G'day All,
Though a bit late in reporting, the Cohuna BOCA bird challenge team had a
great day out on Saturday 10th December. We had not been able to get out on
the normal weekend - one key member of the team had a 40th birthday on that
weekend! The team consisted of Betty Waterson, Norma Sheridan, Bob and Herta
Wheeler, Michael & Sharon O'Brien, Simon Starr, Dave Coons and Chris
Coleborn. We broke up into sub teams to cover our 40km radius of Cohuna in
Nth Vic and had a great day of it. Fine weather, warm with a light breeze
made it a dream to be out and about.
This year we were able to tally up 163 species for the day. There were some
notable sightings, probably one of the best (mentioned by Simon in an
earlier quick report) was a breeding pair of PAINTED HONEYEATERS. (The young
fledged a couple of days ago). There were also some good raptors, such as
SPOTTED HARRIER, PEREGRINE & BLACK FALCONS, WHITE-BREASTED SEA-EAGLES,
LITTLE EAGLE, COLLARED SPARROWHAWK, BROWN GOSHAWK and others common to the
area. The number of BLACK-SHOULDERED KITES, which earlier this year were
here in good numbers, were few on count day. A good range of ducks were
observed, including BLUE BILLED, MUSK, PINK-EARED, AUST SHOVELER, HARDHEAD,
CHESTNUT TEAL etc. It was also pleasing to pick up a few GREAT CRESTED
GREBES in full breeding plumage, as well as the more common HOARY-HEADED AND
AUST GREBES. Quite a few of the GREY TEAL & BLACK DUCK were breeding. There
were a good range of waterbirds and waders seen too. GREAT & INTERMEDIATE
EGRETS in breeding plumage, SPOTTED & SPOTLESS CRAKES, a WOOD SANDPIPER, a
thousand or more SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPERS, a breeding pair of BROLGAS,
WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN, AUST BITTERNS and a good range of others were seen.
Good too to see the
GREY-CROWNED & CHESTNUT-CROWNED BABBLERS & BUSH-STONE CURLEWS hanging on in
the area. WHITE-BREASTED, WHITE-BROWED, MASKED AND BLACK FACED WOODSWALLOWS
are in the area, and breeding. It was also good to have some close up views
of WHITE-BACKED SWALLOWS. One bushbird that was a good sighting was a
FAN-TAILED CUCKOO. WHITE-BROWED SCRUBWRENS seem to becoming much more common
in the area - especially along the creeks, and also RED-BROWED FIRETAILS. We
enjoyed the specialties of the bushbirds of the areas such as SOUTHERN
WHITEFACE, HOODED, RED-CAPPED AND EASTERN YELLOW ROBINS. BLACK-CHINNED,
BROWN-HEADED & WHITE-FACED HONEYEATERS were enjoyable sightings as were
CRESTED SHRIKE-TITS, WESTERN GERYGONE & GILBERT'S WHISTLERS. A few
COCKATIELS & AUST RINGNECKS were among the parrots/lorikeets observed.While
numbers were clearly down,
we yet picked up RAINBOW BEE-EATERS and also DOLLARBIRDS. Azure Kingfishers
were seen and of the nightbirds, good views of breeding TAWNY FROGMOUTHS &
BOOBOOK OWLS were had.
As happens, just a day or two later, BANDED LAPWINGS and a REEVE were seen -
pity we could not add them to the list! They do indicate though that at
present, birding in Nth Victoria is very enjoyable if one is prepared to
travel around and check out the diverse habitats of the area.
A full list of the birds seen is attached below.
Hope all have a safe and happy holiday time.
Regards,
Chris Coleborn
SPECIES
Emu
Stubble Quail
Blue-billed Duck
Musk Duck
Freckled Duck
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Mallard
Pacific Black Duck
Australasian Shoveler
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Pink-eared Duck
Hardhead
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Australian Pelican
White-faced Heron
White-necked Heron
Little Egret
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Nankeen Night Heron
Australasian Bittern
Glossy Ibis
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Royal Spoonbill
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Black-shouldered Kite
Black Kite
Whistling Kite
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Spotted Harrier
Swamp Harrier
Brown Goshawk
Collared Sparrowhawk
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Little Eagle
Brown Falcon
Australian Hobby
Black Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Nankeen Kestrel
Brolga
Australian Spotted Crake
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Black-tailed Native-hen
Eurasian Coot
Little Button-quail
Painted Button-quail
Plains-wanderer
Latham's Snipe
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Wood Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Australian Painted Snipe
Bush Stone-curlew
Black-winged Stilt
Banded Stilt
Red-necked Avocet
Red-capped Plover
Black-fronted Dotterel
Red-kneed Dotterel
Banded Lapwing
Masked Lapwing
Australian Pratincole
Silver Gull
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Rock Dove
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove
Galah
Long-billed Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Cockatiel
Musk Lorikeet
Purple-crowned Lorikeet
Crimson (Yellow) Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Australian Ringneck
Red-rumped Parrot
Budgerigar
Pallid Cuckoo
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Black-eared Cuckoo
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
Southern Boobook
Barn Owl
Tawny Frogmouth
Azure Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Red-backed Kingfisher
Sacred Kingfisher
Rainbow Bee-eater
Dollarbird
White-throated Treecreeper
Brown Treecreeper
Superb Fairy-wren
White-winged Fairy-wren
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
White-browed Scrubwren
Weebill
Western Gerygone
Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
Buff-rumped Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Yellow Thornbill
Striated Thornbill
Southern Whiteface
Red Wattlebird
Noisy Friarbird
Little Friarbird
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Singing Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
Black-chinned Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater
Painted Honeyeater
White-fronted Honeyeater
Black Honeyeater
Pied Honeyeater
Orange Chat
White-fronted Chat
Jacky Winter
Red-capped Robin
Hooded Robin
Eastern Yellow Robin
Grey-crowned Babbler
White-browed Babbler
Chestnut-crowned Babbler
Varied Sitella
Crested Shrike-tit
Gilbert's Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Grey Shrike-thrush
Restless Flycatcher
Magpie-lark
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
White-winged Triller
Olive-backed Oriole
White-breasted Woodswallow
Masked Woodswallow
White-browed Woodswallow
Black-faced Woodswallow
Dusky Woodswallow
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Australian Raven
Little Raven
White-winged Chough
Singing Bushlark
Skylark
Australian (Richard's) Pipit
House Sparrow
Zebra Finch
Red-browed Finch
Diamond Firetail
European Goldfinch
Mistletoebird
White-backed Swallow
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
Fairy Martin
Clamorous Reed Warbler
Little Grassbird
Rufous Songlark
Brown Songlark
Golden-headed Cisticola
Silvereye
Common Blackbird
Common Starling
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