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unusual facts about birdlife



Adolphus Island

The island is home to unique and endangered flora such as Brachychiton incanus and a variety of birdlife such as Rufous Night Heron, Little Eagle, Brown Falcon, Whimbrel, Tawny Frogmouth, Great Bowerbird and Rainbow Bee-eater.

Aiguebelle National Park

The birdlife of the park has 150 species of birds including twenty species of New World warblers.

Avenue House Grounds

The main ecological interest is the birdlife, including great spotted woodpeckers, greenfinches, great tits and robins.

Chek Jawa

The seven-storey viewing tower called the Jejawi tower allows visitors to view the tree canopy and observe birdlife such as the Collared Kingfisher and Straw-headed Bulbul.

Kazimierz Wodzicki

Wodzicki’s other research activities included studies on Australasian Gannets at Cape Kidnappers, Rooks and the birdlife of the Waikanae estuary, as well as investigating problems with introduced rodents on Tokelau and Niue.

Lake Hayes

Birdlife that can been seen on lake include the introduced Mallard and Feral Goose and the native New Zealand Scaup, Australasian Crested Grebe and the Black Shag.

Macquarie Pass National Park

As well as a diverse array of birdlife the park has swamp wallabies and wombats.

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish

The Department of Game and Fish operates the Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex, a group of four conservation area in New Mexico devoted to assisting birdlife in the region with Waterfowl Management Areas at La Joya, Bernardo, Casa Colorada, and Belen.

North Berwick Harbour

The Scottish Seabird Centre has become a major tourist attraction since opening in 2000 and tourists can still take Sula II to see the gannets, puffins and other birdlife in the area.

Rob Dean

He lives in Monteverde, Costa Rica, and, now known as Robert Dean, has established a reputation as an expert on the region's birdlife.

SOS/BirdLife Slovakia

Besides that SOS/BirdLife Slovakia in last years leased more than 150 ha of taiga forest in Northern Slovakia in IBA/SPA Horná Orava, which is important site for breeding of Black Stork.

Spectacled Petrel

In 2004, BirdLife International split the Spectacled Petrel, Procellaria conspicillata, from the White-chinned Petrel, Procellaria aequinoctialis, which had been considered conspecific or even a color morph.

Thomas Conrad von Baldenstein

He produced a number of scientific works on the birdlife of the Alps, and was the first to describe the Willow Tit.


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