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.
The following is a list of birds recorded since the 2013 floods.
- Brown Quail
- Black Swan
- Australian Wood Duck
- Magpie Goose
- Cotton Pygmy-Goose
- Hardhead
- Pacific Black Duck
- Australasian Grebe
- Spotted Dove*
- Rock Dove*
- Peaceful Dove
- Crested Pigeon
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Australasian Darter
- Little Black Cormorant
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Australian Pelican
- White-faced Heron
- Little Egret
- Eastern Great Egret
- Intermediate Egret
- Nankeen Night Heron
- Striated Heron
- Australian White Ibis
- Royal Spoonbill
- Pacific Baza
- Whistling Kite
- Brown Goshawk
- Brahminy Kite
- Eastern Osprey
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle
- Nankeen Kestrel
- Buff-banded Rail
- Dusky Moorhen
- Purple Swamphen
- Black-fronted Dotterel
- Masked Lapwing
- Silver Gull
- Galah
- Long-billed Corella
- Little Corella
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
- Eastern Koel
- Pheasant Coucal
- Southern Boobook
- Azure Kingfisher
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Rainbow Bee-eater
- Dollarbird
- Red-backed Fairy-Wren
- White-browed Scrubwren
- Mangrove Gerygone
- Lewin’s Honeyeater
- Brown Honeyeater
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Little Friarbird
- Noisy Miner
- Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
- Varied Triller
- Rufous Whistler
- Grey Shrike-Thrush
- Little Shrike-Thrush
- Olive-backed Oriole
- Australasian Figbird
- White-breasted Woodswallow
- Grey Butcherbird
- Pied Butcherbird
- Australian Magpie
- Torresian Crow
- Willie Wagtail
- Leaden Flycatcher
- Magpie-Lark
- Spangled Drongo
- Silvereye
- Welcome Swallow
- Fairy Martin
- Mistletoebird
- Double-barred Finch
