Girraween National Park - Animals

Birds

A handy Bird Key booklet is available from the park's Visitor Information Center. It contains an easy-to-use identification guide, along with descriptions of each bird species, silhouettes and notes on aspects of their behaviour. We can thoroughly recommend this booklet for the beginner bird spotter!

You can also download a Girraween Bird Species List from our Downloads page.

If you've seen a bird and aren't sure what it is, we've collected some photogaphs of Girraween's species and grouped them by size to help you identify it:
Very Large Birds 60 cm or more	Large Birds 40 cm or more	Medium Birds 20 cm or more

Small Birds
15 cm or more

Very Small Birds
Smaller than 15 cm

If you're interested in a particular kind of bird, we've grouped Girraween's species here:
Water Birds Cormorants Darters Ducks Grebes Herons and Bitterns Plovers and Lapwings Snipe Spoonbills and Ibis Ground-dwellers Logrunners Quail and Button Quail Birds of Prey Eagles Falcons Hawks Kites Nightbirds Nightjars Owls and Frogmouths	Bush Birds Australian Warblers Bee-eaters and Rollers Bowerbirds Butcherbirds, Magpies and Currawongs Cisticolas Cockatoos and Parrots Crows and Ravens Cuckoo-shrikes and Trillers Cuckoos Doves and Pigeons Drongos Fantails Finches and Mannikins Flycatchers and Monarchs Friarbirds and Wattlebirds Honeyeaters and Allies Kingfishers Larks Lyrebirds Mistletoe-birds	Mudnesters Old World Warblers Orioles and Figbirds Pardalotes Pipits Quail-thrush and Whipbirds Robins and Allies Sittellas Swallows and Martins Swifts Thornbills and Whitefaces Thrushes Treecreepers Whistlers, Shrike-tits and Shrike-thrushes White-eyes Woodswallows Wrens and Gerygones Introduced Species House Sparrow Common Starling