Birding on the snail trail

The Tablelands – Chillagoe – Cairns bird list. 102 spp and we weren't trying very hard.

1. Southern cassowary
2. Orange-footed scrub fowl
3. Brush turkey
4. Magpie goose
5. Plumed whistling duck
6. Hardhead
7. Pacific black duck
8. Australasian grebe
9. Great crested grebe
10. Australian pelican
11. Darter
12. Little black cormorant
13. Little pied cormorant
14. White-faced heron
15. Cattle egret
16. Great egret
17. Little egret
18. Intermediate egret
19. Australian white ibis
20. Straw-necked ibis
21. Brolga
22. Black-shouldered kite
23. Whistling kite
24. Black kite
25. Swamp harrier
26. White-bellied sea eagle
27. Wedge-tailed eagle
28. Australian hobby
29. Nankeen kestrel
30. Eurasian coot
31. Purple swamp hen
32. Australian bustard
33. Eastern curlew
34. Black-fronted dotterel
35. Comb-crested jacana
36. Masked lapwing
37. Beach stone-curlew
38. Silver gull
39. Gull-billed tern
40. Brown cuckoo-dove
41. Emerald dove
42. Topknot pigeon
43. Peaceful dove
44. Crested pigeon
45. Bar-shouldered dove
46. Red-tailed black cockatoo
47. Sulphur-crested cockatoo
48. Galah
49. Rainbow lorikeet
50. Scaly-breasted lorikeet
51. Australian king parrot
52. Red-winged parrot
53. Pale-headed rosella
54. White-rumped swiftlet
55. Fork-tailed swift
56. Azure kingfisher
57. Forest kingfisher
58. Blue-winged kookaburra
59. Laughing kookaburra
60. Rainbow bee-eater
61. Striated pardalote
62. Atherton scrub wren
63. Mountain thornbill
64. Helmeted friar bird
65. Noisy friar bird
66. Blue-faced honeyeater
67. Macleay's honeyeater
68. Lewin's honeyeater
69. Bridled honeyeater
70. Varied honeyeater
71. Yellow honeyeater
72. Dusky honeyeater
73. Grey-headed robin
74. Eastern yellow robin
75. Chowchilla
76. Eastern whipbird
77. Pied monarch
78. Spangled drongo
79. Magpie-lark
80. Willie wagtail
81. Grey fantail
82. Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
83. Figbird
84. Black-faced wood swallow
85. Little wood swallow
86. White-breasted wood swallow
87. Pied butcherbird
88. Australian magpie
89. Pied currawong
90. Victoria's riflebird
91. Australian raven
92. Torresian crow
93. Apostlebird
94. Spotted catbird
95. Great bowerbird
96. Common myna
97. Metallic starling
98. Welcome swallow
99. Silvereye
100. Yellow-bellied sunbird
101. Double-barred finch
102. Nutmeg manikin

(Other birds spotted on the way up:

Emu
White-necked heron
Grey butcherbird
White-winged chough)