Tygum Lagoon (Logan, QLD)

Tygum Lagoon a recreation and wildlife reserve approximately 40 minutes drive south of the Brisbane CBD.

The lagoon itself is 8.7 hectares of shallow open water lake surrounded by a grass-sedge wetland and is crawling with an extensive variety of birds and wildlife.

This spot is fabulous for wildlife photography, is easy to bet to, and doesn’t involve a great deal of walking (the walkway around the entire lagoon is virtually flat).

Below is a list of some of the birds that have been spotted at Tygum Lagoon recently.  If you have seen others, please add a comment (and send in a photo)

(bird list supplied by Neil Strode, member of Birds Queensland)

• Magpie Goose
• Black Swan
• Australian Wood Duck
• Mallard
• Pacific Black Duck
• Australasian Grebe
• Darter
• Little Pied Cormorant
• Little Black Cormorant
• Intermediate Egret
• Cattle Egret
• Australian White Ibis
• Straw-necked Ibis
• Royal Spoonbill
• Purple Swamphen
• Dusky Moorhen
• Eurasian Coot
• Comb-crested Jacana
• Black-winged Stilt
• Masked Lapwing
• Rock Dove
• Crested Pigeon
• Galah
• Long-billed Corella
• Little Corella
• Rainbow Lorikeet
• Laughing Kookaburra
• Noisy Miner
• Magpie-lark
• Willie Wagtail
• Australian Magpie
• Torresian Crow
• Welcome Swallow
• Tawny Grassbird
• Little Grassbird
• Common Starling
• Common Myna