Birdline Australia Weekly Update

Birdline Australia Published sightings for the week ending 12 Oct 2014. Tue 7 Oct Red-kneed Dotterel Shag Lagoon, King Island Single bird seen on the back edge of the lagoon on both 7th and 8th October. Distance precluded all but a confirm ID photo. Also a single Pink-eared Duck and the amazing site of 10 Latham’s Snipe feeding in the shallows. Rob and James Hamilton Sat 4 Oct Broad-billed Sandpiper Cocos Keeling Islands , South Island One Broad-billed Sandpiper with a small group of waders. Geof Christie Saunders Tern Cocos Keeling Islands,SouthIsland sand flats. There are now 7 Saunders Terns roosting on the same sand bar as previous years. More should arrive and stay until March. There is now 10 differant species of migrating waders on Cocos. Geof Christie