Aves, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay territory, south-eastern Australia

Abstract

A large-scale, long-term study is being conducted to describe the bird assemblages inhabiting a 6500 ha areaat Booderee National Park, south-eastern Australia. In this paper, we provide a list of birds recorded within rainforest,forest, woodland, shrubland, heathland and sedgeland during surveys conducted each spring between 2003 and 2007. Ofparticular interest was the contrast between the birds of sites burned in a wildfire in 2003 and sites that remainedunburned. We recorded a total of 103 species from 35 families. We found that after the major fire, the vast majority ofindividual species and the bird assemblage per se in most vegetation types recovered within two years. Exceptionsoccurred in structurally simple vegetation types such as sedgeland and wet heathland in which reduced levels of specieshad not returned to pre-fire (2003) levels by 2007.