We recently took a twelve-day trip to the Top End of the Northern Territory: three days in Darwin, then the rest mostly in Kakadu returning with a stop at Pine Creek and Litchfield before returning back to Darwin to fly to Melbourne.
The Magpie Goose is rare in Victoria, but seeing hundreds is guaranteed in the Top End. Photo by Jason Polak.
Although I plan to write more posts on the trip including a detailed guide of Kakadu NP, readers may be interested in our complete bird list to get an idea of what is possible:
- Arafura Fantail
- Australasian Darter
- Australian Figbird
- Australian Pelican
- Australian White Ibis
- Azure Kingfisher
- Bar-shouldered Dove
- Black Bittern
- Black Kite
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
- Black-necked Stork
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Blue-winged Kookaburra
- Brolga
- Brown Honeyeater
- Brush Cuckoo
- Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon
- Cockatiel
- Comb-crested Jacana
- Crimson Finch
- Double-barred Finch
- Eastern Curlew
- Forest Kingfisher
- Galah
- Glossy Ibis
- Great Bowerbird
- Great Cormorant
- Great Egret
- Green Pygmy Goose
- Grey-crowned Babbler
- Helmeted Friarbird
- Hooded Parrot
- Intermediate Egret
- Large-billed Gerygone
- Leaden Flycatcher
- Lemon-bellied Flycatcher
- Little Corella
- Little Friarbird
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Long-tailed Finch
- Magpie Goose
- Magpie-Lark
- Masked Finch
- Masked Lapwing
- Nankeen Night Heron
- Northern Rosella
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl
- Pacific Black Duck
- Partridge Pigeon
- Peaceful Dove
- Pheasant Coucal
- Pied Butcherbird
- Pied Heron
- Pied Stilt
- Pink Eared Duck
- Plumed Whistling Duck
- Purple Swamphen
- Radjah Shelduck
- Rainbow Bee-eater
- Red-backed Kingfisher
- Red-capped Plover
- Red-collared Lorikeet
- Red-headed Honeyeater
- Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Red-winged Parrot
- Royal Spoonbill
- Rufous Owl
- Rufous Whistler
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Shining Flycatcher
- Silver Gull
- Spangled Drongo
- Straw-necked Ibis
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Torresian Crow
- Torresian Imperial Pigeon
- Varied Triller
- Wandering Whistling Duck
- Whistling Kite
- White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
- White-bellied Sea Eagle
- White-breasted Woodswallow
- White-gaped Honeyeater
- White-throated Honeyeater
- Willie Wagtail