Birds of the Coorong - BIRD COUNTS

The ‘Aussie Bird Count’ is held each year around October.

The below bird-list shows bird numbers observed during surveys conducted onboard our public tours. The first number is from our more recent survey on Monday 20th October 2025 (Representing 1992 individual Birds sighted across 66 species). The second number is for a previous survey conducted Sunday 6th October 2024 (Representing 7870 individual Birds sighted across 60 species)…

  • Australasian Darter: 4,7

  • Australian Hobby: 0,2

  • Australasian Shoveler: 1,0

  • Australian Magpie: 6,6

  • Australian Pelican: 68,563

  • Australian Pied Oystercatcher: 6,50

  • Australian Shelduck: 42, 0

  • Australian Reed-Warbler: 5,0

  • Australian White Ibis: 5,1

  • Bar-tailed Godwit: 11,11

  • Black Swan: 147,256

  • Black-faced Cormorant: 16,163

  • Black-Tailed Godwit: 1,0

  • Brown Thornbill: 1,0

  • Caspian Tern: 7,25

  • Chestnut Teal: 21,68

  • Common Greenshank: 8,3

  • Common Starling: 4,8

  • Crested Pigeon: 2,0

  • Domestic Duck: 1,0

  • Dusky Moorhen: 3,12

  • Emu: 2,3

  • Eurasian Coot: 15,49

  • European Goldfinch: 0,2

  • Fairy Tern: 21,0

  • Galah: 4,2

  • Great Cormorant: 46, 2193

  • Great Crested Grebe: 218,194

  • Great Egret: 6,6

  • Great Pied Cormorant: 23,364

  • Greater Crested Tern: 32,267

  • Grey Teal: 978,2236

  • Hardhead: 0,8

  • Hoary-headed Grebe: 12,9

  • House Sparrow: 4,0

  • Little Black Cormorant: 22,162

  • Little Corella: 3,0

  • Little Egret: 0,2

  • Little Pied Cormorant: 16,94

  • Little Raven: 4,6

  • Little Tern: 1,0

  • Magpie-lark: 3,1

  • Masked Lapwing: 2,2

  • Musk Duck: 1,1

  • Nankeen Kestrel: 0,2

  • New Holland Honeyeater: 2,1

  • Pacific Black Duck: 11,56

  • Pacific Gull: 2,6

  • Pied Stilt: 11,2

  • Purple Swamphen: 2,27

  • Rainbow Lorikeet: 0,7

  • Red Wattlebird: 3,3

  • Red-necked Avocet: 2,447

  • Red-necked Stint: 26,0

  • Rock Dove: 9,1

  • Royal Spoonbill: 13,18

  • Rufous Bristlebird: 3,0

  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper: 2,3

  • Silver Gull: 39,65

  • Silvereye: 7,0

  • Singing Honeyeater: 3,3

  • Sooty Oystercatcher: 2,28

  • Spiny-Cheeked Honeyeater: 3,0

  • Spotted Dove: 1,0

  • Straw-necked Ibis: 34,30

  • Superb Fairy-Wren: 9,0

  • Swamp Harrier: 1,7

  • Wedge-tailed Eagle: 1,2

  • Welcome Swallow: 6,9

  • Whiskered Tern: 18,25

  • Whistling Kite: 4,6

  • White-Browed Scrubwren: 6,0

  • White-faced Heron: 0,5

  • Willie Wagtail: 0,1

  • Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo: 0,118