Dunach Nature Conservation Reserve (Clunes)

Region:	Australia: Victoria
Location:	37°15'05"S 143°43'50"E
Description:	Dunach Nature Conservation Reserve; adjacent to the Clunes - Maryborough Road. Box-ironbark forest and stringybark woodland.
Period:	1/3/2010
List:	54423
List Status:	Published in Atlas
Observer:	John Watson
Notes:	Cloudy, cool and windy, which didn't make for ideal birding. 10-11.30am, left after seeing painted honeyeaters.
Species:	22
Prepared:	9/9/2010
Common Names	Clements (international)
	Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Christidis and Boles. 2008.

Species	Scientific Name	Comment	Count
Brown Goshawk	Accipiter fasciatus
Brush Bronzewing	Phaps elegans
Long-billed Corella	Cacatua tenuirostris	flock flew overhead
Eastern Rosella	Platycercus eximius
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo	Chrysococcyx basalis	1 unusually confiding - came down to lower branches above us
White-throated Treecreeper	Cormobates leucophaea
Superb Fairy-wren	Malurus cyaneus
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater	Lichenostomus melanops
Black-chinned Honeyeater	Melithreptus gularis
Painted Honeyeater	Grantiella picta	1 pair together, and later 1 female all within 200 metres of no dumping sign on south-west track near Clunes-Talbot Rd
Red Wattlebird	Anthochaera carunculata
Striated Pardalote	Pardalotus striatus
Buff-rumped Thornbill	Acanthiza reguloides
Brown Thornbill	Acanthiza pusilla
Weebill	Smicrornis brevirostris
Australian Magpie	Gymnorhina tibicen
White-winged Triller	Lalage tricolor	female and juveniles
Rufous Whistler	Pachycephala rufiventris
Grey Shrike-thrush	Colluricincla harmonica
Grey Fantail	Rhipidura albiscapa
Australian Raven	Corvus coronoides
White-winged Chough	Corcorax melanorhamphos

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