Birds around Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Every measure here is worked out per 5 degree square, so this covers the wider area around Sydney (-35° to -30° latitude, 150° to 155° longitude, about 550 km across), not the city alone. Counts are shares of all birds records in the same weeks, so busier stations do not inflate them (methods).
Arrived in the last four weeks
No birds arrived here in these weeks last year, as far as the records show.
Expected in the next six weeks
- Mallard around 17 November
- Great Egret around 17 November
- Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo around 17 November
- Azure Kingfisher around 17 November
- Torresian Crow around 17 November
- Bell Miner around 17 November
- White-naped Honeyeater around 17 November (weak evidence)
- Southern Boobook around 17 November
- Barking Owl around 17 November
- Osprey around 17 November
- Double-barred Finch around 17 November
- Spotted Dove around 17 November
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet around 17 November
- Rainbow Lorikeet around 17 November
- Spangled Drongo around 24 November
- Pale-headed Rosella around 1 December
- Brush Cuckoo (Brush) around 8 December
- Rufous Fantail (Rufous-fronted) around 8 December
Dates are last year's first regular records after at least six weeks away, with each species' own uncertainty on its page. Each species page can email you when it turns up.
Most recorded, last eight weeks
| Species | Records | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus | 1,994,720 | 175.7 |
| Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala | 1,773,378 | 156.2 |
| Bell Miner Manorina melanophrys | 1,090,382 | 96.0 |
| Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen | 475,893 | 41.9 |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita | 472,577 | 41.6 |
| Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis | 298,094 | 26.3 |
| Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys | 291,216 | 25.6 |
| Southern Boobook Ninox boobook | 264,964 | 23.3 |
| Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis | 233,204 | 20.5 |
| Australian Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis | 231,810 | 20.4 |
| Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris | 230,424 | 20.3 |
| Pied Currawong Strepera graculina | 207,950 | 18.3 |
| Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna | 200,130 | 17.6 |
| Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus | 194,428 | 17.1 |
| Gray Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus | 186,226 | 16.4 |
How well this area is covered
Watched in 12 of the last 12 weeks for birds (enough records to count; unwatched weeks say nothing about absence). Active stations here in the last 30 days: 174 BirdWeather. Add a station to fill the gap.