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Birdline Western Australia
Published sightings for the week ending 21 Aug 2011.
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Arctic Tern
Hillarys Boat Harbour, Western Australia
Arctic Tern (1) Sheltering together with Crested Tern on north eastern side of harbour close to boat launching area. Has been reported in the area over the past two weeks and is quite approachable.
Bruce Wedderburn
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| Sun 14 Aug
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Hutton's Shearwater (10,500)
Bunker Bay, Busselton, Western Australia
3 hour seawatch from Bunker Bay in Busselton: Hutton's Shearwater (10,500+), Fluttering Shearwater (2+), Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (10+), Northern Giant Petrel (2), Soft-plumaged Petrel (2), Great-winged Petrel (10+), Pacific Gull (2) and
Eastern Reef Egret (1)
Per Mark Newman, John Graff & Alan Collins
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Laughing Kookaburra
YC yard, Point Peron Rd, Rockingham Beach, Western Australia
It was just dark so didn't expect to see any birds until I heard its call (not laughing) - only 10m away on a boat mast spreader; First Kookaburra I've seen in well over 2 months here.
Snez Plunkett
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| Wed 10 Aug
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Common Sandpiper
Collie River estuary near Bunbury, Western Australia
One bird seen several times; agitated, frequently flusing from tree roots on the river edge near the entrance to the sea.
Lawrie Conole
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| Sun 7 Aug
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Australian Painted Snipe (1)
McNeill Claypan (Carnarvon), Western Australia
Per Les George
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| Sun 31 Jul
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Hutton's Shearwater (100+)
Bunker Bay, Western Australia
3.5 hour seawatch from Bunker Bay near Busselton: Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (15+), Shy Albatross (1), Northern Giant-Petrel (1), Giant-Petrel sp (12), Great-winged Petrel (60+) and Hutton's Shearwater (100+)
Per John Graff
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| Fri 15 Jul
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Dusky Honeyeater
Ngunda Creek at 15 5 50S 127 36 23E, Western Australia
Even if the recent records around Kununurra are accepted this would represent another significant range extension. The Dusky Honeyeater was flitting about the grevillea and eucalypt competing with the other honeyeaters, so Brown and White-gaped were close by for comparison. These sightings need to be considered in the light of around 1000 hrs bushwalking and birding in the East Kimberley over 13 years. After my 1st sighting in about 2006 in the Carr Boyd Range, I have been fully aware of the controversial nature of the record/s. Sadly I was walking on my own and got no picture of the bird.
Clive Curson
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| Thu 16 Jun
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Little Egret (dark morph)
Parry's Lagoon via Wyndham, Western Australia
The bird was pure white everywhere except on back and wings, which were "cuckoo-shrike" grey.
This variable dark colour morph is known from Asia, (illustrated in the 2005 edition of Viney, Phillipps & Ying, Birds of Hong Kong & Southern China), and was also reported and photographed at Coombabah Swamp on the Gold Coast on 11 August.
Rob Gully
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