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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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March 2019
| Fri 15 | | Straw-necked Ibis
Frewville |
| Big ruckus from the Sulphur-crested Cockatoos this morning. Went outside to find a flock fluttering high up, complaining raucously at a a soaring Straw-necked Ibis, which they presumably saw as a dangerous interloper (they're very uncommon on the Adelaide Plains, though singles have been seen in recent years). It gained height effortlessly and drifted off westwards. eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 15/3 #238015 |
| Thu 14 | | Spotted Crake, Gilbert's Whistler, Whiskered Tern
Morgan Conservation Park |
| Australian Spotted Crake calling from a freshly flooded patch of lignum - the pump gear was still on the edge of the lagoon! Good to see intelligent water management decisions supporting birdlife.
A male Gilbert's Whistler was feeding on the ground along a sandy track north of the road.
2 whiskered tern in breeding plumage feeding over the lagoon were the first record for this site on eBird. They may have been displaced by the draining of Ramco and Hart lagoons upstream. eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks, Simon Fahey-Sparks 15/3 #238018 |
| | Pacific Golden Plover
Bald Hill Beach |
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| One Pacific Golden Plover, the first I've seen at this location. |
| Paul Taylor 14/3 #238004 |
| Tue 12 | | Swamp Harrier
Red Cliff Port Augusta |
| Juvenile Swamp Harrier being harrassed by magpies flying easterly along Gulf near railway bridge. Thought it might be a migratory bird |
| gary wright 12/3 #237997 |
| | Rock Parrot
Arno Bay Boardwalk and Bird Hide |
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| Eight Rock Parrots feeding close to the boardwalk eBird checklist |
| Ron Sawyer 12/3 #237993 |
| Wed 6 | | Osprey
Cowell Estuary |
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| Osprey sighted sitting on a light pole near the boat ramp. It caught a fish in the pond near the ramp and returned later to the same pole. |
| Ron Sawyer 6/3 #236951 |
| Fri 1 | | Gull-billed Tern
Middle Beach |
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| Sighted at Middle Beach during a bird survey on 20 Jan and 23 February 2019.
Moderators note* This record represents one of the migratory birds from the South-east Asian race affinis. Typical features to identify this race are well represented here by the smaller bill and dark ear covert spot. Small numbers of these birds are starting to become more frequently recorded over summer in more recent years and can often be seen along side our resident Gull-billed Terns when a direct comparison can often be made |
| Mary-Ann van Trigt & Joe Dafoe 11/3 #237987 |
February 2019
| Sun 24 | | Bar-tailed Godwit
Thompsons Beach |
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| 65 Bar-tailed Godwits with many developing breeding plumage. |
| Paul Taylor 24/2 #236914 |
| 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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