Birds and their Nesting Requirements

To attract birds to your garden or farm, you require a variety of plants for nesting sites. Below are lists of birds and their requirements for old trees, trees with hollows or cavities, understorey shrubs or small trees, or nesting sites on the ground, near water, or in other birds nests.

BIRDS THAT REQUIRE OLD TREES:
Brown Goshawk
Grey Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Brown Falcon
Yellow Wattlebird
Noisy Miner
Strong-billed Honeyeater
Black-headed Honeyeater
Satin Flycatcher
Grey Fantail
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Dusky Woodswallow
Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Black Currawong
Grey Currawong
Forest Raven

BIRDS THAT REQUIRE A TREE HOLLOW OR CAVITY:
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Musk Lorikeet
Swift Parrot
Green Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Blue-winged Parrot
Southern Boobook
Masked Owl
Australian Owlet Nightjar
Laughing Kookaburra
Forty-spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Flame Robin
Dusky Robin
Grey Shrike-thrush
Dusky Woodswallow
Tree Martin
Bassian Thrush

GROUND NESTING BIRDS:
Brown Quail
Tasmanian Native Hen
Purple Swamphen
Masked Lapwing
Banded Lapwing
Painted Button-quail
Superb Fairy-wren
Tasmanian Scrubwren
Spotted Quail-thrush
Spotted Pardalote

BIRDS THAT REQUIRE UNDERSTOREY SHRUBS OR SMALL TREES:
Common Bronzewing
Brush Bronzewing
Tawny Frogmouth
Superb Fairy-wren
Tasmanian Scrubwren
Scrubtit
Brown Thronbill
Tasmanian Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Little Wattlebird
Yellow-throated Honeyeater
Black-headed Honeyeater
Crescent Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Scarlet Robin
Flame Robin
Pink Robin
Dusky Robin
Olive Whistler
Golden Whistler
Grey Shrike-thrush
Grey Fantail
Grey Butcherbird
Beautiful Firetail
Silvereye
Bassian Thrush

PARASITIC NESTERS:
Pallid Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo
Shining Bronze-cuckoo

WATER BIRDS:
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
White-faced Heron
Cattle Egret
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Chestnut Teal


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