DOCSLIB.ORG

COWRA COMMENTS an Occasional Newsletter of the Cowra Woodland Birds Program

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

COWRA COMMENTS An occasional newsletter of the Cowra Woodland Birds Program ISSUE Thirteen – December 2012 NSW and ACT Twitchathon The Cowra Woodland Birds Program is a series of projects PRIZEWINNERS aimed at reversing the decline of woodland birds in the region. The 2012 was again the biggest NSW/ACT twitch ever with 173 projects are focused on scientific research and the management of participants in 48 teams. Most of the prize winners for the birds in their woodland habitats. Twitchathon 2012 have now been decided. The big news is that They involve the local already $13975 of the expected $26,000 has already been landholders and managers, the received at the Sydney Birdlife Office for this year’s project Cowra Shire Council as well as "The Cowra Woodland Bird Project ”. The winners of the local birdwatchers and members of BirdLife Southern NSW Main Race were the Menacing Monarchs (Robert McDonald, (previously known as Birds Michael Kearns & Robert Struik) who with 225 species, were Australia Southern NSW & ACT) 4th time winners! Runners up were the Hunter Home Brewers and other birding clubs. (Mick & Steve Roderick & Lucas Grenadier) who saw 224 species, while another Hunter Team, the Dodgy Drongos 2012 CWBP committee (Grant Brosie, Nick Livanos, Robert Kilkenny and Max John Rankin - Chair rd Sue Proust - Vice-chair Breckenridge) saw 223 species thus capturing 3 prize in the Neale Coutanche Main Race. The Prize for the team with the lowest ratio of kms Garry Germon travelled per bird seen (minimum 180 species, excluding 1 st & Nick Nicholls 2nd place-getters), went to the Complete and Utter Bustards Joy Pegler team (Peter Higgins, Julian Wall, Phil Gilmour & Peter Madeleine Rankin Julian Reid Richards) who saw 184 species in 292 kms travelled. Across the Rosemary Stapleton board, the number of species seen by all teams was well down Maret Vesk on recent years, do doubt due to the dry spring right along the Coast. Malcolm Fyfe – survey Winners of the Champagne Race were the Night Poirots (Peter co-ordinator West, Sue Proust, Clive Meadows and Louise Earnshaw) with Contact: John Rankin 150 species, while second prize went to the Raven Lunatics Phone: (02) 6342 9282 (Bill Moller, Nella Smith & Ada Stoll) with 148 species. The [email protected] prize for the team with the lowest ratio of kms travelled per bird seen in the Champagne Race was the Which Is It? team or (Margaret & Kay Pointer, Michael Breheny) with 144 species BirdLife Southern NSW Phone: (02) 9647 1033 seen in 140 kms. [email protected] In the Children’s Section, Dollarbirds Division, the Malcom’s Falcons Team (Jack and Kate Malcolm) won with 70 species Postal Address: while Megan, Paige & Bridie Tilse of the Galloping Grebes CWBP, team, took out the prize for the most funds raised with $231. In BirdLife Discovery Centre, Newington Armory the Little Curlew Division, the Noisy Minors team (Eleena & 1 Jamieson St Alex Cheers-Flavell and Pixie & Reuban Hayman) won by Sydney Olympic Park 2127 seeing 59 species, while Kate Richards of the Young Young- ones, raised $100. Independent expert Dion Hobcroft chose the 12 Pied Honeyeaters, seen at the Woggoon NR west of Condobolin as the “Rarest Bird” for the Rare Bird prize, by Neale Coutanche of the Cowra Woodland Birdbrainers Team; The Biggest Dip Prize went to Darren Lyons of the Dry-throated Buzzards , Newsletter editor: whose team failed to find a Leaden Flycatcher. The Lucky Maret Vesk Twitchers Prize was won by Robert Kilkenny of the Dodgy [email protected] Drongos Team. The latter two prizes were drawn from the hat at the Christmas meeting of Birding NSW Central Coast by Allan Richards, a former president of BNSW. EVENTS Summer survey weekend Dion Hobcroft, Judge for the Rarest Bird prize wrote “The 19 & 20 January 2013 NSW Twitchathon certainly racked up an amazing number of great sightings. Some of these included previously reported Saturday 19 th January rarities like the Stockton Banded Stilt, the long staying evening barbeque at the Bulahdelah Radjah Shelducks and the fabulous female Painted Pridham Centre – BYO Snipe at Sydney Olympic Park. In my final analysis I went for everything! sighting of the Condobolin Pied Honeyeaters as the Rarest Bird. We had planned to have a These are scarce irruptive nomads and particularly scarce this talk on habitat restoration in far east. Next was the Port Macquarie Beach Stone-Curlew at January but couldn’t resist Pelican Island as this species has a tiny population in NSW and the opportunity to hear this location is not a regular haunt for this bird. Third place was about West Papua from for the Australasian Bittern at Campbells Swamp, Griffith, Chaddy, John (French) and always a major rarity, Congratulations to all the birders who Fiona. Don’t be worried participated and discovered so many great birds”. It was Neale about coming along as John Coutanche (Cowra Woodland Birdbrainers) who saw the Pied assured me later they won’t Honeyeaters first; David Whitfield (Bassett’s Allsorts) who be wearing the traditional saw the Beach Stone-curlew, and Max O’Sullivan (Silly dress of the villagers they Galahs) who spotted the Australasian Bittern. visited. As the sponsorship funds don’t have to be acquitted until 30 Survey dates for 2013 January 2013, it is not possible to say for certain who has won 20 & 21 April the prizes for the most money raised, however Warren Chad 20 & 21 July ($3895), Tiffany Mason ($1678) & Margaret Harmon 12 & 13 October ($1399) are the leaders so far in respect for money received. Other people who have raised over $1000 include Alan Morris Contact Malcolm Fyfe on ($1108) & Neil Coutanche ($1050). So far the Cowra (02) 6253 0772 or Woodland Birdbrainers have remitted $5895, an exceptional [email protected] effort, while the Wooden Spoonbills have forwarded $1719! From the Editor - A big thank A big thankyou to our major sponsors, Swarovski Binoculars, you to all the contributors to Alison Green T-Shirts, Andrew Isles (Booksellers), Fred Van this issue – what bliss to Gessel Professional Wildlife Sounds, Chorleywood B & B receive so many articles! Moss Vale, Cockatoo Ridge Wines (Barossa), & Follow That Elisabeth Karplus reports on Bird Tours and a special thanks to all the team members and the Grenfell survey - page 3. their sponsors too for making this, a most successful twitch! In the last issue, Julian Reid In 2013 it will be the members of Birdlife Southern NSW asked “Are there Inland Branch who will be putting their thinking caps on to give Thornbills in the Cowra consideration to proposing the bird conservation project for Survey Region?” Read what which the Sponsorship Funds can be directed. he found when he ventured forth in October – page 4. Alan Morris . Why is it important to report NSW & ACT Twitchathon Co-ordinator your bird sightings ? Tiffany 10 December 2012 Mason explains on page 5. Read all about the Twitch from our ‘local’ team - on page 9. 2 Important Bird Area survey around Grenfell in November 2012 Elisabeth Karplus On the weekend of November 3 and 4, 2012, 14 surveyors in Grenfell for the third IBA survey. New surveyors included Joanne Lenehan and Dan Florance from Cowra. As well as doing the surveys, we took part in the Weddin Bird Forum organised by Mikla Lewis of the Lachlan Catchment Management Authority (CMA). The Forum was sponsored by the Lachlan CMA and by Weddin Landcare. The Forum was attended by 65 people including the Deputy Mayor, John Niven, and three councillors. We heard talks on the Biodiversity Corridors Project linking isolated remnant woodlands in the Lachlan area (Gus Arnott), the Important Bird Areas project (Elisabeth Karplus), long-term bird monitoring in Warraderry State Forest (Graham Fry) and Noisy Miner Management for the conservation of woodlands and woodland birds (Damon Oliver). Afterwards we all enjoyed a barbecue. On Sunday, Allan Richards and I led an outing to Weddin State Forest and 10 members of the local community, including Mikla, Mark Shortis, Graeme and Ros Schneider and Jenny Hetherington, joined us. We were able to show people Red-capped Robins, Rufous Whistlers and Red-rumped Parrots as well as a Black-eared Cuckoo. Graham Fry had invited people to join him at a bird banding session in Warraderry State Forest – seven people took up the offer. Tim Wood, on whose property we had surveyed, brought his children, Hugo and Arabella - both got to hold and then release two Rufous Whistlers. We surveyed for birds at 24 sites including five new sites on private land. My thanks go to Allan Richards, Graham Fry, Jill Molan and Ted Nixon, who led groups. Eleven sites are in Weddin, Warraderry and Bimbi State Forests, eight sites are on private land and the remaining sites are along roads where Superb Parrots have been seen. Many of the sites are in areas listed on the Bird Trails of Weddin Shire. In addition to the 20 minute surveys, we recorded incidental sightings of birds listed as vulnerable in NSW. In total we recorded 76 species including 10 species not seen in previous surveys. The number of species seen per site varied between three and 25. Of the four target species, Superb Parrots were seen at five sites with the largest numbers of 17 and 18 seen at Dodd’s Lane and Abbot’s Lane respectively. Superb Parrots were seen in two non-survey areas. We did not see Diamond Firetails, Swift Parrots or Painted Honeyeaters during the survey though a Diamond Firetail was seen at Warraderry State Forest on November 2. We have now seen 94 different species during three surveys at the designated survey sites.
Recommended publications
  • Lake Pinaroo Ramsar Site

    Lake Pinaroo Ramsar Site

    Ecological character description: Lake Pinaroo Ramsar site Ecological character description: Lake Pinaroo Ramsar site Disclaimer The Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW (DECC) has compiled the Ecological character description: Lake Pinaroo Ramsar site in good faith, exercising all due care and attention. DECC does not accept responsibility for any inaccurate or incomplete information supplied by third parties. No representation is made about the accuracy, completeness or suitability of the information in this publication for any particular purpose. Readers should seek appropriate advice about the suitability of the information to their needs. © State of New South Wales and Department of Environment and Climate Change DECC is pleased to allow the reproduction of material from this publication on the condition that the source, publisher and authorship are appropriately acknowledged. Published by: Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW 59–61 Goulburn Street, Sydney PO Box A290, Sydney South 1232 Phone: 131555 (NSW only – publications and information requests) (02) 9995 5000 (switchboard) Fax: (02) 9995 5999 TTY: (02) 9211 4723 Email: [email protected] Website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au DECC 2008/275 ISBN 978 1 74122 839 7 June 2008 Printed on environmentally sustainable paper Cover photos Inset upper: Lake Pinaroo in flood, 1976 (DECC) Aerial: Lake Pinaroo in flood, March 1976 (DECC) Inset lower left: Blue-billed duck (R. Kingsford) Inset lower middle: Red-necked avocet (C. Herbert) Inset lower right: Red-capped plover (C. Herbert) Summary An ecological character description has been defined as ‘the combination of the ecosystem components, processes, benefits and services that characterise a wetland at a given point in time’.
  • Recommended Band Size List Page 1

    Recommended Band Size List Page 1

    Jun 00 Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme - Recommended Band Size List Page 1 Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme Recommended Band Size List - Birds of Australia and its Territories Number 24 - May 2000 This list contains all extant bird species which have been recorded for Australia and its Territories, including Antarctica, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and Cocos and Keeling Islands, with their respective RAOU numbers and band sizes as recommended by the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme. The list is in two parts: Part 1 is in taxonomic order, based on information in "The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories" (1994) by Leslie Christidis and Walter E. Boles, RAOU Monograph 2, RAOU, Melbourne, for non-passerines; and “The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines” (1999) by R. Schodde and I.J. Mason, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, for passerines. Part 2 is in alphabetic order of common names. The lists include sub-species where these are listed on the Census of Australian Vertebrate Species (CAVS version 8.1, 1994). CHOOSING THE CORRECT BAND Selecting the appropriate band to use combines several factors, including the species to be banded, variability within the species, growth characteristics of the species, and band design. The following list recommends band sizes and metals based on reports from banders, compiled over the life of the ABBBS. For most species, the recommended sizes have been used on substantial numbers of birds. For some species, relatively few individuals have been banded and the size is listed with a question mark. In still other species, too few birds have been banded to justify a size recommendation and none is made.

  • Bird Guide for the Great Western Woodlands Male Gilbert’S Whistler: Chris Tzaros Whistler: Male Gilbert’S

    Bird Guide for the Great Western Woodlands Male Gilbert’s Whistler: Chris Tzaros Whistler: Male Gilbert’s Western Australia PART 1. GWW NORTHERN Southern Cross Kalgoorlie Widgiemooltha birds are in our nature ® Australia AUSTRALIA Introduction The birds and places of the north-west region of the Great Western Woodlands are presented in this booklet. This area includes tall woodlands on red soils, shrublands on yellow sand plains and mallee on sand and loam soils. Landforms include large granite outcrops, Banded Ironstone Formation (BIF) Ranges, extensive natural salt lakes and a few freshwater lakes. The Great Western Woodlands At 16 million hectares, the Great Western Woodlands (GWW) is close to three quarters the size of Victoria and is the largest remaining intact area of temperate woodland in the world. It is located between the Western Australian Wheatbelt and the Nullarbor Plain. BirdLife Australia and The Nature Conservancy joined forces in 2012 to establish a long-term project to study the birds of this unique region and to determine how we can best conserve the woodland birds that occur here. Kalgoorlie 1 Groups of volunteers carry out bird surveys each year in spring and autumn to find out the species present, their abundance and to observe their behaviour. If you would like to know more visit http://www.birdlife.org.au/projects/great-western-woodlands If you would like to participate as a volunteer contact [email protected]. All levels of experience are welcome. The following six pages present 48 bird species that typically occur in four different habitats of the north-west region of the GWW, although they are not restricted to these.
  • Brookfield CP Bird List

    Brookfield CP Bird List

    Bird list for BROOKFIELD CONSERVATION PARK -34.34837 °N 139.50173 °E 34°20’54” S 139°30’06” E 54 362200 6198200 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. Rainbow Bee-eater Mulga Parrot Eastern Bluebonnet Red-rumped Parrot Australian Boobook *Feral Pigeon Common Bronzewing Crested Pigeon Australian Bustard Spur-winged Plover Little Buttonquail (Masked Lapwing) Painted Buttonquail Stubble Quail Cockatiel Mallee Ringneck Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Australian Ringneck) Little Corella Yellow Rosella Black-eared Cuckoo (Crimson Rosella) Fan-tailed Cuckoo Collared Sparrowhawk Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo Grey Teal Pallid Cuckoo Shining Bronze Cuckoo Peaceful Dove Maned Duck Pacific Black Duck Little Eagle Wedge-tailed Eagle Emu Brown Falcon Peregrine Falcon Tawny Frogmouth Galah Brown Goshawk Australasian Grebe Spotted Harrier White-faced Heron Australian Hobby Nankeen Kestrel Red-backed Kingfisher Black Kite Black-shouldered Kite Whistling Kite Laughing Kookaburra Banded Lapwing Musk Lorikeet Purple-crowned Lorikeet Malleefowl Spotted Nightjar Australian Owlet-nightjar Australian Owlet-nightjar Blue-winged Parrot Elegant Parrot 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.
  • Supplementary Methods S1

    Supplementary Methods S1

    1 Validation methods for trophic niche models 2 3 To assign links between nodes (species), we used trophic niche-space models (e.g., [1]). 4 Each of these models has two quantile regressions that define the prey-size range a 5 predator of a given size is predicted to consume. Species whose body mass is within the 6 range of a predator’s prey size, as identified by the trophic niche-space model, are predicted 7 to be prey, while those outside the range are predicted not to be eaten. 8 9 The broad taxonomy of a predator helps to predict predation interactions [2]. To optimize 10 our trophic niche-space model, we therefore tested whether including taxonomic class of 11 predators improved the fit of quantile regressions. Using trophic (to identify which species 12 were predators), body mass, and taxonomic data, we fitted and compared five quantile 13 regression models (including a null model) to the GloBI data. In each model, we log10- 14 transformed the dependent variable prey body mass, and included for the independent 15 variables different combinations of log10-transformed predator body mass, predator class, 16 and the interaction between these variables (Supplementary Table S4). We log10- 17 transformed both predator and prey body mass to linearize the relationship between these 18 variables. We fit the five quantile regressions to the upper and lower 5% of prey body mass, 19 and compared model fits using the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). The predator body 20 mass*predator class model fit the 95th quantile data best, whereas the predator body mass 21 + predator class model fit the 5th quantile data marginally better than the aforementioned 22 interaction model (Supplementary Figure S2, Supplementary Table S4).
  • 08B Murchison.Cdr

    08B Murchison.Cdr

    RATITE COCKATOO, PARROT HONEYEATER, CHAT BUTCHERBIRD, Emu Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Pied Honeyeater CURRAWONG Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Singing Honeyeater Pied Butcherbird QUAIL Galah Grey-fronted Honeyeater Australian Magpie Stubble Quail Little Corella White-plumed Honeyeater Cockatiel White-fronted Honeyeater FANTAIL PIGEON, DOVE Australian Ringneck Yellow-throated Miner Grey Fantail Common Bronzewing Mulga Parrot Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Willie Wagtail Crested Pigeon Budgerigar Crimson Chat Diamond Dove Bourke's Parrot White-fronted Chat RAVEN, CROW Black Honeyeater Little Crow FROGMOUTH CUCKOO Brown Honeyeater Torresian Crow Tawny Frogmouth Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Black-eared Cuckoo BABBLER FLYCATCHER, MONARCH NIGHTJAR Pallid Cuckoo Grey-crowned Babbler Magpie-lark Spotted Nighjar White-browed Babbler Australian Owlet-nightjar OWL ROBIN, SCRUB-ROBIN Southern Boobook QUAIL-THRUSH, ALLIES Hooded Robin RAPTOR Varied Sittella Black-shouldered Kite KINGFISHER, ALLIES OLD WORLD WARBLER Black-breasted Buzzard Red-backed Kingfisher CUCKOO-SHRIKE, TRILLER Rufous Songlark Whistling Kite Sacred Kingfisher Ground Cuckoo-shrike Brown Songlark Brown Goshawk Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Collared Sparrowhawk FAIRY-WREN, GRASSWREN White-winged Triller SWALLOW, MARTIN Spotted Harrier Splendid Fairy-wren White-backed Swallow Little Eagle White-winged Fairy-wren WHISTLER, SHRIKE- Welcome Swallow Nankeen Kestrel THRUSH Tree Martin Brown Falcon SCRUBWREN, ALLIES Rufous Whistler Redthroat Grey Shrike-thrush FINCH SHOREBIRD Western Gerygone Crested Bellbird Zebra Finch Banded Lapwing Yellow-rumped Thornbill Chestnut-rumped Thornbill WOODSWALLOW PIPIT BUTTON-QUAIL Southern Whiteface Black-faced Woodswallow Australasian Pipit Little Button-quail PARDALOTE Striated Pardalote This is a record of bird sightings within a kilometre walk of the Prepared by Birds Australia Murchison Settlement. Western Australia Please report any unlisted sightings to the Murchison Museum or to the office of Birds Australia Western Australia.
  • A Preliminary Summary of Bird Banding Conducted Within The

    A Preliminary Summary of Bird Banding Conducted Within The

    A preliminary summary of bird banding conducted within the Broome Peninsula 2000-2010 and the relationship of this data to the vegetation community described as "Mangarr community on relict dune systems." Prepared by Jan Lewis PO Box 2605 Broome WA 6725 [email protected] INTRODUCTION Jan Lewis has been involved in voluntary bird research since 1998 and has assisted in bird surveys conducted by Broome Bird Observatory, the Australasian Wader Study Group, Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary, DEC and Save the Gouldian Fund. Jan became a licensed bird bander in 2000 and currently operates two research projects: o In Broome: Avian dynamics in the coastal habitat of Broome Peninsula o In Wyndham: Comparative ecology of some little known East Kimberley passerines. Jan has published several articles detailing the findings of her research, including articles in Amytornis, the Western Australian Journal of Ornithology: “Ageing and sexing Red-headed Honeyeaters ( Myzomela erythrocephala ), with notes on aspects of the breeding biology” Amytornis 2 (2010). p 15-24. “Timing of breeding and wing moult in the Yellow White-eye ( Zosterops luteus ) near Broome, Western Australia”. Amytornis 3 , (2011). pp13-18. “Synchronous breeding by the Star Finch ( Neochmia ruficauda) in the east Kimberley, WA”. Amytornis 2 (2010), p 25-28. “Post juvenile moult and associated changes in bare parts in Star Finches ( Neochmia ruficauda ) in the Wyndham region of WA”. Accepted for publication in Amytornis volume 4. BACKGROUND Bird research has been conducted in Minyirr Park between the Broome Port and Barred Creek since late 2000 under license from Environment Australia and with the permission of the former Coastal Landcare Management Committee, the Port of Broome and the Yawuru/Goolarabaloo Traditional Owners.
  • Fauna Assessment

    Fauna Assessment

    Fauna Assessment Medcalf Vanadium Mining Project Proposed Haul Road Audalia Resources Limited November 2017 Version 2 On behalf of: Audalia Resources Ltd c/- Botanica Consulting PO Box 2027 BOULDER WA 6432 T: 08 9093 0024 F: 08 9093 1381 Prepared by: Greg Harewood Zoologist PO Box 755 BUNBURY WA 6231 M: 0402 141 197 E: [email protected] MEDCALF VANADIUM MINING PROJECT - PROPOSED HAUL ROAD – AUDALIA RESOURCES LIMITED FAUNA ASSESSMENT – NOVEMBER 2017 – V2 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1 2. SCOPE OF WORKS .................................................................................. 1 3. METHODS ................................................................................................. 1 3.1 SITE SURVEYS ......................................................................................... 1 3.1.1 General Fauna Habitat Assessment ................................................ 1 3.1.2 Fauna Observations......................................................................... 2 3.2 POTENTIAL VERTEBRATE FAUNA INVENTORY ................................... 2 3.2.1 Database Searches ......................................................................... 2 3.2.2 Previous Fauna Surveys in the Area ............................................... 3 3.2.3 Existing Publications ........................................................................ 4 3.2.4 Fauna of Conservation Significance ...............................................
  • Western Australia Bird List

    Western Australia Bird List

    Western Australia Bird List EMU 063 Wilson's Storm-Petrel 187 Eastern Great Egret 143 Red-capped Plover 001 Emu 065 White-faced Storm-Petrel 186 Intermediate Egret 140 Double-banded Plover 066 Black-bellied Storm-Petrel 184 Great-billed Heron 139 Lesser Sand Plover MOUND BUILDERS 977 Cattle Egret 141 Greater Sand Plover 007 Malleefowl ALBATROSS 193 Striated Heron 142 Oriental Plover 006 Orange-footed Scrubfowl 086 Wandering Albatross 9945 Chinese Pond Heron 145 Inland Dotterel 974 Royal Albatross 190 Pied Heron 144 Black-fronted Dotterel QUAILS, PHEASANTS etc 088 Black-browed Albatross 188 White-faced Heron 138 Hooded Plover I 9939 Helmeted Guineafowl 091 Shy Albatross 185 Little Egret 132 Red-kneed Dotterel 009 Stubble Quail 090 Grey-headed Albatross 191 Eastern Reef Egret 135 Banded Lapwing 011 Brown Quail 089 Yellow-nosed Albatross 796 Black-crowned Night Heron 133 Masked Lapwing 012 King Quail 092 Sooty Albatross 192 Nankeen Night-Heron I 093 Light-mantled Sooty Albatross 178 Glossy Ibis 171 Comb-crested Jacana 903 Indian Peafowl 950 Common Pheasant I 179 Australian White Ibis 897 Pheasant-tailed Jacana PETRELS, PRIONS, SHEARWATERS 180 Straw-necked Ibis 929 Southern Giant-Petrel 181 Royal Spoonbill 170 Australian Painted Snipe WATERFOWL 199 Magpie Goose 937 Northern Giant-Petrel 182 Yellow-billed Spoonbill 168 Latham's Snipe 205 Plumed Whistling-Duck 074 Southern Fulmar 852 Pin-tailed Snipe 204 Wandering Whistling-Duck 949 Antarctic Petrel RAPTORS 169 Swinhoe's Snipe 217 Musk Duck 080 Cape Petrel 241 Eastern Osprey 152 Black-tailed
  • Paroo River Wetlands Ramsar Site

    Paroo River Wetlands Ramsar Site

    RIS for Site no. 1716, Paroo River Wetlands, Australia Ramsar Information Sheet Australia Paroo River Wetlands Designation date 13 September 2007 Site number 1716 Coordinates 30°19'58"S 143°50'30"E Area 138 304,00 ha https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/1716 Created by RSIS V.1.6 on - 17 March 2020 RIS for Site no. 1716, Paroo River Wetlands, Australia Color codes Fields back-shaded in light blue relate to data and information required only for RIS updates. Note that some fields concerning aspects of Part 3, the Ecological Character Description of the RIS (tinted in purple), are not expected to be completed as part of a standard RIS, but are included for completeness so as to provide the requested consistency between the RIS and the format of a ‘full’ Ecological Character Description, as adopted in Resolution X.15 (2008). If a Contracting Party does have information available that is relevant to these fields (for example from a national format Ecological Character Description) it may, if it wishes to, include information in these additional fields. 1 - Summary 1.1 - Summary description Please provide a short descriptive text summarising the key characteristics and internationally important aspects of the site. You may prefer to complete the four following sections before returning to draft this summary. Summary (This field is limited to 2500 characters) The Paroo River Wetlands are located in far north-west New South Wales (NSW) and consists of the Nocoleche Nature Reserve (180 km west of Bourke) and the Peery component (240 km south-west of Bourke).
  • Birds of the Broome Region Official Checklist Updated December 2020

    Birds of the Broome Region Official Checklist Updated December 2020

    Birds of the Broome Region Official Checklist Updated December 2020 Broome Bird Observatory Crab Creek Rd, Broome Phone: (08) 9193 5600 E-mail: [email protected] EMUS AND CASSOWARIES FROGMOUTHS NORTHERN STORM-PETRELS Ψ Emu Tawny Frogmouth Matsudaira’s Storm-Petrel QUAIL NIGHTJARS Swinhoe’s Storm-Petrel Stubble Quail Spotted Nightjar PETRELS AND SHEARWATERS Brown Quail OWLET-NIGHTJARS Ψ Northern Giant Petrel MAGPIE GOOSE Australian Owlet-nightjar Ψ Cape Petrel Magpie Goose SWIFTS Wedge-tailed Shearwater DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS Ψ White-throated Needletail Ψ Short-tailed Shearwater Plumed Whistling-Duck Ψ Glossy Swiftlet Streaked Shearwater Wandering Whistling-Duck Fork-tailed Swift Hutton’s Shearwater Pink-eared Duck Ψ House Swift STORKS Freckled Duck CUCKOOS Black-necked Stork Black Swan Pheasant Coucal IBISES AND SPOONBILLS Ψ Radjah Shelduck Eastern Koel Yellow-billed Spoonbill Ψ Australian Shelduck Channel-billed Cuckoo Royal Spoonbill Green Pygmy-goose Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Straw-necked Ibis Australian Wood Duck Black-eared Cuckoo Australian White Ibis Hardhead Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Glossy Ibis Garganey Little Bronze-Cuckoo HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Ψ Australasian Shoveler Brush Cuckoo Australian Little Bittern Pacific Black Duck Pallid Cuckoo Ψ Yellow Bittern Grey Teal Oriental Cuckoo Ψ Black Bittern Ψ Chestnut Teal CRAKES, RAILS AND SWAMPHENS Nankeen Night-Heron GREBES Ψ Red-legged Crake Striated Heron Australasian Grebe Buff-banded Rail Ψ Chinese Pond Heron Hoary-headed Grebe Australian Spotted Crake Cattle Egret Great
  • Species List

    Species List

    SPECIES CHECKLIST Birds, Mammals, Reptiles Frogs & Trees BIRDS Family Common Name Identified Apostlebirds Apostlebird _______ Babblers White-browned Babbler _______ Barn Owls Pacific Barn Owl _______ Bee-Eaters Rainbow Bee-Eater _______ Bustards Australian Bustard _______ Butcherbirds, Magpies Grey Butcherbird _______ Australian Magpie _______ Corellas, Cockatiels, Cockatoos Little Corella _______ Cockatiel _______ Galah _______ Cormorants Little Pied Cormorant _______ Cuckoos Pallid Cuckoo _______ Fan-Tailed Cuckoo _______ Horsefield’s Bronze-Cuckoo _______ Black-eared Cuckoo _______ Cuckoo-Shrikes, Trillers Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike _______ White-winged Triller _______ Dotterals, Lapwings Black-fronted Dotteral _______ Banded Lapwing _______ Ducks Pacific Black Duck _______ Australian Wood Duck _______ Grey Teal _______ Eagles, Kites, Goshawks, Harriers Wedge-tailed Eagle _______ Little Eagle _______ Black-shouldered Kite _______ Black Kite _______ Whistling Kite _______ Brown Goshawk _______ Spotted Harrier _______ Collared Sparrowhawk _______ Emus Emu _______ Falcons Black Falcon _______ Brown Falcon _______ Nankeen (Australian) Kestrel _______ Flowerpickers Mistletoebird _______ Frogmouths Tawny Frogmouth _______ Grass-finches Zebra Finch _______ Grebes Hoary-headed Grebe _______ Australasian Grebe _______ Hawk Owls Southern Boobook _______ Herons White-faced Heron _______ Nankeen (Rufus) Night Heron _______ Hobbys Australian Hobby _______ Honeyeaters Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater _______ Yellow-throated Miner _______ White-eared Honeyeater