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Townsville Region Bird Observers Club, carried
out a sea and shorebird
count at Cape Bowling Green
today.
Highlights being the Buller's Shearwater and the
large numbers of terns.
Site: Cape Bowling Green, North
Queensland.
Period: 16/12/98 10:30 to 13:00
Team: Ian clayton, Jock Payet,
Rolf Jensen, Rosemary Payet
Wedge-tailed
Shearwater Puffinus
pacificus 3
Buller's
Shearwater
Puffinus bulleri
1
Sooty Shearwater Puffinus
griseus 1
Brown Booby Sula
leucogaster 2
Striated Heron
Butorides striatus 1
Osprey
Pandion haliaetus 2
Brahminy
Kite Haliastur indus
1
Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa
lapponica 8
Eastern Curlew
Numenius madagascariensis 3
Common
Greenshank Tringa nebularia
4
Terek Sandpiper Xenus
cinereus 1
Grey-tailed
Tattler Heteroscelus brevipes
1
Great Knot Calidris
tenuirostris 200
Sanderling
Calidris alba 15
Red-necked
Stint Calidris ruficollis
1000
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris
acuminata 24
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferruginea 2
Beach
Stone-curlew Esacus neglectus
2
Pied Oystercatcher Haemotopus
longirostris 5
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarola 1
Red-capped
Plover Charadrius ruficapillus
11
Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius
mongolus 150
Greater Sand
Plover Charadrius leschenaultii
39
Silver Gull Larus
novaehollandiae 3
Gull-billed
Tern Sterna nilotica
36
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia
10
Crested Tern Sterna bergii
110
Black-naped Tern Sterna
sumatrana 60
Common Tern
Sterna hirundo 3200
Little
Tern Sterna albifrons
400
Bridled Tern Sterna
anaethetus 3
Sooty Tern
Sterna fuscata 2
Whiskered
Tern Chlidonias hybrida
10
White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias
leucopterus 610
Mangrove
Honeyeater Lichenostomus
fasciogularis 5
Number of species
36 Total Birds 5926
Plus a mixed flock of waders estimated to be c300 seen flying
away
in the distance.
Regards
Ian Clayton
Birds & Bush Tours
PO Box
6037, TMC, Townsville, Qld. 4810
Phone: 07 47 216 489
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