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Eremaea Birdlines
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Interesting and unusual bird observations
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Birdline
Tasmania
Birdline Tasmania 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.
|  | Highlight |
July 2017
| Sun 9 | | Pink-eared Duck
Bonnington farm, Barilla (restricted access) |
| 5 Pink-eared Ducks on the dam. Photographed by Els Wakefield. |
| Nicole Sommer and Els Wakefield 9/7 #231321 |
| Sat 8 | | Royal Spoonbill
Penna Settling Ponds (restricted access) |
| Three Royal Spoonbill flew in to the main settling pond approx 3pm. Also of interest were 3 Black-faced Cuckooshrike along the Shark Point Rd shelter belt. |
| Nicole Sommer 9/7 #231317 |
June 2017
| Fri 30 | | Black-faced Cuckooshrike
Sulphur Creek |
| Four birds seen hawking above coastal wattle behind the beach. eBird checklist |
| Frank Wilson 30/6 #231256 |
| Tue 27 | | Grey Goshawk (white morph)
Tamar Island Wetlands |
| Single bird perched in a tree by the road opposite to the wetlands entrance. eBird checklist |
| Geoff Bromfield 27/6 #231240 |
| Sun 25 | | Wedge-tailed Eagle
Legana, on Bridgnorth Rd |
| 2 birds circling quite low over houses in the early afternoon. eBird checklist |
| Geoff Bromfield 25/6 #231220 |
| Sat 24 | | Banded Lapwing
Bass Highway, approx 1km north of Ashgrove Cheese |
| Birds noted in roadside paddock on the way to an afternoon meeting in Deloraine. On the way home, relocated the flock and stopped - approx 1 km north of Ahsgrove Cheese, and 500m south of Kimberley turnoff. In a corner of a paddock to the east of the highway were 11 Banded Lapwings and 2 Masked Lapwings (lots of Masked Lapwings in other paddocks). eBird checklist |
| John and Shirley Tongue 24/6 #231212 |
| Thu 22 | | Royal Spoonbill
Tamar Island Wetlands |
| 7 birds on the second southern lagoon. eBird checklist |
| Geoff Bromfield 22/6 #231205 |
| 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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