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Birds::
- Some locals regularly feed parrots and they flock in large numbers at feeding times in Lanita Rd and Archdale Rd (sulphur crested cockatoos pink and grey galahs Major Mitchell cockatoos king parrots).
- Rainbow and scaly-breasted lorikeets roost in large numbers each evening in the trees around the Ferny Grove Railway Station.
- Bush stone-curlews can be heard in the local streets at night.
- The Grove is alive with the sound of bird-song each morning.
- Scrub turkeys (bush turkeys) are a common pest in gardens as increasingly are noisy mynas.
- A Native Bird Rescue Service is operated in Ferny Hills by Len 3351 4068 or 0417 193 573
Bird species identified in The Grove
Cockatoos parrots
- galah
- sulphur-crested cockatoo
- rainbow lorikeet
- scaley-breasted lorikeet
- Australian king parrot
- pale-headed rosella
- little lorikeet
Pigeons doves
Butcherbirds currawongs magpies
Fly-catchers monarchs magpie-larks
Mound-builders (Megapodes)
Kookaburras
Honeyeaters
- noisy friarbird
- blue-faced honeyeater
- noisy miner
- Lewin’s honeyeater
- brown honeyeater
- little friarbird
- scarlet honeyeater
- striped honeyeater
Thick-knees (stone curlews)
Parasitic cuckoos
Fantails
Coucals
Swallows martins
Egrets
Falcons
Quail-thrushes and allies
Whistlers shrike-thrushes
Cuckoo-shrikes and trillers
Crows and ravens
White-eyes
Frogmouths
Fairy-wrens
Starling orioles figbird drongo
Geese and ducks
Darter shag cormorant
Heron
Storks ibises spoonbills
Lapwings golden and hooded plovers
Pardalotes
Scrub-wrens
Dabbling ducks diving ducks perching ducks
Australo-Papuan tree-creepers
Waxbills grass-finches mannikins
Swiftlets swifts
Goshawks
Greygones thornbills gerygones and white-faces
Sittellas
Orioles and fig-birds
Thornbills
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Butterflies
- Swallowtail: Blue Triangle
- Dingy Swallowtail
- Orchard Swallowtail
- Big Greasy
- Richmond Birdwing
- Lemon Migrant
- Common Grass Yellow
- Common Jezebel
- Caper White
- Regent Skipper
- Brown Awl
- Orange Palmdart
- Common Imperial Blue
- Zebra Blue
- Small Green-banded Blue
- Wanderer
- Lesser Wanderer
- Blue Tiger
- Common Crow
- Evening Brown
- Tailed Emperor
- Common Aeroplane
- Common Eggfly
- Glasswing
- Australian Admiral
Moths
- Giant Wood Moth
- Varied Anthelid
- Emperor Gum Moth
- Hawk Moth
- Bag-shelter Moth
- White Cedar Moth
- Fruit Piercing Moth
- Granny’s Cloak Moth
- Poinciana Looper
- Joseph’s Coat Moth
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