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Birdline North Queensland
Published sightings for the week ending 20 Feb 2011.
| Sat 19 Feb
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Wompoo Fruit-Dove, Superb Fruit-Dove
Kirwan, Columbine Court
Wompoo in palms and a female Superb Fruit-Dove which flew off the neighbours front lawn and into a car window. It remained under the car for 30 minutes before it recovered and left. More cyclone refugees looking for fruit.
Ivor Preston
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Cicadabird, Olive-backed Oriole, Oriental Cuckoo, Long-tailed Finch, Wompoo Fruit-Dove, Crimson Finc
Townsville Town Common Conservation Park
Cicadabird: male, between 1st and 2nd viewpoints (1).
Olive-backed Oriole: between 1st and 2nd viewpoints (1).
Oriental Cuckoo: between 1st and 2nd viewpoints (1).
Long-tailed Finch: about 400m passed 2nd viewpoint (towards freshwater hide - aviary escapee?.) (1).
Wompoo Fruit-Dove: 4 in fig on causeway between freshwater and jacana hides, 2 at bald rock (6).
Crimson Finch: adult male, near fig on causeway between freshwater and jacana hides (1).
Also Brown cuckoo dove at elevated hide (1).
Ed Pierce
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Yellow Oriole
Kelso, Townsville
A young Yellow Oriole fossicking amongst broken off branches of an ironbark near the upper Bohle River, Kelso (Palamino Place) at 7.00 am. This is the first sighting in Townsville for me, a bird normally seen from Ingham north. Presumably another Tropical Cyclone Yasi displacement. It was being hassled by a White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike. Called a couple of times. ID photo in an unusual setting.
Peter Valentine
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| Fri 18 Feb
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Bridled Tern, Lesser Crested Tern, Crested Tern
Endeavour River mouth Cooktown
Approximately 100 Crested Terns, 20 Bridled Terns and 5 Lesser Crested Terns were aerial feeding over the mouth of the Endeavour River, in the morning. They were taking flying insects (too far away to determine what they were) on the wing. Only one bird attempted to catch any fish.
Kath Shurcliff & Dave Houghton
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