Birdlife

Birdlife around Cobar

Around Cobar you can see:

  • Osprey
  • Plains Wanderer
  • Glassy Black Cockatoo
  • Pale Headed Rosella
  • Bourke’s Parrot
  • Southern Scrub Robin
  • Mally Jacky Winter
  • Red-Lore Whistler
  • White-Eared Honeyeater
  • Yellow Tufted Honeyeater
  • Spotted Pardalote
  • Chestnut Quail Thrush
  • Halls Babler
  • Shy Hylacola (Heath-Wren)
  • Speckled Warbler
  • Inland Thornbill
  • Brow Thornbill
  • Striated Thornbill
  • Banded Whiteface
  • White-Throated Treecreeper
  • Red-Browed Pardalote
  • Black Winged Currawong

Introduced Birds include:

  • European Goldfinch
  • European Green Finch
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Occasional to this District:

  • Black Neck Stork
  • Magpie goose
  • Northern Shovellor
  • Grey Plover
  • Lesser Golden Plover
  • Mongolian Plover
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Little curlew
  • Bar-Tailed Godwit
  • Red Knot Great Knot
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Long-Toed Stint
  • Sanderling
  • Ruff
  • Red Tail Black Cockatoo
  • Eastern Grass Owl

Reference: The Fauna of Western New South Wales: The Cobar Peneplain Biogeographic Region. 2nd ed. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Sydney