Central Channel Country Birds
Bulloo and Diamantina Rivers
The Channel Country is generally represented as the part of the Lake Eyre Basin where the Diamantina River and other inland rivers draining towards the inland salt water lakes divide into myriads of minor channels that then course over the extensive floodplains as they wander towards the inland 'sea'.
In wet seasons this region becomes home to likely the most diverse array of especially water birds, though others may be found as well, to be found anywhere, as the following list shows.
Plumed Whistling-Duck
Musk Duck
Freckled Duck
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Pink-eared Duck
Australasian Shoveler
Grey Teal
Pacific Black Duck
Hardhead
Blue-billed Duck
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Australasian Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Australian Pelican
White-necked Heron
Eastern Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Pied Heron
White-faced Heron
Little Egret
Nankeen Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Swamp Harrier
Brolga
Purple Swamphen
Buff-banded Rail
Australian Spotted Crake
Spotless Crake
Black-tailed Native-hen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Black-winged Stilt
Red-necked Avocet
Red-capped Plover
Oriental Plover
Black-fronted Dotterel
Red-kneed Dotterel
Masked Lapwing
Australian Painted Snipe
Black-tailed Godwit
Little Curlew
Common Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Oriental Pratincole
Australian Pratincole
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Silver Gull
Yellow Chat
Australian Reed-Warble
Little Grassbird
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