Chris Gladwin wrote:
>
> Highlights in New South Wales over the last week are as follows:
>
> AUSTRALIAN BITTERN 2 Rose's Lagoon, Near Goulburn 29/12 and 31/12
> WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE 1 Lapstone, Blue Mountains 31/12
> BLACK FALCON 1 Rose's Lagoon, Near Goulburn 29/12
> BAILLON'S CRAKE several at each of Bushell's Lagoon, Pitt Town
> Lagoon, McGrath's Hill STW and Richmond Polo Club all week
> AUSTRALIAN CRAKE several at each of Bushell's Lagoon, Pitt Town
> Lagoon, McGrath's Hill STW and Richmond Polo Club all week
> SPOTLESS CRAKE 1 Metromix Swamp, Cronulla 4/1
> SANDERLING 1 Long Reef, Sydney 4/1
> GREY-TAILED TATTLER 16 Long Reef, Sydney 4/1
> SUPERB PARROT 120 between Gundagai and Junee 20/11
> STRIATED PARDALOTE 1 Taronga Zoo grounds, Sydney 2/1 - first record
> WHITE-BREASTED WOODSWALLOW 5 Narabeen Lagoon, Sydney 4/1
> SPOTTED BOWERBIRD 1 Hawk's Nest, Central Coast 4/1 - recalls similar
> records on coast in SE Queensland
>
> Seeing the note on Pale-headed Rosella in Sydney prompts me to mention
> that Sydney is crawling with feral and escaped parrots. I receive
> more reports on odd parrot species than any other birds. In the last
> few weeks I have received reports, from Sydney, of Superb Parrot, Blue
> Bonnet, Port Lincoln Parrot, Budgerigar, Long-billed and Little
> Corellas and a Peach-faced Lovebird. All are feral.
>
> Chris Gladwin
> Sydney, Australia
>
>
> BIRDLINE NSW (02) 9290 1778 - sponsored by Birds Australia, NSW Field
> Ornithologists Club and Cumberland Bird Observers Club
>
> Please reply direct as a I am unable to see "Birding-Aus"
The following are the interesting bird records for the Central Coast
this week:
Juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo being fed by Pied Currawong Pt
Wollstoncroft on 10/1/98 by AKM
Juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo being fed by Pied Currawong at Umina on
12/1/98 per AKM
2 Adult Pacific Baza + 1 young at Avoca Lagoon 12/1/98 per AKM
1 Emerald Dove flew into window of Kulnura Public School 12/1/98 by Kaye
Pointer
1 White-necked Heron at Ourimbah 12/1/98 by Andrew Jones
1 juvenile Koel being fed by Red Wattlebirds in AKM's garden 14-17/1/98
Alan Morris
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