The 100 Acres Reserve, Park Orchards

Region:	Australia: Victoria
Location:	37°46'32"S 145°13'25"E
Description:	Significant bushland remnant, contains five communities of native plants which include stringy bark/box peppermint open forest on the ridges and southern slopes; red box open forest on exposed northern slopes in the eastern section; candlebark open forest on lower north-west slopes and on north-east and south-east slopes; manna gum/swamp gum in gullies and aquatic communities scattered on stream lines. Located in the suburb of Park Orchards in the north-east of Melbourne. Melway Map 35 F9. 24-hour public access. Criss-crossed with walking tracks.
Period:	1/24/2010
List:	55569
List Status:	Published in Atlas
Observer:	Richard & Margaret Alcorn
Species:	37
Prepared:	9/9/2010
Common Names	Clements (international)
	Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Christidis and Boles. 2008.

Species	Scientific Name	Comment	Count
Australian White Ibis	Threskiornis molucca	One flying high overhead
Brown Goshawk	Accipiter fasciatus	2
Spotted Dove	Streptopelia chinensis
Common Bronzewing	Phaps chalcoptera	1 seen
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo	Cacatua galerita
Rainbow Lorikeet	Trichoglossus haematodus
Crimson Rosella	Platycercus elegans
Eastern Rosella	Platycercus eximius
Laughing Kookaburra	Dacelo novaeguineae
White-throated Treecreeper	Cormobates leucophaea
Superb Fairy-wren	Malurus cyaneus
Scarlet Honeyeater	Myzomela sanguinolenta	3, a female feeding a juvenile
Yellow-faced Honeyeater	Lichenostomus chrysops	several
White-naped Honeyeater	Melithreptus lunatus	several
Eastern Spinebill	Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris	2 seen, heard several times
Bell Miner	Manorina melanophrys
Noisy Miner	Manorina melanocephala
Red Wattlebird	Anthochaera carunculata
Spotted Pardalote	Pardalotus punctatus
White-browed Scrubwren	Sericornis frontalis
Brown Thornbill	Acanthiza pusilla
Weebill	Smicrornis brevirostris	2 calling from Red Box; seen.
Grey Butcherbird	Cracticus torquatus
Australian Magpie	Gymnorhina tibicen
Pied Currawong	Strepera graculina
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike	Coracina novaehollandiae
Golden Whistler	Pachycephala pectoralis
Grey Shrike-thrush	Colluricincla harmonica
Grey Fantail	Rhipidura albiscapa
Magpie-lark	Grallina cyanoleuca
Little Raven	Corvus mellori
Eastern Yellow Robin	Eopsaltria australis	seen and heard
Welcome Swallow	Hirundo neoxena
Common Blackbird	Turdus merula
Silvereye	Zosterops lateralis
Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis
Red-browed Finch	Neochmia temporalis	seen on eastern edge and central gully

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