BIRDLINE NSW - update 29.10.96

["Chris Gladwin" <>]

     Highlights in NSW over the last week are as follows - I have excluded the
     amazing birds seen on the Wollongong pelagic of 27 October as I'm sure Tony
     will update us separately:

     GIANT PETREL               1 "white phase" Coogee 22/10
     CAPE PETREL                10 Long Reef 22/10
     STEAKED SHEARWATER         1 Long Reef 26/10
     AUSTRALASIAN BITTERN       6 Lake Tuckerbill, Leeton 19/10 and 1 Myall
                                Lakes, north of Newcastle 9/10
     BANDED LAPWING             9 Powell's Lane, Richmond 19/10
     COMMON TERN                56 Mistral Point, Coogee 21/10
     WHISKERED TERN             2 Pittown Lagoon, Windsor 19/10
     SUPERB PARROT              40 Yass 18/10
     BRUSH CUCKOO               1 Glenbrook, Blue Mountains 21/10
     REGENT HONEYEATER          2 Capertee Valley 15/10
     PAINTED HONEYEATER         1+ Griffith 19/10


     Chris Gladwin
     

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