Azure Kingfisher by $hige
Chris Dahlberg's Daintree River Tours wildlife checklist for December 2009.

2 hour tours from 6:00am
 s = sighting h = heard B = just before departure G = glimpse A = just after tour finishes. 
% sightings

<<Date/ Species / Date>>

1st

2nd

3rd

8th

10th

12th

15th

19th
25% Green Tree Snake   s         s  
38% Ulysses Butterfly       s s s    
25% Orange-footed Scrubfowl     sB     s    
100% Australasian Darter s s s s s s s s
100% Little Pied Cormorant s s s s s s s s
12% Little Black Cormorant         s      
12% Australasian Grebe               s
62% Magpie Goose sh sh sh       s s
38% Wandering Whistling-Duck sh       sh sh    
62% Pacific Black Duck sB s     s s   s
12% Pale-vented Bush-hen     hB     h   sh
88% Purple Swamphen s s s s s sh   s
  Date 1st 2nd 3rd 8th 10th 12th 15th 19th
50% Great-billed Heron s     s sh s    
75% White-faced Heron   s s s G   s s
75% Cattle Egret   s s   s s s s
62% Eastern Great Egret s s s s       s
88% Little Egret s s s s s   s s
38% Intermediate Egret s   s       s  
12% Striated Heron     s          
38% Nankeen Night Heron s s s          
100% Black Bittern s sh s G s s s s
62% Australian White Ibis   s s s     s s
50% Royal Spoonbill s s s       s  
38% Common Sandpiper         s s s  
12% Latham's Snipe   s            
88% Bush Stone-curlew s s s s s s s  
88% Masked Lapwing s s s   s s sh sh
38% Black-fronted Dotterel   s s         sh
 

Date

 1st 2nd 3rd 8th 10th 12th 15th 19th
50% Whistling Kite   s   s s s    
12% White-bellied Sea-Eagle       s        
12% Grey Goshawk         s      
38% Peregrine Falcon       s s s    
12% Wompoo Fruit-Dove       h   sh   h
100% Pied Imperial pigeon s s s s s s s s
12% Brown Cuckoo-Dove         s      
88% Bar-shouldered Dove sh sh sh sh s s   sh
38% Sulphur-crested Cockatoo       sh sh     s
100% Rainbow Lorikeet sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh
38% Scaly-breasted Lorikeet s   sh     sh    
25% Double-eyed Fig-Parrot   sh sA h   h h  
12% Oriental Cuckoo     s          
  Brush Cuckoo   h h h h h   h
  Little (Gould's) Bronze-Cuckoo     h       h  
50% Eastern Koel h h hsB   s sh h sh
38% Channel-billed Cuckoo   shB     sh hB hB sh
50% Pheasant Coucal h sh   h sA h sh sh
 

Date

 1st 2nd 3rd 8th 10th 12th 15th 19th
88% Papuan Frogmouth s s s s s s s  
75% Australian Swiftlet   s s   s s s s
100% Azure Kingfisher sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh
12% Laughing Kookaburra         s     h
38% Blue-winged Kookaburra hB     sh sh h h sh
38% Forest Kingfisher sh sB h shA   h   h
  Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher h h h   h h   h
25% Dollarbird         s s    
  Lovely Fairy-wren         h     h
  Date 1st 2nd 3rd 8th 10th 12th 15th 19th
88% Large-billed Gerygone Gh sh sh sh sh h sh sh
100% Helmeted Friarbird sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh
38% Macleay's Honeyeater sh h   sh h h h s
12% Yellow-spotted Honeyeater h h h sh h h h  
50% Graceful Honeyeater sh h h sh sh sh h h
88% Brown-backed Honeyeater sh sh sh sh h sh sh sh
38% Dusky Honeyeater h       sh sh   sh
  Little Shrike-thrush h h h h h h h h
  Grey Whistler       h     h  
  Date 1st 2nd 3rd 8th 10th 12th 15th 19th
100% Shining Flycatcher sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh
  Spectacled Monarch h h   h h   h h
12% Magpie Lark           sB    
38% Spangled Drongo s   s s        
100% Yellow Oriole sh Gh sh sh sh sh sh Gh
100% Australasian Figbird sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh
12% Spotted Catbird         sh      
  Cicadabird   h       h    
12% Varied Triller   h h h h h h Gh
62% White-breasted Woodswallow s s s s     s  
  Date 1st 2nd 3rd 8th 10th 12th 15th 19th
38% Black Butcherbird h h sh h sh Gh h h
100% Welcome Swallow sh sh sh sh sh sh sh sh
  Singing Bushlark               h
  Golden-headed Cisticola     hB   h h    
25% Olive-backed Sunbird h h     sh     sh
38% Mistletoebird sh h h h h sh h sh
  Silvereye     h          
88% Metallic Starling sh sh sh sh   sh sh sh
  ........................Date......................... 1st 2nd 3rd 8th 10th 12th 15th 19th

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