The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, February 25, 2013 to Sunday, March 3, 2013:
Area: SA
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013
Location: Kangaroo Island
Rock Parrot (Neophema petrophila) (c70) c50 feeding across samphire vegetated
Busby Islet CB (Prohibited Area). Attracted to Sarcocornia/Suaeda australis
beds. Most were plain-olive green faced immatures.
20 were feeding amongst fruiting Rhagodia, Atriplex and dried grasses at
Kingscote jetty area - all were immature.
Australian Spotted Crake (Porzana fluminea) (10+) at least 10 but probably more
in dense samphire and tidal channels at low tide, Busby Islet CP Prohibited
Area. Heard calling and flushed from cover along drainage lines as walked
around islet circumference. Several feeding out in open shallows.
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Monday, February 25, 2013
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Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013
Location: Kangaroo Island
Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) (25) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Red Knot (Calidris canutus) (14) feeding over exposed tidal flats several
hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24 February
2013. Showing trace of red breeding dress on underparts.
Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) (6) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) (7) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) (54) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) (6) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) (20) feeding over exposed tidal
flats several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island,
24 February 2013.
Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) (22) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) (8) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) (c500) feeding over exposed tidal flats
several hundred metres N of Busby Islet, Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, 24
February 2013.
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Monday, February 25, 2013
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Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
Location: Kangaroo Island
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (1) flushed from rocky shore on N side of
'The Tadpole', D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island.
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) (51) roosting amongst boulders at
Wheaton's Beach, D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island. Several with partial breeding
plumage.
Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) (60) feeding over exposed sandy shoal
surrounded by natural rocky breakwater, Wheaton's Beach, D'Estrees Bay,
Kangaroo Island.
Hooded Plover (Thinornis rubricollis) (5) three adults at Wheaton's Beach,
D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island.
two adults on The Sewer Beach, D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island.
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Monday, February 25, 2013
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