Birdline North Queensland
Published sightings for the week ending 20 Jun 2010.
Sun 20 Jun Orange-footed Scrubfowl Townsville Town Common
Conservation Park
(1). in drying lagoon bed off the service track passed Jacana hide.
Ed Pierce
Sat 12 Jun Painted Honeyeater White Mountains National Park
Near Telstra Tower on Flinders Highway, on the boundary of the Shires of
Dalrymple and Flinders, between Pentland and Torrens Creek.
Janet Robino and Barbara Reidy
Pictorella Mannikin Moorrinya National Park
Townsville Region Bird Observers Club (TRBOC) held their Queens Birthday
long week end campout at Moorrinya National Park (80km soth of the town
of Torrens Creek or about 110km SE of Hughenden). 11 Atlas surveys were
undertaken on the park over 3 days with Pictorella Mannikins being
recorded at 4 sites... generally in good numbers and generally in the
company of Plum-head Finches. After a good wet season, granivors in
general now have great choice of diet. We appear to be witnessing a
general extension of thier previously accepted distribution range?
(Access Note:- Recent regulated Access Restrictions have been applied to
most areas on Moorrinya NP.)
TRBOC (per Len Ezzy)
Sun 6 Jun Black-chinned Honeyeater Kelso, along the upper Bohle
River
On the 1st June three Black-chinned Honeyeaters were feeding in
eucalypts along the upper Bohle River in Kelso and then on the 6th a
single immature Black-chinned Honeyeater was seen (close to where the
original sighting was made). I checked my records and in 2007 and 2008,
in June each time, I recorded the species in the same location (between
my home and the river). I did not record them in June 2009 but that may
have been because I was not at home so much. All the birds were clearly
seen. I have only recorded them in Townsville during June.
Peter Valentine
Tue 1 Jun Spotted Whistling-Duck NW of Coen, Cape York
Spotted Whistling-Duck (2 + 10 ducklings) on lagoon on Coen River in
front of old Rokeby Homestead, 100km NW of Coen.
Mungkan Kanja BA survey group per John Seale
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