sunshine coast birds

An afternoon’s birding on the Sunshine Coast kicked off with a Brown Booby offshore from Port Arkwright among the numerous Australasian Gannets. A few Wedge-tailed and Fluttering Shearwaters were also about. A pair of Beach Stone-Curlews showed well at the mouth of the Noosa River, where they have been easy to see on the north shore in recent weeks. I saw at least eight Glossy Black Cockatoos at Noosaville, including a few that were drinking from a tiny roadside pool within a metre of a huge volume of traffic. Greg Roberts ===============================

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3 comments to sunshine coast birds

  • Nikolas Haass

    Ooops!

     

  • "John Harris"

    Hi Nikolas, yes it is a Barn Owl, as stated in the paragraph that you refer to…. “The species in fact is more common in this area than the Barn Owl – picture attached”. All of your id features were spot on.

    Doesn’t hurt to query though :-) I have seen many a professional website with wrong birds labeled and have in fact had students submit wetlands dioramas for assessment with pictures of Jabiru that were not Australian Black-necked Storks…….

    Looks good Greg. Keep up the blogging.

    Yours in all things “green”

    Regards

    John Harris Manager, Environment and Sustainability Donvale Christian College 155 Tindals Rd Donvale 3111 03 9844 2471 Ext 217 0409 090 955 john.harris@donvale.vic.edu.au

    President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) Past President, Victorian Association for Environmental Education (VAEE) Hi Greg,

    I think you attached the wrong photo. The bird on the photo of your Eastern GRASS Owl paragraph looks like an Eastern BARN Owl to me: it is too short-legged, too white and too big-eyed for an Eastern Grass Owl.

    Cheers,

    Nikolas

  • Nikolas Haass

    Hi Greg,

    I think you attached the wrong photo. The bird on the photo of your Eastern GRASS Owl paragraph looks like an Eastern BARN Owl to me: it is too short-legged, too white and too big-eyed for an Eastern Grass Owl.

    Cheers,

    Nikolas