | U/s | Less frequent than 1980’s | ||
| Little wattlebird | Anthochaera chrysoptera | U | U | U | |
| Red wattlebird | Anthochaera carunculata | C | C | C | |
| Golden whistler | Pachycephala pectoralis | C | C | C | Distinctive song |
| Rufous whistler | Pachycephala rufiventris | C | C | U/s | Numbers seem to vary each year |
| Dusky woodswallow | Artamus cyanopterus | C | C | U | |
| Superb fairywren | Malurus cyaneus | C | C | C | |
| White-browed scrub-wren | Sericornis frontalis | C | C | C | Mostly secretive but resident |
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