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Birdline North Queensland
Published sightings for the week ending 20 Mar 2011.
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Grey Goshawk, Topknot Pigeon, Yellow Oriole
Townsville Town Common Conservation Park
Grey Goshawk: (Grey Phase) Very Low Fly-over at Forest Walk Carpark. Uncommon and not often seen here. (1). Topknot Pigeon: Low fly-over above the track from Freshwater Lagoon bird hide to Jacana bird hide. Circled above us a few times and then flew NW towards Bald Rock direction. (9). Yellow Oriole: Beside the track from Freshwater Lagoon bird hide to Jacana bird hide. Still present in same locality as Ed Pierce's sighting yesterday. (1).
Len & Chris Ezzy
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Little Kingfisher
Ross River mouth, Townsville
In mangroves near start of port restricted area fence. (1).
Ed Pierce
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| Sat 19 Mar
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Yellow Oriole, White-browed Robin
Townsville Town Common Conservation Park
Yellow Oriole: freshwater (concrete) hide (1). White-browed Robin: just passed causway (fig) between freshwater and jacana hides (1) (seen here once before several years ago).
Ed Pierce
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| Fri 18 Mar
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Black-winged Monarch
Bushy Ck bridge, base of Mt Lewis, Far Nth Qld
At 2:45pm today, a single immature Black-winged Monarch was seen very well & photographed at Bushy Ck Bridge, below Mt Lewis, well to the south of it's accepted range. This is probably the 4th confirmed record this far south into the Wet Tropics. A rough image by Martin Cachard is attached - plenty more were taken of this bird & will be avail on request. Accompanying me when finding this bird was Dom Chaplin. We were trying to locate the calling Chestnut-breasted Cuckoos nearby, but this guy came along & we got somewhat distracted. A great find that will help us to understand the immature plumage of this species, which is apparently undescribed in Aust.
Martin Cachard
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