Interpretive Bird Walks

Wallace Park Friday 8.30 – 10am

• Auditory Display 
• Agnostic Behaviour 
• Aerial Display 
• Courtship Display 
• Flight 
• Foraging 
• Mimicry 
• Nesting Behaviour

Noosa Parks Association Bird Observers Group invites you to enjoy Interpretive Birding at Wallace Park, Noosaville, and bi-monthly field trips to destinations on the Sunshine Coast, Cooloola Coast, and the surrounding hinterland.

The Bird Observers Program 2026 (PDF) details all meetings and field trips.

An Interpretive Birding walk takes place every second and fourth Friday of the month before the Friday Environment Forum. Participants meet in the Environment Centre car park at Wallace Park, Eumundi Road, Noosaville beside the Library at 8:30am.

If you would like to join, or know more about this group, please contact Angela Farnsworth at farnsys@gmail.com or Valda McLean at braelochen@bigpond.com.

New bird observers of all ages are encouraged to join the Noosa Parks Association Bird Observers Group and are always welcome.

Interpretive Birding

Interpretive Birding gives an insight into the everyday life of birds in a particular area. The group walk around Wallace Park to observe and try to interpret the activities of the birds. The pace is slow, allowing time to learn and take photographs.

The Noosa Bird Trail

The Noosa Bird Trail brochure provides details of a trail established to provide visitors and locals with a way of finding elusive patches of forest, so they can enjoy the delights that winged creatures provide.

The Noosa Bird Trail was developed with a Queensland Government grant and was launched in December 2004. There are 32 sites that can be accessed as per the PDF that can be downloaded. In regards to site 33 Cooroy Waste Water Treatment Plant, Mary River Road Cooroy, this site is currently off limits due to health and safety concerns.

If you are out exploring any of the Noosa Bird Trail or Noosa Trails Network sites, we’d really appreciate hearing from you. If you notice anything that needs attention such as damaged signage, access issues, fallen trees, or anything that doesn’t look quite right – please let us know.

Your observations help us keep the trails safe, accessible, and enjoyable for everyone. Please email Angela Farnsworth farnsys@gmail.com, specifying the issue and the specific site. I will then pass on that information to the relevant authority.

We also ask observers to let us know, via email to the above address, of any rare or threatened species they see. These reports are very helpful for local conservation work and helps us build a clearer picture of how these species are using local habitats.

Click here to download a copy of the Noosa Bird Trail

The Birds of Double Island Point

The Birds of Double Island Point brochure lists birds to be found at Double Island Point.

Emu*
Australian Brush Turkey
Brown Quail
King Quail
Plumed Whistling Duck
Wandering Whistling Duck
Musk Duck*
Pink-eared Duck*
Freckled Duck
Black Swan
Radjah Shelduck
Cotton Pygmy-Goose
Green Pygmy-Goose*
Australian Wood Duck
Hardhead
Australasian Shoveler
Pacific Black Duck
Mallard (domestic)
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Rock Dove
White-headed Pigeon
Spotted Dove
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Wonga Pigeon
Common Bronzewing
Brush Bronzewing*
Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
Brown-capped Emerald Dove
Torresian Imperial-Pigeon*
Wompoo Fruit-Dove
Superb Fruit-Dove
Royal Spoonbill
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Australasian Bittern*
Australian Little Bittern*
Black Bittern

Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
Topknot Pigeon
Marbled Frogmouth*
Tawny Frogmouth
White-throated Nightjar
Large-tailed Nightjar
Australian Owlet-nightjar
White-throated Needletail
Fork-tailed Swift
Pheasant Coucal
Eastern Koel
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Little Bronze-Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Brush Cuckoo
Pallid Cuckoo
Oriental Cuckoo
Lewin’s Rail
Buff-banded Rail
Australian Spotted Crake*
Baillon’s Crake
Spotless Crake
Pale-vented Bush-hen
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Black-tailed Native-hen*
Eurasian Coot
Brolga*
Australian Bustard*
Black-winged Petrel*
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Fluttering Shearwater*
Black-necked Stork
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Greater Sand Plover
Hooded Plover*
Black-fronted Dotterel
Banded Lapwing*
Masked Lapwing
Red-kneed Dotterel
Australian Painted-snipe*

Nankeen Night Heron
Striated Heron
Cattle Egret
White-necked Heron
Great Egret
Plumed Egret
White-faced Heron
Little Egret
Eastern Reef Egret
Australian Pelican
Lesser Frigatebird
Great Frigatebird*
Australasian Gannet
Brown Booby
Masked Booby
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Pied Cormorant
Australasian Darter
Bush Stone-curlew
Beach Stone-curlew
Australian Pied Oystercatcher
Sooty Oystercatcher
Red-necked Avocet*
Pied Stilt
Grey Plover*
Pacific Golden Plover
Kentish Plover*
Red-capped Plover
Double-banded Plover
Lesser Sand Plover
Roseate Tern*
White-fronted Tern*
Common Tern
Arctic Tern*
Lesser Crested Tern
Greater Crested Tern
Arctic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger*
Eastern Grass Owl
Greater Sooty Owl
Masked Owl*
Powerful Owl
Barking Owl*
Southern Boobook

Comb-crested Jacana
Whimbrel
Little Curlew*
Far Eastern Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black-tailed Godwit*
Ruddy Turnstone
Great Knot
Red Knot
Broad-billed Sandpiper*
Curlew Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling
Latham’s Snipe
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Grey-tailed Tattler
Wandering Tattler
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Black-breasted Button-quail
Painted Button-quail
Australian Pratincole*
Brown Noddy
Black Noddy*
Silver Gull
Sooty Tern
Little Tern
Australian Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Brown Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Glossy Black-Cockatoo
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Galah
Long-billed Corella
Little Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Crimson Rosella
Pale-headed Rosella
Eastern Rosella*
Ground Parrot
Turquoise Parrot*

Osprey
Black-shouldered Kite
Square-tailed Kite
Pacific Baza
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Little Eagle
Swamp Harrier
Spotted Harrier
Grey Goshawk
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Whistling Kite
Brahminy Kite
Black Kite
Rainbow Bee-eater
Oriental Dollarbird
Azure Kingfisher
Forest Kingfisher
Collared Kingfisher
Sacred Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Blue-winged Kookaburra*
Nankeen Kestrel
Australian Hobby
Little Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird
Dusky Honeyeater
Scarlet Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Bar-breasted Honeyeater*
Lewin’s Honeyeater
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater*
Little Wattlebird
Regent Honeyeater*
Red Wattlebird*
Mangrove Honeyeater
Fuscous Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater*
Bell Miner
Noisy Miner
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Brown Gerygone
Fairy Gerygone

Musk Lorikeet
Little Lorikeet
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Australian King-Parrot
Red-winged Parrot
Noisy Pitta
Green Catbird
Regent Bowerbird
Satin Bowerbird
White-throated Treecreeper
Red-browed Treecreeper*
Brown Treecreeper
Variegated Fairy-wren
Superb Fairy-wren
Red-backed Fairy-wren
White-cheeked Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Brown Honeyeater
Blue-faced Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
White-throated Honeyeater
Black-chinned Honeyeater*
White-eared Honeyeater*
Striped Honeyeater
Golden Whistler
Little Shrike-thrush
Grey Shrike-thrush
Eastern Whipbird
Barred Cuckoo-Shrike
Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike
Common Cicadabird
White-winged Triller
Varied Triller
Pied Currawong
Australian Magpie
Pied Butcherbird
Grey Butcherbird
Masked Woodswallow
White-browed Woodswallow*
Dusky Woodswallow
Black-faced Woodswallow*
White-breasted Woodswallow
Willie Wagtail
Rufous Fantail

White-throated Gerygone
Mangrove Gerygone
Weebill
Yellow-throated Scrubwren
White-browed Scrubwren
Large-billed Scrubwren
Yellow-rumped Thornbill*
Yellow Thornbill
Striated Thornbill
Brown Thornbill
Buff-rumped Thornbill*
Australian Logrunner*
Grey-crowned Babbler
Varied Sitella
Australasian Figbird
Olive-backed Oriole
Eastern Shrike-tit
Rufous Whistler
Horsfield’s Bushlark
Golden-headed Cisticola
Australian Reed-Warbler
Brown Songlark*
Rufous Songlark*
Tawny Grassbird
Little Grassbird
White-backed Swallow*
Fairy Martin
Tree Martin
Welcome Swallow
Silvereye
Common Starling
Common Myna
Bassian Thrush*
Russet-tailed Thrush
Blue-Rock-Thrush*
Mistletoebird
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
Red-browed Finch
Double-barred Finch
Plum-headed Finch*
House Sparrow
Australasian Pipit

Grey Fantail
Spangled Drongo
Leaden Flycatcher
Satin Flycatcher*
Shining Flycatcher
Restless Flycatcher
Magpie Lark
Spectacled Monarch
White-eared Monarch
Black-faced Monarch
Torresian Crow
Australian Raven
Apostlebird*
Paradise Riflebird
Rose Robin
Jacky Winter*
Eastern Yellow Robin
Pale-yellow Robin

List uses the species sequence and nomenclature of Birdlife Australia’s
“Working List of Australian Birds v4.3”
Species are included on basis of recorded sightings since 1990 in the datasets of Birdlife Australia’s Birdata, Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird, and the Queensland Wader Study Group.

*Denotes sightings of 5 or less

April 2025
Russ Lamb