Bird Record Statistics | Birdlife Bayside

Species recorded per year

1996	96
1997	118
1998	126
1999	138
2000	155
2001	185
2002	167
2003	195
2004	170
2005	174
2006	157
2007	170
2008	137
2009	150
2010	157
2011	150
2012	167
2013	156
2014	171
2015	173
2016	158
2017	166
2018	144
2019	139
2020	44
2021	120
2022	146
2023	139
2024	147 (so far)
Total	285

Species recorded per location

Albert Park Lake	48
Anglesea Heath	36
Arthurs Seat State Park	30
Balbirooroo Wetlands	76
Baldrys Crossing	66
Baldrys Crossing to Boneo Road	71
Banyule Flats Reserve	94
Begola Wetlands	41
Blue Waters Lake Reserve	43
Braeside Park	108
Brimbank Park	66
Brisbane Ranges National Park	91
Bunyip State Park	3
Bushy Park Wetlands	40
Cheltenham Park	42
Churchill National Park	75
Coogoorah Park	53
Coolart	98
Corinella Foreshore Reserve	37
Cranbourne Botanic Gardens	101
Dandenong Police Paddocks Reserve	47
Devilbend Reserve	102
Edithvale Wetlands	86
Elsternwick Park Nature Reserve	30
Elwood Canal	33
Eynesbury Forest	82
Frankston Nature Conservation Reserve	47
French Island	105
Great Otway National Park	15
Hallam Valley Road Wetlands	62
Heatherton Road Wetlands North	72
Heatherton Road Wetlands South	74
Henry Street Heatherton	54
Jawbone Reserve	96
Jells Park	101
Karkarook Park	93
Koomba Park and Winton Wetlands	91
Lake Lorne	52
Langwarrin Flora & Fauna Reserve	73
Lysterfield Lake	88
McLeods Waterholes Reserve	38
Moorooduc Quarry	91
Mordialloc Wetlands	46
Morwell National Park	38
Mt St Leonard	38
Mt Worth State Park	26
Mud Island	92
Newport Lakes	73
Ocean Grove Nature Reserve	45
Phillip Island	131
Point Addis	57
Point Cook Coastal Park	108
Point Nepean	73
Port Fairy Pelagic	54
Portsea Cruise	19
Ricketts Point	53
Rigbys Wetland	71
River Gum Creek Reserve	74
Royal Botanic Gardens	65
Ruff Property	114
Seaford Wetlands	93
Serendip Sanctuary	95
Shepherds Bush	53
Spring Road Reserve	43
Swan Bay	33
The Briars	67
The Grange Reserve	47
The Gurdies Nature Conservation Reserve	24
The Observatory	30
The Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve	81
Tootgarook Wetlands	48
Victorian Desalination Plant	56
Western Treatment Plant	119
Westgate Park	80
Wonthaggi Heathlands Nature Conservation Reserve	45
Woodlands Historic Park	85
Woods Bushland Reserve	45
Yan Yean Reservoir Park	82
You Yangs Regional Park	97

Location with highest species count	Phillip Island (131 species)
Average species recorded per location	65.2

Top Ten most recorded species

Rarest species

Species recorded once.

Azure Kingfisher
Brolga
Cape Petrel
Common Diving-Petrel
Common Koel
Great Skua
Great-winged Petrel
Gull-billed Tern
Indian Peafowl
Large-billed Scrubwren
Leaden Flycatcher
Noisy Friarbird
Osprey
Painted Honeyeater
Pilotbird
Pink Robin
Pomarine Jaeger
Powerful Owl
Singing Bushlark
Soft-plumaged Petrel
Sooty Albatross
Southern Giant-Petrel
Turquoise Parrot
Wandering Albatross
White-fronted Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Wilson's Storm-Petrel