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Birdwatching in and near Cooktown
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Cooktown is an ideal place for bird watching, because there are four main geographical regions that meet here, each with its own set of special birds – Wet Tropics rainforest, Cape York Peninsula forests, coastal wetlands and mangroves, and the drier woodlands of the Laura and Battlecamp escarpments.
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Pied Imperial Pigeon
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Pied Imperial Pigeon. Courtesy Lynette Ensor
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Comb crested jacana
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Comb crested jacana. Courtesy Lynette Ensor
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Shining Flycatcher
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Shining flycatcher. Courtesy Lynette Ensor
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Australian Bustard
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Australian bustard. Courtesy Lynette Ensor
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Eastern Reef Egret
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Eastern Reef Egret. Courtesy Lynette Ensor
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Cooktown Bird List
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Birds Australia North Queensland bird list for Cooktown region
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Black Mountain National Park, (Kalkajaka N.P.)
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The mysterious Black Mountains are steeped in myths and legends, and are a special story place for the Kuku Yalanji people.
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Hope Islands National Park
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Two low lying coral cays, West Hope is a shingle cay dominated by mangroves and East Hope is a sandy cay.
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Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park
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Rinyirru (Lakefield) is Queensland’s second largest National Park and the largest park in Cape York at 537,000 ha. Spectacular wetlands and extensive river systems attract a great diversity of waterbirds while estuarine and freshwater crocodiles bask along the river banks and barramundi wait in the shallows.
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