Here is a list of new birds I saw on the south-east QLD trip with Martin Cake (with links to my photos from the trip):

• Australian Brush-turkey: ubiquitous in the rain forest areas;
• Black-breasted Button-Quail: the platelets gave away their presence;
• Magpie Goose: seen on a metropolitan lake (and if Martin hadn’t pointed them out I would have written them off as manky farm ducks…);
• Wandering Whistling-Duck;
• Cotton Pygmy-goose;
• Royal Spoonbill: finally found one, beginning to think they were mythical;
• Wandering Tattler;
• Comb-crested Jacana;
• Pacific Baza: a wonderful surprise;
• Topknot Pigeon;
• Brown Cuckoo-Dove;
• Wonga Pigeon;
• Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo;
• Scaly-breasted Lorikeet: good views high in a tree;
• Australian King-Parrot;
• Pale-headed Rosella: probably my favourite new parrot of the trip;
• Crimson Rosella;
• Noisy Pitta: a wonderful bird, seen at three different locations (sorry John);
• Albert’s Lyrebird: brief but spectacular sighting;
• Brown Thornbill;
• Superb Fairy-wren;
• Red-backed Fairy-wren: a really spectacular Fairy-wren;
• Large-billed Scrubwren;
• Yellow-throated Scrubwren;
• Fairy Gerygone;
• Brown Gerygone;
• Little Wattlebird;
• Noisy Friarbird;
• Little Friarbird;
• Blue-faced Honeyeater;
• Noisy Miner;
• Bell Miner: surprisingly hard to get good views of;
• Lewin’s Honeyeater;
• Mangrove Honeyeater: seen in mangroves (as expected?);
• Fuscous Honeyeater;
• Eastern Spinebill;
• Scarlet Honeyeater;
• Eastern Whipbird: heard more often than seen, but we had great views as well;
• Logrunner: seen running along logs (as expected?);
• Eastern Yellow Robin;
• Pale-yellow Robin;
• Rufous Fantail: a really neat little bird;
• Leaden Flycatcher;
• Spectacled Monarch;
• White-eared Monarch;
• Spangled Drongo;
• Olive-backed Oriole;
• Australian Figbird;
• Paradise Riflebird: a brilliant bird we saw high in the rainforest canopy;
• Green Catbird: a very weird call;
• Regent Bowerbird: seen at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat;
• Satin Bowerbird: seen at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat;
• Varied Triller: an unexpected surprise, we initially thought it was a White-winged Triller;
• Pied Currawong;
• Double-barred Finch: my only new finch for the trip;
• Bassian Thrush;
• Russet-tailed Thrush;
• Common Miner.

Having only ever birded in Western Australia, I had a few birds on my life list that were a little dodgy.  A recent trip with Martin Cake to Queensland (SE QLD in particular) cleaned a few of these up:

• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo – a small population exists near Lake McLarty and a single bird hangs around the river near Midland;
• Rainbow Lorikeet – common in the Perth metropolitan area (and spreading, unfortunately);
• Red-browed Finch – there are established groups of these in the hills area.