BIRD SPECIES OBSERVED on the TWEED & ROUS RIVERS 19 - 22 DECEMBER 1997  
Observers Karen & Robert Donnan 
from on board Tweed River Houseboat "Platypus"

From Tweed River Houseboats Base to Bray Park Weir

Pacific Black Duck 				Masked lapwing (plover)
Australian wood duck 				Spotted turtledove
Darter 						Crested pigeon
Little pied cormorant 				Common koel
Great cormorant 				Pheasant coucal
Little black cormorant 				Azure kingfisher
Cattle egret 					Laughing kookaburra
Great egret 					Rainbow bee - eater
White faced heron 				Dollar bird
Australian white ibis 				Superb fairy wren
Black shouldered kite 				Brown honey - eater
Osprey 						Eastern whipbird
Dusky moorhen 					Magpie Lark
Willie wagtail 					Magpie
Black faced cuckoo shrike 			Fig bird
Whitebreasted wood swallow 			Torresian crow
Richard's pipit 				Fairy martin
Silver eye

Mouth of the Rous River

Pelican 					Reef egret
Stricuted heron 				Royal spoonbill
Australian hobby 				Brahminy kite
Grey butcherbird 				White - bellied sea eagle
Yellow - tailed black cockatoo

Along the Rous River

Peacock 					Black egret
Spangled drongo 				Redbrowed finch
Mistletoe bird

The Tweed Valley Caldera region is the gateway to five Australian
World Heritage National Parks: Mt Warning, Nightcape, Border 
Ranges, Lamington and Springbrook.