Lake Joondalup is a fair-sized permanent, fresh-water, coastal lake in the
northern suburbs of Perth approx 25 kms north of the city centre (and very
easily accessible via the Mitchell Freeway). It is well-known to Perth
bird-watchers and is included in Ron van Delft's excellent "Birding Sites
Around Perth" (the superb second revised and enlarged edition of which is
now on sale for less than $20 - from Birds Oz among others).
On holiday in our "home town" for Christmas we called by the small (approx
250 by 150 metres) southern section of the lake (the part south of Ocean
Reef Road - which now divides the lake into 2 unequal parts) and in some 30
minutes of easy birding were rewarded by an extraordinary richness of
waterbirds for such a small and easily accessible suburban wetland only 150
metres from the nearest houses:
Great Crested Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Australasian Grebe
Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Cormorant
White-faced Heron
Great Egret
Nankeen Night Heron
Australian White Ibis
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Pacific Black Duck
Grey Teal
Australasian Shoveller
Pink-eared Duck
White-eyed Duck
Australian Wood Duck
Blue-billed Duck
Musk Duck
Dusky Moorhen
Purple Swamphen
Eurasian Coot
Black-winged Stilt
A number of common passerines added to the species total.
From: Dr Richard Nowotny
Melbourne, Australia
Tel. (w) 61-3-9214.1420
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