We are living on Croker Island at the moment. The famous floodplain between the airstrip and community is largely dry and has plenty of Little Curlews and Australian Pratincoles. Near some remnant wet areas, were two Buff-banded Rail, 9 Marsh Sandpipers neither of which along with Little Curlew, have been recorded on Croker Is before. Other new birds for Croker Island I have seen are Australasian Grebe and Swinhoe’s Snipe at the sewage ponds and Royal Spoonbills, a Wedge-tailed Eagle and Pacific Baza. Koels are calling and there are a few Dollarbirds.
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G’day Dominic.
Croker is the northermost largish island Nth of the centre of the “Top End” in the NT. Don should be seeing swifts there soon?
Cheers
Mike =================== Michael Tarburton tarburton.m@optusnet.com.au ===================
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hello Don, are you going to be on Croker for a while? if so would be good to meet up with you when I go there again next July or August. I go there to work with the Iwaidja language project with Bruce Birch and senior Iwaidja speakers and do a little birding in between. Have not had a chance to check out the sewage ponds so am envious of your snipe. I saw a Royal spoonbill there last year, at that Ajamuji floodplain; see http://birdstack.com/people/Fregata/lists/6176.html ; I put the records into the BA Atlas site too. Helen < ')/////==< ________________________________ Cc: birding-aus@vicnet.net.au Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 21:28
We are living on Croker Island at the moment. The famous floodplain between the airstrip and community is largely dry and has plenty of Little Curlews and Australian Pratincoles. Near some remnant wet areas, were two Buff-banded Rail, 9 Marsh Sandpipers neither of which along with Little Curlew, have been recorded on Croker Is before. Other new birds for Croker Island I have seen are Australasian Grebe and Swinhoe’s Snipe at the sewage ponds and Royal Spoonbills, a Wedge-tailed Eagle and Pacific Baza. Koels are calling and there are a few Dollarbirds.
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