Murray-Sunset National Park

Region:	Australia: Victoria
Location:	34°48'05"S 141°34'31"E
Description:	Large mallee national park in north-west Victoria. Mosty 4WD tracks.
Period:	1/8/2010
List:	54915
List Status:	Published in Atlas
Observer:	Paul Dodd & Ruth Woodrow
Notes:	Bush camping on Honeymoon Hut Track - looking for Red-lored Whistler (seen!) Covers section from Pink Lakes to Wymlet Tank and from there to Hattah township. Very hot.
Species:	42
Prepared:	9/9/2010
Common Names	Clements (international)
	Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Christidis and Boles. 2008.

Species	Scientific Name	Comment	Count
Emu	Dromaius novaehollandiae
Brown Goshawk	Accipiter fasciatus	In flight over Honeymoon Hut Track
Wedge-tailed Eagle	Aquila audax
Common Bronzewing	Phaps chalcoptera
Crested Pigeon	Geophaps lophotes
Diamond Dove	Geopelia cuneata	Single bird - 200m west of Wymlet Tank
Galah	Eolophus roseicapilla
Mallee Ringneck	Barnardius barnardi
Mulga Parrot	Psephotus varius
Blue Bonnet	Northiella haematogaster
Pallid Cuckoo	Cuculus pallidus
Fan-tailed Cuckoo	Cacomantis flabelliformis
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo	Chrysococcyx basalis
Rainbow Bee-eater	Merops ornatus
Brown Treecreeper	Climacteris picumnus
Splendid Fairy-wren	Malurus splendens
Mallee Emu-wren	Stipiturus mallee	Seen at about 5:00pm at site along Pioneer Drive, near Pink Lakes
White-fronted Honeyeater	Phylidonyris albifrons
Yellow-throated Miner	Manorina flavigula
Spotted Pardalote	Pardalotus punctatus
Striated Pardalote	Pardalotus striatus
Shy Heathwren	Hylacola cauta	200m further west from Red-lored Whistler
Inland Thornbill	Acanthiza apicalis
Chestnut-rumped Thornbill	Acanthiza uropygialis
Southern Whiteface	Aphelocephala leucopsis
Chestnut-crowned Babbler	Pomatostomus ruficeps	Same location as Red-lored Whistler
Chestnut Quail-thrush	Cinclosoma castanotum
Masked Woodswallow	Artamus personatus
White-browed Woodswallow	Artamus superciliosus
Grey Butcherbird	Cracticus torquatus
Australian Magpie	Gymnorhina tibicen
White-winged Triller	Lalage tricolor
Crested Bellbird	Oreoica gutturalis
Red-lored Whistler	Pachycephala rufogularis	Seen at 8:30am, approximately 13km west of Wymlet Tank on Honeymoon Hut Track
Rufous Whistler	Pachycephala rufiventris
Grey Shrike-thrush	Colluricincla harmonica
Willie Wagtail	Rhipidura leucophrys
Australian Raven	Corvus coronoides
White-winged Chough	Corcorax melanorhamphos
Southern Scrub-robin	Drymodes brunneopygia	200m further west from Red-lored Whistler
White-backed Swallow	Cheramoeca leucosterna
Australasian Pipit	Anthus novaeseelandiae

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