Site Report: Sterling Range National Park, Australia

Sterling Range

Sterling Range Vegetation

Baudin's Black-Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii)

Weebill (Smicrornis brevirostris)

Baudin's Black-Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii)

Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

Purple-crowned Lorikeet (Parvipsitta porphyrocephala)

Mountains

Map of Site Report: Sterling Range National Park, Australia

2023-04-09: we made another trip down a very dusty road. It was Easter, and there was a huge line of people waiting to drive the road to the top. Instead, we parked the car at the bottom and walked around on some trails where we saw no one else despite the hundred cars in line. The plant life around here is very interesting.

Kingdom: Animals (38 records)

Phylum: Chordates (38 records)

Class: Birds (37 records)

Order: Cuckoos (1 record)
- Family: Cuckoos
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)

Order: Doves and Pigeons (2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera)
- Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)

Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Order: Parrots (5 records)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Australian Ringneck (Barnardius zonarius)
- Baudin's Black-Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii)
- Red-capped Parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius)
- Regent Parrot (Polytelis anthopeplus)
- Family: Old World Parrots
- Purple-crowned Lorikeet (Psitteuteles porphyrocephalus)

Order: Pelicans (2 records)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Australian Hobby (Falco longipennis)
- Family: Herons
- White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)

Order: Perching Birds (24 records)
- Family: Australian Robins
- Jacky-winter (Microeca fascinans)
- Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang)
- Family: Fantails
- Gray Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)
- Willie-wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen)
- Australian Raven (Corvus coronoides)
- Gray Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)
- Gray Currawong (Strepera versicolor)
- Family: Paradise-flycatcher
- Restless Flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta)
- Family: Pardalotes
- Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus)
- Weebill (Smicrornis brevirostris)
- Family: Sittellas
- Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera)
- Family: Thornbills and Allies
- Spotted Scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus)
- Western Gerygone (Gerygone fusca)
- Family: Whistlers and Allies
- Gray Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica)
- Family: White-eyes
- Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)

Order: Struthioniformes (1 record)
- Family: Cassowaries and Emu
- Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

Order: Turkey-like birds (1 record)
- Family: Grouse, Turkeys, and Allies
- Brown Quail (Synoicus ypsilophorus)

Class: Mammals (1 record)

Order: Diprotodontia (1 record)
- Family: Macropodidae
- Western Gray Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)