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Pinkerton Forest is west of Melbourne (between Melton and Werribee). It is a remnant Grey Box woodland owned by Western Water. It has a scatter of mature Grey Box and River Red Gums. Bush's Paddock nearby is similar but with more open grassland (spear grasses, windmill grass and kangaroo grass) with a variety of wildflowers.
Both areas are cared for by a Land Care Group, and access is restricted.
BOCA is conducting a quarterly survey for the areas - normally the second Sunday in Feb, May, Aug and Nov, but confirm with the Activities page.
The bird list to date (as of Feb 2005) is as follows (including birds seen on the adjacent sewage ponds):
Stubble Quail Blue-billed Duck Australian Shelduck Australian Wood Duck Grey Teal Chestnut Teal Hoary-headed Grebe Little Pied Cormorant Little Black Cormorant White-faced Heron Australian White Ibis Straw-necked Ibis Black-shouldered Kite Whistling Kite Wedge-tailed Eagle Little Eagle Brown Falcon Peregrine Falcon Nankeen Kestrel Common Coot Black-fronted Dotterel Masked Lapwing Spotted Turtle Dove Crested Pigeon Galah Long-billed Corella Little Corella Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Eastern Rosella Red-rumped Parrot Blue-winged Parrot Pallid Cuckoo Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Fan-tailed Cuckoo Shining Bronze-Cuckoo White-throated Needletail Laughing Kookaburra White-throated Treecreeper Brown Treecreeper Superb Fairy-wren Spotted Pardalote Striated Pardalote Weebill Yellow-rumped Thornbill Yellow Thornbill Red Wattlebird Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater White-plumed Honeyeater New Holland Honeyeater Jacky Winter Flame Robin Eastem Shrike-tit Golden Whistler Rufous Whistler Grey Shrike-thrush Magpie-lark Grey Fantail Willie Wagtail Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike White-winged Triller Masked Woodswallow White-browed Woodswallow Dusky Woodswallow Australian Magpie Australian Raven Little Raven Singing Bushlark Skylark* Australian (Richard's) Pipit House Sparrow* Zebra Finch Red-browed Finch Diamond Firetail European Greenfinch* European Goldfinch* Welcome Swallow Tree Martin Eurasian Blackbird* Common Starling* Common Myna*
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