The Chairman’s Voyage: East Coast Islands & Reefs Newcastle, Australia to Cairns, Australia April 22 – April 30, 2024 Captain Erwan LeRouzic Discovery Leader Mike Cusack Total Nautical Miles = 1762.1 8 2 4 5 6 1 – Newcastle, Australia (April 22) 2 – Sea Day (Helicopter Flights) (April 23) 3 – K’gari / Fraser Island (April 24) 4 – Gladstone (ANZAC Day) (April 25) 5 – Middle Percy Island (April 26) 6 – Airlie Beach (April 27) 7 – Whitehaven (April 27) 8 – Townsville (April 28) 9 – Willis Island (April 29) 10 – Cairns (April 30) Newcastle, Australia 1 9 3 7 10
Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist
The Chairman’s Voyage: East Coast Islands & Reefs | April 22 – April 30, 2024
BIRDS
Plumed whistling duck
Magpie goose
Pacific black duck
Nankeen night-heron
Little egret
Great egret
Eastern reef egret
White-faced heron
Australasian grebe
Dusky moorhen
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaly breasted lorikeet
Australian figbird
Grey fantail
Striated pardalote
Australian magpie
Magpie lark
Crested pigeon
Willie wagtail
Australian raven
Hornbill friarbird
Peaceful dove
Whistling kite
Brahminy kite
White-bellied sea eagle
Galah
Sulfur crested cockatoo
Australian brush turkey
Australian white ibis
Australian pelican
Brolga
Black necked stork
Blue faced honeyeater
Black kite
Welcome swallow
Common myna
Royal spoonbill
Australasian darter
Masked lapwing
Pheasant coucal
Red-backed fairy wren
Dendrocygna eytoni
Anseranas semipalmata
Anas superciliosa
Nycticorax caledonicus
Egretta garzetta
Ardea alba
Egretta sacra
Egretta novaehollandiae
Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
Gallinula tenebrosa
Trichoglossus moluccanus
Trichoglossus rubritorquis
Sphecotheres vieilloti
Rhipidura albiscapa
Pardalotus striatus
Gymnorhina tibicen
Grallina cyanoleuca
Ocyphaps lophotes
Rhipidura leucophrys
Corvus coronoides
Philemon yorki
Geopelia placida
Haliastur sphenurus
Haliastur indus
Haliaeetus leucogaster
Eolophus roseicapilla
Cacatua galerita
Alectura lathami
Threskiornis molucca
Pelecanus conspicillatus
Antigone rubicunda
Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus
Entomyzon cyanotis
Milvus migrans
Hirundo neoxena
Acridotheres tristis
Platalea regia
Anhinga novaehollandiae
Vanellus miles
Centropus phasianinus
Malurus melanocephalus
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Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist
The Chairman’s Voyage: East Coast Islands & Reefs | April 22 – April 30, 2024
BIRDS continued
Australasian swamphen
Porphyrio melanotus
Olive backed sunbird Cinnyris jugularis
SEABIRDS
Sooty shearwater Ardenna grisea
Fleshfooted shearwater Ardenna carneipes
Wedge tailed shearwater Ardenna pacifica
Australiasian gannet Morus serrator
Brown booby Sula leucogaster
Red-footed booby Sula sula
Masked booby Sula dactylatra
Great frigatebird Fregata minor
Sooty tern
Bridled tern
Onchoprion fuscatus
Onychoprion anaethetus
Common noddy Anous stolidus
Black noddy Anous minutus
Crested tern Thalasseus bergii
Pied cormorant
Black cormorant
Little pied cormorant
Pied oystercatcher
Silver gull
MAMMALS
Koala
Phalacrocorax varius
Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Microcarbo longirostris
Haematopus longirostris
Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
Phascolarctos cinereus
Bare-nosed wombat Vombatus ursinus
Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Feral goat Capra hircus
REPTILES
Kreffts turtle Emydura macquarii krefftii
Estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus
Woma python Aspidites ramsayi X
Collared whip snake Demansia torquata
Additional Amazing Wildlife Sightings
Green turtle
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Lemon shark
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Pastinachus sephen X X
Cowtail ray
Chelonia mydas X X
Oecophylla smaragdina X
Green Ants
