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Birdline Western Australia Weekly Update

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Date: 8 Oct 2012 01:32:00 +1000

Birdline Western Australia

Published sightings for the week ending 7 Oct 2012.

Fri 5 Oct Rose-crowned Fruit Dove Cygnet Bay Dampier Peninsular, Western Australia
3 birds. Resident in the area but under recorded.
Adrian Boyle

Fork-tailed Swift Cygnet Bay Dampier Peninsular, Western Australia
Just a single but first I have had this season.
Adrian Boyle

Little Stint Roebuck Bay, Broome, Western Australia
Adult roosting at Tattler's Rocks in Roebuck Bay with other waders during high tide.
Chris Hassell et al

Thu 4 Oct Western Bowerbird Menzies, Northern Goldfields (130 km N of Kalgoorlie), Western Australia
One bird spotted clearly on the ground near an empty children's playground before flying off across a sports field to the old railway station where two more flew in and joined it. All three then continued to fly around the area for at least five minutes. ID was confirmed when one landed on an open branch in a tree.
Michael, Ross and David Krippner and Jocelyne Pegoretti

Wed 3 Oct Yellow Wagtail Broome Sewage Ponds, Western Australia
Two birds present late afternoon along with at least 12 Barn Swallows and 4 White-winged Black Terns.
Simon Davies

Mon 1 Oct Brown Falcon Mount Lesueur National Park, Western Australia
Three or four separate Brown Falcons. Also White fronted Chat, Pied Butcherbird, White-winged Triller, White-cheeked Honeyeater, Black Honeyeater and Wedge-tailed Eagle.
Gary Stevens

Sun 30 Sep Avocet Serpentine River shallow lake - Greenfields, Western Australia
Flock of between 15 and 20 birds
Kenneth Glasson

Wed 26 Sep Banded Stilt, Black-Winged Stilt, Red-necked Avocet Rottnest Island, Garden Lake, Western Australia
captured on video
Lewis Benham

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