Nyngan Riverside Caravan Park

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Dione — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:21:53 +0000

Activities in Nyngan and area

Dione — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:56:44 +0000

Nyngan with a population of more than 3000 has many local events:

January 26th: Australia Day celebrations
April 25th: Anzac Day Racing
May: Nyngan Show and Rodeo, Nyngan Show Ball
June Long Weekend: Coolabah goat races
August: Nyngan Agricultural Expo, Bonnie Pet Food Dog Trials
September: Debutante Bal
October: Lawn Bowls Competition
November: Mid State shearing Shed Market Day, Christmas carnivals and Western Dance studio concert
December: Hermidale shoot out

Within a 2-hour drive of Nyngan you can get to a number of outback centres which have regular events and local attractions: Bourke, Cobar, Coolabah (Goat Races in June), Dubbo, Gilgandra, Hermidale, Macquarie Marshes, Narromine, Nevertire, Nymagee and Warren.

Wildlife

Dione — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:12:11 +0000

To do in the park

Dione — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:21:37 +0000

Water ski
Canoe
Swim
Bird watching
Fishing
Relax by the river
Barbecue
Children’s playground
Mini Golf

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Dione — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:57:13 +0000

Birds we have seen

Dione — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:09:44 +0000

At the Nyngan Riverside Caravan park we have spotted the following birds:

Apostlebird	Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
Australasian Grebe	Masked Lapwing
Australian Hobby Peregrine Falcon	Masked Woodswallow
Australian Magpie	Mistletoebird
Australian Owlet-nightjar	Mulga Parrot
Australian Raven	Nankeen Kestrel
Australian Ringneck	Noisy Friarbird
Australian Wood Duck	Noisy Miner
Bar-shouldered Dove	Olive-backed Oriole
Black Kite	Pacific Black Duck
Black-eared Cuckoo	Painted Button-quail
Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike	Pallid Cuckoo
Black-fronted Dotterel	Peaceful Dove
Black-shouldered Kite	Pied Butcherbird
Black-tailed Native-hen	Pied Cormorant
Black-winged Stilt	Pied Currawong
Blue Bonnet Parrot	Pink-eared Duck
Blue-faced Honeyeater	Rainbow Bee-eater
Brown Falcon	Red-capped Robin
Brown Goshawk	Red-kneed Dotterel
Brown Quail	Red-rumped Parrot
Brown Songlark	Red-winged Parrot
Brown Treecreeper	Restless Flycatcher
Brown-headed Honeyeater	Richard’s Pipit
Budgerigar	Rock Dove
Chestnut Teal	Rufous Songlark
Chestnut-crowned Babbler	Rufous Whistler
Chestnut-rumped Thornbill	Sacred Kingfisher
Cockatiel	Silvereye
Common Bronzewing	Singing Honeyeater
Common Starling	Southern Whiteface
Crested Pigeon	Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Crimson Chat	Splendid Fairy-wren
Crow and Raven spp.	Spotted Bowerbird
Diamond Dove	Spotted Harrier
Diamond Firetail	Spotted Pardalote
Dollarbird	Straw-necked Ibis
Double-barred Finch	Striated Pardalote
Dusky Moorhen	Striped Honeyeater
Eastern Rosella	Stubble Quail
Eastern Yellow Robin	Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Emu	Superb Parrot
Eurasian Coot	Tawny Frogmouth
Fairy Martin	Tree Martin
Fan-tailed Cuckoo	Varied Sittella Crested Bellbird
Freckled Duck	Variegated Fairy-wren
Galah	Wedge-tailed Eagle
Great Egret	Weebill Western Gerygone
Grey Butcherbird	Welcome Swallow
Grey Fantail	White-breasted Woodswallow
Grey Shrike-thrush	White-browed Babbler
Grey Teal	White-browed Woodswallow
Grey-crowned Babbler	White-eared Honeyeater
Grey-fronted Honeyeater	White-faced Heron
Hardhead	White-fronted Chat
Hooded Robin	White-fronted Honeyeater
Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo	White-necked Heron
House Sparrow	White-plumed Honeyeater
Inland Thornbill	White-winged Chough
Jacky Winter	White-winged Triller
Laughing Kookaburra	Willie Wagtail
Little Black Cormorant	Yellow Thornbill
Little Button-quail	Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Little Corella	Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
Little Crow	Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Little Eagle	Yellow-throated Miner
Little Friarbird	Zebra Finch
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Raven
Magpie-Lark