The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, March 17, 2014 to Sunday, March 23, 2014:
Area: SA
Date: Sunday, March 16, 2014
Location: Newland Head CP Waitpinga end.
Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang) (3) 2 Male and 1 Female sighted on a Fleurieu
bird outing. Track leading up from the camp ground.
Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) (1) Single bird sighted on
same track as Robins.
Reported by: Winston Syson on Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Location: Basham's Beach Port Elliot
Sanderling (Calidris alba) (7) Birds were running in and out of the sea with
the tide.
Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus) (2) Tide was out and birds were
feeding in the we tsand and weed.
Reported by: Winston Syson on Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Location: Goolwa
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) (100) As a second to Win Sysons report,
2nd pull in below barrage at least 100 Curlew Sandpiper present, birds flew in
from south.
Between 08.00 -11.00 hrs at least 500 Red necked Stint counted from kayak out
in Goolwa Channel quite a number colouring up.
Reported by: William Brooker on Friday, March 21, 2014
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Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Location: The barrage Goolwa
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) (40) Birds were feeding on a in coming
tide, second pull in behind the Barrage
Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) (6) Birds were feeding with Curlew Sandpipers
Red Knot (Calidris canutus) (4) Again birds were feeding with the other
mentioned waders. Other waders present Sharp-tailed Sandpiper,Red-necked
Stint,Greenshank and one only Marsh Sandpiper.
Reported by: Winston Syson on Thursday, March 20, 2014
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Date: Friday, March 21, 2014
Location: Thompson Beach
Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus) (3) Beautiful
Reported by: Kate Buckley on Friday, March 21, 2014
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Date: Friday, March 21, 2014
Location: Kangaroo Island
Hooded Plover (Thinornis rubricollis) (10) 6 adults and 4 grey-headed immatures
formed single flock of 10; roosting amongst rocky boulders, Stokes Bay rocky
beach, 26 Feb 2014.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) (c.100) feeding in mud and
shallows, overflow ponds at flooded Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March 2014.
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) (1) adult male flying over farmland, N side
of Murrays Lagoon, KI, 1 March 2014.
Eastern Reef Egret (Egretta sacra) (1) roosting in boulders, Stokes Bay, KI, 16
March 2014.
Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) (70) feeding in shallows, S end of
Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March 2014.
Red-necked Avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae) (6) feeding in shallows with
70 Banded Stilt, S end of Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March 2014.
Australasian Shoveler (Anas rhynchotis) (40) brackish Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March
2014; comprised 20 pairs; males still showing bright breeding plumage.
Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) (100) feed and camp on farmland
pasture at S end of Rush Lagoon, KI, 1 March 2014.
Little Grassbird (Megalurus gramineus) (2+) calling and skulking about in dense
fringing swamp paperbarks, Rush lagoon, KI, 1 March 2014.
Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) (10) plunge diving into sea to feed on
fish debris left by frenzied feeding activity of Southern Bluefin Tuna, Cape du
Couedic, KI, 20 March 2014.
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Friday, March 21, 2014
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Date: Friday, March 21, 2014
Location: Kangaroo Island
Painted Button-quail (Turnix varius) (1) male crossing Playford Highway,
Kohinoor Hill, KI, 17 March 14; Peppermint Mallee/Narrow-Leaf Mallee/Drooping
Sheoak; c. 20 km W of Kingscote.
Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus) (1) flying over farmland and brackish
paperbark swamp, Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March 2014; rare vagrant on KI; Jane
Renwick, Pip Masters, Chris Baxter.
Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) (2) perched in coastal mallee at
Muston, W shore of Pelican Lagoon, KI; 16 March 2014; only site for regular
observation of this species on KI; low tide exposes tidal mud flats as foraging
habitat.
Hooded Plover (Thinornis rubricollis) (17) on full length of c. 4 km long
Vivonne Bay beach/es; KI, 16 March 2014; comprised 1 adult; adult pair; 11
adults and 3 grey-headed immatures formed single flock of 14; appears that
Vivonne Bay only fledged 2 or 3 young this year.
Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) (1) with c. 60 Red-necked Stints on
edge of shallow overflow pond at S end of Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March 2014; Rush
Lagoon is a brackish paperbark swamp, currently chock full of water courtesy of
mega-floodwaters in winter of 2013; Pip Masters, Jane Renwick, Chris Baxter.
Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) (1) disturbed from daytime refuge on
edge of clearing in Sugar Gum/Drooping Sheoak woodland, Lathami CP, KI, 15
March 2014.
Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) (c.200) similar ratio of females to
breeding plumage males, Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March 2014.
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (1) resting on rocky boulder, rocky
breakwater, Stokes Bay, KI, 1 March 2014.
Hoary-headed Grebe (Poliocephalus poliocephalus) (c.100) adults with several
clutches of young, brackish Rush Lagoon, KI, 12 March 2014
Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) (7) 5 on freshwater Kaiwarra Swamp, Seal
Bay turn-off, KI, 1 March 2014
2 on brackish Rush Lagoon, KI, 1 March 2014
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Friday, March 21, 2014
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Date: Saturday, March 22, 2014
Location: Clayton Bay
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) (10) Approx. 10 Wood Sandpipers in pool
adjacent to Alexandrina Drive. Water level in pool low, with several meters of
mud exposed around shore line. Other waders present, 6 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper,
2 Red-necked Stint, 1 Common Greenshank, 2 Masked Lapwing and 25 Black-winged
Stilt.
Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) (2) Same location as above. In
all a total of 18 species of birds were recorded at the pool.
Reported by: Bob and Maureen Snell on Saturday, March 22, 2014
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