Bird Life

Willsmere is great for bird lovers. Many native birds are commonly seen around the property, from the daily magpies, currawongs and cockatoos to less frequent kookaburras, yellow-tailed black cockatoos, galahs, corellas, southern boobooks, and tawny frogmouths. Many of the ones listed below have been spotted in or near Willsmere, notably Yarra Bend Park. Please let us know if you've spotted any other native birds!

Please remember not to feed birds as this promotes dependence and disturbs their natural diet. For further information, please visit the BirdLife Melbourne website.

• Australasian Grebe Australasian Grebe
• Australasian Darter Australasian Darter
• Australian Hobby Australian Hobby
• Australian King Parrot Australian King Parrot
• Australian Magpie Australian Magpie
• Australian Raven Australian Raven
• Australian White Ibis Australian White Ibis
• Australian Wood Duck Australian Wood Duck
• Bell Miner Bell Miner
• Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
• Black-tailed Native Hen Black-tailed Native Hen
• Brown Goshawk Brown Goshawk
• Brown Thornbill Brown Thornbill
• Chestnut Teal Chestnut Teal
• Common Bronzewing Common Bronzewing
• Crested Tern Crested Tern
• Crested Pigeon Crested Pigeon
• Dusky Moorhen Dusky Moorhen
• Eastern Rosella Eastern Rosella
• Eastern Yellow Robin Eastern Yellow Robin
• Eastern Spinebill Eastern Spinebill
• Eurasian Coot Eurasian Coot
• Galah Galah
• Golden Whistler Golden Whistler
• Golden Whistler Golden Whistler
• Great Cormorant Great Cormorant
• Grey Fantail Grey Fantail
• Grey Shrikethrush Grey Shrikethrush
• Grey Butcherbird Grey Butcherbird
• Grey Currawong Grey Currawong
• Laughing Kookaburra Laughing Kookaburra
• Little Black Cormorant Little Black Cormorant
• Little Corella Little Corella
• Little Pied Cormorant Little Pied Cormorant
• Little Raven Little Raven
• Little Wattlebird Little Wattlebird
• Magpie-lark Magpie-lark
• Masked Lapwing Masked Lapwing
• Musk Lorikeet Musk Lorikeet
• New Holland Honeyeater New Holland Honeyeater
• Noisy Miner Noisy Miner
• Pacific Black Duck Pacific Black Duck
• Pied Currawong Pied Currawong
• Purple Swamphen Purple Swamphen
• Rainbow Lorikeet Rainbow Lorikeet
• Red Browed Finch Red Browed Finch
• Red Wattlebird Red Wattlebird
• Red-rumped Parrot Red-rumped Parrot
• Silver Gull Silver Gull
• Southern Boobook Southern Boobook
• Spotted Pardalote Spotted Pardalote
• Straw-necked Ibis Straw-necked Ibis
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
• Superb Fairy-wren Superb Fairy-wren
• Tawny Frogmouth Tawny Frogmouth
• Weebill Weebill
• Welcome Swallow Welcome Swallow
• Whistling Kite Whistling Kite
• White-browed Scrubwren White-browed Scrubwren
• White-faced Heron White-faced Heron
• White Plumed Honeyeater White Plumed Honeyeater
• Willie Wagtail Willie Wagtail
• Yellow Thornbill Yellow Thornbill
• Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
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