Birdwatching
Tours at lake PROSERPINE
Peter Faust Dam is a beautiful backdrop for many waterbird species.
Koa provides a stable viewing platform as well as a comfortable photography platform. The boat has several water and weatherproof storage hatches and gives you access to part of the dam, and its birds, that is just not possible from the ramp and dam parklands.
We live very close to the dam (<5 mins) and so can tailor make a tour at late notice. Get in touch to discuss options!
Kelly (Luke’s wife) is a self confessed ‘bird nerd’ and spends lots of time in and around the dam with her camera. To right is her Peter Faust Dam bird list.
Kelly’s
Bird list
- Australian Wood Duck
- Pacific Black Duck
- Cotton Pygmy-Goose
- Black Swan
- Plumed Whistling-duck
- Hardhead
- Australasian Swamphen
- Dusky Moorhen
- Comb-crested Jacana
- Great Crested Grebe
- Australasian Grebe
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Little Black Cormorant
- Pied Cormorant
- Australasian Darter
- Australian Pelican
- Eastern Great Egret
- White-faced Heron
- Little Egret
- Cattle Egret
- Caspian Tern
- Royal Spoonbill
- Peregrine Falcon
- Brown Falcon
- Osprey
- Black Kite
- Whistling Kite
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Blue-winged Kookaburra
- Dollarbird
- Spangled Drongo
- Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
- Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
- Pale-headed Rosella
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Red-winged Parrot
- Red-backed Fairywren
- Olive-backed Sun Bird
- Yellow Honeyeater
- White-throated Honeyeater
- Dusky Honeyeater
- Noisy Friarbird
- Lewin’s Honeyeater
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Little Friarbird
- Noisy friarbird
- White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
- Australasian Figbird
- White-breasted Woodswallow
- Australian Magpie
- Willie Wagtail
- Magpie-lark
- Leaden Flycatcher
- Lemon-bellied Flycatcher
- Torresian Crow
- Tree Martin
- Peaceful Dove
- Pheasant Coucal
- Channel-billed Cuckoo
- Masked Lapwing
- Black-faced monarch
- Shining bronze cuckoo
- Common emerald dove
- Brown cuckoo-dove
- Rufous shrike-thrush
