Highlights from our trip to Northern QLD, 3rd to 16th October, 2010:
Sun, 10/03 Cairnsarea to Davies & Tinaroo/Emerald Creek
Mon, 10/04 Davies Creek to Artemis/Musgrave Station
Tue, 10/05 Artemis/Musgrave Stationto IronRange
Wed, 10/06 IronRange
Thu, 10/07 IronRange
Fri, 10/08 Iron Range
Sat, 10/09 IronRangeto Lakefield NP
Sun, 10/10 Lakefield NP
Mon, 10/11 Lakefield NP to Shipton’s Flat
Tue, 10/12 Shipton’s Flat
Wed, 10/13 Shipton’s Flat via Daintree to Kingfisher
Thu, 10/14 Kingfisher to EttyBeach
Fri, 10/15 Etty Beach through Atherton Tablelands to Cairns, then to
Davies/Tinaroo Creek
Sat, 10/16 Davies/Tinaroo Creek to Cairns
Observers: Nikolas Haass & Raja Stephenson (Sydney), Steve Kacir (Philadelphia,
USA), Chris Engelhardt & Andrea Grzywatz (Luebeck, Germany), Martin Cachard
(Cairns - Sun, 10/03, Sat/Sun, 10/09-10, Fri/Sat, 10/15-16)
Birds (252 species this trip including the IronRangespecialties [resulting in
our personal total of 316 for the Wet Tropics/Cape York]):
Southern Cassowary (Etty Beach) - one of the top targets for our friends!
All Frogmouths
Black-breasted Buzzard (Lakefield NP)
Red Goshawk (Lakefield NP) – one of our top targets!
Displaying Sarus Cranes (Lakefield NP and Emerald Creek Road)
Calling Red-necked Crakes (Kingfisher Park)
Beach Stone-Curlew (Chilli Beach and Etty Beach)
Little Curlew (Lockhart River Airport) – great “bonus”!
Painted Buttonquail (Davies Creek Road)
Marshall’s Double-eyed Fig-Parrot (Portland Roads) – my best-ever looks at this
taxon!
Golden-shouldered Parrot (Artemis/Musgrave) – one of our top targets!
Rufous Owl (Cairns) – one of our top targets, only heard
Little Kingfisher (Davies Creek) – high elevation!
Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Cook’s hut and Chilli Beach) – good looks!
White-gaped, Yellow-tinted, Bar-breasted, Rufous-banded, Banded and
White-streaked HEs
Black-backed Butcherbird (Artemis/Musgrave) – one of our top targets!
Zitting Cisticola (Lakefield NP)
Black-throated Finch atropygialis (Lakefield NP)
Masked Finch leucotis (Lakefield NP) – only suboptimal looks
Star Finch (Lakefield NP)
Mammals (22 species this trip [resulting in our personal total of 46 for the
Wet
Tropics/Cape York]):
Platypus (Kingfisher Park and Tarzali Lakes) - one of the top targets for our
friends!
Northern Quoll (Davies Creek) – one of our top targets, only suboptimal looks
Common Spotted Cuscus (Cook’s hut) – one of our top targets!
Northern Bettong (Davies Creek) – one of our top targets!
Bennett’s Tree-Kangaroo (Shipton’s Flat) – one of our top targets!
Northern Nail-tail Wallaby (Lakefield NP) – one of our top targets!
Reptiles (25 species this trip [resulting in our personal total of 43 for the
Wet Tropics/Cape York]):
Freshwater Crocodile (Musgrave Station) - one of the top targets for our
friends!
Frilled Lizard (Lakefield NP) - one of the top targets for our friends!
Spotted Python (Iron Range)
Black-headed Python (Iron Range and Lakefield)
Water Python (Iron Range)
Amethystine Python (Shipton’s Flat)
[this time we dipped on Green Python, after we had good numbers last summer]
Brown-headed Snake (Iron Range)
King Brown Snake (Iron Range)
Amphibians (10 species this trip [resulting in our personal total of 18 for the
Wet Tropics/Cape York]):
Litoria bicolor, gracilenta, xanthomera and others
Mixophyes coggeri
Rana daemeli
Cheers,
Nikolas
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Nikolas Haass
Sydney, NSW
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