Azure Kingfisher by $hige
Chris Dahlberg's Daintree River Tours wildlife checklist for January 2009.

s =sighting h =heard B =just before departure & A =just after tour finishes.
* crocodile found dead in Barratt Creek
% Sightings

Wildlife Species / Date>>

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23rd

25th
50% Saltwater Crocodile s* s* s      
17% Green Tree Snake   s        
33% Eastern Water Dragon       s s  
40% Ulysses Butterfly s   s     s
17% Orange-footed Scrubfowl h   h h h sh
50% Little Pied Cormorant s s s      
83% Magpie Goose sh sh h shB s  
20% Wandering Whistling-Duck sh          
17% Pacific Black Duck s          
33% Green Pygmy-goose sh sh        
  Pale-vented Bush-hen hA h   h hB  
33% Purple Swamphen s s        
  Days 3rd 4th 7th 13th 23rd 25th
67% Great-billed Heron     sh s sh s
33% Cattle Egret     s   s  
50% Great Egret s s   s    
33% Little Egret s s        
17% Striated Heron   s        
100% Black Bittern sh sh sh s s s
17% Australian White Ibis s          
17% Common Sandpiper   s        
100% Masked Lapwing sh sh s sh sh sh
17% Pacific Baza       s    
17% Eastern Osprey           s
 

Days

 3rd 4th 7th 13th 23rd 25th
50% Brahminy Kite s   sh   s  
17% Wompoo Fruit-dove   s       h
100% Pied Imperial Pigeon s s s s s s
50% Bar-shouldered Dove sh s h s s h
17% Sulphur-crested Cockatoo         sh  
33% Rainbow Lorikeet     sh   h sA
83% Double-eyed Fig-Parrot sh   sh sh sh sh
17% Brush Cuckoo h h h h   sh
17% Gould's Bronze-Cuckoo h   h h sh h
  Channel-billed Cuckoo     hB     shB
33% Eastern Koel     s   s  
  Pheasant Coucal h h h h   h
 

Days

 3rd 4th 7th 13th 23rd 25th
100% Australian Swiftlet s s s s s s
100% Azure Kingfisher sh sh sh sh sh sh
50% Little Kingfisher   s s   sh  
33% Laughing Kookaburra shB sB        
  Blue-winged Kookaburra     hB   sh  
83% Forest Kingfisher sh s sh h sh sh
  Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher   h     h h
50% Large-billed Gerygone h sh h h sh sh
33% Helmeted Friarbird h h sh h h sh
67% Macleay's Honeyeater sh sh     sh sh
17% Yellow-spotted Honeyeater h sh h h h h
  Graceful Honeyeater h h h h h h
100% Brown-backed Honeyeater sh sh sh sh sh sh
33% Dusky Honeyeater sh     h h s
  Little Shrike-thrush h h h h h  
  Grey Whistler h   h   h h
  Days 3rd 4th 7th 13th 23rd 25th
100% Shining Flycatcher sh sh sh sh sh sh
  Spectacled Monarch h h   h h h
50% Spangled Drongo sh   s   sh h
100% Yellow Oriole sh sh sh sh sh sh
83% Australasian Figbird sh h sh sh sh sh
  Spotted Catbird h h        
  Varied Triller h h h h h h
100% White-breasted Woodswallow sh s sh   sh s
  Days 3rd 4th 7th 13th 23rd 25th
67% Black Butcherbird sh sB h sh h sh
100% Welcome Swallow sh s s s s s
  Singing Bushlark h          
  Golden-headed Cisticola h   h   h  
50% Olive-backed Sunbird   sh h sh h sh
33% Mistletoebird h h h sh h sh
100% Metallic_Starling.............................. sh sh sh sh sh sh
  Days 3rd 4th 7th 13th 23rd 25th

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