Birdline North Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline North Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 13 May 2012.

Sat 12 May	Southern Cassowary Wallaman Falls 15 minutes with calm male along track and into forest about 10km from the falls. Tony Ashton
Fri 11 May	Pink-eared Duck Pentland 10' Cell A pair on the Town Dam. Margaret Merrill per Ivor Preston
	Pink-eared Duck Hughenden - Winton Road, 94km south of Hughenden Lone bird on a small roadside Dam (Vellum pastoral station) with lone Hardhead (F) and 3 Australasian Grebe. Also where Flock Pigeons came in to drink - same place for report on 04 May 2012. Ivor Preston & Karen Doyle
Wed 9 May	Mangrove Robin Mangroves near end of Orient Station Road Pair of active, noisy robins sharing small stretch of mangrove close to coastal tree belt and scrub with Shining Flycatchers, Little Kingfishers, honeyeaters, incl. Yellow with two near full fledge nestlings and a Collared Kingfisher. Tony Ashton
Mon 7 May	Black-shouldered Kite Bushland Beach Solitary Black-shouldered Kite flying low along edge of North Shore Boulevard, about half way between Bushland Beach and North Shore at 8.30 am. Unusual to see here. At Bushland Beach mangroves recorded Mangrove Robin (2) and Mangrove Gerygone. Peter Valentine
Sun 6 May	Australian Pratincole Orient Station, Ingham Australian Pratincole (7) Took flight as a White-bellied Sea-Eagle cruised through. They returned to ground at western waters edge of main lagoon. Have been seen in this area in previous years. Distant proof photographs were taken. BirdLife Townsville (per Len & Chris Ezzy)
Sat 5 May	Spotted Nightjar Abergowrie 10' Cell One Spotted Nightjar (deceased - very fresh road-kill) found beside the Ingham-Abergowrie Road 6.5km east of the Abergowrie State School. This species hasn't been recorded previously in the Hinchinbrook Shire (Ingham Region). Bill Holmes (et al - Birdlife Townsville) per Len Ezzy
Fri 27 Apr	Southern Cassowary Mount Lewis Southern Cassowary (1) 1x adult bird seen walking the vehicular track 1.0km up from bridge over Bushy Creek. This species is known resident here, but because of extremely difficult access to areas other than buffering the main vehicular track, it is not often recorded. Len & Chris Ezzy

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