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Bird Wonders

Around 100 species of birds inhabit the canopies and skies of this region. From flocks of raucous kookaburras to delicate flitting fairy-wrens, your eyes and ears wil be amazed.

WHAT CAN I SEE? With such an abundance of birdlife you'll be limited only by your time, and access to a good pair of bird-watching binnoculars! If your trip is a short one, these are the birds you will see without any difficulty.

Gang Gang Cockatoo

The Birds You Are Most Likely To See
  1. Australian Magpie
  2. Crimson Rosella
  3. Pied Currawong
  4. Common Starling
  5. Brown Thornbill
  6. Welcome Swallow
  7. Laughing Kookaburra
  8. Superb Fairy-Wren
  9. Grey Fantail
  10. Yellow-Faced Honeyeater
Crimson Rosella

And as Judith Wright, one of Australia's most celebrated poets and long time resident of Braidwood shows, even the sighting of a common bird like the magpie can be a glorious experience.

“Along the road the magpies walk with hands in their pockets, left and right. They tilt their heads, and stroll and talk. In their well-fitted black and white.They look like certain gentleman who seem most nonchalant and wise until their meal is served – and then what clashing beaks, what greedy eyes!But not one man that I have heard throws back his head in such a song of grace and praise – no man nor bird. Their greed is brief, their joy is long. For each is born with such a throat and thanks his God with every note”

Judith Wright: 'Magpies', Collected Poems. Courtesy of Meredith McKinney & ETT imprint

Magpie.

Fairy Wren.


And be sure not to miss the mysterious Lyrebird. Though, with their amazing ability for mimicry you may well be tricked into thinking you've heard something else entirely! 

“Over the west side of this mountain, that’s lyrebird country.I could go down there, they say, in the early morning, and I’d see them. I’d hear them.I could see them, if I lay there in the dew:First a single movementlike a water drop falling, then stillness,then a brown head, brown eyes,a splendid bird, bearinglike a crest the symbol of its art,the symmetrical shape of the perfect lyre.I should hear that master practicing its art”

Part-Poem Judith Wright: 'Lyrebirds', Collected Poems Courtesy Meredith McKInney & ETT Imprint
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