Maleny count for BOCA 3-4/12/11

Sightings anywhere within a 250 km radius of Toowoomba, but excluding the local survey area (see above), for the period 1 Dec 2011 - 29 Feb 2012.

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Russ Lamb
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Location: Maleny,SEQ

Maleny count for BOCA 3-4/12/11

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Formed a small team of two to be part of SunBOG's annual BOCA count over the weekend. Just birded locally around home (Bridge Creek valley), quick late arvo trip to Mary Cairncross Park, and a mid morning drive to Bellthorpe NP.
Birds seen at Maleny on 3/12 (if seen prior date in brackets):
Australian Brush Turkey
Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Duck
White-headed Pigeon
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Crested Pigeon
Bar-shouldered Dove
Wonga Pigeon
Woompoo Fruit-Dove
Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
Tawny Frogmouth
Little Pied Cormorant
Black-shouldered Kite
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (1/12)
Rainbow Lorikeet (1/12)
Pale-headed Rosella (1/12)
Pheasant Coucal (1/12)
Eastern Koel
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Azure Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Sacred Kingfisher
Dollarbird (1/12)
Noisy Pitta
White-throated Treecreeper
Green Catbird
Satin Bowerbird
Large-billed Scrubwren
Yellow-throated Scrubwren
White-browed Scrubwren
Brown Gerygone
White-yhroated Gerygone (1/12)
Lewin's Honeyeater (1/12)
Noisy Miner
Logrunner
Eastern Whipbird (1/12)
Cicadabird (1/12)
Golden Whistler (1/12)
Grey Shrike-thrush (1/12)
Australasian Figbird (1/12)
Olive-backed Oriole (1/12)
White-breasted Woodswallow
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Rufous Fantail
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Torresian Crow (1/12)
Restless Flycatcher
Spectacled Monarch
Magpie-Lark
Paradisa Riflebird
Eastern Yellow Robin
Golden-headed Cisticola
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
Red-browed Finch

Species seen at Bellthorpe on 3/12:
White-necked Heron
Cattle Egret
White-faced Heron
Buff-banded Rail
Australian King Parrot
Crimson Rosella
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Pied Butcherbird
Common Myna

Birds seen at Maleny on 4/12:
Grey Goshawk

All-up, a total of 380 birds from 69 species on the weekend count.

Russ Lamb, Maleny
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