Birdline North Queensland
Published sightings for the week ending 7 Sep 2014.
Thu 4 Sep Channel-billed Cuckoo Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers Lodge
1st return for the season.
Keith Fisher
Common Koel Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers Lodge
1st return for the season.
Keith Fisher
Common Koel Coquette Point
Saw one male Common Koel feeding in a strangler fig. First sighting for
the season no sign of female and have not heard any calls.
Yvonne Cunningham
Mon 1 Sep Cicadabird Coquette Point, Innisfail
Solitary male Cicadabird bird seen feeding in littoral forest behind
the dunes. Following cyclones Larry and Yasi the Cicadabird population
of the the lowland coastal Wet Tropics Rainforest virtually
disappeared. Earlier this year I photographed a female and now to see a
male gives me some hope that this population is recovering.
Yvonne Cunningham
Common Sandpiper Coquette Point, Innisfail
Six Common Sandpiper were feeding over a wide area on the beach. This
is the first sighting of these birds for this season.
Yvonne Cunningham
Sun 31 Aug Southern Cassowary Coquette Point
Matriarch Southern Cassowary called Jessie, first confirmed sighting
for over a month.
Yvonne Cunningham
Pied Oystercatcher Coquette Point
Observed and photographed two birds mating twice and at different areas
on same morning.
Yvonne Cunningham
Fri 29 Aug Red-footed Booby, Roseate Tern Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier
Reef
Apologies for late post. At least four Red-footed Booby with around 35
Brown Booby on helicopter platform as we arrived at the site, as well
as several Black-naped Tern, 40-odd Sooty Tern and around 150 Common
Noddy. All birds dispersed as helicopter arrived, and I observed
Roseate Tern fly past thereafter. Noted largely red bills, very long
white tail streamers and dark upperside to outer primaries with no dark
trailing edge on underwing.
Steve Davidson
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