Australians counted nearly 3.4 million birds in the Aussie Backyard Bird Count which is run by Bird Life Australia.
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Between October 21-28 people counted the number of birds sighted within 20-minutes.
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The Rainbow Lorikeet was the most sighted bird with more than 400,000 counted but it was the Australian Magpie which took the top spot in the Upper Lachlan Shire.
More than 1600 birds were recorded by people in the Upper Lachlan Shire, the tenth most sighted bird was the Willie Wagtail; followed by the Australian Raven; at eighth spot was the Superb Fairy-wren; in seventh the Common Starling; sixth the Sulpher-crested Cockatoo; fifth the Welcome Swallow; fourth the Galah; third the Australian Wood Duck; second was the Crimson Rosella, and; the Australian Magpie.
McComas Taylor from Crookwell is a bird-watcher and honorary life member of the Crookwell Native Flora and Fauna Club, he said the Southern Tablelands is a junction of three great bird zones.
"We get coastal birds, we get northern-Australian birds and we get birds from the inland."
The most common sightings in the Upper Lachlan Shire are the Australian Magpie, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Currawong and Galah.
"These are the bird's people know and can identify easily, and they are all widespread," Mr Taylor said.
"For me, the more interesting birds are not necessarily the most common, birds like, the Little Corella is becoming increasingly common in our area. Its range is expanding throughout South-eastern Australia, it might be due to land-use changes, climate change, or, as some wise man said birds have wings and they can show up anywhere."
There are also more sightings of the Common Koel although they are hard to identify for the inexperienced.
"The Koel is a coastal bird, but in the last ten years its starting to show up quite regularly.
"It has a very distinctive call it goes coee-coee and often calls at night, and people often hear it but find it hard to identify. It's a big black bird about the same as a crow and looks a bit like a crow. It's very hard to see because it hides in the densest part of a tree but you can hear them from up to a kilometre away.
Also on the list are summer migrants including the Grey Fantail.
"They arrive in Crookwell in September and build pretty nests shaped like a wine glass out of cobwebs and lay two or three very pretty tiny eggs and then stay until the weather gets cold, and disappear in March or April."
Encourage birds to your backyard
Bird Life Australia says the key to designing a bird-friendly garden is lots of plants at different heights.
Start with ground covers, small and medium-sized shrubs (for density) and, where possible, add trees that will provide year-round food and shelter for many different species.
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Native plants provide flowers for nectar-loving birds to forage on - bottle-brushes and grevilleas - and join remnant vegetation with wildlife corridors, Mr Taylor said.
"Plant native vegetation and run shrubs or plants along fence lines to provide a movement corridor or network."
As well as planting new shrubs or trees Mr Taylor advised to try to save established native trees.
"Native trees create hollows and birds (like the Gang-Gang Cockatoo) would need a tree about 70 to 80 years old to have a hollow big enough to nest in.
"People look at big old trees and think that's dead, or useless, or firewood, but often they're nesting sites for birds: Cockatoos, King Fishers or Kookaburras.
"If you take out that nesting site, you take out that bird. It's not the availability of food or water, for many of those birds it's the availability of nesting sites."
To find out more about Crookwell bird watchers visit the Crookwell Native Flora and Fauna Club on Facebook.
The Aussie Backyard Bird Count results
For the full list of results visit: Aussie Backyard Bird Count
The most sighted bird in Braidwood was the Common Starling; followed by the House Sparrow; the Australian Magpie; Galah; Little Corella; Crimson Rosella; Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Australian King Parrot, and; in tenth was the Little Raven.
In Goulburn, the House Sparrow was the most sighted bird; then the Australian Wood Duck; the Australian Magpie; Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Crimson Rosella; Common Starling; Crested Pigeon; Galah; Pied Currawong, and; the Australian Raven.
In Queanbeyan, Australian Magpie; Crimson Rosella; Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Galah; House Sparrow; Common Starling; Australian Wood Duck; Crested Pigeon; Magpie-lark, and; Superb Fairy-wren.
In Yass, the Common Starling was the most sighted bird; then the Australian Magpie; House Sparrow; Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Superb Fairy-wren; Galah; Crimson Rosella; Common Blackbird; Australian Wood Duck, and; the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo.