around the UQ lakes

[Peter Kyne <>]

Hi Scot,

As a perpetual student I have been passing by the UQ lakes regularly for 
several years and must say that Spotless Crake is far from a usual suspect. 
Can you provide more information as to where you saw it?
Thanks, Pete Kyne

At 08:23 PM 4/4/2007 +1000, Scot Mcphee wrote:
> This afternoon around 4pm a quick stroll around the lakes in the UQ
> grounds got all the usual suspects;
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> Spotless Crake
> Dusky Moorhen
> Purple Swamphen
> Eurasian Coot
> Wood Duck
> Pacific Black Duck
> Masked Lapwing
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> One of the Dusky Moorhen had 3 bands on the left left from the top
> dark blue or black, green, and white, and a metal on the right. Its
> middle toe was missing, looks like it was bitten off my something and
> the poor bird had a slight limp. We also saw two other Moorhens one
> with a missing leg the other with a lame leg.
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> 15 little black cormorants all perched together on the branches of
> small dead tree overhanging the lake (never seen them in that
> concentration before)
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> Got a nice close observation of a solitary Little Egret fishing out
> small fry (1 to 2cm) fish from the edge of the lake.
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> The 4 Helmeted Guinea Fowl where also there, hanging out with some
> mallards on the south side of the lake.
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> Heaps of Corellas as usual too.
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> Saw a large chestnut or russet coloured wing disappear into a tree
> much to the consternation of the resident noisy miners, but when we
> walked around to see if we could find the bird, it could not be found.
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Peter M. Kyne

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Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology
University of Queensland
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