Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, August 25, 2014 to Sunday, August 31, 2014: Area: SA Location: Belair National Park Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna) (1) Many of these very active in the Park. Pictures attached. Reported by: Gordon Pateman on Friday, August 29, 2014 ——————————————— Location: Kangaroo Island Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) (300) single concentrated flock at Duck Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, 26 August 2014; population had increased from 15 at this locality in early August 2014 and 220 on 12 August 2014; birds were mostly roosting on emergent fallen logs and branches throughout the day (logs and branches were dead, grey coloured and served as a useful camourflaging medium for resting birds); several males with trace of red at base of bill; ratio of males to females about 50:50. Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata) (2) Irregular visits to forage for invertebrates in riverside lawn of a small inhabited cabin in deep forested wilderness of Demole River East Branch, Kangaroo Island, August 2014. Australasian Shoveler (Anas rhynchotis) (160) on floodwater swamps in paddocks at E end of Rush Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, 24 August 2014; two large flocks comprised bright breeding plumaged males and females at ratio of about 50:50. Australian Hobby (Falco longipennis) (1) flew low along foreshore of Vivonne Bay subdivision, Kangaroo Island, 10 August 2014. Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) (16) substantial gathering for this locality; along with 2 x Pied Cormorants, resting on sandy shore of Eleanor River mouth, Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo Island, 10 August 2014. Red-browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis) (16) single flock feeding in short green winter grass on flats at Duck Lagoon, Kangaroo island, 10 August 2014. Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea) (100+) tight feeding flock on ground in dis-used Emu Bay camp ground, digging up corms of Thread Iris (Gynandriris setifolia) with bills (faces black with mud), Kangaroo island, 4 August 2014; and again, similar number feeding with several Galahs, 24 August 2014. Red-necked Avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae) (107) believed to be the largest flock recorded on Kangaroo Island; swimming (feeding) with Banded Stilts on saline Wisanger Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, 14 August 2014. Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) (c1000) swimming (feeding) with red-necked Avocets, widely dispersed across saline Wisanger Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, 14 August 2014 Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera) (6) feeding (and vocal) in flowering ornamental eucalypts at KI Wildlife Park (c 2km W of Parndana), Kangaroo Island, 25 August 2014; this species has suffered from large-scale clearance of stringybark/Banksia scrub across the central plateau for Soldier Settlement farming, mostly between 1948-60; occurs in small patchy pockets nowadays and a small population is known to exist in roadside stringbark/banksia scrub alongside Playford Highway just W of the wildlife park. Reported by: Chris Baxter on Friday, August 29, 2014 ——————————————— Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014 Location: Belair National Park Playford Lake Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) (3) little black cormorant Reported by: Heather Connolly on Sunday, August 31, 2014 ——————————————— Need more information about a sighting? Login and contact the poster directly. Receive sightings via email or SMS immediately they are posted. Not a member of Birdpedia? Membership is free and gives you access to information for over 230 countries. To sign up go to the Birdpedia Web Site (http://www.birdpedia.com/). To find out more about Birdpedia and what it can do for you, see ‘What is Birdpedia?’ ———————————————