The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, March 12, 2012 to Sunday, March 18, 2012:
Area: SA
Date: Sunday, March 4, 2012
Location: Black Point, YP
Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) (1) The last of the Pacific Golden
Plover to be seen here since 7 birds present on 13/01/2012.
Reported by: Margaret Tiller on Friday, March 16, 2012
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Date: Friday, March 9, 2012
Location: Onkaparinga Estuary a few hundred metres above the Footbridge
Eastern Reef Egret (Egretta sacra) (1) Dark morph, it has re appeared along
this stretch of the river as it has done for many years.
It also hunts along the Coastal reef systems and the tides were exceptional
(full moon)
Bird was mantled over the margins of the river in its typical hunting mode
Reported by: Anthony John Bainbridge on Monday, March 12, 2012
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Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Location: Thompsons Beach
Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) (1) Banded Stilts 2000
Red-capped Plover (Charadrius ruficapillus) (200) 200 red capped plovers seen
as the tide receded
Reported by: Kate Buckley on Monday, March 12, 2012
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Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012
Location: Black Point, Y.P.
Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) (8) The Double-banded Plover have
just arrived from NZ, & the 8 seen were still in various stages of their
breeding plumage, from almost full to non-breeding. The photo included shows a
quite brightly coloured bird. Seen at high tide at 1850hrs.
The trip report will be entered.
Reported by: Margaret Tiller on Friday, March 16, 2012
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Date: Monday, March 12, 2012
Location: Klemzig corner Thames Ave and Swan Ave
Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) (1) Longbilled Corellas 15 sitting
in Poplar Tree corner Thames Ave and Swan Ave being harassed by 3 Magpies.
Reported by: Kate Buckley on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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Date: Monday, March 12, 2012
Location: Klemzig corner Thames Ave and Swan Ave
Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) (1) Longbilled Corellas 15 sitting
in Poplar Tree corner Thames Ave and Swan Ave being harassed by 3 Magpies.
Reported by: Kate Buckley on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Location: Laratinga wetlands, Mt Barker
Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) (1) 1st pond
Australian Spotted Crake (Porzana fluminea) (4)
Baillon's Crake (Porzana pusilla) (1) 2nd pond
Intermediate Egret (Mesophoyx intermedia) (1) 1st pond
Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) (1) 1st pond
Reported by: Peter Waanders on Friday, March 16, 2012
More Information: More Information...
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Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Location: Thompson Beach
Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) (1) Approx 50 seen feeding in the shallows
and exposed sandflats at low tide (adjacent centre carpark). They were in small
groups of 4-6 up to 38 individuals, with 1-2 red knots per group. One bird in
the largest group carried 5 leg flags and one band! The right leg flags
indicated Hokkaido as a previous location. >50 were counted in a photograph of
half a flight of 2,500-3000 red knots heading inland, towards the end of the
day. The overnight roost was a claypan (recently partly filled with rainwater)
located 600m inland, SE of the South carpark. Counts of the roosting birds
indicated a total of 60-100 great knots.
At low tide banded stilts (>2000) appeared to monopolise the best feeding
grounds. There was a good selection of migratory plover species - greater (2)
and lesser (2) sand plovers, double-banded plovers (several) and a single grey
plover seen later, flying within a group of 150 bar-tailed godwits. 10 fairy
terns were scattered on the exposed tidal sandbars out from the center carpark.
Two were immature.
Reported by: Jeff Philcox on Sunday, March 18, 2012
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