Bird List for Cumberland Campus and Rookwood Cemetery
The following birds were identified in and around the Cumberland Campus
of the University of Sydney, located at Lidcombe,
and includes birds seen in Rookwood Cemetery and along East Street.
The main contributions to the list have been by
Ray Patton, Jack Crosbie and Bob West.
List compiled by Ray Patton and Bob West.
Recent additions to the list have been by Brett DiMichiel.
This page is maintained by Bob West.
Further sightings can be forwarded to
bwest@mail.usyd.edu.au
or
R.Patton@cchs.usyd.edu.au
for inclusion in this list.
The ordering of the species, and the scientific and common names, follows:
Christidis, L., & W.E. Boles.
1994.
The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and Its Territories.
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Monograph 2.
RAOU, Melbourne.
CLASS AVES
Order GALLIFORMES
- Family PHASIANIDAE
- Brown Quail Coturnix ypsilophora
Order ANSERIFORMES
- Family ANATIDAE
- Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
- Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
Order PELECANIFORMES
- Family PELECANIDAE
- Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus
Order CICONIIFORMES
- Family ARDEIDAE
- White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
- White-necked Heron Ardea pacifica
- Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE
- Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
Order FALCONIFORMES
- Family ACCIPITRIDAE
- Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris
- Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus
- Collared Sparrowhawk Accipiter cirrhocephalus
- Family FALCONIDAE
- Australian Hobby Falco longipennis
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family CHARADRIIDAE
- Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
Order COLUMBIFORMES
- Family COLUMBIDAE
- Rock Dove Columba livia*
- Spotted Turtle-Dove Streptopelia chinensis*
- Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
- Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
Order PSITTACIFORMES
- Family CACATUIDAE
- Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus
- Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
- Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
- Family PSITTACIDAE
- Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus
- Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna
- Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
- Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
- Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus
Order CUCULIFORMES
- Family CUCULIDAE
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis
- Common Koel Eudynamys scolopacea
- Channel-billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae
Order CAPRIMULGIFORMES
- Family PODARGIDAE
- Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides
Order CORACIIFORMES
- Family HALCYONIDAE
- Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
- Forest Kingfisher Todiramphus macleayii
- Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
Order PASSERIFORMES
- Family MALURIDAE
- Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
- Family PARDALOTIDAE
- Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
- Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana
- Family MELIPHAGIDAE
- Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
- Little Wattlebird Anthochaera chrysoptera
- Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
- White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
- New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
- Family PETROICIDAE
- Jacky Winter Microeca fascinans
- Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
- Family PACHYCEPHALIDAE
- Crested Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus
- Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis
- Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris
- Family DICRURIDAE
- Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta
- Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
- Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons
- Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
- Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
- Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus
- Family CAMPEPHAGIDAE
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
- Family ARTAMIDAE
- White-browed Woodswallow Artamus superciliosus
- Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus
- Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus
- Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis
- Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
- Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
- Family CORVIDAE
- Australian Raven Corvus coronoides
- Family PTILONORHYNCHIDAE
- Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus
- Family MOTACILLIDAE
- Richard's Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae
- Family PASSERIDAE
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus*
- Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata
- Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii
- Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis
- Nutmeg Mannikin Lonchura punctulata*
- Family FRINGILLIDAE
- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis*
- Family DICAEIDAE
- Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum
- Family HIRUNDINIDAE
- Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
- Fairy Martin Hirundo ariel
- Family PYCNONOTIDAE
- Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus*
- Family SYLVIIDAE
- Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis
- Family ZOSTEROPIDAE
- Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
- Family MUSCICAPIDAE
- Common Blackbird Turdus merula*
- Family STURNIDAE
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris*
- Common Myna Acridotheres tristis*
Total species: 80
Total introduced species: 9
* = introduced
Last modified 2002/2/1 by
Bob West