Yesterday afternoon a colleague and I had a couple of hours touring
around the Western Treatment Complex, Werribee (Victoria) for some work
we're doing there. Not really a general birding trip per se, but it's
hard to miss them :-)
Highlights for me were the dozen or so Double-banded Plovers on the
mudflats at Little River mouth, the Lewin's Rail (heard at South Spit -
and the reason for our trip), numerous Spotted Crakes, the customary
myriad Pink-eared Ducks on Lake Borrie - and for strangest, the Little
Eagle sitting on the mudflats at Little River!
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis
Musk Duck Biziura lobata
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa
Black Swan Cygnus atratus
Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides
Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis
Grey Teal Anas gracilis
Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
Pink-eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus
Hardhead Aythya australis
Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius
Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus
White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
Great Egret Ardea alba
Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
Straw-necked Ibis Threskiornis spinicollis
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia
Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes
Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris
Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus
Swamp Harrier Circus approximans
Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides
Brown Falcon Falco berigora
Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides
Lewin's Rail Rallus pectoralis
Australian Spotted Crake Porzana fluminea
Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris
White-headed Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus
Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
Red-capped Plover Charadrius ruficapillus
Double-banded Plover Charadrius bicinctus
Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus
Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae
Crested Tern Sterna bergii
*Spotted Turtle-Dove Streptopelia chinensis
Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons
Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Little Raven Corvus mellori
*Skylark Alauda arvensis
Australian Pipit Anthus australis
*House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis
*European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus
Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis
Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
*Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
73 species
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