The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, May 18, 2015 to Sunday, May 24, 2015:
Area: SA
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Location: Port Clinton Yorke Peninsula
Barbary Dove (Streptopelia roseogrisea) (2) First time seen at this location
Gull-billed Tern (Sterna nilotica) (7) Resting on sand spit with Crested Tern.
Reported by: Winston Syson on Friday, May 22, 2015
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Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Location: Bold Hill Port Wakefield
Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) (5) Birds were feeding along with
good numbers of Red-capped Plover and Red-necked Stint.
Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) (18) In and close to the water line.
Great Egret (Casmerodius albus) (80) This very large group were resting close
into the mangroves.
Reported by: Winston Syson on Friday, May 22, 2015
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Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Location: Thompson Beach North
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) (30) Flock were feeding on the edge of a
shallow salt pan behind the shacks at the northern end of the beach.
Reported by: Winston Syson on Friday, May 22, 2015
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Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015
Location: Web Beach
Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) (90) Feeding in a shallow salt pan
behind the beach
Reported by: Winston Syson on Friday, May 22, 2015
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Date: Thursday, May 21, 2015
Location: Black Point Yorke Peninsula
Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) (8) Birds were resting in weed
along with 15 Red-capped Plover and 15 Red-necked Stint.
Reported by: Winston Syson on Friday, May 22, 2015
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Date: Saturday, May 23, 2015
Location: Magazine Rd Wetlands
Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) (1) Sharing with Pelican -
Photo attached
Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) (1) Sharing with Little Black
Cormorant - photo attached
Hoary-headed Grebe (Poliocephalus poliocephalus) (1) Many on all ponds - Photo
attached
Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) (1) Only saw one up in the reeds - Photo
attached
Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) (1) Mainly in the top pond in bird
hide area - Photo attached
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) (1) Four only in the distance in the top pond
- (poor) photo attached
Red-kneed Dotterel (Erythrogonys cinctus) (1) About a dozen mainly in the top
pond - Photo attached
Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) (1) Only saw 2 for the morning -
Photo attached
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) (1) Here and there along the wires - photo
attached
Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) (1) One in the distance hovering. It
captured something and flew to a nest, dropped it in and flew away. (poor)
photos attached
Reported by: Gordon Pateman on Sunday, May 24, 2015
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