NOTES ON THE COMMON BIRDS OF GABO ISLAND, VICTORIA
| Posted: |
12/04/2021 |
| Author(s): |
Michael A. Crowley, Peter J. Fullagar, Petrus C. Heyligers |
A total of 144 bird species has been recorded for Gabo Island and its adjacent waters; however, only 19 are confirmed or
suspected as breeding on the island. Seabirds breeding on the island are the Little Penguin and the Short-tailed Shearwater,
with about 16500 and about 6400 pairs, respectively. Other birds include the Caspian Tern, Swamp Harrier, Sooty
Oystercatcher, Masked Lapwing, Brush Bronzewing, Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, New Holland
Honeyeater, Tawny-crowned Honeyeater, Golden Whistler, Willie Wagtail, Welcome Swallow, Australian Pipit, Golden-headed
Cisticola, Silvereye, Common Blackbird and Common Starling. Notable absentees include rails, rosellas, Laughing Kookaburra,
Eastem Yellow Robin, Grey Shrike-thrush, fairy-wrens, White-browed Scrubwren, gerygone warblers, thornbills, wattlebirds,
woodswallows, butcherbirds and currawongs. It is not clear why so many species apparently do not occur on the island as only
a narrow passage separates it from the mainland, although a change in vegetation on the island over time is suspected.
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