Baldwin Swamp Environmental Park


The “Jewel in the Crown”  of Bundaberg. Baldwin Swamp can be found right in the heart of Bundaberg within walking distance of the CBD. There are walkways and pathways through wetlands, rainforest, vine forest, grasslands and eucalyptus forest. There are several entrances but the 2 easiest are off Steindl St opposite Steptoe St, and George St.

Expect to see waterbirds in and around the ponds, doves and quails feeding on the ground, finches and fairy-wrens flitting back and forth across the paths, Dollarbirds and Rainbow Bee-eaters hawking overhead and nesting bazas and goshawks.

It’s not hard to find 40-50 species in an hour’s stroll as there has been over 150 species recorded here before the floods and the numbers are slowly getting back to what they were.

The following is a list of birds recorded since the 2013 floods.

 

  1. Stubble Quail
  2. Brown Quail
  3. Plumed Whistling-Duck
  4. Black Swan
  5. Australian Wood Duck
  6. Magpie Goose
  7. Radhah Shelduck
  8. Cotton Pygmy-Goose
  9. Hardhead
  10. Pacific Black Duck
  11. Grey Teal
  12. Australasian Grebe
  13. Spotted Dove*
  14. Rock Dove*
  15. Peaceful Dove
  16. Bar-shouldered Dove
  17. Topknot Pigeon
  18. Crested Pigeon
  19. Tawny Frogmouth
  20. Fork-tailed Swift
  21. White-throated Needletail
  22. Australasian Darter
  23. Little Black Cormorant
  24. Pied Cormorant
  25. Little Pied Cormorant
  26. Australian Pelican
  27. White-necked Heron
  28. White-faced Heron
  29. Cattle Egret
  30. Little Egret
  31. Eastern Great Egret
  32. Intermediate Egret
  33. Nankeen Night Heron
  34. Striated Heron
  35. Straw-necked Ibis
  36. Australian White Ibis
  37. Royal Spoonbill
  38. Yellow-billed Spoonbill
  39. Pacific Baza
  40. Black Kite
  41. Square-tailed Kite
  42. Whistling Kite
  43. Collared Sparrowhawk
  44. Brown Goshawk
  45. Brahminy Kite
  46. Eastern Osprey
  47. White-bellied Sea-Eagle
  48. Wedge-tailed Eagle
  49. Nankeen Kestrel
  50. Buff-banded Rail
  51. Dusky Moorhen
  52. Purple Swamphen
  53. Eurasian Coot
  54. Black-fronted Dotterel
  55. Masked Lapwing
  56. Caspian Tern
  57. Crested Tern
  58. Whiskered Tern
  59. Silver Gull
  60. Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
  61. Galah
  62. Long-billed Corella
  63. Little Corella
  64. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
  65. Rainbow Lorikeet
  66. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
  67. Musk Lorikeet
  68. Cockatiel
  69. Pale-headed Rosella
  70. Eastern Koel
  71. Channel-billed Cuckoo
  72. Pheasant Coucal
  73. Fan-tailed Cuckoo
  74. Little Bronze-Cuckoo
  75. Southern Boobook
  76. Azure Kingfisher
  77. Laughing Kookaburra
  78. Forest Kingfisher
  79. Sacred Kingfisher
  80. Collared Kingfisher
  81. Rainbow Bee-eater
  82. Dollarbird
  83. Variegated Fairy-Wren
  84. Red-backed Fairy-Wren
  85. White-browed Scrubwren
  86. Mangrove Gerygone
  87. White-throated Gerygone
  88. Striated Pardalote
  89. Lewin’s Honeyeater
  90. Mangrove Honeyeater
  91. Scarlet Honeyeater
  92. Brown Honeyeater
  93. White-throated Honeyeater
  94. Blue-faced Honeyeater
  95. Little Friarbird
  96. Noisy Miner
  97. Grey-crowned Babbler
  98. Eastern Whipbird
  99. Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
  100. Cicadabird
  101. Varied Triller
  102. Golden Whistler
  103. Rufous Whistler
  104. Grey Shrike-Thrush
  105. Little Shrike-Thrush
  106. Olive-backed Oriole
  107. Australasian Figbird
  108. White-breasted Woodswallow
  109. Grey Butcherbird
  110. Pied Butcherbird
  111. Australian Magpie
  112. Torresian Crow
  113. Rufous Fantail
  114. Willie Wagtail
  115. Grey Fantail
  116. Leaden Flycatcher
  117. Restless Flycatcher
  118. Black-faced Monarch
  119. Spectacled Monarch
  120. Magpie-Lark
  121. Spangled Drongo
  122. Eastern Yellow Robin
  123. Golden-headed Cisticola
  124. Australian Reed-Warbler
  125. Tawny Grassbird
  126. Silvereye
  127. Welcome Swallow
  128. Tree Martin
  129. Fairy Martin
  130. Mistletoebird
  131. Double-barred Finch
  132. Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
  133. Nutmeg Mannikin *
  134. House Sparrow *