The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, January 27, 2014 to Sunday, February 2, 2014:
Area: SA
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2014
Location: Murray's Lagoon, Kangaroo Island
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) (4) mud, shallows, dead timber, alongside
dense forest of live, flooded paperbarks, SE extremity of massive expanse of
floodwater, c 1 km from usual shoreline of lagoon proper.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) (332) impressive concentration of
birds feeding on drying mud and shallows with copious covering of waterlogged
(dead) Orthrosanthus (Native Iris) tussocks, SE extremity of massive expanse of
floodwater, c 1 km from usual shoreline of lagoon proper. Flock of about 30
feeding on muddy shores of NW sector
Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) (5) Mostly along flooded E sector; one at
W end.
Red-kneed Dotterel (Erythrogonys cinctus) (34) 28 adults; 6 immature-made up of
three broods x 2. Mostly in mud and shallows of SE sector; also 6 in NE sector;
several at W end. Incredible increase in this species on brackish paperbark
wetlands over past 10+ years!
Australian Spotted Crake (Porzana fluminea) (11) 9 adults and 2 small chicks
observed in shallows beneath dense fringing paperbarks; others heard. Low
density numbers widespread around entire shoreline.
Black-tailed Native-hen (Gallinula ventralis) (100s) feeding around edge of
floodwaters, running into flooded paperbarks for refuge, fledged young present.
Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) (3) flushed from flooded paperbarks;
possibly others present, hidden away in vast epanse of flooded paperbark
forests.
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) (1) immature female accidentally flushed
from dying immature Black-tailed Native Hen quarry; flew around in circles
above injured bird lying in shallows.
Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans) (3) three uniformly dark immature birds
flushed from roost in SE sector, flew around overhead.
Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) (100+) c 50:50 ratio of bright breeding
plumaged males and females, deep open water of W sector.
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Thursday, January 30, 2014
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Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014
Location: Aldinga Scrub CP
Crested Shrike-tit (Falcunculus frontatus) (3) Feeding actively near gate 2 on
Cox Road
White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) (1) South of Boomerang Track
Elegant Parrot (Neophema elegans) (15+) Many birds in the section of the park
north of Cox Road
Dusky Woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus) (20+) Many adults and young in the same
area
Reported by: Kevin Stracey on Sunday, February 2, 2014
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Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014
Location: Onkaparinga River RP
Crested Shrike-tit (Falcunculus frontatus) (2) 1 bird near the ponds west of
the old railway bridge; 1 bird near the east bank of the river 400m north of
the same bridge.
Golden-headed Cisticola (Cisticola exilis) (1) In the newly growing reeds on
the river bank near the car park (but none seen from the boardwalk)
Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) (2) Flushed while crossing the boardwalk
Reported by: Kevin Stracey on Sunday, February 2, 2014
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