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.
- Stubble Quail
- Brown Quail
- Plumed Whistling-Duck
- Black Swan
- Australian Wood Duck
- Magpie Goose
- Radhah Shelduck
- Cotton Pygmy-Goose
- Hardhead
- Pacific Black Duck
- Grey Teal
- Australasian Grebe
- Spotted Dove*
- Rock Dove*
- Peaceful Dove
- Bar-shouldered Dove
- Topknot Pigeon
- Crested Pigeon
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Fork-tailed Swift
- White-throated Needletail
- Australasian Darter
- Little Black Cormorant
- Pied Cormorant
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Australian Pelican
- White-necked Heron
- White-faced Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Little Egret
- Eastern Great Egret
- Intermediate Egret
- Nankeen Night Heron
- Striated Heron
- Straw-necked Ibis
- Australian White Ibis
- Royal Spoonbill
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill
- Pacific Baza
- Black Kite
- Square-tailed Kite
- Whistling Kite
- Collared Sparrowhawk
- Brown Goshawk
- Brahminy Kite
- Eastern Osprey
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle
- Wedge-tailed Eagle
- Nankeen Kestrel
- Buff-banded Rail
- Dusky Moorhen
- Purple Swamphen
- Eurasian Coot
- Black-fronted Dotterel
- Masked Lapwing
- Caspian Tern
- Crested Tern
- Whiskered Tern
- Silver Gull
- Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
- Galah
- Long-billed Corella
- Little Corella
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
- Musk Lorikeet
- Cockatiel
- Pale-headed Rosella
- Eastern Koel
- Channel-billed Cuckoo
- Pheasant Coucal
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo
- Little Bronze-Cuckoo
- Southern Boobook
- Azure Kingfisher
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Forest Kingfisher
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Collared Kingfisher
- Rainbow Bee-eater
- Dollarbird
- Variegated Fairy-Wren
- Red-backed Fairy-Wren
- White-browed Scrubwren
- Mangrove Gerygone
- White-throated Gerygone
- Striated Pardalote
- Lewin’s Honeyeater
- Mangrove Honeyeater
- Scarlet Honeyeater
- Brown Honeyeater
- White-throated Honeyeater
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Little Friarbird
- Noisy Miner
- Grey-crowned Babbler
- Eastern Whipbird
- Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
- Cicadabird
- Varied Triller
- Golden Whistler
- Rufous Whistler
- Grey Shrike-Thrush
- Little Shrike-Thrush
- Olive-backed Oriole
- Australasian Figbird
- White-breasted Woodswallow
- Grey Butcherbird
- Pied Butcherbird
- Australian Magpie
- Torresian Crow
- Rufous Fantail
- Willie Wagtail
- Grey Fantail
- Leaden Flycatcher
- Restless Flycatcher
- Black-faced Monarch
- Spectacled Monarch
- Magpie-Lark
- Spangled Drongo
- Eastern Yellow Robin
- Golden-headed Cisticola
- Australian Reed-Warbler
- Tawny Grassbird
- Silvereye
- Welcome Swallow
- Tree Martin
- Fairy Martin
- Mistletoebird
- Double-barred Finch
- Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
- Nutmeg Mannikin *
- House Sparrow *
