| Tue 27 | | White-backed Swallow
Near Avon |
| 3 White-backed Swallows flying with Welcome Swallows and Tree Martins. Uncommon on Adelaide Plains, and more so in winter. |
| Paul Taylor 27/6 #231241 |
| Sun 25 | | Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo
Nullarbor Roadhouse |
| 1 bird seen in saltbush adjacent to roadouse. |
| Arthur & Denise Carew 25/6 #231221 |
| Fri 23 |  | Australian Spotted Crake, Black-tailed Native-hen
Nullarbor Roadhouse |
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| 4 Crakes and 1 Native-hen at a pool of water from desal run off. |
| Arthur & Denise Carew 23/6 #231211 |
| | Major Mitchell Cockatoo
Gluepot Homestead |
| 30 Major Mitchell Cockatoos have been seen at the bird water point infront of the Visitors Centre several mornings in a row. The large numbers have been feeding on Casuarina seeds and on the ground for many days now. eBird checklist |
| Ian Kerr 23/6 #231209 |
| Tue 20 | | Banded Lapwing
South Hummocks |
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| A scattered flock of 20 lapwings in a paddock, the most I've seen in this area for over 20 years. |
| Paul Taylor 20/6 #231193 |
| Mon 19 | | Black Falcon
Maude |
| Perched on dead branch of sole tree in large sheep paddock eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 20/6 #231188 |
| Sun 18 | | Australian Bustard
Redhill |
| About 5km north, standing in cropping field beside Augusta Highway. |
| Lynda Pedersen 19/6 #231184 |
| Thu 15 | | Brown Songlark
5 km east of Balaklava |
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| 3 early arrival songlarks on roadside, acquiring breeding plumage but were shy and silent. |
| Paul Taylor 15/6 #231153 |
| Tue 13 | | Great and Little Egret
Bald Hill Beach |
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| About 210 Great Egrets and 10 Little Egrets scattered along the shoreline at low tide. |
| Paul Taylor 13/6 #231136 |
| Mon 12 | | Hooded Robin
5 km north of Balaklava |
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| 2 males and one female together in roadside mallee. Rarely seen around here now. |
| Paul Taylor 12/6 #231121 |
| Wed 7 | | Black-faced Cormorant
Outer Harbour Breakwater, North Haven |
| Well over 600 occupied nests were counted along the breakwater, mostly higher up, some perched right on top of boulders. Also, approximately 50 juveniles were observed. eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 7/6 #231096 |
| Tue 6 | | Gull-billed Tern
Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula |
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| 12 Gull-billed Terns in breeding, non-breeding and immature plumages roosting at high tide. |
| Paul Taylor 6/6 #231094 |
| Sun 4 | | Australasian Bittern
Tolderol Game Reserve |
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| Two adult birds seen while on a very early morning visit at the reserve. One bird was flushed from rank flooded grass alongside the main entrance track and another was seen flying over the wetlands towards the lake. Photograph on eBird eBird checklist |
| Eddy Smith 6/6 #231093 |
| | Intermediate Egret
Port Clinton, Yorke Peninsula |
| 3 Intermediate Egrets sighted along Port Clinton foreshore. At one point, Great Egret, Intermediate Egret and Little Egret were all visible from the same spot! |
| Richard Letheby & Marion Halliday 4/6 #231079 |
| Fri 2 | | Freckled Duck
Ephemeral lake 2km NW of Yorketown |
| Saw hundreds of ducks on private property wetland from Rabbit Corner Rd near Yorketown, Southern Yorke Peninsula. Freckled Ducks unusual for this part of Peninsula; other species included Pink-eared, Chestnut Teal, Grey Teal, Australian Shelduck, Pacific Black Duck, Australian Wood Duck. Also sighted Banded Lapwing at tail end of lake and on ploughed paddock opposite, and 1 x Eurasian Coot - also unusual for this area. |
| Richard Letheby & Marion Halliday 4/6 #231080 |
| | Horsfield's Bushlark
4 km east of Balaklava |
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| A flock of 15 bushlarks in high roadside grass. Can be difficult to find in winter. |
| Paul Taylor 2/6 #231061 |
| | Jacky Winter
5km east of Balaklava |
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| 3 Jacky Winters on roadside. Rarely seen here, and locally extinct in districts west of Balaklava. |
| Paul Taylor 2/6 #231060 |