Southern Cassowary
Male Cassowary – Mission Beach 
Male Cassowary 
Male Cassowary with Chick
Orange – footed Scrubfowl
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Australian Brush Turkey (Endemic)
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Australian Pelican (Endemic)
Cairns Esplanade
Masked Booby
Barrier Reef near Cairns
Brown Booby
Barrier Reef near Cairns
Little Pied Cormorant
Hasties Swamp
Little Black Cormorant
Cairns botanical Gardens
Great Crested Grebe
Yungaburra (Lake Barrine)
Magpie Goose
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Ducks at Hasties Swamp
Pink eared duck-Endemic 
Hardhead 
Freckled Duck-Endemic 
Plumed Whistling Duck-Endemic
Radjah Shelduck
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Pacific Black Duck
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Australian Wood Duck
Milla Milla (Tablelands)
Grey Teal
Hasties Swamp
Dusky Moorhen
Hasties Swamp
Eurasian Coot
Hasties Swamp
White – necked Heron (Endemic)
Hasties Swamp
White – faced Heron
Cairns Esplanade
Egrets
Great Egret 
Little Egret 
Intermediate Egret 
Eastern Reef Egret
Cattle Egret
Mission Beach
Nankeen Night Heron
Cairns Esplanade
Australian White Ibis
Straw -necked Ibis (Endemic)
Royal Spoonbill
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Brolga (Endemic)
Hasties Swamp, Bromefield Swamp
Cairns Esplanade Wading Birds
Grey-tailed Tattler 
Whimbrel 
Great Knot 
Bar-tailed Godwit
Comb- crested Jacana
Yungaburra
Bush Stone Curlew
Cairns Esplanade
Pied Oystercatcher
Cairns Esplanade
Masked Lapwing
Red- kneed Dotterel
Cairns Esplanade, Yungaburra
Black- fronted Dotterel
Cairns Esplanade, Yungaburra
Black – winged Stilt
Yungaburra
Silver Gull
(Photo taken in Sydney)
Caspian Tern
Cairns Esplanade
Gull – billed Tern
Cairns Esplanade
Black – naped Tern
Barrier Reef near Cairns
Common Noddy
Barrier Reef near Cairns
Pacific Baza
Milla Milla
Black – shouldered Kite
Tablelands
Osprey
Cairns
Square – tailed kite
Hasties Swamp
Black Kite
Whistling Kite
Tablelands
Brahminy Kite
Cairns
White – bellied Sea Eagle
Mission Beach
Wedge – tailed Eagle
Tablelands
Little Eagle
Tablelands
Grey Goshawk
Yungaburra
Spotted Harrier
Bromefield Swamp
Swamp Harrier
Bromefield Swamp
Peregrine Falcon
Cairns
Brown Falcon
Nankeen Kestrel
Tablelands
Rose – crowned Fruit Dove
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Wompoo Fruit Dove
Murray Falls, Tablelands
Topknot Pigeon (Endemic)
Tablelands
Spotted Turtle Dove
Cairns Esplanade
Brown Cuckoo Dove
Tablelands (Lake Barrine)
Peaceful Dove
Bar – shouldered Dove
Emerald Dove
Tablelands (Lake Barrine)
Common Bronzewing (Endemic)
Tablelands (Granite Gorge)
Crested Pigeon (Endemic)
Galah (Endemic)
Tablelands (Granite Gorge)
Sulpher – crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaley – breasted Lorikeet (Endemic)
Tablelands
Double Eyed Fig Parrot
Cairns Esplanade
Crimson Rosella (Endemic)
Milla Milla
Pale – headed (Eastern) Rosella (Endemic)
Undarra
Fan – tailed Cuckoo
Tablelands
Fan-tailed Cuckoo 
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
‘Goulds’ Bronze Cuckoo
Yungaburra
Pheasant Coucal
Mission Beach
Fork – tailed Swift
Kookaburras
Laughing Kookaburra (Endemic) 
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Rainbow Bee – Eater
Kingfishers
Forest Kingfisher 
Sacred Kingfisher 
Azure Kingfisher
Lovely Fairy Wren (Endemic)
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Red – backed Fairy Wren (Endemic)
Undarra
Red – browed Pardolate (Endemic)
Undarra
Large – billed Scrub Wren (Endemic)
Granite National Park
Brown Thornbill (Endemic)
Lake Barrine
Buff – rumped Thornbill (Endemic)
Lake Barrine
Helmeted Friar Bird
Cairns Botanical gardens
Blue – face Honeyeater
Cairns, Granite Gorge
Macleay’s Honeyeater (Endemic)
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Honeyeaters
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Endemic
Yellow Honeyeater Endemic 
Varied Honeyeater 
Brown honeyeater
Lewins Honeyeater (Endemic)
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Bridled Honeyeater (Endemic)
Mission Beach
White – gaped Honeyeater (Endemic)
Cairns Esplanade
Black – chinned Honeyeater (Endemic)
Mission Beach
Eastern Spinebill (Endemic)
Lake Barrine
Dusky Honeyeater
Mission Beach
Scarlet Honeyeater
Undarra
Eastern Whip Bird (Endemic)
Tablelands
Red – capped Robin (Endemic)
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Mangrove Robin
Cairns esplanade
Grey – headed Robin
Lake Barrine
Pale – yellow Robin
Lake Barrine
White – browed Robin (Endemic)
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Little Shrike Thrush
Mission Beach
Golden Whistler
Mission Beach
Grey Whistler
Milla Milla
Grey Fantail
Mission Beach
Willie Wagtail
Rufous Fantail
Cairns botanical gardens
Broad – billed Flycatcher
Cairns Botanical gardens
Leaden Flycatcher
Cairns botanical Gardens
Yellow – breasted Boatbill
Mission Beach
Spectacled Monarch
Magpie Lark
Cairns
Spangled Drongo
Yellow Oriole
Australasian Figbird
Victoria’s Riflebird (Endemic)
Tablelands
Green Catbird
Tablelands, Yungaburra
Black – faced Cuckoo Shrike
Cairns
White – bellied Cuckoo Shrike
Cairns
Varied Triller
Cairns Botanical Gardens
White – breasted Wood Swallow
Black Butcherbird
Cairns botanical Gardens
Pied Butcherbird
Undarra
Pied Currawong (Endemic)
Milla Milla
Torresian Crow
Tablelands
Welcome Swallow (Endemic)
Cairns
Australian Pipit
Clamorous Reed warbler
Hasties Swamp
House Sparrow
Cairns
Double – barred Finch (Endemic)
Undarra
Red – browed Finch (Endemic)
Lake Barrine
Nutmeg Mannikin
Cairns Botanical Gardens
Chestnut – breasted Mannikin
Hasties Swamp
Olive – backed Sunbird
Mistletoe Bird
Silvereye
Metallic Starling
Cairns, Mission Beach
Common Myna
Birds encountered in New South Wales
Wedge-tailed Shearwater 
Australasian Grebe 
Purple Swamphen 
Sooty Oystercatcher
Gang Gang Cockatoo 
Crested Tern 
Red-rumped Parrot 
Eastern Rosella
Little Wattle Bird 
Superb Fairy Wren 
Noisy Minor 
Red Wattle Bird
New Holland Honey Eater 
Lewins Honey Eater
Grey Butcherbird 
Tawney Grassbird