At Goran Lake, an ephemeral lake about 30 km South of Gunnedah, NSW, the following bird species were spotted by us from April 2011 until now (Goran Lake filled up in the summer of 2011 and had water until spring 2013). They are listed here in four categories, according to the timing of their sightings. In some cases the categorisation indicates a trend. We have visited only locations along the lake shore where there is open farmland, without other significant vegetation, beyond roadside weeds and low shrubs. Bird species that are listed as Vulnerable or Endangered, if any, are marked as such.

Goran Lake is listed as a "birding hotspot" on ebird.org .

Any time of year	Lake full	(Only when) lake dry	Irregular or infrequent
Brown Quail Black Kite Wedge-tailed Eagle Spotted Harrier Black-shouldered Kite Nankeen Kestrel Brown Falcon Galah Superb Fairy-wren Variegated Fairy-wren Willie Wagtail Magpie-lark Pied Butcherbird Australian Magpie Australian Raven Australian Pipit Brown Songlark	Black Swan Australian Wood Duck Pink-eared Duck Grey Teal Hardhead Pacific Black Duck Australasian Shoveler Plumed Whistling-Duck Australasian Grebe Darter Great Cormorant Little Black Cormorant Pied Cormorant Australian Pelican Yellow-billed Spoonbill Great Egret Intermediate Egret White-faced Heron White-necked Heron Straw-necked Ibis Australian White Ibis White-bellied Sea-Eagle Purple Swamphen Eurasian Coot Red-necked Stint Bar-tailed Godwit Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Little Curlew Black-winged Stilt Red-necked Avocet Red-capped Plover Double-banded Plover Red-kneed Dotterel Black-fronted Dotterel Masked Lapwing Banded Lapwing Australian Pratincole Silver Gull Caspian Tern Gull-billed Tern Whiskered Tern Golden-headed Cisticola		Emu Whistling Kite Budgerigar Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Singing Bushlark Tree Martin Welcome Swallow Australian Reed-Warbler
17	42	0	7
Any time of year	Lake full	(Only when) lake dry	Irregular or infrequent

Goran Lake is an ephemeral lake 30 km south of Gunnedah, NSW - when full, it has a maximum depth of about 2 m, while its surface area is many square kilometres

Distant view of Coolah Tops NP from the north, across Goran Lake, in April 2011