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Birdline Australia
Published sightings for the week ending 24 Feb 2013.
| Thu 21 Feb
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Australian Swiftlet, Fork-tailed Swift, White-throated Needletail, Budgerigar
Toolakea, Townsville, Queensland
Mixed group of Australian Swiftlets (1000) Fork-tailed Swifts (500) and approx 4 White-throated Needletails heading north 8:00-8:45am
Budgerigar (50) A group of 30 and then 20 arrived from north settling in casaurina next to beach. 7.30am. Later split into two groups heading south.
Another group (or the same group?) seen at Saunders Beach (3 km SE of Toolakea) later in morning (9:30am)
Joan Wharton (1757), Rosemary Payet
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| Mon 18 Feb
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Fiordland Crested Penguin
Tasman Island, Tasmania
On Monday 18th February 2013 at approximately 11.00am on the north-western rocky shore of Tasman Island (55G 581164m E 5212841m S), Fiona Hume observed a crested penguin roosting amongst the
Australian Fur Seals. Both she and I returned to the site 2 hours later to
verify identification and photograph. Photographs confirmed the penguin was an adult Fiordland Crested Penguin. On Tuesday 19th February the penguin was not present. Thanks to Dr Sally Bryant for confirming our identification.
Fiona Hume and Liz Znidersic
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| Sun 17 Feb
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Cooks, Goulds, Mottled, White-headed and Soft-plumaged Petrel
Eaglehawk Neck Pelagic, Tasmania
Good numbers of petrels amongst the 25 species recorded on the recent pelagic trip. Highlights included 3 Cooks Petrels, 30 Gould's Petrels, 18 Mottled Petrels, 1 Soft-plumaged Petrel and 5 White-headed Petrels. Other species included Great-winged and White-chinned Petrel, Shy, Yellow-nosed, Black-browed, Bullers and Wandering Albatross and Grey-backed, Wilsons and White-faced Storm-Petrels.
Rohan Clarke and 11 other observers
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