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Download the Bird List Bird list for PAIWALLA WETLANDS -35.03468 °N 139.37202 °E 35°02’05” S 139°22’19” E 54 351500 6121900 or new birdssa.asn.au ……………. …………….. …………… …………….. … …......... ……… Observers: ………………………………………………………………….. Phone: (H) ……………………………… (M) ………………………………… ..………………………………………………………………………………. Email: …………..…………………………………………………… Date: ……..…………………………. Start Time: ……………………… End Time: ……………………… Codes (leave blank for Present) D = Dead H = Heard O = Overhead B = Breeding B1 = Mating B2 = Nest Building B3 = Nest with eggs B4 = Nest with chicks B5 = Dependent fledglings B6 = Bird on nest NON-PASSERINES S S A W Code No. NON-PASSERINES S S A W Code No. NON-PASSERINES S S A W Code No. Red-necked Avocet Black Falcon Spur-winged Plover (Masked Lapwing) Rainbow Bee-eater Brown Falcon Australasian Bittern Peregrine Falcon Australian Pratincole Black-backed Bittern Galah Brown Quail Eastern Bluebonnet Black-tailed Godwit Stubble Quail Australian Boobook Cape Barren Goose Buff-banded Rail Brush Bronzewing Brown Goshawk Lewin's Rail Common Bronzewing Australasian Grebe Mallee Ringneck (Australian Ringneck) Budgerigar Great Crested Grebe Cockatiel Hoary-headed Grebe Adelaide Rosella (Crimson Rosella) Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Common Greenshank Eurasian Coot Silver Gull Common Sandpiper Little Corella Hardhead Curlew Sandpiper Great Cormorant Spotted Harrier Marsh Sandpiper Little Black Cormorant Swamp Harrier Pectoral Sandpiper Little Pied Cormorant Nankeen Night Heron Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Pied Cormorant White-faced Heron Wood Sandpiper Australian Crake White-necked Heron Australian Shelduck Baillon's Crake Australian Hobby Australasian Shoveler Spotless Crake Australian White Ibis Latham's Snipe Fan-tailed Cuckoo Glossy Ibis Collared Sparrowhawk Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo Straw-necked Ibis Royal Spoonbill Pallid Cuckoo Nankeen Kestrel Yellow-billed Spoonbill Australasian Darter Red-backed Kingfisher Banded Stilt Black-fronted Dotterel Sacred Kingfisher Pied Stilt Double-banded Dotterel Black Kite Red-necked Stint Red-kneed Dotterel Black-shouldered Kite Australasian Swamphen Diamond Dove Whistling Kite Black Swan Peaceful Dove Laughing Kookaburra Pacific Swift *Spotted Dove Banded Lapwing Chestnut Teal Blue-billed Duck Purple-crowned Lorikeet Grey Teal Freckled Duck Rainbow Lorikeet Caspian Tern Maned Duck Dusky Moorhen Fairy Tern Musk Duck Black-tailed Nativehen Australian Tern Pacific Black Duck Spotted Nightjar Greater Crested Tern Pacific Black Duck x *Mallard Eastern Barn Owl Whiskered Tern Pink-eared Duck Australian Owlet-nightjar Plumed Whistling Duck Elegant Parrot Little Eagle Mulga Parrot Wedge-tailed Eagle Red-rumped Parrot White-bellied Sea Eagle Australian Pelican Cattle Egret Crested Pigeon Great Egret *Feral Pigeon Intermediate Egret Double-banded Plover Little Egret Red-capped Plover If Species in BOLD are seen a “Rare Bird Record Report” should be submitted. SEASONS – Spring: September, October, November; Summer: December, January, February; Autumn: March, April May; Winter: June, July, August IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ONLY BIRDS SEEN WITHIN THE RESERVE ARE RECORDED ON THIS LIST. IF YOU SEE BIRDS OUTSIDE THE RESERVE PLEASE MARK ACCORDINGLY OR PREFERABLY USE A SEPARATE LIST. Please return this sheet on completion to Birds SA Database Co-ordinator (Brian Blaylock) for inclusion in the database. Email to: [email protected] or post to: Birds SA Database, Birds SA c/- SA Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Revised: 21 June 2021 123 + 61 Bird list for PAIWALLA WETLANDS -35.03468 °N 139.37202 °E 35°02’05” S 139°22’19” E 54 351500 6121900 or new birdssa.asn.au ……………. …………….. …………… …………….. … …......... ……… Observers: ………………………………………………………………….. Phone: (H) ……………………………… (M) ………………………………… ..………………………………………………………………………………. Email: …………..…………………………………………………… Date: ……..…………………………. Start Time: ……………………… End Time: ……………………… Codes (leave blank for Present) D = Dead H = Heard O = Overhead B = Breeding B1 = Mating B2 = Nest Building B3 = Nest with eggs B4 = Nest with chicks B5 = Dependent fledglings B6 = Bird on nest PASSERINES S S A W Code No. PASSERINES S S A W Code No. PASSERINES S S A W Code No. White-browed Babbler Welcome Swallow Common Blackbird White-backed Swallow Grey Butcherbird Brown Thornbill Pied Butcherbird Yellow Thornbill White-fronted Chat Yellow-rumped Thornbill Golden-headed Cisticola Brown Treecreeper Black-faced Cuckooshrike White-winged Triller Black-winged Currawong Willie Wagtail (Grey Currawong) Australian Reed Warbler Purple-backed Fairywren Little Wattlebird Superb Fairywren Red Wattlebird Grey Fantail Weebill Zebra Finch Western Whistler Restless Flycatcher Rufous Whistler *European Goldfinch Jacky Winter Little Grassbird Black-faced Woodswallow Brown-headed Honeyeater Dusky Woodswallow New-Holland Honeyeater White-browed Woodswallow Singing Honeyeater Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater White-plumed Honeyeater Horsfield's Bush Lark Australian Magpie Magpielark Fairy Martin Tree Martin Noisy Miner Mistletoebird Spotted Pardalote Striated Pardalote Australian Pipit Australian Raven Little Raven Hooded Robin Red-capped Robin Grey Shrikethrush Eastern Shriketit (Crested Shriketit) Silvereye Black-capped Sittella (Varied Sittella) *Eurasian Skylark Brown Songlark *House Sparrow *Common Starling If Species in BOLD are seen a “Rare Bird Record Report” should be submitted. SEASONS – Spring: September, October, November; Summer: December, January, February; Autumn: March, April May; Winter: June, July, August IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ONLY BIRDS SEEN WITHIN THE RESERVE ARE RECORDED ON THIS LIST. IF YOU SEE BIRDS OUTSIDE THE RESERVE PLEASE MARK ACCORDINGLY OR PREFERABLY USE A SEPARATE LIST. Please return this sheet on completion to Birds SA Database Co-ordinator (Brian Blaylock) for inclusion in the database. Email to: [email protected] or post to: Birds SA Database, Birds SA c/- SA Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Revised: 21 June 2021 123 + 61 PAIWALLA WETLANDS Revised: 21 June 2021 123 + 61 .
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