Monday, May 28, 2018

Bird list for SA trip

Emu
Cape Barren Goose
Freckled Duck (Big Swamp, Port Lincoln)
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Australasian Shoveler (Big Swamp, Port Lincoln)
Pacific Black Duck
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Pink-eared Duck
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Australasian Gannet (Whalers Way)
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Black-faced Cormorant
Australasian Darter
Australian Pelican
Great Egret (Glenelg and Thompson's Beach)
White-faced Heron
Little Egret (Thompsons Beach)
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis (McLaren Vale)
Royal Spoonbill (St Kilda)
Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Port Noarlunga)
Brown Goshawk
Black Kite
Black-shouldered Kite (Australian)
Swamp Harrier (St Kilda)
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Whistling Kite
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Australian Spotted Crake (6, St Kilda)
Australasian Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Black-tailed Nativehen
Eurasian Coot
Pied Stilt
Banded Stilt (100s St Kilda)
Red-necked Avocet
Australian Pied Oystercatcher
Sooty Oystercatcher
Masked Lapwing
Red-capped Plover
Red-kneed Dotterel
Curlew Sandpiper (St Kilda)
Red-necked Stint
Silver Gull
Pacific Gull
Fairy Tern (Little Douglas)
Caspian Tern
Crested Tern
Rock Dove
Spotted Dove
Brush Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Sacred Kingfisher (Coffin Bay)
Southern Boobook (Torrens Linear Park)
Nankeen Kestrel
Brown Falcon
Galah
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Long-billed Corella  (Torrens Linear Park)
Rock Parrot (Dutton Bay)
Australian Ringneck
Red-rumped Parrot
Crimson Rosella (Adelaide  Rosella)
Eastern Rosella
Musk Lorikeet  (Torrens Linear Park)
Rainbow Lorikeet
Superb Fairywren
White-winged Fairywren (Whyalla Wetland)
fairywren sp.
Noisy Miner
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (Salt lakes North of Coles Point)
Red Wattlebird
Singing Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Shy Heathwren (Dutton Bay)
Brown Thornbill
Inland Thornbill (Dutton Bay
Dusky Woodswallow
Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Grey Currawong
Black-faced Cuckooshrike
Grey Shrikethrush
Willie Wagtail
Grey Fantail
Magpie-lark
Australian Raven
Little Raven
White-winged Chough
Eurasian Skylark
Welcome Swallow
Silvereye
Common Blackbird
Common Starling
House Sparrow

An alert reader will notice that there is no mention of Common Myna in the list.  I have raised this on the birding-aus email group and have been advised, by various members of the group, of the following:

  • "The South Australian authorities  are trying very hard to keep them out. Unfortunately the Victorian authorities are not particularly interested in dealing with birds that turn up in western Victoria."
  • "I collected specimens for the museum in the mid 1950s and when I left in 1958 they were a number of sightings so the might have died out."
  • "There was one in Adelaide airport a few years ago - I think it was eliminated."

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