The Tablelands – Chillagoe – Cairns bird list. 102 spp and we weren't trying very hard.
- Southern cassowary
- Orange-footed scrub fowl
- Brush turkey
- Magpie goose
- Plumed whistling duck
- Hardhead
- Pacific black duck
- Australasian grebe
- Great crested grebe
- Australian pelican
- Darter
- Little black cormorant
- Little pied cormorant
- White-faced heron
- Cattle egret
- Great egret
- Little egret
- Intermediate egret
- Australian white ibis
- Straw-necked ibis
- Brolga
- Black-shouldered kite
- Whistling kite
- Black kite
- Swamp harrier
- White-bellied sea eagle
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- Australian hobby
- Nankeen kestrel
- Eurasian coot
- Purple swamp hen
- Australian bustard
- Eastern curlew
- Black-fronted dotterel
- Comb-crested jacana
- Masked lapwing
- Beach stone-curlew
- Silver gull
- Gull-billed tern
- Brown cuckoo-dove
- Emerald dove
- Topknot pigeon
- Peaceful dove
- Crested pigeon
- Bar-shouldered dove
- Red-tailed black cockatoo
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Galah
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Scaly-breasted lorikeet
- Australian king parrot
- Red-winged parrot
- Pale-headed rosella
- White-rumped swiftlet
- Fork-tailed swift
- Azure kingfisher
- Forest kingfisher
- Blue-winged kookaburra
- Laughing kookaburra
- Rainbow bee-eater
- Striated pardalote
- Atherton scrub wren
- Mountain thornbill
- Helmeted friar bird
- Noisy friar bird
- Blue-faced honeyeater
- Macleay's honeyeater
- Lewin's honeyeater
- Bridled honeyeater
- Varied honeyeater
- Yellow honeyeater
- Dusky honeyeater
- Grey-headed robin
- Eastern yellow robin
- Chowchilla
- Eastern whipbird
- Pied monarch
- Spangled drongo
- Magpie-lark
- Willie wagtail
- Grey fantail
- Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
- Figbird
- Black-faced wood swallow
- Little wood swallow
- White-breasted wood swallow
- Pied butcherbird
- Australian magpie
- Pied currawong
- Victoria's riflebird
- Australian raven
- Torresian crow
- Apostlebird
- Spotted catbird
- Great bowerbird
- Common myna
- Metallic starling
- Welcome swallow
- Silvereye
- Yellow-bellied sunbird
- Double-barred finch
- Nutmeg manikin
(Other birds spotted on the way up:
Emu
White-necked heron
Grey butcherbird
White-winged chough)