As well as being Birds Australia's 100th birthday, July 1 was part of our
winter wader count. John Newman and I counted almost no waders - just
Masked Lapwings and a couple of Pied Oystercatchers - on Swan Island (near
Queenscliff, on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria), and Masked Lapwings and
a handful of Red-capped Plovers in some former shell-grit works known as
Laker's Lakes, near Point Lonsdale. To improve our pathetic list we drove
home to Geelong via the reservoir on Swan Bay rd (n of Ocean Grove), Lake
Lorne at Drysdale, and Moolap saltworks. We were out from 8am to about
12.30; I then went to a lunch party which rather went on but returning in
the gathering dusk I added Flame Robin and Wood and White-eyed ducks to our
morning total. Obviously birds of the day were 2 Orange-bellied Parrots on
Swan Island - new for John, but we were also struck but the very large
numbers of Royal Spoonbills and by the numbers of calling Fantailed Cuckoos.
Here are our 79 species:
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis
Musk Duck Biziura lobata
Black Swan Cygnus atratus
Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis
Grey Teal Anas gracilis
Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
Hardhead Aythya australis
Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus
Australasian Gannet Morus serrator
Little Pied Cormorant Phalocrocorax melanoleucos
Pied Cormorant Phalocrocorax varius
Little Black Cormorant Phalocrocorax sulcirostris
Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus
White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
Great Egret Ardea alba
Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus
Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
Straw-necked Ibis Threskiornis spinicollis
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia
Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes
Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris
Swamp Harrier Circus approximans
Brown Falcon Falco berigora
Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
Pied Oystercatcher Haemotopus longirostris
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
Red-necked Avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae
Red-capped Plover Charadrius ruficapillus
Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus
Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae
Crested Tern Sterna bergii
Rock Dove Columba livia
Spotted Turtle-Dove Streptopelia chinensis
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus
Galah Cacatua roseicapilla
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius
Orange-bellied Parrot Neophema chrysogaster
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx basalis
Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis
Singing Honeyeater Lichenostomus virescens
White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicillatus
New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
White-fronted Chat Ephthianura albifrons
Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea
Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis
Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Little Raven Corvus mellori
Skylark Alauda arvensis
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
Red-browed Firetail Neochmia temporalis
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
Common Blackbird Turdus merula
Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Common Mynah Acridotheres tristis
Thanks all other participants
Margaret
Margaret Cameron
4 Connor Street
East Geelong, Vic. 3219
Australia
Phone 61 3 5229 9792
Fax 61 3 5229 1520
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