Where to Watch Birds

Pine Creek

Pine Creek is on Stuart Highway at the Kakadu Highway junction, approximately 300 kilometres from Darwin and 100 from Katherine. It is a surprisingly 'birdy' place. The town itself is an excellent location for Galahs, Red-winged Parrots, Red-collared Lorikeets, Northern Rosellas and is the BEST location for Hooded Parrots.

There is a Great Bowerbird's bower and Grey-crowned Babbler's nests nearby in the campground

The sewerage ponds outside the town usually have a range of ducks and other water birds. Copperfield Dam, the town water supply and recreation area, sometimes has Gouldian Finches come to drink early in the morning.

Red-collared Lorikeets on the Pine Creek oval © Frank Taylor

Species seen here recently

Birds ( 74 )

Plumed Whistling-Duck

Dendrocygna eytoni

Wandering Whistling-Duck

Dendrocygna arcuata

Radjah Shelduck

Tadorna radjah

Pink-eared Duck

Malacorhynchus membranaceus

Grey Teal

Anas gracilis

Pacific Black Duck

Anas superciliosa

Hardhead

Aythya australis

Australasian Grebe

Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

Crested Pigeon

Ocyphaps lophotes

Diamond Dove

Geopelia cuneata

Peaceful Dove

Geopelia striata

Bar-shouldered Dove

Geopelia humeralis

Little Pied Cormorant

Microcarbo melanoleucos

Black Bittern

Ixobrychus flavicollis

White-necked Heron

Ardea pacifica

Intermediate Egret

Ardea intermedia

Australian White Ibis

Threskiornis molucca

Straw-necked Ibis

Threskiornis spinicollis

Whistling Kite

Haliastur sphenurus

Black Kite

Milvus migrans

Brown Goshawk

Accipiter fasciatus

Eurasian Coot

Fulica atra

Black-winged Stilt

Himantopus himantopus

Black-fronted Dotterel

Elseyornis melanops

Masked Lapwing

Vanellus miles

Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Calyptorhynchus banksii

Galah

Eolophus roseicapillus

Little Corella

Cacatua sanguinea

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Cacatua galerita

Cockatiel

Nymphicus hollandicus

Rainbow Lorikeet

Trichoglossus haematodus

Red-collared Lorikeet

Trichoglossus rubritorquis

Varied Lorikeet

Psitteuteles versicolor

Red-winged Parrot

Aprosmictus erythropterus

Northern Rosella

Platycercus venustus

Hooded Parrot

Psephotus dissimilis

Eastern Koel

Eudynamys orientalis

Azure Kingfisher

Ceyx azureus

Blue-winged Kookaburra

Dacelo leachii

Red-backed Kingfisher

Todiramphus pyrrhopygius

Sacred Kingfisher

Todiramphus sanctus

Rainbow Bee-eater

Merops ornatus

Dollarbird

Eurystomus orientalis

Great Bowerbird

Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis

Red-winged Fairy-wren

Malurus elegans

Weebill

Smicrornis brevirostris

Striated Pardalote

Pardalotus striatus

White-gaped Honeyeater

Lichenostomus unicolor

Bar-breasted Honeyeater

Ramsayornis fasciatus

Rufous-throated Honeyeater

Conopophila rufogularis

Dusky Honeyeater

Myzomela obscura

Brown Honeyeater

Lichmera indistincta

White-throated Honeyeater

Melithreptus albogularis

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Entomyzon cyanotis

Silver-crowned Friarbird

Philemon argenticeps

Little Friarbird

Philemon citreogularis

Grey-crowned Babbler

Pomatostomus temporalis

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Coracina novaehollandiae

White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike

Coracina papuensis

White-winged Triller

Lalage sueurii

Varied Triller

Lalage leucomela

Rufous Whistler

Pachycephala rufiventris

Australasian Figbird

Sphecotheres vieilloti

Green Oriole

Oriolus flavocinctus

White-breasted Woodswallow

Artamus leucorynchus

Black-faced Woodswallow

Artamus cinereus

Silver-backed Butcherbird

Cracticus argenteus

Pied Butcherbird

Cracticus nigrogularis

Willie Wagtail

Rhipidura leucophrys

Paperbark Flycatcher

Myiagra nana

Magpie-lark

Grallina cyanoleuca

Jacky Winter

Microeca fascinans

Masked Finch

Poephila personata

Mammals ( 1 )

Litltle-red Flying-fox

Pteropus scapulatus