Birds of Maylands Lakes

The Maylands lakes provide feeding and breeding grounds for a surprising number of birds species, some of which are relatively rare. The following birds have been positively identified on the lakes and their immediate surrounds:

    1. Australasian Grebe
    2. Pied Cormorant
    3. Australian Pelican
    4. Great (black) Cormorant
    5. Hoary-headed Grebe
    6. Great Egret
    7. White Faced Heron
    8. Darter
    9. Little Egret
    10. Little Black Cormorant
    11. Little Pied Cormorant
    12. Great Crested Grebe
    13. Rufous Night Heron
    14. Australasian Bittern
    15. Sacred Ibis
    16. Straw Necked Ibis
    17. Yellow-billed Spoonbill
    18. Black Swan
    19. Australian Shelduck
    20. Pacific Black Duck
    21. Mallard
    22. Grey Teal
    23. Pink Eared Duck
    24. Hardhead
    25. Maned Duck
    26. Blue-billed Duck
    27. Musk Duck
    28. Little Eagle (white morph)
    29. Black-shouldered Kite
    30. Dusky Moorhen
    31. Red-kneed Dotterel
    32. Purple Swamphen
    33. Caspian Tern
    34. Buff-banded Rail
    35. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
    36. Laughing Turtle Dove
    37. Eurasian Coot
    38. Long-billed Black Cockatoo
    39. Spotted Turtle Dove
    40. Silver gull
    41. Collared Sparrowhawk
    42. Little Corella
    43. Rainbow Lorikeet
    44. Red-capped Parrot
    45. Galah
    46. Ringneck (28)Parrot
    47. Welcome Swallow
    48. Tree Martin
    49. Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
    50. Willie Wagtail
    51. Clamorous Reed-warbler
    52. Red Wattlebird
    53. Little Wattlebird
    54. Singing Honeyeater
    55. Brown Honeyeater
    56. New Holland Honeyeater
    57. White-cheeked Honeyeater
    58. Australian Magpie
    59. Australian Magpie-lark
    60. Australian Raven
    61. Barn owl
    62. Grey Butcherbird
    63. Grey Fantail
    64. Laughing Kookaburra
    65. Little Crow
    66. Little Grassbird
    67. Sacred Kingfisher
    68. Southern Boobook Owl
    69. Striated Pardalote