|
Birdline Australia
Published sightings for the week ending 20 Feb 2011.
| Fri 18 Feb
|
Plumed Whistling-Duck, Stilt Sandpiper
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria
27 Plumed Whistling-Duck at Paradise Rd lagoons around 1pm, very flighty. Stilt Sandpiper with 3 Common Greenshankat T-section Pond 7 (Note: sorry Frank, should've got your number!).
Steve Davidson - The Melbourne Birder
|
| Wed 16 Feb
|
Eyebrowed Thrush
Near Malanda , Queensland
Tony Palliser saw it immediately he arrived in the garden at Malanda at 2.00
pm today and had excellent views. No one else was there. The only problem
was that in no time at all, the bird found and ate 10 worms then promptly
disappeared!
Tony Palliser per Mike Carter
|
|
|
Eyebrowed Thrush
Near Malanda, Queensland
Barbara Harvey just rang to say that she saw the Eye-browed Thrush this
morning at 07.20 having followed my directions (see further information below), except that the second turning that you pass is Carson not Curson Road. It flew in and perched very prominently in a tree.
Barbara Harvey per Mike Carter
|
| Tue 15 Feb
|
Asian Dowitcher
Alfred Cove Park, Perth., Western Australia
One bird seen on sandbar just off nature reserve and rugby/football oval. Notes taken at time: wader slightly smaller than bar-tailed godwit present on same sandspit at time; very straight bill -shorter than godwit; obvious eye brow; dark legs; bill slightly bulbous towards tip, and; darker striations down front to lower chest. (1).
Michael Wood
|
|
|
Asian Dowitcher
Alfred Cove Nature Reserve, Western Australia
At high tide this morning (approx.9.30 am) there was an Asian Dowitcher feeding on the small sandbar/islet within the Swan River, just off the Alfred Cove Nature Reserve, which is in the Perth suburb of Attadale. (The sandbar is a few hundred metres north-east of the rugby/football oval).
michael wood
|
| Tue 8 Feb
|
Chinese and Japanese Sparrowhawk, Large Hawk Cuckoo and others
West, Horsburgh and Home Islands, Cocos-Keeling Islands
Amongst 50 species recorded on the Cocos Islands during a visit between 1-8 February a few interesting records were obtained. Eurasian Teal x1, Yellow Bittern x4, Black Bittern x1 (possibly new for Cocos), Cattle Egret x2, Intermediate Egret x2, Pond Heron sp. x1, Western Reef Egret 5+, Chinese Sparrowhawk 3+, Japanese Sparrowhawk x4, Watercock x7, Saunders's Tern x10, Crested Tern x1 (possibly new for Cocos), Large Hawk-Cuckoo x1, Indian Cuckoo x1 (new for Australia), Asian Koel x2, Dollarbird x1, Asian Brown Flycatcher x1 (new for Cocos).
Adrian Boyle, George Swann and Rohan Clarke
|
| Wed 2 Feb
|
Indian Cuckoo
Quarantine Station, West Island, Cocos-Keeling Islands
An Indian Cuckoo (a first for Australia and its territories) was seen and photographed at the Quarantine Station on West Island, Cocos Keeling Islands. It doesn't appear that this bird was ever twitchable as Adrian Boyle, George Swann and Rohan Clarke revisited the site on a number of subsequent days but were never able to relocate it.
Rohan Clarke
| Birdline Australia is sponsored by Birds Australia and co-ordinated and hosted by Eremaea Birds.
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
http://birding-aus.org
===============================
|
