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The Queensland Naturalist February, 1934 
Birds of Bribie Island. 
The island is a favourite winter resort for birds from 
the mountain regions and the southern States. There in 
the cold months are to be found Bose "Robins, Regent 
Birds, Satin Bower Birds, Rufous Fantails, and many 
another visitor from the highlands. Flocks of Black 
Cockatoos fly over from the mainland, together with 
Parrots, when the Banksia cones are honey ripe. The 
notes of Fig Birds, Brush Wattle Birds, Orioles, Friar 
Birds, Cuckoo Shrikes, Blue-faced Honeveaters, Mickies. 
Kookaburras and Whistlers all add to the gaiety in the 
bird world. 
The song of the smaller Honey-eaters is never-ending 
from daylight until dark. The white-cheeked and the 
Lewin Honeyeaters are most to the fore; after them 
comes the Brown Honeyeater (the sweetest songster of 
them all), the Scarlet Honeybird, the Spinebill, and the 
White-naped. the Yellow-faced, and the little Leather- 
head. 
The Rufous Shrike Thrush, the Harmonious Thrush, 
the Red-backed and Lambert ’s Wren, Black-headed Par- 
dalotes, Yellow Robins, Tree Creepers, Silver Eyes, 
Thornhills, the White-browed Scrub Wren, are all to be 
found either in the scrub or the open forest country. 
Butcher Birds are plentiful on the island, and must take 
heavy toll from the lesser bird life. The Pee-Wees and 
Wagtails like the open spaces round dwellings and in the 
vicinity of cattle. Their object in life is to rid the beasts 
of ticks, and they are thoroughly efficient in their work. 
If the usefulness of birds to man, as well as their 
beauty, could only be impressed on the human mind, 
surely guns would be less often found in the hands of 
boys and men. 
