A delayed report on a pleasant 90 minutes spent at Point Cook on Sunday
9/9/2001. Highlights - Spotted Crake, Pectoral Sandpiper and Black-tailed
Native-hens at Spectacle Lake; Orange-bellied (2) and Blue-winged (10)
Parrots sitting in dead Kangaroo Apples (Solanum laciniatum) with a Pallid
Cuckoo - nice scope views - at Point Cook beach carpark.
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Fref: POICOOK1 Obs: 7808 Dates: 09/09/2001 - / / Site: POICOOK
Survey: A500 Time: 120 Area: 10
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Country: 36.030 Locality: Point Cook Coastal Park, Victoria.
Habitat: Wetlands C1/2: /
Lat: 37 55 22 S Long: 144 46 15 E A Accuracy: 100 Altitude: 0 M LR:
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CODE--- Count Age S St Br T R Species
8092.0 3 S Australian Spotted Crake
Spectacle Lake.
8035.0 S Yellow-billed Spoonbill
8007.0 10E S Hoary-headed Grebe
238.0 200E S Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
8100.0 S Masked Lapwing
8277.0 S Australian Magpie
8486.0 S White-plumed Honeyeater
473.0 S Skylark
3131.1 S White-headed Stilt
8404.0 S Willie Wagtail
8286.0 S Magpie-lark
688.2 S House Sparrow
8250.0 S Welcome Swallow
493.0 S Common Starling
493.2 S Common Myna
8047.0 S Chestnut Teal
8038.0 S Black Swan
3004.0 S Little Pied Cormorant
8055.1 1 S Black-shouldered Kite
8122.1 S Silver Gull
3022.1 S Pacific Black Duck
2193.0 S Purple Swamphen
3212.0 4 S Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
8511.0 S New Holland Honeyeater
Only in Banksias around Point Cook beach.
3594.0 S Golden-headed Cisticola
8209.0 1 S Pallid Cuckoo
8199.0 10 S Blue-winged Parrot
Roosting in dead Solanum plants near Point
Cook
beach; last car park.
8202.0 2 S Orange-bellied Parrot
Roosting in dead Solanum plants near Point
Cook
beach; last car park.
315.1 S Spotted Turtle-Dove
8359.0 S Brown Thornbill
8317.0 S Superb Fairy-wren
8538.0 S Silvereye
8533.0 S Red Wattlebird
8362.0 S Yellow-rumped Thornbill
8531.0 1 S Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
In Banksias near Point Cook beach; last car
park.
8046.1 S Grey Teal
8077.0 H Brown Quail
Calling from grass around Spectacle Lake.
8310.0 S Little Grassbird
8059.0 1 S Whistling Kite
8061.0 2 S Swamp Harrier
3024.0 S Hardhead
8031.0 1 S White-faced Heron
3001.0 2 S Australasian Grebe
220.0 S Eurasian Coot
8095.0 2 S Black-tailed Native-hen
253.0 1 H Common Greenshank
244.0 1 S Curlew Sandpiper
239.0 1 S Pectoral Sandpiper
526.1 S European Goldfinch
8022.0 S Australian Pelican
8033.0 S Australian White Ibis
8122.1 S Silver Gull
8023.0 S Pied Cormorant
8461.1 S Australasian(Richard's) Pipit
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