Not sure if this helps but, around 2011/12 I saw the Aust Painted Snipe at 
Newey reservoir in Cobar, right next to a Painted Honeyeater which was in the 
tree to the right of it…
I’ve been back many times since to the same spot and it’s never been there…
Kirri 👍🏼
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> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:22:44 +1030
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> We have records of pq in 1997  2008  2011  2017 in adelaide area..
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>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022, 15:12 Tony Russell, <> wrote:
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>> 2 more from SA will advise
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>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022, 14:53 Tony Russell, <> wrote:
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>>> Had one at Goolwa SA many years ago
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>>>> On Mon, 21 Nov 2022, 14:25 Geoffrey Dabb, <> wrote:
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>>>> Earlier, I circulated a request for information about sightings of this
>>>> elusive species.  A serious monitoring project is now planned, and in
>>>> connection with this Matt Herring has suggested I circulate the below link
>>>> about it to this forum ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> https://chuffed.org/project/paintedsnipe
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The movements of this endemic species are certainly a mystery. I
>>>> remember being at Western Treatment Plant in 2008 when I was told one was
>>>> at Edithvale Wetlands, so I made a quick visit there where I was able to
>>>> see it from the car park.   (I even wrote a poem about it in which ?typha?
>>>> provided a convenient rhyme with ?lifer?.)  Small numbers occasionally turn
>>>> up in Canberra, at Kelly Swamp, a local wetland only about 3km in a
>>>> straight line from the national parliament where important matters are
>>>> being discussed right now.  This made me consult eBird to check on other
>>>> cities, and the species seems to have an unexpected preference for urban
>>>> locations. Brisbane (City Botanic Gardens) 1976, Melbourne (Royal Park) Nov
>>>> 2011, Sydney (Olympic Park) Oct/Nov 2011, 2012.  There are very few reports
>>>> from WA, but small numbers have ben recorded around Perth, including a
>>>> couple seen Perth airport, Aug 2011.  Seems to have been a dispersion event
>>>> around 2011. Worryingly, not much that?s very recent (except Canberra,
>>>> relatively speaking a ?hotspot?) but eBird has a great photo of 4 females
>>>> in 2017 in the Adelaide suburb of ?City of Charles Sturt?.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> Geoffrey
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