Grant Baverstock and I meandered our way along the western shoreline of Swan
Bay today, taking part in the wader count. Amazed at the amount of fishing
rubbish along the shoreline - bait bags, buckets, caps, thongs (couldn't
find a pair though :( ), floats, hook packets.
Interesting observations:
Low numbers of Silver Gull, no Straw-necked Ibis, only one species of
raptor. Usually see large numbers of Ibis and Gulls.
Cheers
Richard Dilena
Ocean Grove
Species list.
Wader Count
Swan Bay - west shoreline
Knights Rd to Andersons Rd
Started 1350hrs
Finished 1730hrs
Southerly to 10 knots
Sunny, warm
Little Pied Cormorant 16 Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
Little Black Cormorant 1 Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
Great Cormorant 1 Phalacrocorax carbo
Australian Pelican 13 Pelecanus conspicillatus
Black Swan 54 Cygnus atratus
Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides
Chestnut Teal 300+ Anas castanea
White-faced Heron 25 Egretta novaehollandiae
White Ibis 100+ Eudocimus albus
Royal Spoonbill 80 Platalea regia
Brown Falcon 2 Falco berigora
Bar-tailed Godwit 14 Limosa lapponica
Whimbrel 14 Numenius phaeopus
Eastern Curlew 103 Numenius madagascariensis
Common Greenshank 3 Tringa nebularia
Red-necked Stint 88 Calidris ruficollis
Pied Oystercatcher 25 Haematopus longirostris
Sooty Oystercatcher 1 Haematopus fuliginosus
Pacific Golden Plover 52 Pluvialis fulva
Red-capped Plover 11 Charadrius ruficapillus
Masked Lapwing 57 Vanellus miles
Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae
Red-rumped Parrot 2 Psephotus haematonotus
Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren 2 Hylacola pyrrhopygia
Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons
Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Little Raven Corvus mellori
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
36 species.
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