Fernglade is lucky enough to have an abundance of bird life.
Listed below are the birds that FOF members have observed within the reserve.
Click on the bird pictures to find out more about individual species.

Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus striatus)

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)

Superb Fairy Wren (Malurus spp.)

Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)

Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax fleayi)

Other Species:

Australian Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus)

Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata)

​Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata):

​Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx azureus)

Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata):

Beautiful Firetail (Stagonopleura bella):

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Black-headed Honeyeater (Melithreptus affinis)

Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus):

Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla):

Brush Bronzewing (Phaps elegans):

Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea)

Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus)

Common Blackbird (Turdus merula):

Common Bronzewing (Phaps Chalcoptera)

Crescent Honeyeater (Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera):

Dusky Robin (Melanodryas vittata):

Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)

Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris)

European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis):

Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)

Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis):

Flame Robin (Petroica Phoenicea)

Forest Raven (Corvus tasmanicus)

Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis):

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo):

Green Rosella (Platycarus caledonicus):

Grey Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus):

Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor)

Grey Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa):

Grey Goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae):

Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica):

Hoary-headed Grebe (Poliocephalus poliocephalus)

Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites basalis)

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae):

Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorox sulcirostris)

Little Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorox melanoleaucos):

Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera)
Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles)

Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae):

Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna)

New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae):

Olive Whistler (Pachycephala olivacea):

Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa):

Pallid Cuckoo (Cacomantis pallidus):

Pink Robin (Petroica rodinogasta):

Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyria)

Olive Whistler (Pachycephala olivacea) 

Satin Flycatcher (Myiagra cyanoleuca):

Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang):

​Scrubtit (Acanthornis magna):

Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus):

Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae):

Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis):

Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook):

Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus):

Strong-billed Honeyeater (Melithreptus validirostris):

Tasmanian Native Hen (Gallinula mortierii):

Tasmanian Scrubwren (Sericornis humilis):

Tasmanian Thornbill (Acanthiza ewingii):

Tree Martin (Cecropis nigricans):

Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena):

White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster):

White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis):

White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae):

Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus):

Yellow-throated Honeyeater (Lichenostomus flavicollis):

Yellow Wattlebird (Anthochaera paradox)