Coorong National Park

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Coorong National Park Checklist for COORONG NATIONAL PARK -35.9446 °N 139.45999 °E 35°56’41” S 139°27’36” E 54 361100 6021100 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. Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross # Pacific Black Duck Red Knot Black-browed Albatross # Pink-eared Duck Laughing Kookaburra Grey-headed Albatross # Little Eagle Banded Lapwing Shy Albatross # Wedge-tailed Eagle Musk Lorikeet Wandering Albatross # White-bellied Sea Eagle Purple-crowned Lorikeet Red-necked Avocet Cattle Egret Rainbow Lorikeet Rainbow Bee-eater Great Egret *Mallard Australasian Bittern Intermediate Egret Malleefowl Eastern Bluebonnet Little Egret Dusky Moorhen Australian Boobook Plumed Egret Black-tailed Nativehen Brush Bronzewing Emu Nankeen Night Heron Common Bronzewing Black Falcon Spotted Nightjar Budgerigar Brown Falcon Eastern Barn Owl Little Buttonquail Peregrine Falcon Australian Owlet-nightjar Painted Buttonquail Tawny Frogmouth Pied Oystercatcher Cockatiel Southern Fulmar # Sooty Oystercatcher Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Galah Blue-winged Parrot Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Australasian Gannet # Elegant Parrot Eurasian Coot Bar-tailed Godwit Orange-bellied Parrot Little Corella Black-tailed Godwit Red-rumped Parrot Black-faced Cormorant Cape Barren Goose Rock Parrot Great Cormorant Brown Goshawk Australian Pelican Little Black Cormorant Australasian Grebe Fiordland Penguin # Little Pied Cormorant Great Crested Grebe Little Penguin Pied Cormorant Hoary-headed Grebe Northern Rockhopper Penguin # Australian Crake Common Greenshank Blue Petrel # Baillon's Crake Kelp Gull Common Diving Petrel # Spotless Crake Pacific Gull Great-winged Petrel # Black-eared Cuckoo Silver Gull Kerguelen Petrel # Fan-tailed Cuckoo Hardhead Mottled Petrel # Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo Spotted Harrier Soft-plumaged Petrel # Pallid Cuckoo Swamp Harrier Southern Giant Petrel # Shining Bronze Cuckoo Pacific Reef Heron White-faced Storm Petrel # Far Eastern Curlew White-faced Heron White-headed Petrel # Little Curlew White-necked Heron Red Phalarope Australasian Darter Australian Hobby Red-necked Phalarope Black-fronted Dotterel Australian White Ibis Crested Pigeon Red-kneed Dotterel Glossy Ibis *Feral Pigeon Diamond Dove Straw-necked Ibis Double-banded Plover Peaceful Dove Nankeen Kestrel Greater Sand Plover *Spotted Dove Sacred Kingfisher Grey Plover Blue-billed Duck Black Kite Hooded Plover Freckled Duck Black-shouldered Kite Lesser Sand Plover Maned Duck Whistling Kite Oriental Plover Musk Duck Great Knot Pacific Golden Plover # Beach-washed specimen 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: 19 March 2021 189 + 83 Checklist for COORONG NATIONAL PARK -35.9446 °N 139.45999 °E 35°56’41” S 139°27’36” E 54 361100 6021100 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-capped Plover Grey Teal Spur-winged Plover Australian Tern (Masked Lapwing) Caspian Tern Australian Pratincole Common Tern Antarctic Prion # Fairy Tern Broad-billed Prion # Greater Crested Tern Fairy Prion # Gull-billed tern Salvin's Prion # Little Tern Slender-billed Prion # Whiskered Tern Brown Quail White-winged Tern Stubble Quail Ruddy Turnstone Buff-banded Rail Whimbrel Lewin's Rail Mallee Ringneck (Australian Ringneck) Crimson Rosella Eastern Rosella Ruff Sanderling Common Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Marsh Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Flesh-footed Shearwater # Fluttering Shearwater # Short-tailed Shearwater # Australian Shelduck Australasian Shoveler Northern Shoveler Latham's Snipe Collared Sparrowhawk Royal Spoonbill Yellow-billed Spoonbill Banded Stilt Pied Stilt Long-toed Stint y Red-necked Stint y Australasian Swamphen Black Swan Pacific Swift Grey-tailed Tattler Chestnut Teal # Beach-washed specimen 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: 19 March 2021 189 + 83 Checklist for COORONG NATIONAL PARK -35.9446 °N 139.45999 °E 35°56’41” S 139°27’36” E 54 361100 6021100 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 Australian Raven Crested Bellbird Little Raven *Common Blackbird Eastern Yellow Robin Rufous Bristlebird Flame Robin Grey Butcherbird Hooded Robin White-fronted Chat Pink Robin White-winged Chough Rose Robin Golden-headed Cisticola Scarlet Robin Black-faced Cuckooshrike Southern Scrub Robin White-bellied Cuckooshrike White-browed Scrubwren Black-winged Currawong Grey Shrikethrush (Grey Currawong) Silvereye Southern Emuwren Black-capped Sittella Purple-backed Fairywren (Varied Sittella) Superb Fairywren *Eurasian Skylark Grey Fantail Brown Songlark Striated Fieldwren Rufous Songlark Red-browed Finch *House Sparrow Beautiful Firetail *Common Starling Diamond Firetail Welcome Swallow Restless Flycatcher White-backed Swallow *European Goldfinch Brown Thornbill Little Grassbird Buff-rumped Thornbill *European Greenfinch Inland Thornbill Shy Heathwren Slender-billed Thornbill Brown-headed Honeyeater Striated Thornbill New Holland Honeyeater Yellow Thornbill Purple-gaped Honeyeater Yellow-rumped Thornbill Singing Honeyeater White-winged Triller Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Willie Wagtail Tawny-crowned Honeyeater Australian Reed Warbler White-eared Honeyeater Little Wattlebird White-fronted Honeyeater Red Wattlebird White-naped Honeyeater Weebill White-plumed Honeyeater Gilbert's Whistler Yellow-faced Honeyeater Rufous Whistler Horsfield's Bush Lark Western Whistler Australian Magpie Jacky Winter Magpielark Dusky Woodswallow Fairy Martin Masked Woodswallow Tree Martin White-browed Woodswallow Noisy Miner Mistletoebird Spotted Pardalote Striated Pardalote Australian Pipit 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: 19 March 2021 189 + 83 COORONG NATIONAL PARK Revised: 19 March 2021 189 + 83 Revised: 19 March 2021 189 + 83 .
Recommended publications
  • Bird Notes Quarterly Newsletter of the Western Australian Branch of Birdlife Australia No
    Western Australian Bird Notes Quarterly Newsletter of the Western Australian Branch of BirdLife Australia No. 173 March 2020 birds are in our nature Members in the field World Wetlands Day bird walk Albany, p 32, photo by White-winged Fairy-wren at Mullaloo, photo by Caroline Shaun Welsh Mynott So hot for Brown-headed Honeyeater, p 42, photo Delene Osprey with catch, photo by Garry Taylor van Dyk David Budd rescuing two Eurasian Coots at Mandurah, p34 Bibra Walk, p 36, photo by Alan Watson Front cover: Red-necked Stint at Rottnest Island - photo by Clive Nealon Page 2 Western Australian Bird Notes, No. 173 March 2020 Western Australian Branch of EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 2020 BirdLife Australia Chair: Mr Viv Read Office: Peregrine House 167 Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat WA 6014 Vice Chair: Dr Mike Bamford Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 am to 12.30 pm Secretary: Lou Scampoli Telephone: (08) 9383 7749 E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Beverly Winterton BirdLife WA web page: www.birdlife.org.au/wa Committee: Alasdair Bulloch, Mark Henryon, Andrew Hobbs, Chair: Mr Viv Read Peter Jacoby, Jennifer Sumpton and Beth Walker BirdLife Western Australia is the WA Branch of the national organisation, BirdLife Australia. We are dedicated to creating a brighter future for Australian birds. General meetings: Held at the Bold Park Eco Centre, Perry Lakes Drive, Floreat, commencing 7:30 pm on the 4th Monday of the month (except December) – see ‘Coming events’ for details. Executive meetings: Held at Peregrine House on the 2nd Monday of the month. Communicate any matters for consideration to the Chair.
    [Show full text]
  • Australia Comprehensive Target Species Custom Tour Trip Report
    AUSTRALIA COMPREHENSIVE TARGET SPECIES CUSTOM TOUR TRIP REPORT 23 AUGUST – 1 OCTOBER 2019 By Andy Walker The Endangered (BirdLife International) Mallee Emu-wren has a tiny global range, and we had excellent views of a pair while birdwatching in Victoria. www.birdingecotours.com [email protected] 2 | TRIP REPORT Australia, Aug-Oct 2019 Overview This 40-day custom birdwatching tour of Australia commenced in Adelaide, South Australia, on the 23rd of August 2019 and ended in Sydney, New South Wales, on the 1st of October 2019. The tour also visited the states and territories of Victoria, Northern Territory, and Queensland. A pelagic trip was taken off southern South Australia (Port MacDonnell). Unfortunately a planned pelagic trip off southern Queensland (Southport) was canceled due to illness. This custom birding tour route was South Australia (Adelaide to Port MacDonnell) - Victoria (circuit around the western section of the state) - New South Wales (a brief stop for parrots along the state border) -Victoria (remainder of the western circuit back to Melbourne) - Northern Territory (Alice Springs area) - Northern Territory (Darwin to Kakadu and back) - Queensland (circuit out of Brisbane) - New South Wales (circuit out of Sydney). Several areas visited on this tour feature in our Australia set departure tours (e.g. East Coast and Northern Territory tours). A list of target birds was provided for the tour (the clients’ third trip to Australia), and these became the focus of the tour route and birding, though new trip birds encountered were also enjoyed! A total of 421 bird species were seen (plus 5 species heard only), including many client target birds.
    [Show full text]
  • West Papua Expedition
    The fabulous Spangled Kookaburra was one of the many highlights (Mark Van Beirs) WEST PAPUA EXPEDITION 22/28 OCTOBER – 10 NOVEMBER 2019 LEADER: MARK VAN BEIRS 1 BirdQuest Tour Report: West Papua Expedition www.birdquest-tours.com The cracking Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher posed ever so well (Mark Van Beirs) This unusual trip was set up to fill in some of the remaining gaps in the Birdquest New Guinea lifelist, so the plan was to visit several hard to reach venues in West Papua. The pre-trip was aiming to climb to the top of 2 BirdQuest Tour Report: West Papua Expedition www.birdquest-tours.com Mount Trikora in the Snow Mountains, but because of recent rioting and civil unrest (whereby several dozen people had been killed), access to the town of Wamena was totally denied to foreign visitors by the authorities. So, sadly, no Snow Mountain Robin… We did manage to visit the famous Wasur National Park, which produced the fantastic Spangled Kookaburra and Grey-crowned and Black Mannikins (all Birdquest lifers) and we reached the island of Kofiau, where the fabulous Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher and the modestly- plumaged Kofiau Monarch (two more Birdquest lifers) showed extremely well. The fabulous lowland rainforest site of Malagufuk gave us a long list of exquisite species amongst which a truly impressive Northern Cassowary, a cute Wallace’s Owlet-nightjar, a sublime Papuan Hawk-Owl and a tremendous Red- breasted Paradise Kingfisher stood out. Kingfishers especially performed extremely well on this tour as we saw no fewer than 15 species, including marvels like Hook-billed, Common Paradise, Blue-black, Beach, Yellow-billed and Papuan Dwarf Kingfishers and Blue-winged and Rufous-bellied Kookaburras.
    [Show full text]
  • ORL 5.1 Non-Passerines Final Draft01a.Xlsx
    The Ornithological Society of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (OSME) The OSME Region List of Bird Taxa, Part A: Non-passerines. Version 5.1: July 2019 Non-passerine Scientific Families placed in revised sequence as per IOC9.2 are denoted by ֍֍ A fuller explanation is given in Explanation of the ORL, but briefly, Bright green shading of a row (eg Syrian Ostrich) indicates former presence of a taxon in the OSME Region. Light gold shading in column A indicates sequence change from the previous ORL issue. For taxa that have unproven and probably unlikely presence, see the Hypothetical List. Red font indicates added information since the previous ORL version or the Conservation Threat Status (Critically Endangered = CE, Endangered = E, Vulnerable = V and Data Deficient = DD only). Not all synonyms have been examined. Serial numbers (SN) are merely an administrative convenience and may change. Please do not cite them in any formal correspondence or papers. NB: Compass cardinals (eg N = north, SE = southeast) are used. Rows shaded thus and with yellow text denote summaries of problem taxon groups in which some closely-related taxa may be of indeterminate status or are being studied. Rows shaded thus and with yellow text indicate recent or data-driven major conservation concerns. Rows shaded thus and with white text contain additional explanatory information on problem taxon groups as and when necessary. English names shaded thus are taxa on BirdLife Tracking Database, http://seabirdtracking.org/mapper/index.php. Nos tracked are small. NB BirdLife still lump many seabird taxa. A broad dark orange line, as below, indicates the last taxon in a new or suggested species split, or where sspp are best considered separately.
    [Show full text]
  • 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
    [Show full text]
  • Simplified-ORL-2019-5.1-Final.Pdf
    The Ornithological Society of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (OSME) The OSME Region List of Bird Taxa, Part F: Simplified OSME Region List (SORL) version 5.1 August 2019. (Aligns with ORL 5.1 July 2019) The simplified OSME list of preferred English & scientific names of all taxa recorded in the OSME region derives from the formal OSME Region List (ORL); see www.osme.org. It is not a taxonomic authority, but is intended to be a useful quick reference. It may be helpful in preparing informal checklists or writing articles on birds of the region. The taxonomic sequence & the scientific names in the SORL largely follow the International Ornithological Congress (IOC) List at www.worldbirdnames.org. We have departed from this source when new research has revealed new understanding or when we have decided that other English names are more appropriate for the OSME Region. The English names in the SORL include many informal names as denoted thus '…' in the ORL. The SORL uses subspecific names where useful; eg where diagnosable populations appear to be approaching species status or are species whose subspecies might be elevated to full species (indicated by round brackets in scientific names); for now, we remain neutral on the precise status - species or subspecies - of such taxa. Future research may amend or contradict our presentation of the SORL; such changes will be incorporated in succeeding SORL versions. This checklist was devised and prepared by AbdulRahman al Sirhan, Steve Preddy and Mike Blair on behalf of OSME Council. Please address any queries to [email protected].
    [Show full text]
  • Australia Comprehensive Target Species Custom Tour Trip Report
    AUSTRALIA COMPREHENSIVE TARGET SPECIES CUSTOM TOUR TRIP REPORT 23 AUGUST – 1 OCTOBER 2019 By Andy Walker The Endangered (BirdLife International) Mallee Emu-wren has a tiny global range, and we had excellent views of a pair while birdwatching in Victoria. www.birdingecotours.com [email protected] 2 | TRIP REPORT Australia, Aug-Oct 2019 Overview This 40-day custom birdwatching tour of Australia commenced in Adelaide, South Australia, on the 23rd of August 2019 and ended in Sydney, New South Wales, on the 1st of October 2019. The tour also visited the states and territories of Victoria, Northern Territory, and Queensland. A pelagic trip was taken off southern South Australia (Port MacDonnell). Unfortunately a planned pelagic trip off southern Queensland (Southport) was canceled due to illness. This custom birding tour route was South Australia (Adelaide to Port MacDonnell) - Victoria (circuit around the western section of the state) - New South Wales (a brief stop for parrots along the state border) -Victoria (remainder of the western circuit back to Melbourne) - Northern Territory (Alice Springs area) - Northern Territory (Darwin to Kakadu and back) - Queensland (circuit out of Brisbane) - New South Wales (circuit out of Sydney). Several areas visited on this tour feature in our Australia set departure tours (e.g. East Coast and Northern Territory tours). A list of target birds was provided for the tour (the clients’ third trip to Australia), and these became the focus of the tour route and birding, though new trip birds encountered were also enjoyed! A total of 421 bird species were seen (plus 5 species heard only), including many client target birds.
    [Show full text]
  • (In Particular Avian Influenza) from Wild Aquatic Birds in North Queensland
    ResearchOnline@JCU This file is part of the following reference: Hoque, Ahasanul (2011) Risk of spill-over of diseases (in particular avian influenza) from wild aquatic birds in North Queensland. PhD thesis, James Cook University. Access to this file is available from: http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/21582 The author has certified to JCU that they have made a reasonable effort to gain permission and acknowledge the owner of any third party copyright material included in this document. If you believe that this is not the case, please contact [email protected] and quote http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/21582 RISK OF SPILL-OVER OF DISEASES (IN PARTICULAR AVIAN INFLUENZA) FROM WILD AQUATIC BIRDS IN NORTH QUEENSLAND Md. Ahasanul Hoque Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Bangladesh) MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology (United Kingdom) MACVSc in Veterinary Epidemiology (Australia) A dissertation submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy April 2011 School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences & School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia-4811 i ii State of access declaration I, the undersigned, author of this work, understand that James Cook University will make this thesis available for use within the University Library and, via the Australian Digital Theses network, for use elsewhere. I understand that, as an unpublished work, a thesis has significant protection under the Copyright Act and; I do not wish to place any further restriction on access to this work. Md. Ahasanul Hoque April 2011 iii Statement of sources declaration I declare that this is my own work and has not been submitted in any form for another degree or diploma at any university or other institution of tertiary education.
    [Show full text]
  • Papua New Guinea Birding in Paradise IV 21St July to 6Th August 2019 (18 Days) Trip Report
    Papua New Guinea Birding in Paradise IV 21st July to 6th August 2019 (18 days) Trip Report Flame Bowerbird by Jacques Erard Tour Leaders: Adam Walleyn and Gareth Robbins Trip report compiled by Tour Leader: Adam Walleyn Rockjumper Birding Tours www.rockjumperbirding.com Trip Report – RBL Papua New Guinea – Birding in Paradise IV 2019 2 Tour Summary Our group assembled in Port Moresby and set off on a lovely afternoon for an exploration of the Pacific Adventist University grounds, full of eager anticipation for the epic adventure ahead. A quick stop en route at some rice fields produced several Raja Shelducks and numerous Pied Herons amongst more widespread species. A few hours gentle walking on the grounds yielded all the hoped-for specialties: Black-backed Butcherbird, Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, Grey-headed Mannikin and a pair of massive yet perfectly camouflaged Papuan Frogmouths on their day roost in an enormous raintree. The various water bodies were full of birds including Comb-crested Jacana, Grey Teal, Plumed and Wandering Whistling Ducks, Australian White Ibis, Nankeen Night Heron, Intermediate Egret and many more. Several trees were dripping with fruiting figs Plumed Whistling Duck by Ma Yan Bryant and playing host to unusually large numbers of Orange-fronted and Orange -bellied Fruit Doves, Torresian Imperial Pigeon, Australasian Figbird, Brown Oriole, and Yellow-faced Myna. A very birdy introduction to this amazing country! One of our earliest starts of the tour saw us leaving Port Moresby and winding up the Sogeri Plateau, flushing a Large-tailed Nightjar off the road along the way. In the early morning light, we arrived at the Raggiana Bird-of-paradise lek and could already hear several males giving their raucous calls.
    [Show full text]
  • Fiftee N Vertebrate Beginnings the Chordates
    Hickman−Roberts−Larson: 15. Vertebrate Beginnings: Text © The McGraw−Hill Animal Diversity, Third The Chordates Companies, 2002 Edition 15 chapter •••••• fifteen Vertebrate Beginnings The Chordates It’s a Long Way from Amphioxus Along the more southern coasts of North America, half buried in sand on the seafloor,lives a small fishlike translucent animal quietly filtering organic particles from seawater.Inconspicuous, of no commercial value and largely unknown, this creature is nonetheless one of the famous animals of classical zoology.It is amphioxus, an animal that wonderfully exhibits the four distinctive hallmarks of the phylum Chordata—(1) dorsal, tubular nerve cord overlying (2) a supportive notochord, (3) pharyngeal slits for filter feeding, and (4) a postanal tail for propulsion—all wrapped up in one creature with textbook simplicity. Amphioxus is an animal that might have been designed by a zoologist for the classroom. During the nineteenth century,with inter- est in vertebrate ancestry running high, amphioxus was considered by many to resemble closely the direct ancestor of the vertebrates. Its exalted position was later acknowledged by Philip Pope in a poem sung to the tune of “Tipperary.”It ends with the refrain: It’s a long way from amphioxus It’s a long way to us, It’s a long way from amphioxus To the meanest human cuss. Well,it’s good-bye to fins and gill slits And it’s welcome lungs and hair, It’s a long, long way from amphioxus But we all came from there. But amphioxus’place in the sun was not to endure.For one thing,amphioxus lacks one of the most important of vertebrate charac- teristics,a distinct head with special sense organs and the equipment for shifting to an active predatory mode of life.
    [Show full text]
  • Grand Australia Part I: New South Wales & the Northern Territory
    GRAND AUSTRALIA PART I: NEW SOUTH WALES & THE NORTHERN TERRITORY SEPTEMBER 20–OCTOBER 6, 2019 Spangled Drongo © Max Breckenridge LEADERS: MAX BRECKENRIDGE & BARRY ZIMMER LIST COMPILED BY: MAX BRECKENRIDGE VICTOR EMANUEL NATURE TOURS, INC. 2525 WALLINGWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 1003 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78746 WWW.VENTBIRD.COM VENT’s Grand Australia tour has been a staple offering for almost two decades now, led by the insatiable Dion Hobcroft. Dion’s skills as a tour leader and his extensive knowledge of Australia, his home country, meant that the tour has grown immensely in popularity over the years. As such, in 2019, for the first time, VENT offered two subsequent trips for both Part I, Part II, and the extension to Tasmania. I was the primary leader for the first run of Grand Australia, with Dion to follow a week later (and David James in Tasmania). My co-leaders were the two Zimmer brothers, Kevin and Barry, who are two of VENT’s long-serving and most popular tour leaders. Barry joined me for Part I and Kevin was with me for three weeks during Part II and Tasmania. I learned a great deal from both and enjoyed their company immensely, making the whole five weeks of touring very enjoyable. Thanks are definitely in order to both Barry and Kevin, but also to Dion and David for their work in creating these tours. Of course, I must also thank Victor and Barry Lyon for their foresight and for putting their trust in me, as well as the office staff, in particular Erik and Rene, for making it all happen.
    [Show full text]
  • Atherton Tablelands Bird List
    BIRD LIST EASTERN GREAT EGRET BROLGA AUSTRALIAN PRATINCOLE PALLID CUCKOO ATHERTON TABLELANDS INTERMEDIATE EGRET RED-NECKED CRAKE SILVER GULL BRUSH CUCKOO Alan’s Wildlife Tours CATTLE EGRET BUFF-BANDED RAIL AUSTRALIAN TERN CHESTNUT-BREASTED CUCKOO SOUTHERN CASSOWARY STRIATED HERON LEWIN’S RAIL CASPIAN TERN FAN-TAILED CUCKOO EMU NANKEEN NIGHT HERON PALE-VENTED BUSH-HEN WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN BLACK-EARED CUCKOO AUSTRALASIAN GREBE GLOSSY IBIS BAILLON’S CRAKE ROCK DOVE HORSFIELD’S BRONZE- GREAT CRESTED GREBE AUSTRALIAN WHITE IBIS AUSTRALIAN SPOTTED CRAKE WHITE-HEADED PIGEON CUCKOO SHINING BRONZE-CUCKOO ORANGE-FOOTED STRAW-NECKED IBIS SPOTLESS CRAKE SPOTTED TURTLE-DOVE SCRUBFOWL LITTLE BRONZE-CUCKOO ROYAL SPOONBILL WHITE-BROWED CRAKE BROWN CUCKOO-DOVE AUSTRALIAN BRUSH-TURKEY EASTERN KOEL BLACK-NECKED STORK PURPLE SWAMPHEN EMERALD DOVE MAGPIE GOOSE CHANNEL-BILLED CUCKOO EASTERN OSPREY DUSKY MOORHEN COMMON BRONZEWING PLUMED WHISTLING-DUCK PHEASANT COUCAL PACIFIC BAZA EURASIAN COOT CRESTED PIGEON WANDERING WHISTLING- RUFOUS OWL DUCK BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE AUSTRALIAN BUSTARD SQUATTER PIGEON BLACK SWAN BARKING OWL SQUARE-TAILED KITE RED-BACKED BUTTON-QUAIL PEACEFUL DOVE RADJAH SHELDUCK * SOUTHERN BOOBOOK BLACK KITE LITTLE BUTTON-QUAIL BAR-SHOULDERED DOVE AUSTRALIAN WOOD DUCK * LESSER SOOTY OWL WHISTLING KITE RED-CHESTED BUTTON-QUAIL WOMPOO FRUIT-DOVE COTTON PYGMY-GOOSE * BRAHMINY KITE PAINTED BUTTON-QUAIL SUPERB FRUIT-DOVE * MASKED OWL GREEN PYGMY-GOOSE WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE LATHAM’S SNIPE ROSE-CROWNED FRUIT-DOVE EASTERN BARN OWL PACIFIC BLACK
    [Show full text]