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Trip Report Cape Bowling Green Nth. Qld.

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Subject: Trip Report Cape Bowling Green Nth. Qld.
From: "Ian Clayton" <>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:50:17 +1000
Townsville Region Bird Observers Club, carried out a sea and shorebird
count at Cape Bowling Green today.
 
Highlights being the Buller's Shearwater and the large numbers of terns.
 
Site: Cape Bowling Green, North Queensland.
Period: 16/12/98 10:30 to 13:00
Team: Ian clayton, Jock Payet, Rolf Jensen, Rosemary Payet
Wedge-tailed Shearwater       Puffinus pacificus     3
Buller's Shearwater            Puffinus bulleri          1
Sooty Shearwater     Puffinus griseus     1
Brown Booby     Sula leucogaster     2
Striated Heron     Butorides striatus     1
Osprey     Pandion haliaetus     2
Brahminy Kite     Haliastur indus     1
Bar-tailed Godwit     Limosa lapponica     8
Eastern Curlew     Numenius madagascariensis     3
Common Greenshank     Tringa nebularia     4
Terek Sandpiper     Xenus cinereus     1
Grey-tailed Tattler     Heteroscelus brevipes     1
Great Knot     Calidris tenuirostris     200
Sanderling     Calidris alba     15
Red-necked Stint     Calidris ruficollis     1000
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper     Calidris acuminata     24
Curlew Sandpiper     Calidris ferruginea     2
Beach Stone-curlew     Esacus neglectus     2
Pied Oystercatcher     Haemotopus longirostris     5
Grey Plover     Pluvialis squatarola     1
Red-capped Plover     Charadrius ruficapillus     11
Lesser Sand Plover     Charadrius mongolus     150
Greater Sand Plover     Charadrius leschenaultii     39
Silver Gull     Larus novaehollandiae     3
Gull-billed Tern     Sterna nilotica     36
Caspian Tern     Sterna caspia     10
Crested Tern     Sterna bergii     110
Black-naped Tern     Sterna sumatrana     60
Common Tern     Sterna hirundo     3200
Little Tern     Sterna albifrons     400
Bridled Tern     Sterna anaethetus     3
Sooty Tern     Sterna fuscata     2
Whiskered Tern     Chlidonias hybrida     10
White-winged Black Tern     Chlidonias leucopterus     610
Mangrove Honeyeater     Lichenostomus fasciogularis     5
Number of species 36         Total Birds 5926
 
Plus a mixed flock of waders estimated to be c300 seen flying away
in the distance.
 Regards
 
Ian Clayton
Birds & Bush Tours
PO Box 6037, TMC, Townsville, Qld.     4810
 
Phone: 07 47 216 489
Email:
 
 
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