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Gardiner's Creek Reserve
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Birds of Gardiner's Creek Reserve

John Peter, a local resident and keen ornothologist has compiled the following listing of bird-sightings at the reserve since 1989.

· Musk Duck
· Black Swan
· Australian Shelduck
· Australian Wood Duck
· Mallard
· Pacific Black Duck
· Grey Teal
· Chestnut Teal
· Hardhead
· Australasian Grebe
· Hoary-headed Grebe
· Little Pied Cormorant
· Little Black Cormorant
· Great Cormorant
· Australian Pelican
· White-faced Heron
· White-necked Heron
· Great Egret
· Cattle Egret
· Nankeen Night Heron
· Australian White Ibis
· Straw-necked Ibis
· Yellow-billed Spoonbill
· Black-shouldered Kite
· Whistling Kite
· Swamp Harrier
· Brown Goshawk
· Collared Sparrowhawk
· Wedge-tailed Eagle
· Brown Falcon
· Australian Hobby
· Nankeen Kestrel
· Buff-banded Rail
· Baillon's Crake
· Dusky Moorhen
· Black-fronted Dotterel
· Red-kneed Dotterel
· Masked Lapwing
· Silver Gull
· Spotted Turtle Dove
· Common Bronzewing
· Crested Pigeon
· Barbary Dove
· Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
· Gang-Gang Cockatoo
· Galah
· Long-billed Corella
· Little Corella
· Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
· Cockatiel
· Rainbow Lorikeet
· Musk Lorikeet
· Little Lorikeet
· Crimson Rosella
· Eastern Rosella
· Swift Parrot
· Red-rumped Parrot
· Budgerigar
· Blue-winged Parrot
· Rose-ringed Parakeet
· Peach-faced Lovebird
· Fan-tailed Cuckoo
· Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
· Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
· Southern Boobook
· Tawny Frogmouth
· White-throated Needletail
· Laughing Kookaburra
· Sacred Kingfisher
· Superb Fairy-wren
· Spotted Pardalote
· Striated Pardalote
· White-browed Scrubwren
· Brown Thornbill
· Yellow-rumped Thornbill
· Red Wattlebird
· Little Wattlebird
· Noisy Miner
· White-plumed Honeyeater
· New Holland Honeyeater
· Eastern Spinebill
· Flame Robin
· Pink Robin
· Crested Shrike-tit
· Golden Whistler
· Rufous Whistler
· Grey Shrike-Thrush
· Magpie-Lark
· Grey Fantail
· Willie Wagtail
· Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
· White-winged Triller
· Olive-backed Oriole
· Dusky Woodswallow
· Grey Butcherbird
· Australian Magpie
· Pied Currawong
· Grey Currawong
· Little Raven
· Skylark
· Richard's Pipit
· House Sparrow
· Tree Sparrow
· Zebra Finch
· European Greenfinch
· European Goldfinch
· Canary
· Mistletoebird
· Welcome Swallow
· Tree Martin
· Fairy Martin
· Clamorous Reed-Warbler
· Rufous Songlark
· Golden-headed Cisticola
· Silvereye
· Common Blackbird
· Song Thrush
· Common Starling
· Common Myna

Please do not feed the Ducks at Gardiner's Creek Reserve - or any other reserve

· When fed too often, ducks become tame and are easy prey for predators, such as foxes and unleashed dogs

· Ducks engorged with bread often eat insufficient natural food, and become malnourished

· Uneaten bread attracts vermin, such as rats and foxes

· Uneaten bread sinks to the bottom and pollutes our creek