Trip Report: Eaglehawk Neck pelagic 5 March 2017

Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report – 5th March 2017

Participants:

Jez Bird, Ruth Brozek, Alan Clarkson, Karen Dick, Rob Hamilton, Mona Loofs-Samorzewski (report compiler), Jim Sneddon, George Vaughan, Michael Vaughan, Peter Vaughan, Brenton Von Takach Dukai, Els Wakefield. Trip organised by Paul Brooks, who was unable to attend.

Boat:

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Offshore Cisticolas

Large numbers of Golden-headed Cisticolas have turned up on fishing boats well offshore on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. This is a mystery as this species is sedentary.

More here: sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com/2017/03/golden-headed-cisticola-all-at-sea-and.html

Greg Roberts friarbird.roberts@gmail.com sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/

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Kookaburras inner west Sydney.

7 am. Aggressive behaviour towards a member of a group of five. I interpreted it as a hungry young male pestering the beak of parent only to be grabbed and held by his beak so he was held prone with wings outstretched, then dropped and then aggressive chased.

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