The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, August 25, 2014 to Sunday, August 31, 2014:
Area: SA
Date: Friday, August 29, 2014
Location: Belair National Park
Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna) (1) Many of these very active in the
Park. Pictures attached.
Reported by: Gordon Pateman on Friday, August 29, 2014
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Date: Friday, August 29, 2014
Location: Kangaroo Island
Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) (300) single concentrated flock at Duck
Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, 26 August 2014; population had increased from 15 at
this locality in early August 2014 and 220 on 12 August 2014; birds were mostly
roosting on emergent fallen logs and branches throughout the day (logs and
branches were dead, grey coloured and served as a useful camourflaging medium
for resting birds); several males with trace of red at base of bill; ratio of
males to females about 50:50.
Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata) (2) Irregular visits to forage for
invertebrates in riverside lawn of a small inhabited cabin in deep forested
wilderness of Demole River East Branch, Kangaroo Island, August 2014.
Australasian Shoveler (Anas rhynchotis) (160) on floodwater swamps in paddocks
at E end of Rush Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, 24 August 2014; two large flocks
comprised bright breeding plumaged males and females at ratio of about 50:50.
Australian Hobby (Falco longipennis) (1) flew low along foreshore of Vivonne
Bay subdivision, Kangaroo Island, 10 August 2014.
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) (16) substantial gathering for this
locality; along with 2 x Pied Cormorants, resting on sandy shore of Eleanor
River mouth, Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island, 10 August 2014.
Red-browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis) (16) single flock feeding in short green
winter grass on flats at Duck Lagoon, Kangaroo island, 10 August 2014.
Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea) (100+) tight feeding flock on ground in
dis-used Emu Bay camp ground, digging up corms of Thread Iris (Gynandriris
setifolia) with bills (faces black with mud), Kangaroo island, 4 August 2014;
and again, similar number feeding with several Galahs, 24 August 2014.
Red-necked Avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae) (107) believed to be the
largest flock recorded on Kangaroo Island; swimming (feeding) with Banded
Stilts on saline Wisanger Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, 14 August 2014.
Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) (c1000) swimming (feeding) with
red-necked Avocets, widely dispersed across saline Wisanger Lagoon, Kangaroo
Island, 14 August 2014
Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) (6) feeding (and vocal) in
flowering ornamental eucalypts at KI Wildlife Park (c 2km W of Parndana),
Kangaroo Island, 25 August 2014; this species has suffered from large-scale
clearance of stringybark/Banksia scrub across the central plateau for Soldier
Settlement farming, mostly between 1948-60; occurs in small patchy pockets
nowadays and a small population is known to exist in roadside
stringbark/banksia scrub alongside Playford Highway just W of the wildlife park.
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Friday, August 29, 2014
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Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014
Location: Belair National Park Playford Lake
Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) (3) little black cormorant
Reported by: Heather Connolly on Sunday, August 31, 2014
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