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Adelaide Park Lands Association

About
Unique
Open Green Public
What We Do
* Explore
> Explore - Guided Walks
> Explore - Trail Guides
* Inspire
* Protect
* Restore
Features of Your Park Lands
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What Bird is That?

Your Adelaide Park Lands are home to many kinds of birds, but it’s not always easy to identify them.

On this page, we are gradually building a resource to help you identify and cherish the birds who live in, or visit your Adelaide Park Lands.

These articles have been featured, one at a time, on our blog. They’re listed here in alphabetical order of their common names.

Subscribe to our bimonthly newsletter, to see each addition to this page as it’s published.

Australasian grebe

Tachybaptus novaehollandiae

Australian boobook

Ninox boobook

Black swan

Cygnus atratus

Eastern rosella

Platycercus eximius

Eastern spinebill

Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris

Galah

Eolophus roseicapilla    

Little Pied Cormorant

Microcarbo melanoleucos

Magpie

Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen

Magpie-lark

Grallina cyanoleuca

New Holland honeyeater

Phylidonyris novaehollandiae

Rainbow lorikeet

Trichoglossus moluccanus

Raptors

Various birds of prey

Red-rumped parrot

Psephotus haematonotus

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Cacatua galerita

White-faced heron

Egretta novaehollandiae

White ibis

Threskiornis moluccus 

Wood duck

Chenonetta jubata

See other features of your Park Lands, on our page What’s in Your Park Lands, comprising:

  • Know Your Park Lands Plants

  • What Bird is That?

  • Know Your Park Lands Art; and

  • Cultural History and Monuments

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Adelaide Park Lands Association, c/o Affinity Business Advisers, Level 1, 458 Morphett Street,, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia0414 959 125secretary@adelaide-parklands.asn.au

OUR ARCHIVES: Old newsletters, submissions, news releases etc dating back to 2001