A survey today on Wavebreak sand bank island in the Gold Coast Broadwater saw 4
Short-tailed Shearwaters (plus one dead on the eastern side).
The bird photographed was in the shallows about a metre from the shoreline.
http://flic.kr/ps/2DsWZG
I have never seen Shearwaters in the Broadwater, but others may have done so?
The survey, organised by Bob Westerman, also found 51 Eastern Curlews, numbers
of Whimbrels, Bar-tailed Godwits, Pied Stilts, Crested, Common and Little
Terns, Pelicans, a Little Black Cormorant, Gull-billed and Caspian Tern.
It was a terrific sight to see some of the 64 Little Terns bathing in the
shallows as the tide came in.
The 1.6m high tide meant the roost was very crowded as vines are now covering
many of the sand banks and restricting roosting areas.
Judy Leitch
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