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Eremaea Birdlines
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Interesting and unusual bird observations
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Birdline
South Australia
Birdline South Australia is a site for the reporting of rare or unusual birds outside their normal range, unusually high or low numbers, early or late arrivals or departures for migrant species and interesting behaviour or unusual habitat usage.
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Recent Sightings
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Reports published in the past 30 hours.
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May 2020
| Sat 16 | | Marsh Sandpiper
Mulgundawa (Lake Alexandrina) |
| Marsh Sandpiper in non-breeding plumage seen on a flooded salt pan along Brinkley Road. Presumably overwintering. eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 17/5 #256970 |
| Fri 15 | | Red Knot
Bald Hill Beach |
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| About 160 Red Knots, many with partial or in full breeding plumage. Also here were 14 Bar-tailed Godwits, 7 Grey Plovers and about 90 Great Egrets. |
| Paul Taylor 15/5 #256955 |
| Fri 1 | | Short-tailed Shearwater
West Beach, Adelaide |
| Short-tailed Shearwater again streaming south close in to the shore, with a few swimming among the waves, too. Winds had turned to the south today and I could clearly see another stream of birds much further out flying north, so there was some kind of circling back happening, though not within my telescope's range. Hard to estimate the number of birds involved as it would depend on how far south they were flying before looping round but reckon I saw a good 700-800.(Moderator's note: comments from other observers reported thousands along metropolitan beaches today). eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 1/5 #256858 |
| | Australasian Gannet
Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula |
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| 9 Gannets feeding offshore. Uncommon in northern Gulf St. Vincent. |
| Paul Taylor 1/5 #256852 |
April 2020
| Thu 30 | | Short-tailed Shearwater
West Beach, Adelaide |
| With the stiff south-westerly onshore winds continuing today, a steady stream of Short-tailed Shearwater was passing south close to the shore this afternoon. The average of three spaced sample counts I did produced around 40 passing per minute, therefore about 2500 per hour and a conservative estimate of 3,000 for the 90 minutes I was watching. I saw no evidence of birds doubling back and recycling, though this might have been happening much further out in the Gulf. They were still coming unabated when I left! Hopefully, they have been observed at other points along the coast. eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 30/4 #256847 |
| Tue 28 | | Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Gumeracha (Park & Oval) |
| 60-70 birds in loose flock exploring the large Redgum and Casuarina trees along the River Torrens.They were present for about 10-15mins. before heading off in a north-easterly direction towards Forreston & Birdwood. |
| David Hartland 29/4 #256833 |
| | White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Bald Hill Beach |
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| One juvenile flying along the beach. Also here (overwintering) were 14 Bar-tailed Godwits (all subspecies baueri) and 2 Red Knots. |
| Paul Taylor 28/4 #256829 |
| Mon 27 | | Dusky Woodswallow
Frewville |
| 6 Dusky Woodswallow hawking for insects over the suburb on this warm afternoon. Not often seen over the greater Adelaide area. eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 27/4 #256823 |
| Outside normal range |
| Early arrival; late departure |
| Interesting behaviour |
| Threatened |
| Hard to see |
| Unusual habitat |
| Uncommon in area |
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| Rare |
| Endangered |
| Vagrant |
| Irruption |
| Unusual numbers |
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