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:
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- Australasian Grebe
- Pied Cormorant
- Australian Pelican
- Great (black) Cormorant
- Hoary-headed Grebe
- Great Egret
- White Faced Heron
- Darter
- Little Egret
- Little Black Cormorant
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Rufous Night Heron
- Australasian Bittern
- Sacred Ibis
- Straw Necked Ibis
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill
- Black Swan
- Australian Shelduck
- Pacific Black Duck
- Mallard
- Grey Teal
- Pink Eared Duck
- Hardhead
- Maned Duck
- Blue-billed Duck
- Musk Duck
- Little Eagle (white morph)
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Dusky Moorhen
- Red-kneed Dotterel
- Purple Swamphen
- Caspian Tern
- Buff-banded Rail
- Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Laughing Turtle Dove
- Eurasian Coot
- Long-billed Black Cockatoo
- Spotted Turtle Dove
- Silver gull
- Collared Sparrowhawk
- Little Corella
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Red-capped Parrot
- Galah
- Ringneck (28)Parrot
- Welcome Swallow
- Tree Martin
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
- Willie Wagtail
- Clamorous Reed-warbler
- Red Wattlebird
- Little Wattlebird
- Singing Honeyeater
- Brown Honeyeater
- New Holland Honeyeater
- White-cheeked Honeyeater
- Australian Magpie
- Australian Magpie-lark
- Australian Raven
- Barn owl
- Grey Butcherbird
- Grey Fantail
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Little Crow
- Little Grassbird
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Southern Boobook Owl
- Striated Pardalote