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Port Stephens waterbirds survey results

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Subject: Port Stephens waterbirds survey results
From: "Stuart, Alan AD" <>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:46:26 +1100
Since 2004, Hunter BOC and NSW NPWS have combined to do a summer survey
of waterbirds in Port Stephens (NSW, ~50km N of Newcastle).  It is a
boat-based survey, with 6 teams going simultaneously to sub-sections of
Port Stephens at high tide.  The 2008 survey was done last Sunday, 10
February.  The weather on the Friday/Saturday was fairly horrible but on
Sunday the weather gods decided to smile on us; except for one of the
boats encountering a brief squall, the rest of us had acceptable weather
culminating in bright
sunshine.

The wader numbers were about the same as most of the previous years,
albeit
with some variations to the counts for individual species.  The numbers
for
other waterbirds were down by 400-500 from what we have become used to.
This mostly was due to the very low number of Black Swan compared to
previous years.

Actual numbers were:

Bar-tailed Godwit               886
Whimbrel                        261
Eastern Curlew          320
Common Greenshank               5
Terek S/P                       5
Grey-tailed Tattler     37
Ruddy Turnstone         5
Pied Oystercatcher      107
Sooty Oystercatcher     10
Red-capped Plover               10
Lesser Sand Plover      2
Masked Lapwing          46
Black Swan                      35
Pac Black Duck          8
Chestnut Teal           11
Little Pied Cormorant   99
Little Black Cormorant  39
Great Cormorant         15
Pied Cormorant          263
Aust. Pelican           132
White-faced Heron               14
Little Egret            1
Eastern Great Egret     6
Aust White Ibis         15
Aust Wood Duck          4
Darter                  2
Arctic Jaeger           1
Silver Gull                     234
Crested Tern            82
Common Tern                     1
Little Tern                     5
Nankeen Night Heron     4
Striated Heron          1

Apologies for any purists, that the list is not in true taxonomic order.
I
lent out my new Christidis & Boles on Sunday!

Alan Stuart



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