Birds at the PondsBirds Index Australasian Darter Australasian Grebe Australasian Shoveler Australian Hobby Australian Pelican Australian Pratincole Australian Reed Warbler Australian Shelduck Australian Spotted Crake Australian White Ibis Baillon’s Crake Banded Stilt Black-faced Woodswallow Black-shouldered Kite Black-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Native Hen Black Kite Black Swan Brown Falcon Budgerigar Buff-banded Rail Caspian Tern Common Sandpiper Crimson Chat Curlew Sandpiper Diamond Dove Emu Fairy Martin Flock Bronzewing Freckled Duck Glossy Ibis Grey Teal Gull-billed Tern Hardhead Hoary-headed Grebe Latham’s Snipe Little Black Cormorant Little Corella Little Crow Little Grassbird Long-toed Stint Marsh Sandpiper Masked Lapwing Musk Duck Orange Chat Pectoral Sandpiper Pied Stilt Pink Cockatoo Plumed Whistling-Duck Purple-backed Fairywren Red-capped Plover Red-kneed Dotterel Red-necked Avocet Red-necked Stint Ruff Sanderling Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Splendid Fairy-wren Straw-necked Ibis Royal Spoonbill Tree Martin Variegated Fairywren Wedge-tailed Eagle Whiskered Tern Whistling Kite White-faced Heron White-winged Fairywren Willie Wagtail Yellow-billed Spoonbill Zebra Finch
A hot spot for seeing a range of visiting migrant, itinerant and local birds, Alice Springs is drawcard for local bird lovers and travellers from further afield. The local Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds (also known as the Sewerage or Sewage Ponds), is a popular location (arrangements can be made through the local visitor centre).
Check out some of the species sighted in the Birds at the Ponds Index.
Birds at the PondsBirds Index Australasian Darter Australasian Grebe Australasian Shoveler Australian Hobby Australian Pelican Australian Pratincole Australian Reed Warbler Australian Shelduck Australian Spotted Crake Australian White Ibis Baillon’s Crake Banded Stilt Black-faced Woodswallow Black-shouldered Kite Black-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Native Hen Black Kite Black Swan Brown Falcon Budgerigar Buff-banded Rail Caspian Tern Common Sandpiper Crimson Chat Curlew Sandpiper Diamond Dove Emu Fairy Martin Flock Bronzewing Freckled Duck Glossy Ibis Grey Teal Gull-billed Tern Hardhead Hoary-headed Grebe Latham’s Snipe Little Black Cormorant Little Corella Little Crow Little Grassbird Long-toed Stint Marsh Sandpiper Masked Lapwing Musk Duck Orange Chat Pectoral Sandpiper Pied Stilt Pink Cockatoo Plumed Whistling-Duck Purple-backed Fairywren Red-capped Plover Red-kneed Dotterel Red-necked Avocet Red-necked Stint Ruff Sanderling Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Splendid Fairy-wren Straw-necked Ibis Royal Spoonbill Tree Martin Variegated Fairywren Wedge-tailed Eagle Whiskered Tern Whistling Kite White-faced Heron White-winged Fairywren Willie Wagtail Yellow-billed Spoonbill Zebra Finch
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