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RFI: Port Hedland to Broome

To: Mark Stanley <>, birding aus <>
Subject: RFI: Port Hedland to Broome
From: Gary Wright <>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:12:38 +1030
Hi Mark

Mangrove Gerygone can be found in melaleuca areas on Dampier Peninsula for
example.    A pair of Barking Owls hangs around the town beach area where
they are building the water slide(might be finished by now.)

Gary

On 18 March 2010 00:50, Mark Stanley <> wrote:

> We are planning an Easter road trip from Port Hedland to Broome and back,
> stopping on the way up at the Sandfire RH and two nights at BBO. Has anyone
> who has made this trip at this time of year got any ideas on good places to
> stop enroute - eg:
> reasonable access to Eighty Mile Beach (especially the bit where the
> Eurasian Curlews and Nordmann's Greenshanks hang out);
> possible spots for any of the following:  Red-backed Buttonquail, Oriental
> Pratincole, Asian Dowitcher, Flock Bronzewing,  Rufous-crowned Emu-wren,
> Striated Grasswren, Orange Chat, Tawny Grassbird, Pictorella Mannikin,
> Mangrove Gerygone;
> nightbirds around Sandfire and Broome itself;
> Is the Semipalmated Plover still at the sewage ponds or the Little Stint?
>
> We've read Frank O'Connor's excellent write-up on Broome.
>
> Any advice would be useful. Feel free to answer off line.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark Stanley
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