Site Report: Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
Rufous-bellied Pademelon (Thylogale billardierii)
Gray Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica)
Swamp Antechinus (Antechinus minimus)
Blue Ant (Diamma bicolor)
White-headed Petrel (Pterodroma lessonii)
Gray-backed Storm-Petrel (Garrodia nereis)
White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis)
Forest Raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
Northern Royal Albatross (Diomedea sanfordi)
White-capped Albatross (Thalassarche cauta)
Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
Gould's Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera)
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Rufous-bellied Pademelon (Thylogale billardierii)
Gray Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica)
Swamp Antechinus (Antechinus minimus)
Blue Ant (Diamma bicolor)
White-headed Petrel (Pterodroma lessonii)
Gray-backed Storm-Petrel (Garrodia nereis)
White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis)
Forest Raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
Northern Royal Albatross (Diomedea sanfordi)
White-capped Albatross (Thalassarche cauta)
Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
Gould's Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera)
Peninsula
Visits
- 2025-11-22: Early morning, we headed over to Eaglehawk Neck so that I could join a pelagic tour offshore. We saw a good number of birds on the pelagic. After the boat tour, we visited a few places in the general area.
- 2025-11-23: We visited all the local sites before heading north.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (53 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(1 record)
Class: Insects
(1 record)
- Order: Bees, Wasps, and Ants
(1 record)
- Family: Thynnid Flower Wasps
- Blue Ant (Diamma bicolor)
Phylum: Chordates
(52 records)
Class: Birds
(45 records)
- Order: Boobies
(1 record)
- Family: Boobies and Gannets
- Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Tasmanian Nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle (Icthyophaga leucogaster)
- Order: Parrots
(1 record)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Zanda funerea)
- Order: Pelicans (7 records)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus)
- Family: Penguins
- Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor)
- Order: Perching Birds
(11 records)
- Family: Fairywrens and Allies
- Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus)
- Family: Honeyeaters
- Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera)
- New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)
- Yellow Wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Forest Raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Thornbills and Allies
- Tasmanian Scrubwren (Sericornis humilis)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)
- Family: Whistlers and Allies
- Gray Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies (6 records)
- Order: Tubenoses (17 records)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri)
- Gould's Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera)
- Gray-faced Petrel (Pterodroma gouldi)
- Great-winged Petrel (Pterodroma macroptera)
- Northern Giant-Petrel (Macronectes halli)
- Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris)
- Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
- White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis)
- White-headed Petrel (Pterodroma lessonii)
- Family: Southern Storm Petrels
- Gray-backed Storm-Petrel (Garrodia nereis)
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Class: Mammals
(7 records)
- Order: Dasyuromorphia
(3 records)
- Family: Antechinuses
- Swamp Antechinus (Antechinus minimus)
- Order: Diprotodontia
(2 records)
- Family: Macropodidae
- Rufous-bellied Pademelon (Thylogale billardierii)
- Family: Phalangeridae
- Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
- Order: Lagomorpha
(1 record)
- Family: Leporidae
- European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
- Order: Monotremata
(1 record)
- Family: Echidna
- Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)