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Birdline Northern Territory
Published sightings for the week ending 4 Aug 2013.
| Sun 28 Jul
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Freckled Duck, Australasian Shoveler
Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds
Morning survey for the ASFNC quarterly wader count.
Freckled Duck (1) Single bird on EP10
Australasian Shoveler (8)
rhynchotis (8) 4 drakes and 4 females on EP10 and A5. An NT lifer for me.
Christopher Watson
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| Wed 24 Jul
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Australian Pelican
Alice Springs Waste Stabilisation Ponds
Very cold, early morning visit during water sampling.
Australian Pelican (1) Observed some very unusual behaviour. Bird was initially flushed from long grass ~40m from the water by the 'B' ponds. Also flushed from the same location were three Wedge-tailed Eagles. The pelican headed for the water, but 10 minutes later was back with the eagles. After watching what I thought was a pelican in a weakened state getting attacked by eagles, it turned out that the pelican was actually feeding on the scraps cast off from a freshly killed Black Swan by the feeding eagles.
Christopher Watson
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| Mon 22 Jul
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Freckled Duck
Mary Anne Dam, Tennant Creek
Single bird across the lake from the picnic area.
Chris Watson per Jesse Carpenter
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