Hi birders
Just back from a few days work at Lake Mokoan in NE Victoria near Bendigo.
One Fork-tailed Swift seen above Welcome Swallows, Tree and Fairy
Martins, Dusky and White-breasted Woodswallows on 24 January 2006 about
8:30pm. Fine and hot - just seen by chance whilst looking at the lower
flying birds - odd to see just one.
Other Mokoan highlights included Australian Little Bittern (2 sites),
Australasian Bittern (1 site), both heard only - a group of 90 Freckled
Ducks including males in resplendent breeding condition (bright red
faces) - Intermediate Egrets in breeding plumage - breeding Brown Quail
- 2 Plumed Whistling-Ducks - LOTS of Latham's Snipe - a small rookery of
Little Pied and Little Black Cormorants (c. 30 nests all up) - lots of
raptors.
Lake Mokoan, 23-27/1/2006
c1=mok; numbers indicate frequency
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1 Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis
3 Brown Quail Coturnix ypsilophora
1 Plumed Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna eytoni
1 Musk Duck Biziura lobata
1 Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa
2 Black Swan Cygnus atratus
1 Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides
3 Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
5 Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
3 Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis
3 Grey Teal Anas gracilis
3 Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
1 Pink-eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus
2 Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
1 Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus
4 Darter Anhinga melanogaster
2 Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
1 Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
2 Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
3 Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus
6 White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
4 White-necked Heron Ardea pacifica
4 Great Egret Ardea alba
2 Intermediate Egret Ardea intermedia
1 Nankeen Night-Heron Nycticorax caledonicus
2 Australian Little Bittern Ixobrychus dubius
1 Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus
5 Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
4 Straw-necked Ibis Threskiornis spinicollis
2 Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes
1 Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris
1 Black Kite Milvus migrans
4 Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus
1 White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster
3 Swamp Harrier Circus approximans
1 Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus
1 Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax
1 Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides
3 Brown Falcon Falco berigora
1 Black Falcon Falco subniger
1 Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides
5 Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
2 Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
2 Black-tailed Native-hen Gallinula ventralis
1 Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
1 Painted Button-quail Turnix varia
5 Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii
1 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
1 Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops
2 Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
2 Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae
1 Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
4 Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
1 Peaceful Dove Geopelia striata
4 Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
4 Little Corella Cacatua sanguinea
6 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
1 Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna
5 Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
5 Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus
1 Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
2 Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
1 Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
1 Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus
6 Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus
5 Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
4 Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus
3 Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
1 Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
2 Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
5 White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
1 Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis
4 White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons
2 Eastern Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus
2 Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
3 Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta
6 Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
6 Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
2 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
6 White-breasted Woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus
5 Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus
6 Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
3 Australian Raven Corvus coronoides
2 Little Raven Corvus mellori
2 Singing Bushlark Mirafra javanica
1 Australian Pipit Anthus australis
3 House Sparrow Passer domesticus
3 Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata
2 European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
6 Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
5 Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans
3 Fairy Martin Petrochelidon ariel
5 Australian Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus australis
1 Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus
3 Rufous Songlark Cincloramphus mathewsi
2 Brown Songlark Cincloramphus cruralis
3 Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis
5 Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
2 Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
2 Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
3 Fox Vulpes vulpes
1 Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
2 Red-bellied Black Snake Pseudechis porphyriacus
1 European Carp Cyprinus carpio
104 species
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