For the enthusiast we need to state that the official bird list for the Cape Tribulation section of the Daintree National Park lists 150 species of birds.
We share our place with Father Cassowary who daily walks his territory which includes our lodge, with his chick or chicks.
Rainbow, our pet lorikeet shares his food, sometimes with annoyance with the local friar birds and after a few wet days with numerous Macleay Honeyeaters. Sometimes they literally lick the bowl clean.
The sulphur crested cockatoos screech as they compete with each other for the Alexandra Palm seeds. These wasteful creatures drop eight time more than they eat, which is a blessing for the cassowary waiting below. Their diet also includes our lycees, rambutans and sometimes even our lemons.
A resident pair of orange-footed scrub fowl maintain a mound and scratch daily under the fig tree. Night time roosting calls, are great locators of different groups. Fortunately the snakes are deaf.
The greatest romantic is the Victorian Rifle bird. A perch above the canopy serves as a mating pole. Here the male flaps eloquently to entice the female and if she'll watch he'll enchant her with the rhythmic beat of of his wings, increasing the tempo until he's seduced her. Many a crestfallen male has stopped his flapping midway, and sunk despondently as a female looses interest in him and flies off.
Then we have our annual visitors from New Guinea. Among these are the Torresian Imperial Pigeon, the kingfisher and the noisy starling.