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Journal of NSW BIRDING -New South Wales Field Ornithologists Club Inc.
Volume 32 No. 4 April 2002
ANNUAL BIRD REPORT 1999.BIRDING NSW NSW FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS CLUB Inc
The object of the Club is to promote the study and conservation of Australian birds and
the habitats they occupy.
President Elisabeth Karplus
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Editor Alan Morris
Production Stuart Fairbairn
Photographs. Front cover Pied Heron at Lake Ettamorgah, Albury NSW by Peter Merritt.
Taken on 17 December 1999, second confirmed record for NSW.
Back cover Southern Fulmar, NSW by Eric Andrew. Taken on 19 September
1999, one of many seen off the NSW coast during the winter.
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BIRDS
Volume 32 No 4 April 2002
NEW SOUTH WALES ANNUAL BIRD REPORT 1999
Alan K. Morris
40 Aston Wilde Ave Chittaway Bay NSW 2261
The thirtieth Annual Bird Report covers the period January to 31 December 1999 and
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summarises the more significant observations of birds during that year.
The main aims of the NSW Bird Report continue to be:
To record reported observations of species accidental or rare to NSW;
To record observations which more precisely define the normal distributions of
birds within NSW; and
To record observations which may indicate changes in species numbers, frequency,
range and movements
The format maintains the conventions established in the 1985 Report. The Location Guide,
at Appendix 2, lists all locations mentioned in the text. This guide is intended to assist
readers to better determine the general location of reported observations. The production
of future reports will be greatly assisted if observers provide location map references in
the manner set out in the Appendix. This is more important these days, particularly if the
records are to be used in the Australian Bird Atlas which commenced in August 1998. As
all records submitted to the Australian Bird Atlas must contain the exact co-ordinates for
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 173the sites in which the birds were seen, it would help if the same co-ordinates are provided
when submitting records to the NSWFOC Records Officer.
Information on 461 species is contained in the 1999 Report. This information was gleaned
from about 100+ sources including 361 observers from the NSWFOC, BMBO, CBOC,
IBOC, MFNCN, MVBW & COG; the 100+ observers who contributed to the Annual
Reports of the Central Coast Group of the FOC, Eurobodalla Natural History Society,
Illawarra and Hunter Bird Observers Clubs; publications of other bird organisations and
reports and messages from Birding-Aus on the Internet. The number of records and the
number of observers continue to increase and the information provided is greater than
before. New contributors to this report, who by the year 2000 have become well known
birders include Hal Wootton & Stephen Popple. Abbreviations for these organisations
are as follows: Aust. Birding = Australian Birding; Birdline = Telephone Info. Line for
the NSW bird groups; BMBO = Blue Mountains Bird Observers Newsl; Gang Gang =
Newsl. of the Canberra Ornith. Group; CBOC = Cumberland Bird Obs. Club Newsl.;
CCBR = Central Coast Group,Birding NSW FOC Annual Report; HBOC = Hunter Bird
Obs. Annual Report; HBWN = Hastings Birdwatchers newsl.; IBOC = Illawarra Bird
Observers Clu, IBR = Illawarra Bird Report; MFNCN = Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists
Club Newsl.; MVB = Manning Valley Birdwatchers; MVBO = Macleay Valley Bird
Observers; NSWBA = NSW Bird Atlassers; NSWFOC = NSW Field Ornithologists Club;
SOSSA = Southern Ocean Seabird Survey Assoc.; TBN = Tamworth Birdwatchers Nwsl.;
TBO = The Bird Observer; Wingspan = Birds Australia Newsl. Other abbreviations used
include “A” for adult, “AM” for Adult Male, and “AF” for adult female, “D” for dead or
beachcast, “E” for eggs, “GC” for golf course, “HC” for heard calling, “HS” for high
school, “1m” immature, “N” for nest, “Pr” for pairs, “RK” for road kill, RP for Regional
Park and “RS” for railway station. Cedar Hill Drive Swamp, Minmi, an area well known
to birdwatchers in the Hunter Region, had two names changes in 1999, first to Pourmalong
Swamp, and then to Pambalong Swamp Nature Reserve, by which name it is referred to
in this Report.
A number of unusual or otherwise significant records were received in 1999 with one
new species, the Antarctic Petrel seen off Mistral Point, Maroubra on 26 July, being
added to the New South Wales List. The colder than usual ocean currents in June & July
may well have been the reason for the most Blue Petrel records since 1973 (9 reports of
14 birds in total), many Southern Fulmars, a Sooty Albatross (the first confirmed record
since 1985) & a Light -mantled Sooty Albatross. A Pied Heron was observed and
photographed at a wetland at Ettamogah near Albury in December, and was accepted as
the 2″ record for NSW. There were 8 reports of Grey Falcons, including breeding records
for Wanaaring and West Wyalong, being the most records for this species reported in any
one year in the NSW Bird Reports. A Roseate Tern in January at Woody Head, lluka
became the 5th confirmed record for NSW while in September and October there was an
influx of Black & Pied Honeyeaters in NSW, and again the number of Pied Honeyeaters
174 April 2002reports was the greatest since the Bird Reports commenced in 1970 and at the same time
there was also an influx of Pied Honeyeaters into Victoria.
There was no major weather patterns of significance this year although cyclonic rains in
southern Queensland and north-eastern NSW in late December 1998 & January 1999
brought flood rains to the Gwydir catchment and subsequent flooding to the Gingham
Watercourse in January for the second consectutive year. Colder than usual ocean currents
off the NSW coast in June & July would appear to have attracted a number of more
southerly occurring seabirds to coastal waters south of Newcastle. Finally I am pleased to
report that the number of colonial nesting egrets in the coastal colonies showed an increase,
the first time in about 8 years!
The operations of Birds Australia (BARC) and the NSW Ornithological Records Appraisal
Committees (NSWORAC) continue to run smoothly and assist the editors of this report
in reviewing rare or erroneous records. Their assistance is greatly appreciated because of
the level of credibility that is now placed on sightings of an unusual nature.
The scientific and English names used in this report follow that of the RAOU Checklist
(Christidis & Boles 1994). For each species, all observations are presented in a set order
that follows generally the order of Regions in the State as described by McAllan & Bruce
(1988). Observations from coastal regions are listed first from north to south, followed
by the tablelands, slopes and plains. Each set of observations is separated from those of
other regions by semi -colons. The locations given in Appendix 2 are identified with these
regions. However, in order to take account of the five annual bird reports, it is necessary
in the text to refer to that section of NSW from Harrington to Lake Macquarie as the
“Hunter Region”, Gosford & Wyong local government areas as the “Central Coast”, the
County of Cumberland northwest to St Albans, Upper Colo, Bilpin and west to Springwood
as “Sydney Region”, the County of Camden and the Shoalhaven Shire as “Illawarra” and
Eurobodal la and Bega Shires as “So

uth Coast”, as these areas co-incide with the reporting
areas of their reports.
Since the preparation of this Report commenced a number of regular contributors have
passed away and in particular mention must be made of S.G. (Bill) Lane whose name
figures in the first report of 1970 and continues right through to the 1999 Report. Bill
died on 4 January 2000 and was a close personal friends of the editor, had a great interest
in the distribution of the birds in NSW and hence was a willing contributor to this Report
and his contribution will be sorely missed.
Finally a plea for all those people who find dead birds, which are either difficult to identify
or unusual. When such specimens are found, seek to have the specimen sent to the
Australian Museum for identification. If local wildlife carer groups like WIRES are unable
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 175to assist to have the specimen taken to the Museum, contact your local NPWS office for
assistance.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to thank all those people who submitted their reports promptly so enabling
this report to be produced on time and for Chris Chafer, Greg Clancy, Tony Bischoff and
Rod Gardner who reviewed the draft. I would also like to thank Stuart Fairbairn who
prepared the production and layout of this issue of the journal. For the assistance and
committment of these people, I am extremely grateful.
SYSTEMATIC LIST
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae 2 Crowsnest Swamp, Coldstream 3-9 Aug, A+5Y
Pillar Valley 9 Aug & 2 E of Pillar valley 11 Sep, A Iluka Golf Course 27 Nov (GC),
M&F resident Shark Island, South West Rocks (KS); 2-5 Tuross throughout the year
(ENHS); 3 Munghorn Gap NR 4 Apr (FOC); 5 Murphys Crossing, Lake Burragorang in
woodland (CC), only known population in the Illawarra Region; 3+ nests in small area
Merrigal HSD, Collie (HJ); 3 Binya SF 12 Nov (KH); 27 together near Wentworth 22
Sep (RB). The North Coast population is under consideration by the NSW Scientific
Committee as an “Endangered Population”.
Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata Loughnan NR Oct (NL) & Taleeban Res 28 Oct
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(DMo), only records.
Australian Brush -turkey Alectura lathami Located in coastal areas and the Wattagan
& Barrington Ranges in the Hunter Region with 2 at New Lambton Heights 6 Nov (HBR),
an unusual location and possibly the fore runners of an urban population?; Common &
resident on the Central Coast with a nesting mound at Mt Penang, a new location (CCFOC);
1 Mackeral Beach 12 Jan (DH), 1m (possibly an avairy escapee?) Merrylands 1-13 Jan
(ALe), 1 West Head, Kur-ringai Chase NP 19 Jun (TQ); 2 at mound, Mt Keira Track 29
Jul -6 Aug (CC); F Mt Wilson 28-31 May (ERy), Dunns Swamp, Wollemi NP 28 Jun
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(JSe). Urban records continue to increase.
Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis Small numbers1-2, in lower Macleay Valley Jan –
Aug at Aldavilla, Millbank, Shark & Pelican Islands (KS), HC Mooraback Rest Area,
Werrikimbee NP 23-36 Jan (ABi); Small numbers in the Wybong/Bunnan & Segenhoe
area of the Upper Hunter, max 10+ Wybong 21 Nov (HBR); 1 Hoxton Park Jan (GT), 3
McGraths Hill STW 10 Jan (DPo), I Wattamolla RNP 31 Oct (TQ); I Killalea Lagoon 3
Jan (CB); 1 Capertee Valley 10 Jan (RT), I Blackheath 7 Feb (GJ); 1 McPherson Range,
Narrandera 22 Jul (SC).
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April 2002Brown Quail C. ypsilophora Common & widespead on the Central Coast, with 2A+3Y
Mingara Paddock, Killarney Vale 14 Dec (CCFOC); Max 10 North Head 3 May & 15 Jul
(BAy,TP), max 6 Mason Park, Concord 26 Apr -6 Oct (BAy,CSh, SF,TD); Bomaderry
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Creek 27 Jan (KM).
King Quail C. chinensis No records received.
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata Present Jabiru Wetlands Mar, Jun & Dec max 7
on 23 Jun (ABi,JH), 13+ Long Hole Lagoon, Crowsnest Swamp 11 Sep (GC); 5 Seaham
Swamp NR with juveniles at Market Swamp 2 Jan & Shortland WC 19 Sep (HBR), 20
flew over Bulandelah 26 Aug (GCp); 4 Junee Caravan Park 19 Oct -14 Nov (MC); 7
Gingham Watercourse 26-27 Jan (RC). Breeding: 8 prs Narran Lake, 20 prs Macquarie
Marshes & 20 prs Gwydir wetlands (Wetlands 1999).
Plumed Whistling -Duck Dendrocygna eytoni Max 44 Sportsman Creek 23 Mar -3 May,
max 14 Alumy Creek 13 Mar -10 Apr, A+2Y Tucabia May, 40 Waterview Heights 3
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Jul, 50+ Roberts Ck, Woodford is 21 Jul, 10 Butterfactory Lane, Grafton 6 Aug, 200+ S
of Lawrence 28 Nov, resident 150+ N of Coutts Crossing (ABi,GC), 60 Cowans Ponds 2
Apr & 9 Geneebeinga Wetlands Casino (ABi), 30+ resident Jacana HSD, Clarenza (EW);
Present Doughboy Hollow Mar -Aug, max 230 on 20 Jun (HBR); 2 Pughs Lagoon 24 Mar
(KB); max 300+ Lake Goran 29 Oct -12 Nov (GBo,GMi,IDo); 20+ Junee STW 15 Oct
(MC); 18 Carmel Lagoon, Terridgerie 30 Oct (DJo); 31 Fivebough Swamp 26 Oct (MS).
Good spread of records.
Wandering Whistling -Duck D. arcuata 3A+8Y Ocean Shores, Brunswick Heads 29
Mar (RMo), 44 Sportsman Creek Weir 3 May, 4 Alumy Creek N of Grafton 23 Oct (GC);
7 Geneebeinga Wetlands, Casino 26 Jun (BC), 23 Macksville 23 Jul (KS); Present the
lower Hunter Valley Jan -May & Aug -Dec, max 150 Shortland WC 22 Dec, juveniles
Market Swamp 2 Jan & SWC 22 Dec (HBR); Royal Bot. Gardens 31 May (SF) escapee
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from Zoo, 2 McGraths Hill STW 16-21 Oct (DPo,TQ). A small population continues in
NSW.
Blue -billed Duck Oxuyra australis 3 Killalea Lagoon 15 Feb (PF); 200+ Little Langothlin
Lagoon mid Jan, 30 pr Dangars Lagoon, Uralla 29 Dec (JCe); 4 Quipolly Dam throughout
1999; 2 pr Gingham Watercourse 26 Jan (RC); 4 Merrigal HSD, Collie 4 Jul (HJ); Max
4 Fivebough Swamp 7 Mar -17 Oct (IH,KH), 6 Griffith STW 4 Apr (JDu). The Northern
Tablelands Region remains important for the species.
Musk Duck Biziura lobata Resident Grahamstown Dam max 15 on 30 Apr & 6 Morpeth
STW 20 Jun (HBR); Resident Central Coast at Tuggerah STW & Colongra Lake in small
numbers, but also reported from Kincumber STW, Tuggerah Lakes & Tuggerah Lagoon
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 177(CCFOC); 2+1Y Centennial Park 3 Jan (PDb), Kronos Hill Pond, Homebush 20 Mar
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(JSe), Lane Cove River, Hunters Hill 6 Apr (DH), 2 Cronulla HS Swamp 20 Jun (EV);
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1 Mittagong 20 Feb (LG), max 5 Swan Lake 2 May -6 Jun (KM), 15 Killalea Lagoon 13
Jun (DG); 20 Dangars Lagoon, Uralla 29 Dec (JCe); A number of the Sydney & Illawarra
sites are new locations for this species.
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa 3 Ash Island 8 Feb (HBR); 1 Bushells Lagoon 9 Jul
(JSe); 1 Killalea Lagoon 3 Jan (CC); 1 Dumaresq Dam, Armidale 1 Oct (AM1); 4 Karoo
HSD, Meadow Flat 18 Jul -7 Aug (AR); 3 Jerambombera Wetlands ACT 29-30 May
(CP); I Quipolly Dam Apr (GMi), 10 Breeza waterhole Apr (JPe); 1 Lake Cowal 7 Aug
& 50 on 2 Oct (PPe); 2 Griffith STW 23-24 Jan, 25+ on 3 Apr (JDu), 2 Tharbogang STW
23 Jan (APi), 5 Fivebough Swamp 7 Mar -15 May (KH,MS), 15 Tullakool Salt Basin 29
Dec (JN); on 183 Dam, Willow Point HSD, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Only
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small numbers and no clear pattern of abundance.
Black Swan Cygnus. atratus Reported nesting in the Hunter Region every month of the
year (HBR); 12 nesting events reported from the Central Coast throughout the year,
highest for 5 years, present all year Tuggerah Lakes max 2628 Jan, of which 1818 were
on Budgewoi Lake (CCFOC); 2000+ Lake Wollumboola 23 Jan (CC); 150-200 nesting
on Fenton’s Swamp, Collie 3 Jul (HJ); 21+ nests Fivebough Swamp 28 Jul, 100+ nests
Bulls Run 15 Jul (MS). Average year.
Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides Im McGraths Hill STW 17 Jan (EV); 5
Hoskins NR 22 Feb (RBo), 1 Milton 23 Jun (KM); 2 Goolloinboin HSD, Glen Davis 11
Dec (PDb); 40 Fivebough 17 Oct, low count compared to previous years (KH).
Cotton Pygmy -Goose Nettapu coromandelianus No records reported.
Green Pygmy -Goose N. pulchellus No records reported.
Pacific Black Duck A. superciliosus 500+ Hexham Swamp 15 May (HBR), large
concentration;
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis Small numbers max 20+ at 8 sites in the Clarence
Valley 18 May -I I Sep (GC), 50+ Jabiru Wetlands, Casino 23 Jun (JH); 124 Morpeth
STW 27 Feb & 50+ Tarro 26 Feb (HBR); Present McGraths Hill STW 29 May -29 Aug,
max 36 on 29 Aug (ARo,EV); 30+ Windang Peninsula 20 Jun (RI) & 10 Koong-bury
Bay Lake Illawarra 5 Aug (JB); 1 Barlings Swamp I Jun, only South Coast record (ENHS);
9 Carmel Lagoon Baradine 6 Jul (DJo), unusual location. Average year for coastal sites,
note the movement to the coast Jun -Aug.
178 April 2002Grey Teal A. gracilis 500-1000 SE of Cowper 6 Jul (GC); Only small numbers on the
Central Coast max 362 Tuggerah Lakes in Oct cf 2920 in 1991! (CCFOC); 3525 Fivebough
Swamp 17 Jul & 1261 on 17 Oct (HBR).
Chestnut Teal A. castanea 700 Ash Island 6 Mar, 600+ Hexham Swamp 15 May & 300
Kooragang Is Mar (HBR), large concentrations for Hunter Valley; 5000+ Lake
Wollumboola 24 Jan (CC), a large concentration.
Pink -eared Duck Malacorhynchus membranaceus Present Jabiru Wetlands, Casino
Apr -Jun, max 102 on 23 Jun (ABOH), 100+ Belmore Swamp 20 May (ARc), 40+ Swan
Creek 24 Aug -11 Sep (GC); Reported in the Lower Hunter Valley all year, max numbers
124 Morpeth STW 27 Feb, 67 Ash Island 6 Mar, 50 Tan -o Swamps 26 Feb (HBR); Reported
on the Central Cost in small numbers 16 Jan -Aug, max 28 Tuggerah (CCFOC); Max 150
Pitt Town Lagoon 16 Jan -I6 Apr (A Ro,ASt,EV), present Bi-centennial Park Homebush
16 Jan -2 Jul, max 168 on Jul (ARo,EH,JSe,NH), Riverine Park, Arncliffe 3 Mar
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(RMo); Recorded at 6 sites in the Illawarra 8 Jan -S Aug, max 40 Windang Peninsula 20
Jun (IBR), first record for this site; 24 Dangars Lagoon Ural la 29 Dec (JCe); 100+ Curlewis
STW 10 Jul (AA). More coastal records than usual.
Ha rdhead Aythya australis 150+ Sportsman Creek 23 Mar -18 May (GC), a large local
concentration.
Australasian Little Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae Small numbers feeding in a
weed bed on the salt water Tuggerah Lake 6 Jun (CCFOC), unusual location.
Hoary -headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus Present on the Central Coast 10
Apr -28 August, max 10 Colongra Lake 10 Apr, confirming its status as a winter visitor
(CCFOC).
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus 15-20 occasionally Walka Water Works 27
Feb -I May (HBR), smaller numbers at 2 other sites; 3 Lake Illawarra 19 Sep (SKi), 50+
Lake Burragorang 15 Dec (CC); 200+ Lake Wallis, Wallerawang 17 Jan (PDb), 2 Rylstone
STW 24 Dec (PR); Gum Swamp, Forbes 4 Oct (ML); 4 Lake Wyangan 23-26 Jan
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(JDu), 6 Lake Cargelligo 18 Sep (AM).
Little Penguin Eudyptula minor I Crescent Head 17 Mar (MVBO) & 1 Crowdy Head
9 Apr (HBR), the 2 most northerly records for the year; Darling Point 10 May (BP),
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max 5 Berrys Bay, Sydney Harbour 24 Jul -26 Aug (TN), some interesting upper Harbour
records.
Common Diving Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix off Long Reef 6 Aug, on 19-20 Oct
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(MR), beachcast Cronulla Beach 28 Aug (DH); 2 off Eden 16 May (GCI). More records
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than usual and consistent with known distribution, 30 -33rd records for NSW.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 179Southern Giant -Petrel Macronectes giganteus Present offshore South West Rocks to
Grassy Head 17 Mar- 25 Sep, max 2 (KS,JMe,LMc); Present off Norah Head 3 Jul, 1
beachcast Umina Beach 15 Jul (CCFOC); Max 24, including 2 white morph off Mistral
Pt/ Magic Pt Maroubra 23 Jun -28 Nov (RG), 2 Long Reef 10 Jul (EV) & 2 white morphs
on 15 Aug (MR), 2 off Sydney 7 Aug & on 14 Aug (AP); Present off Wollongong 27
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Jun -20 Oct, max 8 on 25 Jul (ASt,PM), 3 white morphs Point Perpendicular 12 Sep
(MR), 6 inshore off Sandon Point 8 Aug (JB); Present off Eden 20 Jun -19 Sep, max 9 on
19 Sep (BJ,EA).
Northern Giant -Petrel M. hall i on Continental Shelf off Grassy Head 24 Aug (LMc);
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Present off Magic Pt/Mistral Pt Maroubra 8 Jun -I5 Aug, max 18 on 15 Jul (DMe,EV,RG),
2 off Sydney 7 & 14 Aug (AP); Present of Wollongong 3 Jul -22 Aug, max 4 on 25 Jul
(PM); Present off Eden 20 Jun -19 Sep, max 4 on 15 Aug (BJ,EA). More records than
usual, possibly there is an upwards trend.
Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoidies 1 off Norah Head 27 Jul, 1m Central Coast
record in 27 years (CCFOC); off Sydney 29 Jun (SAs), off Long Reef 24 Jun -3 Aug
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(MR), 1 off Magic Pt Maroubra 14 Jun -13 Sep (RG); 1 Austimer 9 Jul (TWy), 1 off
Wollongong 10 Jul, 17 Jul, 19 Sep (ASt,PM), I Bass Point Wollongong 15 Aug (GB), 1
Pt Perpendicular 12 Sep (MR); 2 off Batemans Bay 8 Aug (PM), off Eden 19 Sep (EA),
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2 beachcast Haycock Rock, Merimbula 18 Nov (LS). A mimimum of 14 records along
the entire southern coastline of NSW 14 Jun -18 Nov, this is without precedent and an
extraordinary situation for a bird rarely reported in NSW.
Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica observed off Magic Pt Maroubra 26 Aug
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(RG), accepted by BARC, first NSW record and first submission for this species for the
Australian mainland..
Cape Petrel Daption capense australe Present off South West Rocks to Grassy Head 4
Jul -25 Sep, max 40 on 4 Jul (KS,LMc); 1 off Port Stephens 8 Oct (HBR); 1 off Norah
Head 28 Aug, first Central Coast record (CCFOC); Present off Magic Pt Maroubra 26
Jun -I 8 Nov, max 150+ 15 Jul & 36 on 24 Oct (DMe,RG), max 30 off Long Reef 1 Jun –
2 Jul, 2 on 12 Oct (MR), present off Sydney 7 Jul -13 Nov, max 25-30 on 9 Oct (AP);
Present off Wollongong 27 Jun -20 Oct, max 150+ on 21 Aug (ASt, PM); Present off
Eden 20 Jun -21 Nov max 17 on 17 Oct (BJ,EA), 6 off Tollgate Islands 6 Oct (ENHS). 2
of the race D. c. capense reported off Wollongong 10 Jul (PM). These are exceptional
numbers for NSW.
Kerguelen Petrel Lugensa brevirostris 1 off Sydney 29 Jun (SAs), I off Long Reef 13
Jul (MR), I off Magic Pt Maroubra 24 Oct (RG); 1 off Wollongong 27 Jun (AP) & 2 on
19 Jul (PM). More records than usual.
180 April 2002Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata 4 seen 17 n.m. ENE North Solitary Island 21
Jan (NCh), 24th record, only report received.
Great -winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera Numbers greater than usual and reported
all year, max 130 off Mistral Pt Maroubra 14 Jul, 200 off Sydney 13 Nov, 150 on 11 Dec
(A P,ASt); 150-200 off Wollongong 13 Nov, and 200 off Eden 21 Nov (BJ,EA).
White -headed Petrel P. lessonii I beachcast North Entrance 15 Jul (CCFOC), 1’1 Central
Coast record; I Magic Pt Maroubra 14-15 Jul & 8 Sep (RG), 1 blown inland to Peakhurst
15 Jul (Birdline), max 57 off Sydney 7-15 Aug (AP), 1 off Long Reef 3 Sep (MR); 3 off
Wollongong 27 Jun, I on 25 Jul, 5 on 21 Aug, I on 20 Oct (AP,ASt,PM); 2 off Eden 18
Apr (BJ). More records than usual.
Providence Petrel P. solandri Present off South West Rocks to Grassy Head 4 Jul -25
Sep, max 5 on 25 Sep (LMc,KS); Present off Sydney, including Maroubra 23 Jun -Dec,
max 40+ on 7 Aug (AP,ASt,RG; Present off Wollongong May -Nov, max 55 on 10 Jul
(AP,ASt,PM); 2 off Eden 18 Jul, 30 on 17 Oct (BJ). Average year.
Kermadec Petrel P. neglecta off Wollongong 28 Feb (AP), but no submission to
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NSWORAC.
Herald Petrel P. ardminjoniana I off South West Rocks 31 Dec (LMc), but no submission
to NSWORAC.
Soft -plumage Petrel P. mollis 3 records off Wollongong 1 on 10 Jul accepted by
NSWORAC, but for the others on 27 Jun (AP) & on 8 Aug (LS), no submissions were
made.
White- necked Petrel P. cervicalis I seen 8 n.m. ESE Smoky Cape 23 Jan (NCh), 1 off
South West Rocks 4 Jul (KS); 1, 24 n.m. E of Port Stephens 31 Jan (NCh); 2 off Sydney
9 Jan (ASt), Long Reef 9 Feb (MRo). Consistent with known distribution although the
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Jul record is unusual, 24 -28th NSW records.
Black -winged Petrel P. nigripennis No reports in 1999.
Gould’s Petrel P. leucoptera off Grassy Head 16 Jun & 2 on 22 Sep (LMc,KS);
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Continued efforts by NPWS and volunteers have led to increased numbers of pairs nesting
& rearing young on Cabbage Tree Island. Almost 300 chicks were fledged in 1998/99.
NPWS trans -located 100 of the chicks to nearby Boondelbah Is with the aim of establishing
a second colony to reduce vulnerability to a disaster on Cabbage Tree Island (HBR). 510
active nests were recorded Cabbage Tree Is Nov -Dec (NC); 7 off Wollongong 27 Nov,
4 on 27 Dec (ASt,AP); 1 off Eden 17 Jan & 21 Nov (BJ,EA), 1 off Tuross Heads 18 Dec
(ENHS).
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 181Blue Petrel Halbaena caerula 3 off Long Reef 9-16 Jul, on 7 Aug, Ion 7 Sep (MR),
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2 off Sydney 10 Jul (AR), the only record submitted to & accepted by NSWORAC; 3 off
Wollongong 3 Jul, I on 17 Jul, 4 on 21 Aug (PM), 1 off Point Perpendicular 12 Sep
(MR); 2 off Batemans Bay 8 Aug (PM). The most records since 1973.
Antarctic Prion Pachyptila desolata blown ashore Lakehaven 14 Jul & another
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Killarney Vale same day, beachcast north Birdie Beach 20 Nov (CCFOC); Max 2 off
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Magic Pt Maroubra 26 Jun -31 Jul and 1 beachcast Maroubra Beach 15 Jul (RG), 4 off
Sydney 7 Aug (AP); Present off Wollongong 27 Jun -21 Aug, max 60 on 27 Jun (AP,PM).
The most records for a number of years.
Fairy Prion P. turtur Present off South West Rocks & Grassy Head 4-15 Jul, max 5 off
South West Rocks on 4 Jul (LMc,KS); I blown ashore to Bulandelah 15 Jul (LMc); Many
off Norah Head 3 Jul (CCFOC); Max 50 off Magic Pt Maroubra 26 Jun -15 Aug (RG),
max 15-f off Sydney 7-14 Aug (AP); max 100+ off Wollongong 27 Jun -21 Aug (PM);
Max 25 off Eden 20 Jun -15 Aug (BJ). Average year.
Slender- billed Prion P. belcheri Max 14 off Magic Pt Maroubra 26 Jun -I Aug (DK,RG),
1 beachcast Maroubra Beach 15 Jul (RG), 1 off Sydney 10 Jul & 2 on 7 Aug (AP);
Present off Wollongong 27 Jun -25 Jul, max 2 (AP,PM); off Eden 18 Jul & 7 on 15 Aug
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(EA). More records than usual.
Salvin’s Prion P. salvini off Wollongong 10 Jul (PM), only record.
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White -chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis 1 off Sydney II Sep, 1 on 11 Dec
(AP,ASt); off Lake Wollumboola 5 Dec (ASt). Referred to NSWORAC.
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Black Petrel P. parkinsoni Max 3 off Sydney 13 Nov & 11 Dec (AP,ASt,H); 4 off
Wollongong 27 Nov (ASt), 3 off Lake Wollumboola 5 Dec (ASt); 6 off Eden 17 Jan & 3
on 21 Nov (BJ,EA), 3 east of Tuross Heads 5 Dec (PM). More records than usual.
Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas off Wollongong 28 Feb (AP), 35th
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NSW record.
Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus 5000 off Newcastle Baths 23 Jan, 1000
off Port Stephens 8 Oct & Birubi Pt 24 Oct (HBR); Max 5000 Mistral Pt Maroubra 12
Aug -24 Oct, and I out of season on 12 Jul (DMe,RG); 1 off Wollongong 23 May, a late
date,; 5 off Eden 18 Jul (out of season?), 7 on 17 Oct (B1). A catastropic year for chick
production on Montagu Island in Jan when heavy rain fell at a critical time as eggs were
hatching and or young just a few days old, most chicks died, this is the worse result since
1970-71 (Fullagar & Heligers 1999). Arrival: Magic Pt 12 Aug (RG), 2 Soldiers Point
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13 Aug (CCBR), 40 off Wollongong 21 Aug (PM).
182 April 2002Buller’s Shearwater P. bulleri 6 off Sydney 9 Jan, 1 on 13 Feb, 2 on 11 Dec
(AP,ASt,DH,RCI), off Maroubra 4 Jan -5 Feb, on 20 Sep, on 18 Oct (DMe,RG),
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off Long Reef 12 Oct & 27 Nov (MR); off Wollongong 26 Jan, 28 Feb, 27 Nov (AP,ASt),
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2 off Lake Wollumboola 5 Dec (ASt); 4 off Eden 4 Jan, on 18 Apr (BJ) & 31 Oct (ND),
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1 East of Tuross Heads 5 Dec (PM). The most records ever in one year.
Flesh -footed Shearwater P. carneipes Reported off Broughton Is Jan (HBR); beachcast
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Birdie Bch MSRA 26 Mar & again 12 Dec (CCBR); 6 Mistral Pt Maroubra 8 Mar, 60 on
2 Apr & 2 on 23 Oct (RG), 30 off Sydney on 9 Jan, 2 on 8 May & 30 on 11 Dec
(AP,ASt). Average year.
Sooty Shearwater P. griseus beachcast North Birdie Bch MSRA 20 Nov (CCBR);
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Max 4 on 9 Jan, and max 20 off Sydney 13 Nov -11 Dec (ASt), off Magic Pt 17 Oct
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(RG); 3 off Wollongong 24 Jan, 2 25 Jul -27 Nov (AP,PM); 11 off Eden 18 Apr, 1 on 15
Aug, on 19 Sep (BJ,EA), none found breeding on Montagu Island (Fullagar & Heyligers
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1999). Average year.
Short -tailed Shearwater P. tenuirostris 100 dead in 10 km Patches Beach, Ballina 28
Nov (ML); 26 beachcast in 4km of Birdie Beach MSRA 12 Dec (CCBR); late date
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Mistral Pt Maroubra 21 May & 23 Jun, 21,000 p.h. passing Maroubra 27 Nov (DMe,RG);
I off Wollongong 3 Jul (PM); 2 off Eden 18 Jul (BJ), presumably the latter two
observations represent over -wintering. There was a catastropic year for chick production
on Montagu Island due to heavy rainfall in Jan when eggs were hatching and chicks were
only a few days old, worse season since 1970-71 (Fullagar & Heyligers 1999). Arrival:
9 Mistral Point 11 Sep (RG), 3 Norah Head 18 Sep (CCBR).
Fluttering Shearwater P. gavia Present off the Central Coast Jun -Oct, including 2000+
Soldiers Point 25 Oct (CCBR); 2500 per hour passing Mistral Pt Maroubra, 670 going
south in 30 minutes Oct (DMe); 28 off Wollongong 21 Aug (PM).
Hutton’ Shearwater P. huttoni Present off Sydney 13 Feb -11 Dec, max 100 on 14 Aug
(AP,ASt,DH,MCa), present off Magic Pt Maroubra 21 Jan -27 Nov, max 350 on 12 Aug
(BC,DMe,RG); Present off Wollongong 28 Feb -27 Nov, max 25 on 26 Sep (AP,PM);
Present off Eden 16 May -17 Oct, max 7 on 17 Oct (BJ.EA). Larger numbers are being
reported than ever before.
Little Shearwater P. assimilis No reports in 1999.
Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans 3A+1 Im off Grassy Head 30 Jun, Im off
South West Rocks 4 Jul & 25 Sep (LMc.KS); 1 Long Reef 29 Mar , then max 7 Long
Reef 10 Jul, 5-23 Oct (EV,MR), I off Maroubra 9 Feb, max 20 off Mistral Pt Maroubra 9
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 183May -14 Dec (DMe,RG), 1 off Sydney 5-20 on 9 Oct, 18 on 11 Dec (AP,ASt); 14 off
Wollongong 29 Aug (AP), 35 off Pt Perpendicular 12 Sep (MR); Present off Eden 18
Apr- 21 Nov max 27 on 17 Oct (BJ,EA). Arrival: off Maroubra 9 Feb (RG), off
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Sydney 9 May (AP). Departure: 12 off Sydney 11 Dec (SE) & Mistral Pt 31 Dec (RG).
Numbers continue to increase.
Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans exu/ans Present off WollongonL, 27 Jun -27
Nov, max 15 on 27 Nov (AP,ASt,PM).
Gibson’s Albatross Diomedea exulans gibsonii Present off Sydney 14 Aug -13 Nov
max 10 on 9 Oct (AP), Mistral Pt Maroubra 14 Dec (DMe), max 2 Long Reef 24-27
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Nov (MR); Present off Wollongong 24 May -27 Dec, max 28 on 21 Aug (AP,ASt,PM);
10 off Lake Wollumboola 5 Dec (ASt).
Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea exuluns amsterdamensis 12 off Sydney 9 Oct (AP);
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off Wollongong 26 Sep (AP), first Australian records.
Antipodes Albatross Diomedea exulans antipodensis 3 off Sydney 14 Aug, 2 on 9 Oct
(ASt); Present off Wollongong 27 Jun -20 Oct, max 3 on 26 Sep (ASt,PM).
Wandering Albatross? Diomedea exulans dabbenena? off Wollongong 20 Oct (ASt).
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Southern Royal Albatross D. ephomophora sandfordi 1 off South West Rocks 3 Nov
(KS); 1 off Magic Pt Maroubra 31 Jul (EV), accepted by NSWORAC; I off Wollongong
8 Aug (PM), referred to NSWORAC.
Northern Royal Albatross D. ephomophora ephomophora Imm off Magic Pt Maroubra
27 Jun (RG), I on 31 Jul (EV); 1 off Wollongong 25 Jul & 8 Aug (PM), referred to
NSWORAC.
Black-browed Albatross D. melanophris melanophris Present off South West Rocks 4
Jul -25 Sep single birds (LMc,KS); 2 off Birubi Pt 24 Oct & off Forster Oct (HBR);
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Present off Central Coast 12 Jun -28 Aug, max 8 off Toowoon Bay Reefs 17 Jun (CCBR);
Present off Sydney 9 May -11 Dec max 10+ on 14 Aug (ASt,AP), present off Mistral Pt
Maroubra 23 Feb -29 Dec, mac 260 on 12 Sep (RG), max 50+ off Long Reef 10 Jul -27
Nov (EV,MR); Max 75 off Wollongong 27 Jun -27 Nov (AP,ASt,PM); Max 50 off Eden
18 Apr -21 Nov (BJ,EA).
Campbell’s Albatross D. melanophris impavida Present off Sydney 8 May -11 Dec,
max 5 on 13 Nov (ASt,AP); Present off Wollongong 23 May -27 Nov, max 125 on 21
Aug (AP,ASt,PM); Present off Eden 18 Apr -21 Nov, max 18 on 18 Jul (BJ,EA).
184 April 2002Shy Albatross D. cauta cauta Present off South West Rocks & Grassy Head 4 Jul -22
Sep, all single birds (LMc,KS); 1 Norah Head 3 Jul & 1 beachcast Budgewoi Bch Nov
(CCBR); 8+ off Sydney 14 Aug -13 Nov (AP), 1-2 off Long Reef 11 Jul (EV), Present off
Maroubra 21 Jun -20 Oct, max 13 on 12 Sep (RG); Max 30 off Wollongong 27 Jun -20
Oct (AP,ASt,PM), 400 off Point Perpendicular 12 Sep (MR); Max 160 off Eden 18 Apr –
21 Nov (BJ,EA).
Sa !yin ‘s Albatross D. cauta salvini 2 off Sydney 14 Aug (AP); off Wollongong 25
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Jul, 9 on 21 Aug (PM); 1 off Eden 18 Apr, 1 on 16 May (BJ).
Chatham Island Albatross D. cauta erimita off Wollongong 21 Aug (PM); off
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Batemans Bay 8 Aug (PM).
Grey -headed Albatross D. chtysostoma 3J & A off Wollongong 27 Jun -3 Jul, Im on 21
Aug, on 19 Sep (ASt, AP,PM); off Eden 19 Sep (EA). The Juv off Wollongong 27
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Jun & the immature off Eden were accepted by NSWORAC as the 20th & 21Sconfirmed records for NSW. Indian Yellow -nosed Albatross D. chlororhynchus bassi Present off South West Rocks - Grassy Head 16 Jun -22 Sep, max 15+ on 4 Jul (LMc,KS); Present off the Central Coast 12 Jun -Sep (CCBR); 30+ off Long Reef 10 Jul (EV), Present off Magic Pt Maroubra 30 Apr -25 Oct, max 64 on 26 Jun (RG); Max 75 off Wollongong 23 May -21 Aug (PM); Max 50 off Eden 18 Apr -17 Oct (BJ,EA). Average year. Atlantic Yellow -nosed Albatross D. chlororhynchus Atlantic race off Wollongong 1 21 Aug (PM). Buller's Albatross D. bulleri 1 off Wollongong 23 May (CB), 5 on 3 Jul, 1 on 25 Jul (AP,PM); I off Eden 20 Jun (EA). More records than usual, 39th -42nd records for NSW. Sooty Albatoss Phobetria fusca A off Wollongong 3 Jul (PM), first bird recorded in NSW since 1985, and accepted as the 18th record by NSWORAC. Light -mantled Sooty Albatross P. palpebrata off Sydney 29 Jun (SAs); off I 1 Wollongong 27 Jun (AP), accepted by NSWORAC as the 13th record for NSW. Wilson's Storm -Petrel Oceanites oceanicus Present off South West Rocks & Grassy Head 4 Jul -18 Oct, max 5+ on 25 Sep (LMc,KS); I Long Reef 5 Oct (MR), 10 off Mistral Pt Maroubra 24 Oct & 1 on 10 Nov (RG), 3 off Sydney 11 Dec (SAs); Present off Wollongong 26 Jan -3 Jul, Ion 17 Oct -27 Nov, max 10+ on 27 Nov (AP,ASt,DW); Present off Eden 18 Apr -21 Nov, max 13 on 18 Apr (BJ,EA). Average year. Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 185Grey -backed Storm -Petrel 0. nereis 1 off Wollongong 3 Jul, 1 on 25 Jul , Ion 14 Aug (DH,PM); 2 off Eden 15 Aug (EA). Referred to NSWORAC. White-faced Storm -Petrel Pelagodroma marina 4 off South West Rocks 27 Apr (LMc); 5+ off Sydney 14 Aug, 2 on 27 Dec (ASt); Present off Wollongong 3 Jul -27 Nov, max 30 on 27 Nov (AP,ASt,PM); 4 off Eden 18 Apr, 10 on 19 Sep (EA). Consistent with known status. Black -bellied Storm -Petrel Fregetta tropica off Sydney 25 Sep (AP); off Wollongong 1 1 10 Jul (these two records accepted by the NSWORAC as the 10th & 11th records for NSW), however no submissions as yet received for the observations off Wollongong of 1 on 20 Oct, 3 on 27 Dec (ABe,ASt,PM). Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda No records in 1999, first time for many years. White-tailed Tropicbird P. lepturus 1, 17 n.m. ENE Crowdy Head 25 Jan (NCh); off 1 Sydney 11 Dec (ASt); 1 off Lake Wollumboola 5 Dec (PC). Australasian Gannet Morus serrator Present off Central Coast Jan -Oct, max 20+ Toowoon Bay 27 Jun (CCBR); 750 passing north Mistral Pt Maroubra 8 Jun, where present all year (RG); Present off South Coast all year, max 92 on 18 Apr off Eden (BJ) & 150 off Potato Point Jul (ENHS). Masked Booby Sula dactylatra 2 juv off South Ballina early Apr (CL), I Fish Rock, off South West Rocks on Continental Shelf 19 Nov & 16 Dec (LMc), all records referred to NSWORAC Red -footed Booby S. sula Long Reef 5 Jun (MR), referred to NSWORAC. 1 Brown Booby S. leucogaster south Mistral Point, Maroubra 14 Feb (RG); off Eden 1 1 17 Jan & 21 Feb (ENHS), much further south than usual, 31-33d records.
Darter Anhinga melanogaster Breeding: 2 nests Southgate 13 Mar & on 23 Oct
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(GC), nesting Belmore River 28 Aug (KS); small numbers nesting Newcastle WR 2-3
May & on 2 Nov (HBR); Small numbers nesting Ourimbah Ck Jan -Feb, max 22 nests 2
Dec, 5 nests Colongra Swamp 28 Aug, 4 nests Wyong Ck South Tacoma 23 Aug (CCBR).
Average year for coastal sites.
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos Present all year Tuggerah Lakes
max 364 in Jun (CCBR); Breeding: 6+ nests Lawrence 13 Mar, 20 nests 23 Oct, 2 nests
186 April 2002Southgate 23 Oct, 30 nests many with large young Middle Boambee 9 Nov (GC), nesting
Belmore River 28 Aug (KS), 4+N Sandgate Market Swamp 2 Jan & 10N+Y Newcastle
WR 2-3 May (HBR); 8 nests lower Ourimbah Creek Jan & Dec (CCBR).
Black -faced Cormorant P. fitscescens Present off Eden all year, numbers highest Jan –
Jun, max 80 on 21 Feb (BJ,MD).
Pied Cormorant P. varius Breeding: Small numbers nesting Newcastle WR 2 May –
21 Jul (HBR); 60+ nests with eggs or young Colongra Swamp 28 Aug -30 Nov (CCBR).
Little Black Cormorant P. sulcirostris 400+ Coon Is Swansea 24 Oct (HBR); 65
Kannahooka Bay, lake Illawarra 24 May, large number for site (IBR). Breeding: 40+
nests, many with young Lawrence 13-23 Mar & 20+nests 23 Oct -27 Nov (GC), 10+ N
Sandgate Market Swamp 2 Jan, Toronto Wetland 11 Apr & Newcastle WR 2-3 May
(HBR).
Great Cormorant P. carbo Present all year on South Coast, max 450 Tuross Heads Sep
(ENHS). Breeding: Small colony Newcastle WR 2 May -21 Jul (HBR)
Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus Breeding: Nesting Wallis Lake 26 Feb
(HBR), max 100N+100Y Ramsay Island, Blackalls Bay 20 Oct (CCBR).
Lesser Frigatebird F. aerial No records in 1999.
Little Egret E. gazetta Breeding: 4N Shortland WC 1999/2000, a rise of 2 over the
previous year(HBR); 4N Curly Island, Tuggerah Lakes 4-14 Dec, lowest breeding
population in 5 years (CCBR).
Eastern Reef Egret E. sacra white morph off the Continental Shelf off Sydney 9 May
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(AP), 3 Magic Pt Maroubra 25 Jul (WS); 2 17 n.m. off Eden 18 Apr (BJ), where were
they going?
White -necked Heron Ardea pacifica 28 Toolijooa 13 Feb (CP), large concentration for
Illawarra Region. Breeding: 10 prs Wilbriggie Swamp 28 Nov (BM).
Pied Heron Ardea picata at wetland near Ettamogah, Albury 17-18 Dec (MEle),
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referred to NSWORAC, and accepted as the 2″d confirmed record for NSW, the first
record was at Lake Cowal in 1975.
Great Egret A. alba Present all year Tuggerah Lakes max 39 in Dec, highest number in
5 years (CCBR); 22 Windang 14 Jun (CB) a large concentration for this site. Breeding:
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 18780+ nests Lawrence 23 Oct -27 Nov, 7+ nests Middle Boambee 9 Nov (GC); 40 nests
Shortland WC Nov -Dec, an increase from 32 in previous year (HBR).
Intermediate Egret A. intermedia 60+ Everlasting Swamp 23 Mar (GC); 3 Swan Lake
17 Mar (KM); 38 Fivebough Swamp 17 Oct (KH); Breeding: 25+ nests Lawrence 13-
23 Mar & 20+ nests 23 Oct (GC), 40 nests Shortland WC Nov -Dec, an increase from 12
nests the previous year (HBR).
Cattle Egret A. ibis 10 Botany 10 Apr (DH); Continual decline of numbers on the
Moruya River Oast max 20 on 6 Jun (ENHS); 15 Griffith 23-26 Jan, 3 on 4 Apr (JDu).
Breeding: 2000+ nests Lawrence 23 Oct, some nestlings present by 27 Nov, 200+ nests
Middle Boambee 9 Nov (GC); 400 nests Shortland WC & 483 nests Seaham Swamp NR
Nov -Dec, an increase of 104 & 108 respectively over the previous year (HBR).
Striated Heron Butorides striatus 1 Silverwater NR 3 Mar (TS), confirming previous
records for this area.
Nankeen Night Heron Nyticorax caledonicus 35 roosting Pelican Is, South West Rocks
7 Jul (KS) & 28 Sportsmans Creek 12 Oct (AB1); 200 roosting Blue Bonnet Cres
Colleambally (JWk). Breeding: 7500 prs Gingham Watercourse Jan (RC).
Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus McGraths Hill STW 23-26 Jan (CS), Gees Lagoon,
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Colo 28 Oct, 1 HC Pitt Town Bottoms 18 Dec (KB); 2 Lake Cowal 2 Oct (PPe); 4 Lake
Wyangan 23-26 Jan (AP1,JDu), 3 Lake Brewster 26 Jan (AR), injured Whites Rd Griffith
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Nov (SC). More records than usual.
Black Bittern I. flavicollis I Stewarts River 27 Feb, 1 Frederickton 20 Apr, 1 Millbank
9 Dec, 1 Grassy Head 18 Dec & I Geneebingina Wetlands 27 Dec (ABi,KS); 1 Walka
Water Works 27 Feb & Ash Island 7 Feb (HBR); Wyong Ck Bridge 30 Jan, Wyong
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Ck South Tacoma 23 Aug, 1 injured Wyong 5 Oct, I Lions Pk Chittaway 23 Nov (CCBR);
Deep Ck Narrabeen 27 Jan (BC), Carol Ck East Killara 6 Jun (TW), HC North
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Sackville 18 Dec (KB); 1 Wagonga Inlet 5 Aug (IDw). Good spread of records all the
way along the Coast.
Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus 2 HC Belmore Swamp 3 Apr, 1 HC
Limeburners CK NR 31 Jul, HC Lake Innes NR 23 Nov (ABi,KS); I Maitland 2 Jan
(ASt) & 3 Jun, 1 Walka Water Works 12 Mar, 1 Ash Island 15 May & 1 Bolwarra STW
31 Oct (HBR); 1 Pitt Town Lagoon 26 Jan (KMo), 1 Bushells Lagoon 5 Jul (BC); 1
injured South Durras 1 Dec (ENHS); 3 Rowes Lagoon, Collector 28 Aug (NL); 1 Mirrool
Creek 5 Jan (DTh), calling Murramai 16 Jan (BG), Fivebough Road 7 May (PG), max
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3 Fivebough Swamp 2 Sep -17 Oct (ACr,KH), Lake Cargelligo 2 Oct (NL), max 6
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Koonadan 31 Oct -6 Dec (PDp,KH). More records than usual.
188 April 2002Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus 8 Ellis Swamp Tucabia 20 May, 50+ Broadwater Swamp,
Lawrence 23 Oct (GC), 120+ Belmore Swamp 20-28 May & 4 Pelican Is South West
Rocks 22 Aug (KS), max 50 Jabiru Wetlands, Casino 2 Apr -26 Jun (ABi,BC,JH); 28
Pambalong NR 15 Aug & 40 Stockton Borehole Swamp 29 Oct (HBR); McGraths Hill
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16 Apr (ARo), Cobbitty 30 Aug (CS), 22 flew in from the sea at Long Reef 22 Oct
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(AR), 50 Bakers Lagoon 28 Oct (KB); 56 Mullenderee Flats 28 Oct (ENHS), 3rd South
Coast record; 30 Nericon Swamp 4 Sep (BM), 32 Lake Cargelligo STW 18 Sep (RB);
180 Tuckerbill Swamp 22 Sep (MS), 50 roosting Fivebough Swamp 23 Jan (JDu) & 500
on 13 Oct (MS); Lake Nialla & Willow Point HSD Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC),
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2 Tullakool Salt basin 29 Dec (JN). Breeding: 1600 prs Gingham Watercourse 26 Jan
(RC)
White Ibis Threskiornis niolucca 400 feeding Hexham Swamp 15 May; a large number
for this site. Breeding: 30+ nests Lawrence 13-23 Mar, 8+ nests 23 Oct, many young
present 27 Nov, 100+ nests Middle Boambee 9 Nov (GC); 10+ nests Shortland WC 17
Feb (HBR); 4 nests in a melaleuca Swamp, Evergaldes GC Woy Woy Oct -Dec (CCBR).
Information about inland breeding was not available.
Straw -necked Ibis T spinicollis Large numbers reported from coastal areas including
1000+ Tyagarah 28 Mar (RMo), 2-3000 Tucabia 15 Jul (GC); 1000+ Chatham Recreation
Grounds 12 Jun (HBR); 600+ Jamberoo Valley 5 May (RB). Breeding: No information
available.
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia 119 Deep Ck Ulmarra 9 Aug (GC); 17 Brisbane Water
Jul, was the max number for the Central Coast in 1999, a very low number (CCBR); 45
at McGraths Hill STW 10 Jan (DPo) & 60 at Pitt Town Lagoon 23 Jan (EV) are good
numbers. Breeding: 50 A+ fledged young Harwood Is 16 Jan, max 120 nests Jul -Dec
(GC), 10 prs Wilbriggie Swamp 28 Nov (BM).
Black -necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus General observations for the North
Coast Region are excluded as this is where the bird is more common: 2 north of Raymond
Terrace 7 Feb -12 Mar (ASt,BC,ML), on farm dam at Seaham 19 Jun (CA), 2 Stockrington
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7 Sep (ABe), Failford, Tuncurry 7 Oct (IL), 2 Ash Island Nov -Dec (HBR); Gingham
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Watercourse 26 Jan (RC). Breeding: 2+3Y Verges Swamp, Kempsey 31 Jan (ABi), 2A
at nest Woodford Is 13 Apr -8 Jun, 2A+3Y Ellis Swamp, Tucabia 14-20 May, nesting
Waterview Heights 3 Jul -18 Dec, 2Y raised, nesting Tyndale 21 Jul -5 Dec, 2Y raised, J
Chaffin Swamp, Tucabia 27 Jul, N+3Y Corindi 20 Sep (GC), Nest +2Y Nambucca Heads
Aug -Dec (Crompton 2001), Nest Brushgrove North 12 Oct (ABi), 2A+N Crowdy Head
Oct (HBR). Note that these records provide information on 10 breeding pairs, and does
not include any breeding data from the Tweed -Richmond, or south of Crowdy Head, so
that conceiveably there could be about 15 pairs in NSW.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 189Osprey Pandion haliaetus Coutts Crossing 29 Nov (GC), estimated to be 106 birds
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between the Macleay & the manning Rivers (Bischoff 2001); Belmont Lagoon Feb -Jul;
Crackneck Lookout 23 May (CCBR); Middle Cove 6 Feb (LB1), 2 Narrabeen Lagoon
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24 Feb -27 Apr (AMc,DH,JSe) & on 6 Nov -20 Dec (BC), Pittwater 18 Dec (PHu);
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Moruys Heads South 18 Jul, & 2 displaying 18 & 24 Jul, Corunna Lake! 9 Aug,
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Tomak in 13 Oct, Durras Oct, 2 Bodalla 21 Nov (ENHS); 2 Split Rock Dam Nov (PS);
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Gingham Watercourse 27 Jan (RC); More records each year of birds away from the
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breeding zone. Breeding: Nesting May -Nov at 14 sites including Sth Tweed Heads,
Ballina, Goodwood Is, Yamba, Angourie Point, Micalo Island, Brooms Head, Bluff Pt
Woodford Is, near The Broadwater, Lawrence, N of Ulmarra, Corindi, S of Woolgoolga
(GC), actual numbers of pairs in the area Tweed Heads to Scots Head not known for
1999; 40 pairs nested between the Macleay & the Manning Rivers (Bischoff 2001); 3
pairs nesting in the Hunter Region at Wallabi Point 4 Feb, Forster 2 Sep & Lemon Tree
Passage 18 Sep (HBR). The number of breeding pairs continues to increase.
Letter -winged Kite Elanus scriptus No records in 1999.
Black -shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris caught & ate Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus
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Forster 15 Sep (GC); Pair nested Eve st wetlands near Sydney A iport & raised 2Y 29
May (PDb).
Pacific Baza Aviceda subcristata Present all year North Coast with breeding at A+2J
Richmond Hill 31 Jan (JH), A+2 Im Frederickton 20 Apr & N+3Y 22 Dec, 2A+ Y
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Grasslands HSD, Mullurnbimby Nov -Dec (RMo), 5th consecutive year the birds have
bred here; 2 Manning Point 24 Oct & 1 Oxley Island 12 ec (ABi), 3 Seaham Swamp NR
4 Oct, 3 Rankin Park 10 Nov (HBR); Present all year Central Coast, being reported from
12 locations, including nesting at Warrah Trig 27 Aug, N+3Y Wyoming 14 Dec (CCBR);
Reported from 18 locations in the Sydney Region all year, with breeding records at N+2Y
Pennant Hills Park 14 Jan (RMu) .5 dSydney breeding record; 2 Bulli Feb -Mar (DG),
10th Illawarra Region record; Juv roadkill Glenbrook Jan (CP), 1 Sun Valley 3 Aug (MLy),
2 Glenbrook Ck Springwood 29 Dec & possibly the same birds at Tom Hunter Pk,
Faulconbridge (CM); along Peel River, Tamworth (LHu), Tintinhull, Tamworth Jul
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(GO). More reports than usual, and more records for the Illawarra, Central Tablelands &
North West Slopes.
Square -tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura 2 nesting near Grafton 18 Aug, reared 2 young
Oct -Dec Brown et al (2000), Coutts Crossing 19-24 Mar (GC), Nambucca Heads Apr
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(CL), 2 Banyabba SF 29 Oct, 1 Kempsey Mar -Jun, 2 Bonny Hills 28 Jul- I Aug, J
Frederickton 7 Dec, found dead below nest (ABi,DH,KS), 2 Lighthouse Bch Port
Macquarie May -Jul, 1 Lake Cathie 1 Aug, (ABi), I east of Wauchope 3 Oct (DJa); 2
190 April 2002resident Cundletown, 2 Coopernook FP Jan, 1 Kooragang Is 13 Oct (HBR), 1 Manning
Point 24 Oct & 1 Towibakh NR 11 Dec (ABi); 1 Longneck Lagoon 15 Feb (DH), 1
Windsor 3 Apr (AP), I McGraths Hill 12 May & 15 Aug (EV,LD), 1 Mitchell Park,
Cattai 25 Jan & 28 Oct -12 Nov (BC,KB); 1 Vincentia 8 Feb (GB), I Bomaderry Creek 27
Jan & 8 Feb KM); 1 Nethercote 31 Jan (BJ), 1 Long Beach 18 Feb (ENHS), I Bega 31
Aug (DLa), Windy Hill, Merimbula 24 Sep (BJ), south of Eden 9 Nov (SRo), East
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Lynn, Batemans Bay 5 Dec (DH), Malua Bay 20 Dec (HPe); Mount Hay, Grose
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Valley 18 Jul (JRe), Wentworth Falls 17 Jul (JRe), Goolooinboin HSD, Glen Davis
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26 Aug (TN), 1 Capertee Valley 14-28 Aug & 13 Nov (PDb,TQ,TS), 1 Wyandra Common,
Home Rule Sep (DGe), Glen Davis 13 Nov (AQ); Aloes Well, Pilliga East SF 16
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Oct (AR), 22 km SW Collarenebri 17 Oct (GC); Round Hill NR 8 Mar (CPa). Most
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reports ever.
Black -breasted Buzzard Homirostra melonosternon Nocholeche NR 25 Jun
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(MC),known site, Budda HSD Tilpa 14 Sep (ABi), less reports than usual.
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Black Kite Milvus n2igrans 1 over an Aberdeen lucerne crop 3 Jan (AR); 1 Lithgow 3
Jan (AP); I Ardlethan 3 Sep (DGe). Fewer eastern NSW reports this year.
Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus More records than usual south of Wallis Lake where
nesting occurs, viz 1 Cabbage Tree Island 7 Mar (JSe), 1 Ash Island 15 May -11 Aug
(HBR,PEk), Shortland WC 18-19 Aug, Kooragang Is 29 Oct & 28 Nov, Sandgate 24
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Nov (HBR); Bengally Hd, Avalon 21 Sep (PBu), 3rd Sydney record. Breeding: Nesting
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Iluka GC Aug, Harwood Bridge Jul -Sep, Foster 14 Sep (GC), nest South West Rocks
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Rd Aug -Nov, A+Im at nest Jerseyville Sep -Oct (KS).
Whistling Kite H. sphenurus Nesting on the Central Coast at Cockle Channel Jul,
Umina 2 Nov, Patonga Ck 30 Oct (CCBR); Nesting on the South Coast at Corunna Lake
28 Aug & Durras Oct (ENHS).
White -bellied Sea -Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster Nesting Lower Southgate 8 Jun -22
Sep, 2Y reared, nesting McPherson Crossing Jul (GC); A+Js reported from Broughton
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Is, Telarah Lagoon, Belmont, John Browns Lagoon, Taylors Beach & Balickera trhoughout
the year, while pair at nest Quorrobolong 31 Jul. The birds at John Browns Lagoon were
feeding their fledged young on a Masked Lapwing (HBR); A+2J Tuggerah Bay 23 Jan,
N+J Wambina NR Matcham 31 Jan (CCBR); Nesting Lake Burrendong 22-26 Nov (CD);
A Lake Cargelligo 27 Sep (GC).
Spotted Harrier Circus assimillis A Coutts Crossing 26 Apr (GC); Hands Lagoon 3
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& 22 Feb & 19 Nov, 2 Bolwarra STW 23 Feb, Mulbring 6 Apr, Pokolbin 16 May,
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Ash Is II& 20 Nov, 1 Morpeth 8 Dec & 1 near Liddell 25 Dec (HBR); 1 Cornwallis Rd
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 191Richmond 31 May (CS); Raglan near Bathurst 31 Jan (SF), Capertee Valley 18 Sep
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(DPo); 12 km W of Trangie 21 Jun (MC); Lake Cargellico 18 Jul (NL), Murrin
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Bridge 17 Sep (AM), 2 Hay Plains 24 Sep (RB); South Myers Tank, Sturt NP 30 Aug
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(CP); Willandra NP 18-20 Sep (AR), Max 2 in saltbush Willow Point HSD, Wentworth
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28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Reported throughout the year, but with most records Jan -Feb, Sep –
Dec, which may be significant although it may also be a reflextion of when the contributors
travel out west!
Swamp Harrier C. approximans I Bicentennial Park 5 Sep (JSe).
Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus Nesting Newports Ck, Coffs Harbour 8-9 Nov
(GC), A+2Y Frederickton 11 Nov (KS); 1 took a rabbit at Brokenback Range 10 Mar
(RP), N+2Y Balickera Nov -Dec, 2+N West Wallsend 20 Oct (HBR); Reported on the
Central Coast at 12 sites, with breeding at Mt Penang 12 Oct & A+J Worley Ck Mangrove
Mountain where using a previous nest (CCBR); Uni NSW Randwick 15 May (MSa),
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present South Turramurra 28 May, 2 Jun & 20 Oct (DL), 3 Cattai NP 16 Aug -17 Oct,
possibly nesting (AB,MR), 2 nesting Silverwater NR Homebush Bay 22 Nov (CSh);
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Kiama I 8 Sep (ASt), 1 Kangaroo Valley 3 Oct (Jda), 2A+J Bulli 20 Dec (RTu); Recorded
at 6 South Coast sites throughout the year (ENHS). N+2Y Gooloinboin HSD, Glen Davis
Dec (PDb). Few inland reports.
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Grey Goshawk A. novaehollandiae 2 Bellingen Rd Bowraville 15 Apr, Stuart Island,
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Nambucca Heads 16 Apr (RT), 1 Ocean Shores 7 Jun, 1 Dorrigo NP 30 Jun (GC), 1
Katang NP 3 Oct (MSa), 3 Mt Warning 30 Dec (ML); 2 Stockrington 11 Apr, 2 Waitui 8-
11 Sep, 2 white morphs Williamtown Oct, single wm at Pambalong NR 17 Apr, South
Swansea 22 May & Cardiff 28 Jul (HBR); The most common accipiter on the Central
Coast, being reported throughout the year at 18 sites but no breeding records (CCBR);
Reported from 8 sites in the Sydney Region including white morph Bulgo, Royal NP
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19 Sep (BE); Reported from 13 sites in the Illawarra Region including white morphs at
Figtree 3 Feb (DG), Kiama 10 Feb (CP), Mt Ousley 7 May (DTh,RJo), Mangerton 17
May (JB), Tabbagong Forest 15 Jun (MR) & Barren Grounds NR 19 Sep (PDb); Reported
at 4 sites on the South Coast at Moruya Heads, Mullinburra, Corunna Lake & Cullendulla
(ENHS); I Hazelbrook 3 May (JD), 1 Bumbaldry 24 Sep (AM), western edge of range, 1
Bells Line Rd 17 Oct (MA). Note no breeding records.
Collared Sparrowhawk A. cirrhocephalus I eating a European Starling Shortlands
WC 9 Jun (HBR); Reported from 12 sites on the Central Coast but no breeding reports in
1999 (CCBR); 2A+J Cordeaux Dam Dec (CC); Bumbo Road 18 May (ENHS); A+2Y
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Koondrook SF nr Barham 17 Dec (JN), Binya SF 25 Sep (KH);
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Red Goshawk Dythrotriorchis radian’s 10km W of Mount Warning 6 Dec (AMi),
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referred to NSWORAC.
192 April 2002Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax Max 2, 11 locations Macleay Valley Feb -Sep (KS),
more sightings than usual; Common in the Hunter with breeding reported from 2A+2J
Bayswater Colliery 11 Jul & A+N Quorrobolong 31 Jul (HBR); Present all year Central
Coast (CCBR); 2A+Y Sackville North 14 Feb (KB), 2 Cornwallis Rd Richmond 30 May
on fence (PC), 1 Glenfield 16 Jun (PAI), 2 Galston Gorge 19 Jun (MR), 1 Chatswood 8
Jul (NBr); Reported from 14 South Coast sites (ENHS). There appear to be more coastal
records now than previously reported.
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides Reported from 4 sites in Clarence Valley all year
(GC); Reported from 3 sites on the Central Coast, most records for the Mangrove Mountain
area (CCBR); Terrey Hills 26 May (ASt), Pitt Town NR 29 May (ARo); Reported
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from 3 Illawarra sites (IBR) & 8 South Coast sites (ENHS).
Brown Falcon Falco berigora 2 Toolijooa 19 Sep (CP), rare in the Illawarra; N+2Y
Goolloinboin HSD, Glen Davis 9-11 Dec (PDb).
Australian Hobby Falco longipennis Pair nested Dungog Jan, where reported nesting
for the 2 previous years (HBR); pair in spiralling flight with Black Falcons, Brown
Falcons & Kestrels Quandialla 6 Apr (IF).
Grey Falcon F. hypoleucos 1 Gundagai 19 Dec (SMu); 3 near West Wyalong 27 Jun
(WK), 1 near Parkes 11 Oct (NS); 1 South Burrabogie HSD, Hay 1 Nov (NR); 2
Mootwingie NP 28 Mar -2 Apr (DPo,RJo), 2 Sturt NP 19 Apr (FCz), 2A+2Y in nest
Tongo HSD Wanaaring 29-30 Oct (MHe); Tarawi NR 9 Oct (SE). Most records reported
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in NSW Bird Reports in any one year.
Black Falcon F. subniger 1 Sackville North 1 Aug (KB); 1 Uralla 11 May (AM1); 1
Glen Davis 3 Jul (AR), 1 Capertee Valley 7 Apr, 4 Nov, 1 Glen Alice 4 Dec (EV,NK1); 2
Attunga & Attunga SF Mar -Jun (EF,GMi), Tamworth STW Apr (JPe); Quandialla 6
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Apr (IF); 1 Willancorah HSD & 2 Willie HSD, Macquarie Marshes 18 Feb (Hi); 2 Lake
Wyangan 24 Jan (JDu), 1 Fivebough Swamp 7 Mar & 17 Apr, 2 Binya SF I May (KH),
1 Hay Plains 24 Sep (AM) where it swooped at a Spotted Harrier, I Chat Alley, Murrim
Bridge 4 Oct (JL), Wilbriggie Swamp 28 Nov (BM); north of Wilcannia 24 Jun (MC).
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More records than usual.
Peregrine Falcon F. peregrinus 1 took a Common Myna at Wyoming 3 Sep (CCBR);
Present South Turramurra 17 Sep (DL), 2 McGraths Hill 21 Oct, one took a Moorhen
(DPo), 2 North Head 8 Dec (HR), a known eyrie site; I garden at Orange 23 May (CK).
Breeding: N+2Y Bennetts Head 19 Sep (HBR).
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 193Brolga Grus rubicunda 3 Broadwater Swp, Lawrence 23 Oct, max 28 S of Lawrence 16
Jan -28 Nov, 2 Sportsman Creek 23 Mar & 12 Oct, 6 Ellis Swamp, Tucabia 14 May, max
18 near Cowper 6 Jul -1 Aug, max 6 Crowsnest Swamp, Tucabia 27 Jul -9 Aug, 7 Morans
Swamp, Tucabia 21 Jul, 3 Sth of Ulmarra 24 Aug, 2A+J E of Ulmarra 11 Sep, 2 Colletts
Is Tucabia 11 Sep, 2 Gills Swamp, Ulmarra 16 Nov (ABi,GC); 3 Cockburn River, Limbri
Mar (JB1), 2 Bective Dec (EFa); 4 Old Buckinguy HSD, Warren 18 Feb (Hi); 2+N Booberoi
near Condobolin 13 Oct (NS); 2 Murramai 16 Jan (BG), 7 Koonadan 31 Jan (PDr),
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Wilbriggie Swamp 28 Feb (BM), 16 5 km S of Whitton 17 Jul (IF), 2 Coolacumpahma
Tank, Narranderra 29 Aug & 2 Lake Coolah, Narrandera 31 Aug (EWh). The Clarence
Valley is home to an important population in NSW.
Buff- banded Rail Gullirallus philippensis HC Yellow Rock, Urunga 30 Jun, RK South
Grafton WR 22 Jul, I Pillar Valley I Sep, 1 Woodford Is 21 Oct, RK Southgate Creek 27
Nov (GC); 2 Ash Is 2 May, 1 Lemon Tree Passage 5 Jun, I Quorrobolong 31 Jul, I
Hunter Region Bot Gardens 5 Aug, Shortland WC 5 Dec, 2A+10Y Scotts Creek Rd 22
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Dec (1-1BR), 1 Harrington 28 Dec (EV); Report from 8 sites on the Central Coast throughout
the year, breeding reports include A+Y Lees Res Chittaway 10 Jan, A+4Y Chain Valley
Bay 17 Dec (CCBR); Reported from 12 sites in the Sydney Region with breeding reported
at A+1Y Eve St Wetland, Arncliffe 11 Jan (RMo), max 12 prs Royal Bot. Gardens 19
Jun -29 Nov, including 2A+3Y on 22 Sep & A+6Y on 29 Nov (ALe,BD,HR,RCv);
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Cudmirrah 8 Jan & 8 Oct (KM); 1 Runnyford 19 Oct (ENHS); I Mt Victoria May (MG);
1 Fivebough Swamp 7 Mar (KH) & 28 Apr (IH), RK between Goolgowi & Gunbar 27
Sep (GC); 2-3 Willow Point HSD, Wentworth 28 Sep -6 Oct (GLC).
Lewin’s Rail Rallus pectoralis HC Diamond Head, Crowdy bay NP 28 Feb (ABi),
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Broadwater 31 Jul (NMc), HC Newports Ck Coffs Harbour 9 Nov, & trapped same
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place 10 Nov (GC), HC Belmore Swamp 19 Feb, Port Macquarie 19-30 Jul & Maria
River Rd 30 Aug (KS); 2-4 HC Forster 14-17 Sep (GC), HC Manning Point 12 Dec
(ABi); Only Central Coast report from Mill Ck, Dharug on 21 Sep (CCBR); Deepwater
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Pk Narrabeen 4 Feb (KB), Cape Solander 7 Mar (AP), Jamieson Pk, Narrabeen 27
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Apr (DH), max 20, including 2A+2Y Rifle Range Mallabar/Magic Pt/Mistral Pt Maroubra
1 Apr -8 Sep (ARo,BC,DK,RG), I Hornsby Heights 13 Aug (DMa), A+2Y Dee Why
Lagoon 29 Sep (JWi); 2 Barren Grounds NR 23 Feb (RBo), 1Corimal Mar (GRo) HC
; 1
Catalina Park, Katoomba 10 Oct (CP); 2 Willowdell HSD, Deniliquin 8 Oct (EWa),
rarely reported inland. A good range of records for coastal NSW.
Bush -hen Amaurornis olivaceus caught by cat Byron Bay 23 Mar, rehabilitated, banded
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& released (GC), by road Wardell 27 Nov (ML), road kill Grassy Head 14 Dec (JTe),
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this latter record represents a range extension of 200 km from Evans Head, the previous
southern limit (Morris et al 1981).
194 April 2002Baillon’s Crake Porzana pusilla 1 South West Rocks 3 May & 25 Jul (PRa,KS), I+
Rainbow Reach 12 Sep & Pelican Is South West Rocks 24 Sep (KS); 8+3Y McGraths
Hill STW 9-26 Jan, I on 16-21 Oct (AP,DPo,JMo,JDh); 4 Fivebough Swamp 17 Apr
(KH); I Willandra NP 18-20 Sep (AR), 1 Willow Point HSD, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct
(GLC).
Australian Spotted Crake P.fluminea Reynolds Rd Wetland Casino 23 Jun (JH); 4-
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6 Ash Island Mar -May (HBR); Max 8+Y McGraths Hill STW 14-24 Jan, I on 29 Aug, 3
on 16-21 Oct (AHo,DPo,KB,RG), 1 Bi-Centennial Park 8 Mar (DH); 20 Lake Cowal 22
Oct (PPe); 3 Fivebough Swamp 23-26 Jan (JDu) & 10+ on 28 Apr -7 May (IH,MS), 1
Lake Cargelligo STW 8 Jul (NL) & 27 Nov (VK); Present Yelta & Nialia Lakes, Wentworth
28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Average year with a good spread of records from inland NSW.
Spotless Crake P. tabuensis Belmore Swamp 31 Jan & 19 Feb (KS), 2 Doyles River
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SF 27 Jan (A Bi); 3 Walka Water Works 16 Apr & Shortland WC 26 May (HBR); 1
injured Kanwal 18 Dec (CCBR); Max 5 McGraths Hill STW 9-26 Jan (AP,DPo,EV),
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Webbs Creek 10 Feb (KB), 6 Eastlakes 7-9 Apr (DMe), 3 Magic Pt Maroubra 6 Apr -30
May, 11 Jul & 19 Nov (AFa,EV,RG,SMu); I Killalea Lagoon 31 Jan (GB), 1 Dunmore
21 Feb (JBI); 1 Burrawang 5 Sep (TQ); I Fivebough Swamp 28 Apr (IH,WEm), 1 Lake
Cargelligo STW 19 Jul (NL). More reports than usual.
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra Some large coastal concentrations reported 250 Alumy
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Creek 23 Oct (GC); 500+ Bayswater Colliery 21 Aug (HBR).
Black -tailed Native -hen Gallinulaventralis 1 Silverwater NR 3 Mar (SW), 7th Sydney
record; 17 Fivebough Swamp 7 Mar & 37 on 17 Jul (KH), 12 Lake Cargelligo STW 28
Nov (SWh); Common Willow Point HSD, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC).
Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis 2 Milparinka 18 Apr (FCz), AF on nest Tongo
HSD Wanaaring Aug (MHe), first reported NSW breeding record since 1984; Dareton
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6 May, same bird Dareton STW 7 May (BM);
Red -backed Button -quail T maculosa Woodville garden 25 Aug (HBR); Mangrove
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Mountain 11-29 Sep (CCBR); McGraths Hill STW 10 Jan (DPo), this record referred to
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NSWORAC.
Little Button -quail Turnix velox 1 Capertee Valley 10 Jan (RT), I found injured
Wentworth Falls 25 Sep (RDu); 4 Pulletop NR 26 Jan (JDu). Fewer records than usual.
Painted Button -quail T varia Shannondale 6 Mar (GC); Goulburn River NP 4 Apr
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(FOC), 3 Howes Valley 1 May, 2 Laguna 8-10 May, 2 Pokolbin 25 Jul, 3 Quorrobolong
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 19531 Jul (HBR), 1 Copeland Tops 3 Oct (EV); 1 garden Somersby I Feb (CCBR); Reported
from 6 sites in the Sydney Region including 2A+3Y Putty 21 Feb (PDb), A-{ 5Y Yarramundi
Dec (DP) & St Andrews Cathederal, Sydney city 31 Oct (LSp); Avon Dam Rd 26
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Oct (GB), first Illawarra record for many years; 1 Capertee Valley 10 Jan (RT), max 3
White Box Camp Goulburn RNP 6-8 Aug & 1-4 Oct (HBR), 2 Kirkconnell 17 Oct (PDb),
10 Rockview HSD, Glen Davis 21 Nov & on 4 Dec (AR,EV), 2 Lake Burrendong 5-9
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Dec (CD); AF RK Talbingo 2 Mar (IH); Mulyandry SF 21 Sep (JF), Jindalee Sf 16
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Oct (NL); 2 Round Hill NR 21-23 Sep (AR), western edge of range. Good range of
records across the State.
Red -chested Button -quail T. pyrrhothorax No reports in 1999.
Black -breasted Button -quail T melanogaster Two possible observations made in
1999, one group observed near Mt Nardi, Nightcap NP Jan (NL) & Big Scrub Flora Res
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2 Jun (per PEk); although no submissions were made to the NSWORAC mention is
made of these observations to encourage birders to be alert to their possible presence.
There have been no published records in NSW since 1975.
Plains -wanderer Pedionomus torquatus near Clarencetown, Dungog 20 Oct (per
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CMe); M,F +3Y Wilurah HSD, Conargo 17 Sep (LHa). Average year, the Clarencetown
record is exceptional.
Latham’s Snipe Gallinago hardwickii 115 Parramalong NR 18 Dec (HBR); 15
Broadwater Swamp, Cattai 18 Nov (KB); Barren Grounds NR 23 Feb (RB); 22 Mother –
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of Ducks lagoon, Guyra mid Jan (JCe); Tamworth STW Oct (JPe); 2 Junee STW 6 Jan,
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first record for site & 1 on 15 Oct (MC); 1 Fivebough Swamp 16 Jan (KH), 27 Aug (MS)
& 4 on 17 Oct (KH), I Bundigarie HSD Narrandera 27 Nov (KH), 4 Koonadan 1 Nov
(PDp); each Lake Yelta & Lake Nialia 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Departure: Wilbriggie
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Swamp 28 Feb (BM). Arrival: Pelican Is, South West Rocks 22 Aug (KS) 2 Fivebough
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Swamp 22 Aug (KH), I Wilbriggie Swamp 25 Aug (BM), 7 Pitt Town Lagoon 31 Aug
(BC), 2 Newstead Pond Sep (ENHS). Good spread of records across the State.
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Black -tailed Godwit Limosa limosa 7 Kooragang Island 17 Jul (CH); 3 Fivebough
Swamp 24 Jan & 4 on 22 Oct (ARc,JDu). Summer Wader Count I I Feb: 152 Clarence
Estuary (GC), 150 Hunter (Harris 2000). These numbers are well down over counts in
previous years.
Bar -tailed Godwit L. lapponica 7 Clarence Broadwater 7 Jun (GC); Max 243 Tuggerah
Lakes in Jan (CCBR); Summer Wader Count Feb: 67 Tweed, 164 Richmond, 200
Hastings Estuary, 443 Clarence, 1300+ Hunter Estuary, 192 Tuggerah Lakes, 521 Botany
Bay, 409 Shoalhaven, 300 Narooma (ABi,CCBR,GC,ENHS,HBR, Harris 2000). Winter
Wader Count Jul: 16 Brisbane Water & none Tuggerah Lakes (CCBR).
196 April 2002Whim brel Numenius phueopus 40 Pelican is Port Macquarie 22 Nov (ABi), 19 Taylors
Beach, Port Stephens 24 Oct (HBR); Lake Cargelligo STW 2 Oct (NL), unusal inland
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record. Summer Wader Count 11 Feb: 65 Tweed, 18 Richmond, 110 Clarence Estuary,
50 Hunter, 45 Botany Bay (GC, Harris 2000).
Eastern Curlew N. madagascariensis 60 Pelican is Port Macquarie 22 Nov (ABi); 80
Tuross Heads Dec (GRs). Summer Wader Count 11 Feb: 89 Tweed, 18 Richmond,
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119 Clarence Estuary, 531 Hunter Estuary, 31 Brisbane Water, 174 Botany Bay, 35
Shoalhaven, 20 Narooma, 12 Tuross Heads (CCBR,ENHS,GC,HBR). Winter Wader
Count Jul: 5 Brisbane Water (CCBR).
Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis Pelican Island, South West Rocks 30 Sep, 7 on
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4 Oct & 33 on 15 Dec (AB i,KS), Clarence Broadwater 23 Oct (GC); 236 Hunter Estuary
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Dec (HBR); Bushells Lagoon 30 Jan (BC); 2 Lake Wollumboola 24 Jan (CC); 70
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Gingham Watercourse 27 Jan (RC); 19 Fivebough Swamp 16-23 Jan (JDu,KH), low
count for site & 35 on 23 Oct (MS), 4 Lake Wyangan 23 Jan (JDu), 2 Lake Cargelligo
STW 18 Sep Sr. 1 on 27 Nov (AM,SWh), 9 Tuckerbill Swamp 22 Sep (MS), 100+ Tullakool
Salt Basin 29 Dec (JN); 5 Lake Nialia 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Summer Wader Count Feb:
5 Richmond, 50 Clarence Estuary, 184 Hunter Estuary, 2 Shoalhaven (GC,HBR,Harris
2000). Numbers appear to be lower overall than for previous years.
Common Creenshank T nebu/aria 14 Chickiba Lake, Ballina 14 Mar (GC), Clarence
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Broadwater 23 Oct (GC); Max 211 Hunter Estuary Oct (HBR); 22 North Entrance 4 Dec
(CCBR); Present Tullakool Salt Basin 29 Dec (JN); Present Willow Point HSD & Lakes
Nialia & Yelta, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Summer Wader Count Feb: 3 Tweed,
25 Richmond, 3 Clarence Estuary, 120 Hunter Estuary, 6 Tuggerah Lakes
(CCBR,GC,HBR).
Wood Sandpiper T glareola I Pelican Is, South West Rocks 25 Sep (KS); 3 Pitt Town
Lagoon 23-26 Jan (EV), 2 Bushells Lagoon 26 Jan (KMo) & 2 on 18 Nov (Birdline), 3
Pitt Town Lagoon 23 Jan (EV); 2 Killalea Lagoon 3-7 Jan (CC); I Wagonga Inlet 8 Aug
(ENHS); Present Fivebough Swamp 16 Jan -17 Apr, max 7 on 17 Apr & on 17 Oct
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(JDu,KH). Average year.
Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus 54 Fern Bay 12 Jan (HBR); 2 Fishery Pt Botany Bay
21 Feb (JCe). Summer Wader Count 11 Feb: 70 Richmond, 83 Hunter & 5 Botany Bay
(Harris 2000).
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos Belongil Creek early Jan (MA); Kooragagang
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Is 2-4 Feb, 1 Moscheto Ck Ash Island 28 Feb & 12 Sep, 1 Bulls Island 13 Mar (HBR); 1
Yarrumundi 13-24 Mar & 18 Nov (BC,KB); Lake Wollumboola 2 Mar (PF); Lake
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Nearie NR 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Fewer records than usual.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 197Grey -tailed Tattler Heteroscelus brevipes 35 Pelican is Port Macquarie 16 Jan (ABi),
80 Tah lee 24 Jan (HBR). Summer Wader Count 11 Feb: 53 Tweed, 90 Richmond, 83
Clarence Estuary, 27 Hunter, 12 Tuggerah Lakes, 64 Botany Bay (GC,Harris 2000).
Wandering Tattler H. incana I with Grey -tailed Tattlers at Fern Bay 11-12 Dec (HBR).
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres 8 Broughton Island Jan (HBR). Summer Wader
Count 11 Feb: 43 Richmond, 7 Clarence Estuary, 29 Soldiers Pt, Pelican Pt & Toowoon
Bay, none recorded in winter, 33 Botany Bay (CCBR,GC,Harris 2000).
Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris 17 South Ballina Beach 31 Oct (GC); 4 Hunter Estuary
Apr & 7 in Dec (HBR); 3 Pelican Point 10 Apr & 1 North Chittaway 28 Nov (CCBR); 1
Bellambi Point 20 Oct (CPe); Potato Point 30 Nov (ENI{S), Eden 27 Nov (NCI).
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Summer Wader Count Feb: 16 Richmond, 286 Clarence Estuary, 8 Hunter, 1 Shoalhaven
(GC,Harris 2000). The Richmond & Clarence Estuaries appear to be the place to see
Great Knots in NSW.
Red Knot C. canutus Max 700 Hunter Estuary Sep -Oct on passage (HBR); Max 19 on
passage Central Coast Sep -Dec, fewer numbers than usual (CCBR). Arrival: 2 Picnic Pt
2 Sep (CCBR). Passage migrant to the south in spring, numbers much lower than usual.
Sanderling C. alba 51 on 11 Feb & 17 South Ballina/Patches Beach, Ballina 31 Oct -28
Nov (GC,ML); Max 2 Lake Wollumboola 4 Nov -5 Dec (DH,GRs); Batemans Bay
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Sep (ENHS). Average year.
Red -necked Stint C. ruficollis 150 Kooragang Is 24 Jan (HBR); Present Tullakool Salt
Basin 29 Dec (JN); Willow Point HSD, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Summer
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Wader Count Feb: 70 Richmond, 9 Clarence Estuary, 134 Tuggerah Lakes, 45 Botany
Bay, 600 Shoalhaven, 500+ Lake Wollumboola (CCBR,GC,Harris 2000,RBo). Possibly
the Hunter birds that were present on 24 Jan, were missed on the Summer Count, overall
numbers have declined considerably in recent years.
Pectoral Sandpiper C. melanotos 1 Kooragang Is 13 Jan (HBR); 1 Mason Park, Concord
6 Oct -22 Nov (CG,CSh,DMe,SWh); I Lake Wollumboola 23 Jan -20 Feb, 4 Apr & 5 Dec
(CC,DH,EV). Fewer records than usual.
Sharp -tailed Sandpiper C. acuminata 250+ Big Pond Kooragang Is Jan (HBR); Present
Mason Park, Concord 3 Sep -31 Dec (NH); 1 Flowerdale Lagoon, Wagga 7 Jan (PG), 3+
Junee STW 15 Oct (MC); 25 Fivebough Swamp 16 Jan, very low count for site (KH) &
100+ on 23 Oct (MS), 68 Tuckerbill Swamp 22 Sep (MS), present Tullakool Salt Basin
29 Dec (JN); Medium size flocks at Lakes Nialia & Yelta Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct
198 April 2002(GLC). Departure: 2 on 17 Mar (CCBR). Arrival: I Pelican Is South West Rocks 22
Aug (KS), 2 Mason Park, Concord 2 Sep (Birdline), Summer Wader Count 11 Feb: 49
Richmond, 51 Clarence Estuary, Tuggerah Lakes, 33 Shoalhaven (GC,Harris 2000),
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possibly more common inland in 1999 than on the Coast, coastal numbers show a real
decline.
Curlew Sandpiper C. ferruginea 17 Chickiba Lake, Ballina 18 Mar (GC); 1000
Kooragang Is 13 Jan (HBR); Present Tullakool Salt Basin 29 Dec (JN); Lake Nialia,
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Wentworth 23 Sep (AM), unusal location. Departure: Kooragang is 21 Mar (HBR).
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Arrival: 5 Kooragang Is 14 Aug (HBR), 4 Picnic Pt 2 Sep (CCBR), 10 North Botany
Bay 3 Sep (JSe). Summer Wader Count Feb: 63 Richmond, 570 Hunter, 2 Tuggerah
Lakes, 6 Botany Bay (CCBR,Harris 2000).Coastal numbers well down over previous
years.
Buff- breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis reported from Lake Wollumboola
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21 Mar (RBo), but no submission was made to BARAC. The observation therefore remains
unconfirmed.
Ruff Philomachus pugnax Gingham Watercourse 26 Jan (RC), only report.
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Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis I Silverwater NR 3 Mar (TS); AM Carrroll near
Gunnedah 27 Jan (AA); 2 Gingham Watercourse 27 Jan (RC); 2 Fivebough Swamp 12
Oct (MS); 4 near Willandra NP 13 Sep (PR). More reports than usual for this “Endangered”
and elusive bird.
Comb -crested Jacana Irediparra gallinacea Plenty of records for the Hunter Region
including 2A+3Y Rathluba Lagoon 30 Jun & 1 Murrays Run 8 May (JC); 3A+3Y Gingham
Watercourse 26 Jan (RC), further west than usual.
Bush Stone -curlew Burhinus grallarius 2 prs Karuah 12 Jul (DR); Possibly 10 pairs
around Brisbane Water, but with nesting only reported from St Huberts Island in Oct &
Nov (CCBR); N+2E Careel Bay 22 Nov (BC), these birds are probably part of the Brisbane
Water population.; I Narooma SF all year, 6th year single bird has been present(ENHS);
2 Henty 4-30 Nov (SKo), first observation for observer at this site; HC The Homestead,
Darlington Point 5 Apr (JDu).
Beach Stone- curlew Esacus neglect us 2 Sandon Estuary13 Mar & 4 Dec (same banded
bird present cf 1998 Report), Redbank Estuary, Red Rock 20 Sep, 2A Dart Is, Yamba
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4 Dec (GC); 2+1Y Manning Point Oct -Dec, where known to predate Little Tern chicks
(CMa). Average year.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 199Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris 62 Patches Beach, Ballina 19 Jan (DS), &
40 on 25 Jun (BC); 22 Brisbane Water 10 Feb, highest count reported (CCBR). Breeding:
3 prs nesting Patches Beach, Ballina 28 Nov (ML); 2A+Y Carrington 24 Jan (HBR).
Summer Wader Count 11 Feb: 4 Tweed, 16 Richmond, 5A+J Clarence Estuary, 4
Tuggerah Lakes, 22 Brisbane Water, 51 Botany Bay, 4 Shoalhaven (CCBR,GC,Harris
2000). Winter Wader Count Jul: 40 Botany Bay (ALe), numbers have declined from
the peak of 60 in the early 1990’s.
Sooty Oystercatcher H. fuliginosus 6, including some dependent young Broughton
Island Jan (HBR); 18 reported Blue Bay 27 Apr (CCBR); 25 Long Reef 6 Mar (DF,SFr),
5 Bonnievale 8 Mar & 11 Cape Solander, Botany Bay NP (PDb); 78 counted between
Ulladu la & Batemans Bay, the number higher than expected & 31 pairs were found
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occupying breeding territories on the offshore islands in the same area (LS).
South Island Pied Oystercatcher H. finschi Present Patches Beach, Ballina 16 Jan -Nov
(BC,BT,DSt,GC, MA,SWi, Totterman et al 1999).
Black -winged Stilt Himatopus himatopus 100+ Cowper 6 Jul (GC); Present all months
in lower Hunter except Jul, max 694 on 17 Apr, of which 400 were at Tarro Swamp
(HBR); Present all year Tuggerah Lakes max 44 in Oct, 46 Colongra Swamp 4 Apr, with
4 nests Curly Island, Tuggerah Lakes Oct- Dec (CCBR); 182 Silverwater NR 3 Mar (TS)
35 Mason Pk, Concord 28 Apr (NH), highest count in 9 years; 20+ including juvs
Tallawarra wetlands 20 Jan (DG); 100+N Red Bobs Res, Gunnedah 12 Nov (IDo); 200
Fivebough Swamp II Sep & 394 on 17 Oct (KH); Summer Wader Count Feb: 58
Richmond, 100 Hunter, 18 Tuggerah lakes, 12 Shoalhaven (Harris 2000).
Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus Present Tullakool Salt Basin 29 Dec (JN);
Imm Lake Nialia, Wentworth with Avocets 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC). Average year.
Red -necked Avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae 3 Clarence Broadwater 23 Oct
(GC); Recorded every month in Hunter Estuary max 2000 in Jul, 4 Morpeth STW 20 Jun
(HBR); 26 Fivebough Swamp 23 Jan, 90 on 17 Jul, 86 on 17 Oct & 250 on 5 Dec
(JDu,KH), present Tullakool Salt Basin 29 Dec (JN); N of Wilcannia 24 Jun (MC); 12
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Lake Nialia 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC).
Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva 52 Chickiba Lake 19 Mar (GC), 70 Pelican Is
Port Macquartie 22 Nov (ABi); 98 Stockton 25 Nov (HBR); 40 Lake Wollumboola 22
Mar (CP), 160 Comerong Island 28 Dec (CPe). Summer Wader Count Feb: 99
Richmond, 39 Hunter, 12 Tuggerah Lakes, 18 Botany Bay, 49 Shoalhaven (CCBR,Harris
2000). Numbers down on previous years.
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April 2002Grey Plover P. squatarola 1 North Botany Bay 21-23 Sep (DH); 1 Comerong Island 19
Sep (CPe) & 1 Swan Lake 23 Oct (KM); 1 Saltwater Creek, Ben Boyd NP 11 Dec (BJ).
Fewer reports than usual.
Red -capped Plover Charadrius ruficapillus 52 Pelican is, Port Macquarie 22 Nov
(A Bi); 15 Lake Wollumboola 3 Apr (APa); 60 Shoalhaven Estuary 11 Feb (Harris 2000);
Recorded at all South Coast lakes, estuaries & beaches throughout the year max 80 at
Tuross Heads Dec & 50 Potato Point Nov -Dec with nests, eggs & chicks seen (ENHS).
Double -banded Plover Charadrius bicinctus 4 Stockton Sandspit 12 Jan (HBR); 57
Comerong Island 13 Apr (CP). Arrival: 3 Blue Bay 9 Mar (CCBR), 1 Moruya Heads 17
Mar (ENHS). Departure: 5 Toowoon Bay & 75 Windang 13 Aug (CCBR,IBR). Winter
Wader Count Jul: 18 Tuggerah Lakes (CCBR). Numbers down in South Coast Region
(ENHS).
Lesser Sand Plover C. mongolus Woody Head Reefs 27 Nov (GC); 15 Boat Harbour,
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Kurnell 14 Mar (TN); 4 Lake Wollumboola 11 Feb -14 Apr (CP). Summer Wader
Count 11 Feb: 13 Richmond, 16 Hastings Estuary, 35 Clarence Estuary, 4 Lake
Wollumboola (AB i, DG,GC,Harris 2000).
Greater Sand Plover C. leschenaultii Summer Wader Count 11 Feb: 36 Richmond &
51 Clarence Estuary (GC,Harris 2000). It is unusual for them not to be recorded elsewhere.
Inland Dotterel C. australis 11 (5A+6Y) N of Wyndam HSD, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct
(G LC), only report.
Black -fronted Dotterel Elseyornis tnelanops J Blue Haven 3 Oct, 11 Tuggerah Bay 18
Jun (CCBR).
Hooded Plover Thinornis rubricollis 3 Cunjurong Point 13 Mar, 3 Berrara 18 Apr, 2
Cudmirrah 2 May & 5 Jun, Lake Conjola (KM); 2 Mullinburra 15 Jan -3 Sep, 3 Broulee
14 Mar -Nov (AT,ENHS), 2 Tilba Lake 20 Mar -4 Apr (ENHS), 2 Tathra 24 Jan (IF).
Breeding: nesting Lake Conjola 4 Dec (DMc) & Tilba Lake Dec (ENHS). Fewer reports
than usual.
Red -kneed Dotterel Egthrogonys cinctus Clarence Broadwater 23 Oct (GC). Max 8
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Kooragang Is 17 Apr -26 Aug, 1-5 Morpeth STW 20 Jun, Pambalong NR I I Sep, Stockton
Borehole Swamp Sep -Oct, Shortland WC 2 Nov -12 Dec & 1 Ash Island 13 Nov (HBR);
Dairy Swamp, Tuggerah 23 Jan, 2 Tuggerah STW 20 Mar (CCBR); 6 Pitt Town Lagoon
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23 Jun (EV), 10 Silverwater NR 3 Mar (TS), present Mason Park, Concord 14 Mar -30
Dec, max 9 on 14 Mar (BD,SWh,TKe), Bicentennial Park Homebush Jul (ARo); 30
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Fivebough Swamp 11 Sep & 35 on 17 Oct (KH). More records from coastal regions than
usual, but none from Illwarra or South Coast.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 201Banded Lapwing Vane//us tricolor 3 Cornwallis Rd Richmond 30 Jan, & 2 on 31 May
(AP,CSh); 5 Marinna HSD Junee 10 Jun (MC), 2 western side of Lake Cowal 17 Jul
(NL); 3 Tongo 23 Jun (MC); Common & nesting Willow Point HSD Wentworth 28 Sep –
7 Oct (GLC). Very few reports received which would indicate that there has been a
considerable decline in recent years.
Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella No reports received in 1999.
Great Skua Catharacta skua Present off Grassy Head -South West Rocks 11 Jul -22 Sep,
all single birds (LMc,KS); 1 Norah Head 3 Jul, 1st Central Coast record (CCBR); Present
off Sydney, Mistral Point, Maroubra & Long Reef 14 Jun -16 Sep (AP,RG,MR), mostly
single birds; off Wollongong 25 Jul, on 21 Aug (PM); Reported off Eden 16 May -17
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Oct, max 3 on 19 Sep (BJ,GC1,EA,ENHS). Arrival: 2 Long Reef 22 Apr (MR), Magic Pt
Maroubra 23 Apr (RG), early dates.
South Polar Skua C. inaccortnuckii Reported off Wollongong 31 Jul (PM) but no
submission made to BARC.
Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus 1 off Port Stephens 11 Feb (HBR); 2 Mistral
Point, Maroubra 8 Mar, returned 23 Oct (DMe,RG), 5 off Sydney on 9 Jan, on 13 Nov,
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12 on 11 Dec (ASt); I off Wollongong 20 Oct (ASt); Reported off Eden Jan -Apr & Nov,
max 35 on 17 Jan (BJ,ENHS).
Arctic Jaeger S. parasiticus 3 Nobbys Beach 26 Feb (HBR); 7 Sydney Harbour 20 Jan
(MI), 36 Magic Pt Maroubra 14 Jan, 1 out of season bird Magic Pt Maroubra 15 Jul
(RG), max 18 off Mistral Pt Maroubra 23 Oct -18 Nov (RG); Merimbula after storm 20
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Feb (SRo), reported off Eden Mar -Apr & Nov (ENHS). Departure: 2 Eden 18 Apr
(ENHS), Magic Pt Maroubra 23 Apr -16 May (RG). Arrival: 2 Magic Pt Maroubra 9
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Sep (RG)
Long-tailed Jaeger S. longicaudus Max 9 off Maroubra 7-30 Jan (RG), 3 Long Reef 10
Jul & 1 on 24 Nov (EV,MR), 1 off Sybney 11 Dec (ASt); 4 off Wollongong 28 Feb. 6 on
27 Nov, 6 on 27 Dec (AP,ASt); Reported off Eden Jan -Feb & Nov, max 4 on 17 Jan
(BJ,EA,EN HS).
Pacific Gull Laru.s. pac/lcus Im North Botany Bay 9 Jan & 1-12 Jun (AP,CSc); No
Illawarra records; Reported off Eden Feb -Nov max 9 August- Sep, but none reported
further north in the South Coast Region (BJ,EA.ENHS).
Kelp Gull L. domincanus A off Sydney 7 Aug (AP), present 2 off Magic Pt Maroubra
Jan -Oct, max 4 on 21 Jun (EV,RG); 4A+5J off Wollongong 3 Jul, 10 on 25 Jul (PM); no
reports from the South Coast despite regular offshore birding trips.
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April 2002Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae 500 nests Cockatoo Island Aug (PR), new nesting
site in Sydney Harbour.
Gull -billed Tern Sterna nilotica Recorded Stockton Sandspit Jan -Sep, max 3 (HBR);
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Birdie Beach MSRA 20 Aug (CCBR); 1 Lake Wollumboola 2 Jan & 6 on 31 Jan (RBo),
rare south of Sydney; 200+ foraging over saltbush plains near Toogiumbie Tank, Hay 27
Sep (GC), a known nesting site.
Caspian Tern S. caspia 23 Rabbit Is, Yamba 11 Feb (GC); Reported all year Hunter
Estuary, max 19 Kooragang NR 17 Apr (HBR); Present all year Tuggerah Lakes max 20
in Oct (CCBR); 1 Bicentennial Park, Homebush 14 Aug (DH), unusual location; 22
Windang 14 Jun (IBR); Regularly reported from the South Coast at all estuaries and
coastal lakes max 10 Tuross Heads Oct (ENHS).
Roseate Tern S. dougalii Woody Head, lluka 24 Jan (HW), referred to NSWORAC
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and accepted as the 5th confirmed record for NSW.
White -fronted Tern S. striata Present off the Central Coast from 26 Jun -3 Jul at Toowoon
Bay Reefs & Soldiers Point (CCBR); 1 McMahon’s Point 1 Apr (TN), 1 off Sydney 7 &
14 Aug (AP), 1 off Long Reef 10 Jul (EV), present off Magic Pt Maroubra 8 Jun -6 Oct,
max 9 on 15 Aug (EV,RG); 1 off Wollongong 10 Jul, 2 on 25 Jul, 3 on 21 Aug (PM);
Present off Eden 18 Apr -19 Sep, max 3 (BJ,ENHS), Tuross Heads 29 Jun- Aug (ENHS).
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Arrival: 1 North Botany Bay & off Eden 18 Apr (BJ,RG), 3 Toowoon Bay Reefs 26 Jun
(CBBR); 3 Long Reef 4 Jul (MR). Departure: 4 off Eden 19 Sep (EA), 1 Mistral Point
Maroubra 6 Oct (RG), a late date.
Common Tern S. hirundo 100+ Stockton Beach 11 Jan & 40 Newcastle Baths, highest
counts for Hunter Estuary (HBR); Present Central Coast Jan -Feb, Oct -Dec, max 1500
Soldiers Point 25 Oct (CCBR); 1 Batemans Bay 8 Feb & 15 Tuross Heads 24 Dec (ENHS).
Arrival: 2 Iluka Bluff Aug (GC), 2 off Wollongong 26 Sep (AP). Departure: Norah
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Head 9 Mar (CCBR), 1 Sandon 13 Mar (GC), 1 Mistral Pt 14 Mar (RG).
Arctic Tern S. paradisea 1 in full breeding plumage off Wollongong 29 Aug (AP), 35th
NSW record. Consistent with known records.
Little Tern S. albifrons Max 64 Tuggerah Lakes Feb (CCBR), 80 Potato Point Dec
(ENHS), 120 Lake Wollumboola, many nesting 23 Jan (CC). Departure: 6 Delicate
Nobby 23 Mar (KS), 3 Pelican Point 10 Apr (CCBR); Predation of nesting birds at Forster
recorded for the period 1994-96 (Rose 2001). Breeding: 2-3 prs attempted to nest Lake
Cakora, Brooms Head 4 Dec (GC); 80+ pairs nested Harrington/Manning Point Nov -Dec
(NPWS), 3A+J Myall Lakes NP 26 Jan (HBR); 24 nests Towra Spit 10 Dec (GRs); 12
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 203flying young present South Tuross Beach Feb (Whiter 2000), 16 nests Lake Wollumboola
4 Nov -4 Dec, 4 nests Lake Conjola 4 Dec, 35-40 prs, 21 nests Tuross Heads & 35-40 prs,
7 nests Wallaga Lakes 3 Nov -11 Dec (DMc,ENHS,GRs). About 170 prs nesting in NSW
1999/2000.
Sooty Tern S. fuscata 10 Ballina Lighthouse 2 Nov (MR); 2 off Sydney 9 Jan, 2+ Jon
13 Feb, 1 on 13 Mar, 10 off Sydney 11 Dec (ASt,DCo); 1 off Wollongong 28 Feb (PM),
6 off Lake Wollumboola 5 Dec (AR); 2 east of Tuross Heads 5 Dec (PM). Becoming
more common on the NSW coast.
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridu.s. Max 31 Clarence Broadwater 23 Mar -22 May
(GC); 2 Kooragang Island 18 Sep (HBR); 9 Pitt Town Lagoon & 7 Bushells lagoon 28
Oct (KB); 2 Sunny Corner 16 Jan (PDb), unusal location.
White -winged Black Tern C. leucopterus 40+ Clarence River near Clarence Broadwater
23 Mar (GC), off South West Rocks May (LMc); 3 Harrington 17-24 Apr (BHI,JH);
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1 off Mistral Pt Maroubra 30 Nov, 26 & 29 Dec (DMe); 1 Killalea Lagoon 3 Jan (CB),
max 6 Lake Wollumboola 24 Jan -27 Mar (CC,DG); 10 Red Bobs Res, Gunnedah 31 Oct
(JPe). These records (other than the Gunnedah record), would indicate a passage northwards
along the NSW coast in summer and early autumn.
Common Noddy Anous stolidus Crowdy Head 15 Jan (RW), 34th NSW record,
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consistent with known status.
Black Noddy A. minutus 2 Woody Head, lluka 13-27 Nov (per JH,GC); off Wollongong
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26 Sep (PM), first record for the Illawarra. 24 -26th NSW records.
Grey Ternlet Procelsterna cerulea beachcast Tallows Bch Byron Bay 21 Feb (DM i),
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max 10, 8 km S of South West Rocks 15-25 Mar (KS); 1, 34 n.m. ENE Port Stephens 30
Jan (NCh); 1 Long Reef 16 Apr (MR); 2 off Wollongong 28 Feb (PM). The numbers
recorded off NSW continues to rise 23 -27th NSW records.
White Tern Gygis alba I off Long Reef 29 Mar (MR); 1 off Wollongong 23 May (PM).
27th -28th NSW records.
Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto I Chittaway Point 20 Feb & breeding freely in the
garden of Wombat St Berkeley Vale (CCBR).
White -headed Pigeon Columba leucomela Common in the Clarence Valley max 25
Koukandowie Ck, Coutts Crossing 26 Jun (GC); Moderately common in the eastern
section of the Hunter Region, max 50+ Pipers Bay 21 Aug (HBR); Present all year
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April 2002Central Coast including 63 feeding beneath one Camphor Laurel Tree, Lisarow 25 Jun &
60+ Uni Campus Ourimbah 9 Oct (CCBR); 30 Turramurra 30 Jun (TW), 2 Oatley Park
24 Jul (DK), 3 Killara 17 Aug (HR), 12 feeding in an Albizzia sp St Ives 6 Oct (RCI);
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Mossy Point 29 Aug (AC), 2 Mollymook 5 Aug; (KM); Present all year South Coast,
max 10 Wallaga Lake Sep, furthest south reported. Immatures at Tuross Heads Feb &
Moruya in Apr (ENHS); Scone Airport 19 Sep (per MH); Present Wentworth Falls
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gardens Aug -Sep (RD), max 2 Blackheath 29 Jul -13 Dec (GJ), Bilpin 7 Nov (MCo)
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also reported from Valley heights 23 Apr, Springwood 1 May & Kurrajong Heights 8
May (AS). Continues to expand its range.
Brown Cuckoo- Dove Macropygia amboinensis Present Blackheath on 27 Jul -6 Sep,
HC Katoomba 9 Oct, also Fairy Bower, Mt Victoria (GJ,GP), rarely reported from the top
of the Blue Mountains (previous limit was Faulconbridge); Tilba Lake 13 Mar, furthest
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south reported (ENHS) in 1999.
Emerald Dove Chulcophaps indica 65 km W of Wauchope 28 Jan (ABi), Ingalba
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SF 26 Mar, 2+ resident Grassy Head, 2 McGu ires Crossing Aug -Sep, South West Rocks
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2 Sep & I Hat Head NP 16 Sep (KS,ARc), I Rocky Creek dam, Lismore 19 Jun (GC), 1
Kerewong SF, Wauchope 13 Jul (BE); I Katandra SR 24 Apr, Cut Rock Rd Ourimbah 24
Oct & I Brush Rd Glenning Valley 10 Dec (CCBR); I Copeland FR 26 Jan, Shortland
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WC 26 Feb, 1 Glenrock SRA 22 Aug (HBR); 1 Bradleys Head 7 Apr (BH), 1 St Ives 13
Apr (RCI), 1 Blackman Pk, Lane Cove 9 May (BMc), 1 Cobbitty 5 Jun (IB), 1 St
Aug (RCI); 1 Albion Park 15 Mar (KM), I Jamberoo Pass 20 Jul (RJo); I Burrewarra
Point 9 Mar (ENHS). Good spread of records along the NSW coast.
Spotted Turtledove Streptopelia chinensis Pairs and small groups regularly reported as
far south as Bermagui (ENHS).
Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans Regularly reported in small numbers Belmont Swamp
Jan -Feb, Sep -Oct, also Old Bar 4 Feb, Salt Ash 20 Nov & Myall Lakes NP 22 Dec (HBR);
1 Tuggerah Bay 2 Jan & 28 Nov, 2 Warrah Trig 21 Oct (CCBR); 2 Deepwater Pk,
Narrabeen 4 Feb (KB), I Red Hill 25 Nov (BC), 2 Deep Creek, Narrabeen 15 Dec (BC);
I Budderoo NP 29 May (ML); I Mullimburra Jan & Shallow Crossing Road 28 Feb
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(ENHS).
Diamond Dove Geopelia cuneata 5 Baradine I Mar (DJo); 2A+2Y Dubbo 8 Apr (ME);
Reported in 3 compartments in Binya SF (KH); Small numbers Willow Point HSD
Wentworth 26 Sep- 7 Oct (GLC).
Peaceful Dove G. striata On the Central Coast, only reported from Somersby & Mangrove
Mountain (CCBR); 1 Cunjurong Point 13 Mar & 1 Ulladulla 18 Sep (KM), rare in Illawarra
Region.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 205Bar -shouldered Dove G. hurnerahs Widespread & common on the Central Coast, nesting,
Mangrove Mountain Aug -Dec (CCBR); 2 Maroota 31 Mar & 3 Yarramundi 24 Mar
(KB), Jamieson Pk, Narrabeen 27 Apr (DH), Manly Dam 24 Nov (DS); 12 Darkes
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Forest 18 Feb (CC), 1 Jamberoo 12 Aug (DG), 1 Tool ijooa 14 Sep (CPe), I Curramore 6
Nov (KM); 14 Binya SF 12 Jun (KH), 2 Sims Gap, Rankins Springs 27 Sep (GC).
Expanding its range across the County of Cumberland & south along the Illawarra Coast.
Wonga Pigeon Leucosarciu melanoleuca Nesting Balickera 19-21 Nov, the egg hatching
later, first confirmed breeding record for the Hunter Region (HBR);
Superb Fruit -Dove Ptilinopus superbus Immature caught fence in at Gorokan PS Sep
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(CCBR), 6th Central Coast record; 1 hit window Gerroa 21 Apr (RBo), 10th Illawarra
Region Record; I Aranda bushland, Canberra ACT 19 Mar (IF), 2T ACT record. The
Gorokan record is outside the usual autumn visit period to Central and south coastal
NSW.
Rose -crowned Fruit -Dove Ptilinopus regina AM flew into window Richmond Hill I 5
May (JH), 1 Victoria Park NR 22 May (AR), I Iluka NR 31 Jul in Celerywood Polyscias
elegans & HC same place Aug (GC).
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Wompoo Fruit -Dove Ptilinopus magnificus 2 Boonanghi SF 23 Jan, 2 Grassy Head Jul
& Dec, 2+ Victoria Park NR 22 May (AR), 8 Woolgoolga FR 9 Jun (EV), 1 Hat Head NP
17 Aug & 27 Sep, 2 McGuires Crossing Aug -Sep, 3 Way Way SF 27 Dec (KS,ARc),
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Bowraville 15 Apr, 2 Dorrigo NP 19 Apr (RT), HC Queens Lake SF North Haven 4 Jul
(ABi), seen & HC Mt Warning 30 Dec (ML), Rummery Park, Whian Whian SF 19 Jun
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(GC); Reported Jan -Apr, Sep -Dec at Allyn River, Chichester Dam, Lathams Dam,
Copeland FR & SF, max 5 at Copeland SF 2 Oct, injured Bolwarra Heights 21 Sep,
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unusual location (HBR).
Topknot Pigeon Lopholaimus antarcticus Reported from many North Coast sites 16
Feb -26 Aug, max 180 flying over Minnie Water 20 May (GC) & 150+ Main Arm,
Mullumbimby 29 Mar (RMo); Moderately common in eastern part of Hunter Region
throughout the year, max 100+ Coopernook FP 15 May (HBR); Present Central Coast all
year, particularly the Ourimbah-Gosford area May -Aug, max 500 on 4 May & 110 on 24
Aug (CCBR); Very common in the Sydney Region in from 25 Apr -6 Oct, large numbers
were reported including: 70 Pacific Hway Lindfield 4 Jul (MO), 150 Chatswood 9-12 Jul
(HR), 60 Audley Royal NP 8 Aug (HR), max 200 Royal Bot. Gardens 17 Sep -18 Oct
(ALe,RCv) & 80 Centennial Park 29 Sep (JRo); Very common in the Illawarra Region
from Bass Point 15 Jun (MRb) to 14 Coolangatta 3 Dec (KM), with large numbers being
reported including: 50 Barren Grounds NR 15 May (RB), 60 Macquarie Pass 16 May
(IBOC), 50+ Mt Keira Girl Guide Camp 23 Jun (BH) & max 50 Toolijoa 12 Jun -24 Jul
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April 2002(CP); Present on the South Coast May -Sep, max 20 Bodalla Forest Park 12 June (ENHS)
& 13 Millingandi 12 Jul (ER) being the most southern record for 1999.
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus magnificus 7 Walgett 6 Oct (GBo); 4
Wilcannia 14 Sep (ME), 2 RK Brewarrina 17 Oct (GC). Few reports but all within the
known range.
Yellow- tailed Black Cockatoo C. funereus Moderately common Hunter Region, max
80+ Oyster Cove 20 Nov (HBR); Recorded all year Central Coast, max 60 Mt White 20
May (CCBR); Max 60 Kyeemagh 20 Mar -22 Nov (RMo), 20 Stanmore 17 Jul (MHi),
100 Centennial Park 24 Sep (Birdline); 53 Darling Point 28 Aug (SF), 100+ Centennial
Park 5 Oct (JRo); 75 Cordeaux Dam 22 Jul (CC), a large number for the lllawrra Region;
Present all year South Coast, max 42 Tilba Lake 15 May (ENHS); 100+ Kings Tablelands
Aug (CP). Still common in Sydney.
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Glossy Black Cockatoo C. lathami Reported from the North Coast all year from 22
locations including 5 feeding on fruits of Allocasuarina littoralis at Fortis Ck NP 21 Aug
(GC), with 2A+J Brunswick Heads Apr (RMo); Reported from the Hunter Region all
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year from 6 locations max 5 Wingen 19 Sep, and 2A+1 Y Laguna 29-31 Oct & 28 Nov,
first breeding record for the Region since the 1980’s (ABi,HBR); Present Central Coast
all year, being reported from 14 locations, max 7 Cromelin Arboretum, Pearl Beach 6
Apr, with adults and dependent young being reported from Mangrove Mountain 24 Jan,
21 Aug, 14-21 Dec, Kooree Guide Camp Nov & Lemon Tree 4 Dec (CCBR); Present
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Sydney Region all year from 14 locations including 3 Lapstone all year feeding in
Allocasuarina torulosa (RT) & 2+J Hungry Bch Trail, Kuring-gai Chase NP 7 Jan (GG);
Presenrt Illawarra Region all year reported from 8 locations including 20 Lower Nattai
River 15 Dec (IBR); Reported from 14 locations all year from South Coast max 5
Burrewarra Point daily during Dec (ENHS); Reported from Central Tablelands all year
from 13 locations including 15 White Box Camp, Goulburn RNP 28 Feb & 4 on 6-8 Aug
(HBR) & 2 Lee’s Pinch GRNP 20 Apr, feeding in A. distyla (RT); 20-30 Salt Caves
Pilliga East SF 21 Sep (AB1); 3 Naradhan 10 Apr (EAt), max 6 Brobenah Hills 4-31 Aug
(AMc,MS). Plenty of reports from Eastern NSW but only a few reported from the South
West Plains Region.
Gang Gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum Present in small numbers at Laguna
throughout the year, with 2A+J on 11-12 Sep & 28 Nov (HBR); Small numbers present
Central Coast at Palmdale, Murrumbung HSD Mardi, Bucketty & Dubbo Gully Mar -Oct
(CCBR); Present South Turramurra all year, max 6 (DL); Resident on the South Coast
max 30 including dependant young Tuross Heads Dec (ENHS); 2 feeding on Narrow –
leaved Geebung Persoonia linearis drupes Capertee Valley 31 Oct (TQ).
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 207Sulphur -crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita 40+ in Pecan Nut Trees at Ulmarra 2-15
Jul (GC) uncommon in the Clarence Valley but numbers increasing; 300+ Jerrys Plains
21 Apr, high number for this location (HBR); 112 Centennial Park 30 Jul (PDb); Resident
on the South Coast max 50 Moruya 8 Feb (ENHS); 300+ flying to roost Capertee Valley
23 Feb (CP), 200+ feeding on ground Glen Davis 25 Apr (MH).
Long -billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris 3 South West Rocks where resident, present
since 1990 (KS), Gladstone 4 Oct (ABi); Present all year Toukley-Wyong-Chittaway-
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Long Jetty, max 46 Berkeley Vale 17 Mar, smaller numbers eslewhere on the Central
Coast (CCBR); 130 Caringbah 3 Jul (PRa); 25 Bong Bong 3 Oct (GB); Max 20 Moruya
8 Feb -17 May (ENHS); 6 Bective Dec (EFa). Continuing to expand its range in NSW
coastal and tableland areas.
Little Corella sunguinea 13 Kempsey 23 Jan -30 Mar (KS), 16 South West Rocks
where resident (KS), 150 Geneebeinga Wetlands 2 Apr (A131); 1004 Arrowfield
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Jul(HBR); 80+ Caringbah 12 Mar (PRa); Resident on the South Coast max 32 Tuross
Heads 5 Feb & 50 Moruya Dec (ENHS). As for Long -billed Corella.
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo C. leadbeateri 10 Back Mimosa Rd Ingalba NR 6 Jun
(MC), on eastern edge of range; 20 at Lake Cargelligo Motel 7 Mar (CPa), 30 Griffith
Golf Course 22 Jul (SC), 1 30 km W Rankin Springs 6 Sep (MBu), 3 Binya SF 3 Oct & 2
Kamarah 2 I Nov (KH); 50+ 100 km W of Tilpa 13 Sep (ABi).
Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus 1000+ Castle Hill 15 Feb (RDu), large
roost; Max 6 Griffith Golf Course 20 Apr -22 Jul (SC), well west of usual range;
Scaly -breasted Lorikeet T chlorolepidotus Resident on the Central Coast in small
numbers max 6 Budgewoi 20 Mar, 3 Jul & 21 Aug (CCBR); 6+ feeding with Rainbow
Lorikeets in Bottlebrushes in street trees at Erskinevill Mar- Apr (PDb); 10+ Boramble
Ck Rd Willowtree 4 Oct (PDb); 2+ Barraba 3 Apr (AS). The last 2 records are west of
normal range.
Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna Common on the Central Coast all year where
feeding in floweriing Blackbutt Eucalyptus pilularis Jan -Mar, Swamp Mahogany E.
robusta Apr -Aug, max 30 Pearl Beach 23 May (CCBR); 10 Woollahra 4 Apr, 2 Surry
Hills through Apr (CG), 20+ Rozelle Hospital 14 Mar (SW), 80+ Sydney Uni, Glebe 14-
27 Mar (AM,SW), max 30 Seven Hills Mar -9 Aug (EV), 100+ Leichhardt 4 Apr (DC),
many Parramatta Park 4 May -1 1 Aug, often in mixed flocks feeding on Spotted Gum E.
maculata, many feeding in Swamp Mahogany 16 May (Hi), 30 Erskineville & 40 Capatin
Cooks Landing Place 8 May (PDb), 30 Dee Why Lagoon 29 May (PDb), 6 Macquarie
Fields 11 Jul (LG); Max 300 Primbee Mar, with lesser numbers at Cordeaux dam, Lake
208 April 2002Heights, North Nowra, Cudmirrah, Bulli, Fairy Meadow & Lake Illawarra South Feb –
Mar (CC), 30 Werri Beach 11 Jun (MRb), 20 Wollongong Bot Garden 23 Jun (JW), 20+
Sussex Inlet 31 Dec (KM); Present all year on South Coast max 100+ Tomartin Mar &
Burrewarra Point Dec (ENHS); 50+ Boramble Ck Rs Willowtree 4 Oct (PDb); 6 Jindalee
SF 19 Sep (JB); 5 Mullaley 25 Sep (GC). Large numbers present in south-east NSW in
1999.
Little Lorikeet G. pusilla Small numbers on Central Coast feeding in flowering Swamp
Mahogany May -Aug, being seen at Canton Beach, Catherine Hill Bay, Tuggerah Bay &
Woy Woy (CCBR); Leichhardt 9 Apr (ML) unusual location, 2 Scheyville NP 21 Nov
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(LI); Reported Jan -Sep on South Coast, max 20 Corunna Lake 9 May (ENHS); 10+
Jamieson Valley Clarence 25 Feb (CP), rare in the Upper Blue Mountains, 500+ Capertee
Valley 4 Nov (EV), a large concentration.
Purple -crowned Lorikeet G porphyrocephala No reports in 1999.
Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii 35 between Grenfell & Young 7 Jan (per IF), 30
Stock Route Rd Grenfell 12 May (AO), Yellow Rock 18 Jul (WW), 6 near Young 16
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Sep (PR), 5 Woodstock 26 Nov (SWh), F Cudall 6 Dec (BPh); 4 36 km N of Booroowa
17 Jul (FJ), 100 Binalong Oct (JL) 10+ Wallendbeen 19 Sep (JB); Resident Boorowa
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where 9 at Cemetery 30 Oct (JF); 10+ Namoi R, Carroll Oct (AA), a late date; 2
Warrumbungle NP 22 May (PO); 50 Combanning 3 May, 30 Weddin NP 12 May (SK),
10 Jindalee SF 19 Sep -16 Oct (JB,NL), 6+ Old Junee 23 Oct & 16 Nov (MC); Many
groups between Tullamore & Trundle 4 Apr (FOC), 4 AM Wangaratta HSD, Warren 31
Dec (HJ), this is a very unusual record because this species is usually only an autumn –
winter visitor to the Central West Plains; 7 McKennas Lagoon 30 Dec 98 (DPI), 25 Arcadia
HSD, Narrandera 23 Jan & 13 Oct (JSt), 17 The Homestead, Darlington Point 2-5 Apr
(JDu), 3 Leeton 4 Jul, 2 Binya SF 15 Sep, 2A+2Y Bundigarie HSD Narrandera 27 Nov
(KH), 30+ 10 km E of Deniliqu in Aug (JFo), 12 Burcher 7 Aug (PPe), 30 Walsh Shed,
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Leeton 8 Jan (.1S1), 10+ Narranderra Range Aug, 20+ 10 km E of Denniliquin Aug (JF),
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4 Fivebough Swamp 28 Jul & 13 on 27 Aug (MS), 12 Cadell Rd Colleambally 14 Sep
(BM), 50 Innisvale Lane, Narrandera 18 Sep (MRo), 2 Rankin Springs 25 Sep (JA), 3
Yanco 10 Oct (NSm). A good spread of records and more reports than usual.
Australian King Parrot Alisterus scapularis 40-50 Ellalong 15 Mar (HBR), highest
count for Region; 20+ Burrendong Arboretum Aug (JFo), western limit of range.
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Red -winged Parrot Aprosmictus erythropterus 2 White Box Camp, Goulburn RNP 6-
8 Aug & 31 Dec (HBR), AM Turrill SF 17 Sep (AM), eastern edge of range.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 209Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor 30 Moonee Beach NR 9 Jun (EV): dead Port Waratah
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29 Apr (H BR); 5 Nurringingy Res 9 May (EV), 15 South Turramurra 26 May (DL), max
30 Blackett 26-30 Jul (RCv), Mulgoa 2 May (MH); Spring Ck Bodalla SF 28 Aug
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(ENHS); 80 Capertee Valley 7-29 Apr, 15+ on 21-23 May (PDb) & 5 on 3-17 Jul
(AR,TQ,NKi); 6 Waniassa, Canberra ACT 4 Apr (IF); Max 3 Jindalee SF 3 May -12
May, 70 Combanning SF 3-4 May, 30 Ingalba NR 4 May, 30 Charcoal Tank NR 5-6
May, 21 Weddin NP 6-12 May (SK). More records than usual although none on the
Central Coast & Illawarra and only one in the Hunter Valley. The importance of the
Mugga Ironbark Euc sideroxylon forests on the Central & Southern Tablelands for these
wintering birds has been highlighted by Kennedy & Overs (2001).
Crimson Rosetta Platycercus elegans 50+ Table Bay Ck, Widden Valley 12-16 Jun
(HBR), large concentration.
Eastern Rosetta P. eximins Spreading into eastern Lake Illawarra suburbs with records
at Windang 2 May & 2 Lake Heights May (CJC).
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Pale -headed Rosella P. adscitus Small numbers at 3 localities around Moree 17-18 Oct
(GC); I Dubbo 8 May (DMp), beyond the normal south-west limit of range in NSW.
Red-ru m ped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus 8 Manning Point 24 Oct (ABi), unusual
coastal location; 3 Centennial Park 26 Jan (MSy). Unusual location but the species is on
the increase in eastern & western Sydney.
Budgerigar Melopsitticus undulatus 10+ Currajong SF 27 Oct (MC), furthest east record
for 1999; 25 Lake Cargelligo 7 Mar (CPa), 30 Lake Wyangan 23-26 Jun (JDu), 200
Binya SF on 16 Oct (KH), 5 near Goolgowi 27 Sep (GC), 30+ Koonadan 30 Oct (PDp);
15 near Balranald 28 Sep, 30+ W of Cobar 13 Oct (GC). Arrival: 20+ Nulla HSD
Wentworth 22 Sep (AM), 9 Binya SF 25 Sep (KH).
Bourke’s Parrot Neopsephotus bourkii No reports in 1999.
Blue -winged Parrot Neophema chtysostoma sitting on top of a bush near Lake
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Cargelligo 23 Sep (AR), 30+ Traegars tank, Willow Point HSD Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct
(GLC). Only two reports but within the known range.
Turquoise Parrot N. pulchella 2 Elim Heights, Putty Rd 20 Mar (AH), 6 Myall Lakes
NP all year, Salt Ash 20 Nov (HBR); Max 6 White Box camp all year & 2 Spring Gully,
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Goulbum River NP 4 Apr (RQ,HBR), max 4 Capertee Valley all year (DPo,EV,PDb,RT),
3 Glen Davis Museum 4 Dec (EV), 2 Binalong HSD, Glen Alice, 2 Glen Davis Museum
30 Dec (DG),; 2 Backyamma SF 7 May -22 May, 20+ on 24 Sep (AO,AR,JF); 4 Farrer
210 April 2002School, Tamworth Oct (RGu), 4 Dungowan Oct (AA); 2 Holy Camp, Weddin NP 12
May (AO), 2 Ingalba NR 22-23 Sep (MC); 12+ Borah Res Barraba 4 Apr (AS); 4+ Lake
Burrendong 21 Jul -26 Nov (CD), I Minore near Dubbo 15 Sep (ME); 2 Spring Hill
Cocoparra NP 12 Sep (BM); Tullys Hill 25 Jul, present 4 compartments Binya SF
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(KH). A good spread of records across the State.
Ground Parrot Pezoporus wallicus Vincentia 23 Apr (JA); 15 counted between
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Liitle River and Howe Heaths, Nadgee NR 15 Jan (AF), Haycock Pt Pambula 20 Feb
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(SRo). The Vincentia and Pambula records are for new sites.
Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus saturants Frederickton 18 Mar & West Kempsey 20 Mar,
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same bird? (KS); Shortland WC 7 Jan (HBR); 2+2 J Mangrove Mountain 22-26 Dec,
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4th Central Coast record. 2 birds were brown juveniles the other was fully coloured adult
male (CCBR); Mitchell Park, Cattai 17-27 Feb and a female (hepatic) on 14 Apr
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(BC.CB,LJ,KB), same locations as 2 years previous. Good year, more records than usual.
Pallid Cuckoo C. pal/idus 2 Westhaven Rd Merriwa 5 Jul (HBR), winter record; 1
Tempe 27 Nov (BWa), interesting inner city record; Toolijooa 24 Dec (CP); Tilba
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Lake 31 Jul (ENHS); J being fed by Yellow -tufted Honeyater Kentlyn Jan (RT), Im
Woodford 12 Feb (RH) rare in the Blue Mountains. Departure: Fivebough Swamp 8
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May (MS). Arrival: White Box Camp, Goulburn RNP 6 Aug (HBR), Scheyville NP
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15 Aug (DM), 1 Capertee Valley 16 Aug (RT), 1 Lake Burrendong 24 Aug (CD), I
Kinchela Ck 3 Sep (KS) & Coutts Crossing 6 Sep (GC), arriving late at Mangrove Mountain
23 Sep (CCBR).
Brush Cuckoo Cacomantis variolosus A feeding J at Mangrove Mountain 26 Dec
(CCBR); Scheyville NP 30 Jan (BC), Imm Cattai NP 22 Feb (DH), some out of season
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records at Meringo in Jun, July & Murrinburra May, Jul & Aug may be misidentifications
(ENHS). Departure: I Bolwarra 22 Mar (HBR), 1 Woodford 16 Apr (MLy), I Mangrove
Mountain 18 Apr (CCBR). Arrival: Tanban SF 9 Oct (KS), 2 Cattai NP 16 Oct (EM),
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2 Palmgrove 17 Oct (CCBR).
Fan -tailed Cuckoo Cacomantisflabelliformis J being fed by Large -billed Scrub -wren
Main Creek 21 Feb (HBR); J being fed by Brown Thornbills at Broulee 10 Jan & Kentlyn
22 Jan (ENHS,RT).
Black -eared Cuckoo Chtysococcyx osculans Wilton Oval 24 Nov (JZ), second record
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for Illawarra Region, previous record Camden Jan 1977 (Chafer et al 1999); Lake
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Burrendong 24 Aug -17 Sep (CD), 1 Goolooinboin HSD, Glen Davis 11 Dec (PDb), 2
Capertee Valley 19 Dec (EV); Weddin SF 10 May (SK); Wittenbra SF Bugaldie 6 Jul
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(AM); 1 Tullys Hill, Leeton 24 Apr (MS), I Binya SF 9 May & 4 on 24 Jul, feeding on
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 211Caper White caterpillars (KH), 1 Bungambil SF 11 Jul (RWh), I Stackpoole SF 28 Aug
(SC), Taleeban Res 26 Sep (SC); Tarawi Bore, Tarawi NR 23 Sep (AM), several
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birds seen Willow Point HSD & Lake Nialia, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC), Whoey
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Tank, Round Hill NR 3 Oct (JL). A good year with more records than usual.
Horsfield’s Bronze -Cuckoo C basalis 1 Millbank Aug & J Belmore Swamp 8 Oct,
being fed by Superb Fairy -wren, observer’s first observation since 1996 for the Macleay
Valley; J fed by Superb Fairy -wren Shortland WC 7 Jan & Brown Thornbill at Hallidays
Point 3 Jan (HBR); J being fed by Superb Fairy- wren Mangrove Mountain 25 Dec (CCBR);
1 Maroubra Rifle range 11 Jul (EV); Recorded all year on the South Coast with juveniles
reported in Jan, Oct & Dec (ENHS); 12 Shingle Hut Ck, Cocoparra NP 11 Jul (PMo).
Shining Bronze -Cuckoo C. hicidus Reported all months of the year on Central Coast
with more records than usual (CCBR); J being fed by Yellow Thornbills Moorebank 12
Jan (RT), 13 Cattai NP 23 Feb (BC), of the New Zealand race Cattai NP 18 Oct (PAn);
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Present on the South Coast from 28 May -26 Dec (ENHS).
Little Bronze -Cuckoo C. mirnitillus HC Hat Head 18 Aug & Frederickton 24 Nov
(KS), HC Champions Ck Tucabia 24 Sep, Courts Crossing 27-28 Oct & South Grafton 29
Oct (GC), Conglomerate SF Red Rock 27 Dec (CA). Average year.
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Common Koel Eudynamys scolopacea Leichhardt 20 Mar (LJ), Hyde Park, Sydney
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7 Dec (CS), unusual locations; 1 Robertson 13 May (RB), 2 Broulee Jan (AT); Reported
as far south as Wallaga Lake Jan -Feb (ENHS); F HC Katoomba 14 Dec (CP); 2 Campbell
Park 11 Mar, 1 O’Connor, Canberra ACT 28 Mar (per IF); AM Gowrie near Tamworth
Dec (GMi); 1 Gol Gol 6-12 Nov (BM). Departure: Late Juv Wentworth Falls 12 Apr
(CPk), J being fed by Magpie -lark Lawrence 13 Apr (GC), J Chittaway Point 20 Apr
(CCBR), 1 Barren Grounds NR 13 May (RB). Arrival: 1 Jannali 17 Sep (per DSi), I
Matcham 24 Sep (CCBR), Valley Heights 25 Sep (NB), Nowra 27 Sep (CB), West
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Kempsey 29 Sep (KS), Burrewarra Point 3 Oct. Breeding: J being fed by Red Wattlebirds
Shortland WC 7 Jan & 3 Feb (HBR), at Berkeley Vale, Chittaway Creek & Wyoming
Jan -Mar (CCBR), at Surf beach on 11 Feb (ENHS) & another Bonnievale 8 Mar (PDb).
J fed by Little Wattlebird Berkeley Vale East 23 Feb and AM Koel fed cherry tomatoes
to Juv Berkeley Vale 4-8 Jan (CCBR).
Channel -billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae 10 Jerrys Plains 15 Nov (HBR); 2
Broulee Jan (AT) & many records for the South Coast the most southern being 2 at
Tuross Heads 27 Dec (ENHS); Canberra ANU Campus 10 Mar & Bungendore 6 Mar
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(IF), very uncommon at these locations; Bective 27 Sep (EF). Departure: Woodford
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11 Mar (CP), 3 Chittaway Point 13 Mar (CCBR). Arrival: 2 Mulgoa Valley 22 Aug
(MEI), 1 Meringo 3 Sep (ENHS), 1 Coledale 10 Sep (GB), 1 Mt Colah 12 Sep (Birdline),
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April 2002Faulconbridge 13 Sep (RHu), 50 birds were observed flying south over Wallis Lake on
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14 Sep (MV), a migrating flock heading south. A large flock for NSW. Breeding: J
being fed at nest by Australian Raven Fairfield 13 Jan (GT), Pied Currawong feeding 3 J
in nest Mountain Lagoon 10 Feb (MCo), at North Arm Rd 24 Jan & Booti Booti NP 16
Mar (HBR), feeding or 2J at 5 locations on Central Coast 4-28 Jan (CCBR), 2J at
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Kalaru Jan -Feb (KV), 2 being raised by Magpies Killara 15 Feb (DCa), A seen in Pied
Currawong nest St Ives 25 Sep (RCI).
Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus Reported at II sites on Central Coast Jan,
Aug -Dec, most reports in 5 years but no breeding records (CCBR); I Maianbar 11 Jan
(Birdline), Salvation Tk, West head 20 Feb (HRo), Akuna Bay, KCNP 6 Sep (HR),
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Upper Colo Rd Richmond 7 Oct (MR), Mitchell Park, Cattai 9 Oct (BC); 2 Jamberoo
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GC 6 Jan (BH). All southern records published.
Powerful Owl Ninox strenuu Adult RK Halfway Creek 18 Feb (GC), HC Millbank
Mar -Apr, Aug, Nov -Dec, Yarrahappini SF Sep (KS), HC Kookaburra 16 Apr, Yarravel
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10 Dec (ABi); I Blackbutt Res 2 Jun & 3 Jul, 1 Medowie 1 Nov, HC New Lambton 8 Jun,
Laguna 29-31 Oct & Balickera 20 Nov (HBR); HC Lisarow 25 Jan, 22 Feb, Munmorah
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SRA 9 Mar, Kangy Angy 23 Mar, Wambina NR 27 Mar, HC Mangrove Mountain 26
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Jun & seen 18 Oct, 1 Somersby 26 Jun, HC Wyoming 121 Jul, 1 Umina 7 Oct, I Colongra
Lake where attempted to pull an adult Brush -tailed Possum from a tree but eventually
was unsuccessful (CCBR); HC Westleigh 8 Feb (ARo), North Sackville 14 Feb (KB),
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RK Ingleside 18 Feb (RCo), Pymble Ladies College 26 Feb (LJ), South Turramurra
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1 Mar (DL), 1 HC Beecroft 3 May (RMu), 1 Devlins Ck North Epping with possum 5
Mar, with possum 25 Jul & 2A+2Y 9 Oct -12 Nov (HWr,LJ,ML,PMc), 2 Derriwong Rd
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Dural 21 Mar (PL), I Quarantine Stn North Head 23 May (FC), I Cumberland SF 13 May
(RK), 2 Pennant Hills Park 19 Jun, A+J 6 Oct (NH), in garden at Beecroft I8 Jul (LA
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Thornleigh 5 Aug (LW), 2 Mitchell Park Cattai 14 Mar -12 Nov (AR,BC,EV,MA,NH)
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including one with Ringtailed Possum 30 May, Ku-ringai Chase NP Visitors Centre 27
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Aug (NJo); 2 Mt Riverview 25 Mar -3 Oct (HN), Hazelbrook 14 Apr -9 May (JD), 2
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Cromer 13 Dec (BCo) & 1 Blaxland (GT); 1 Bundanoon Creek 18 Apr (MB), I Jamberoo
Rd Barren Grounds NR 14 May (RT), Excelsior Mine, Thirroul 20 Jun (MMo), 2A+2J
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Mollymook 13 Oct -2 Nov, dead on forest edge Berrara 28 Aug (KM); Burrewarra
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Point Jan -Feb, I Spring Creek 19 Feb (ENHS); HC White Box Camp Goulbum RNP 22
May (HBR), the furthest west record for 1999. Good spread of records across coastal
regions.
Barking Owl N. connivens 2 Mount Pleasant 30 Dec (SBo); I Mt White 14 Jul, HC
Mangrove Mountain 29 Jul (CCBR); 2 Boorolong Ck Armidale 3 Jul -Aug (AMi,SD);
Resident Glen Alice with 2Y first reported 4 Dec (AR,EV,JHI,PDb,RT,SMu), 20 km N
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of Glen Alice 3 Jan (AP), Glenolan Rd Bridge, Glen Alice 29 Apr (TQ), 2 Nile Ck, Glen
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Alice 27 Mar (ASt), I Balmoral HSD, Cooyal Apr (NK); 1 Ingalba NR 5 May (SK); 1
Yarrada SF 4 Jan (PMo). More records than usual.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 213Southern Boobook N. novaeseellandiae N+4E Shortland 3 Nov (HBR), unusual to
have nest contents reported.
Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa 1 Dundarra Gully, Washpool NP 6 Feb (GC), 2 Kookaburra
17 Apr, He Yarrahpinni 8 May (ABi), 2 near Mt Warning 6 Dec (AMi); Gloucester
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Tops 11 Sep, Copeland SF 2 Oct -6 Nov & Boarding House Dam, Watagan NP 10 Oct &
3 Nov (HBR,ML); HC Wambina NR 17 Mar, 1 Narara 12 May, I Berrys Head Res 13
Jun, I Dog Trap Rd Ourimbah 17 Jul, 1 Gosford CBD 26 Jul, 1 Lisarow 29 Jul -12 Aug,
the same bird that was at Berrys Hd Res (radio -tracked), HC Palmdale 9-24 Aug, more
records than usual for Central Coast (CCBNR); Waterfall, Royal NP 9 Jan -5 Feb & 25
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Sep (DSe,ML,PC), 2 Red Cedar Flat, RNP 12 Mar (MA); 1 Bundanoon Creek 18 Apr
(MB), Jamberoo Pass 24 Jun (RJo); Katoomba 13-17 Jan (CP).
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Masked Owl T. novuehollandiae HC & responded to tape Minnie Water 24 Feb (GC),
HC Cobcrofts Res Werrikimbie NP 23-27 Jan, 2 Crowdy bay NP 12-13 Mar, HC Beranghi
31 Jul, RK Pacific Hway, Macksville 23 Oct, HC Limeburners Ck NR 23 Nov (A Bi,KS);
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I Copeland Tops FR 2 Oct -6 Nov (AR,ML); HC Hillston HSD Yarramalong 31 Oct
(CCBR); HC Lady Carrington Drive RNP 30 Jan (MR), Gees Lagoon, Colo 20 Feb
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(EV), I Upper Colo 28 Dec (KB); 1 Curlewis 18 Jul (AA). Good spread of records,
mostly for North Coast.
Grass Owl Tyto capensis Crescent Head 15 Jul (per KS), RK Pacific Hwy Maclean 21
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Oct (GC), estimated 40 birds in the 9500 ha of heathland and coastal forest of Crowdy
Bay NP Dec (Debus et al 2001). Fewer reports than usual.
Barn Owl T alba 5 RKs 22 Sep -24 Dec in the Clarence Valley & observed at Coutts
Crossing 7 Apr -21 Jun, 1 Jackadgery 11 Nov (GC); 1 Harrington 27 Feb (ABi), 1
Bayswater Colliery 20 Sep & Parkville 21 Sep, 2 at Wybong 21 Nov (HBR); No Central
Coast records cf 1996 & 1997 (CCBR); D Richmond Turf Farms 15 Dec (ML); Calling
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Akolele Jan -Feb, Tilba Lake 4 Apr & 13 Nov (ENHS); RK between Delungra & Inverell
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18 Oct (GC); Shipley Plateau Jan (CP); RK between Gunnedah & Mullaley 25 Sep
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(GC); Many between Parkes & Condobolin 11 Oct (NS).
Marbled Frogmouth P. ocellatus beachwash Belongil Beach 30 Mar (per JMc) and
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subsequently banded & released at Minyon Falls (GC), 2 Mt Warning NP 29 Dec (ML),
within known range.
White -throated Nightjar Eurostopodus mystacalis HC Frenchmans Creek 14 Nov,
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Pillar Valley 25 Feb (GC), 2+N Lake Innes NR 23 Nov (AB i); N+E Balickera 21-28 Nov,
J on 25 Dec (HBR); Berowra 13 Jan (SB), North Sackville 14 Feb (KB), Westleigh
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17 Feb (ARo), 2 Gees lagoon, Colo 20 Feb (EV), Bobbin Head KCNP 20 Nov (SE);
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April 2002Lower Nattai River 14 Dec (CC), Thirlmere Lakes 22 Dec (GB); Batemans Bay Feb
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(ENHS); Glen Davis 23 Feb (CP), 2 Ilford 21 Mar (HRo). Departure: Copeland
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Common 18 Apr (HBR). Arrival: Kangaroo Valley 3 Oct (JDa).
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Spotted Nightjar E. argus I Taleeban Res 26 Sep (SC); HC Round Hill NR 21-23 Sep
(AR). Fewer reports than usual.
Australian Owlet -nightjar Aegotheles cristatus Reported from Wambina NR, Kangy
Angy & Mangrove Mountain Mar- Dec (CCBR); 10+ Gees Lagoon Colo 20 Feb (EV),
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Castlereagh NR May (DPo), Mitchell Park, Cattai 21 Nov (LJ).
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White -rum ped Swiftlet Co/localia spodiopygius No reports in 1999.
Glossy Swiftlet C. esculenta Two small swiftlets reported from Connells Point 14 Mar,
considered to be this species. Referred to BARC Case No 261 but record not accepted.
White -throated Need letail Hirundapus caudacutus Largest concentration: 500+
Wollemi NP 21 Feb (TN), 150+ Arrowfield 2 Mar (HBR), 200+ Munmorah Dunes 13
Dec (CCBR). Departure: 2 Sackville North 21 Mar (KB), 2+ Katoomba 27 Mar (CP),
30+ Freemans Camp, MSRA 28 Mar (CCBR), 15 Mullinburra 15 Apr (ENHS). Arrival:
4 Timor Rock Coonabarabran 16 Oct (AR), 1+ Lawrence 23 Oct (GC), Chittaway Bay
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24 Oct (CCBR), 2 Westleigh 31 Oct (ARo) & 20+ Bulga 31 Oct (HBR).
Fork -tailed Swift Apus pacificus 2 Laguna 5 Mar (HBR); No Central Coast records
(CCBR); 2 Bangor 17 Feb (KC); 10+ Lake Burrendong 5-9 Dec (CD); 10+ 60 km E of
Cobar 24 Mar (BC). Fewer reports than usual.
Azure Kingfisher Ceyx a:urea A+3Y Shortland WC 10 Feb, N+Js Balickera Oct, young
died when creek rose after heavy rain (HBR).
Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguinea killed a Spotted Dove Gosford 2 Dec
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(CCBR); A killed Yellow -tufted Honeyeater at Maulbrooks Rd Morouya 21 Dec (ENHS).
Forest Kingfisher Todiramphus macleayi No Hunter or Central Coast records; Roseville
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Bridge 6 Dec (BAy), only Sydney record.
Red -backed Kingfisher T. pyrrophygia Binya SF 10 Oct (KH), unsual location.
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Arrival: 1 Dead Horse Gap, Sturt NP 30 Aug (CP), 5 Wanaaring 12 Sep (ABi).
Sacred Kingfisher T sanctus Departure: Birdie Bch Munmorah SRA 28 Mar (CCBR),
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1 Springwood 1 Apr (BWe). Arrival: 1 Springwood 10 Aug (BWe), 1 Lane Cove 3 Sep
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 215(Birdline), Leeton 18 Sep (KH), Mangrove Mountain 20 Sep (CCBR). Overwinter
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Records: 1 Lemon Tree Passage 5 Jul (HBR), 1 mangroves St Huberts Island 24 Apr, I
mangroves Cockle Bay 13 Jun (CCBR), I Wallaga Lake Jul (ENHS), 1 Popiltah Lake 27
Aug (CP).
Rainbow Bee -eater Merops ornatus Departure: 8 Katoomba 5 Mar (CP), 70+ migrating
northwards Saltash 6 Mar (HBR). Arrival: 1 Hat Head NP 1 Sep (KS), 4 Sackville 8 Sep
(KB), 1+ Wanaaring 13 Sep (ABi), 1 Leeton 3 Oct (KH), late date.
Dollar bird Ewystomus orientalis Departure: South Grafton 21 Mar (GC), Chittaway
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Point 24 Mar (CCBR). Arrival: 2 Tuncurry 17 Sep (GC), Botany 21 Sep (DH), 2
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Mangrove Mountain 24 Sep (CCBR),1 Valley Heights 2 Oct (NB), South West Rocks
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3 Oct (KS).
Noisy Pitta Pitta versicolor Moonee Beach NR 9 Jun (EV), Boorganna NR 17 Apr
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(GPi), HC Grassy Head 12 Jul, 1 Millbank 9 Aug, 3HC Tamban SF 4 Sep, 5 Ingalba SF
4 Sep & 2 Hat Head NP 27 Sep (KS), 3+ Iluka NR 31 Jul, caught & banded Aug, HC
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Raspberry Lookout Gibraltar Range NP 3 Jul (GC), 1 Crowdy Head NP 30 Sep (BDb), 3
Mt Seaview 2 Oct (CG), HC Kendal 3 Oct (MSa), HC Mt Warning 30 Dec (ML);
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Gloucester Tops 13 Mar (EV), Copeland SF 2 Oct (FOC), Copeland Common 7 Nov
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(ML); 1 Chatswood garden 24 Apr (MO), I Field of Mars 4 May (SBu), I 1m Taronga
Zoo 17 May -27 Jun (DH,TQ); 1 Kangaroo Valley 3 Oct (JDa). The latter record is outside
the dates of the usual winter range cf 1998 Annual Report.
Albert’s Lyrebird Menura alberti HC Peats Mm, Whian Whian SF 10 Jun, HC Minyon
Falls 20 Jun (GC).
Rufous Scrub -bird Atrichornis rufescens 2 Surveyors Ck, Washpool NP 7 Feb & HC
on 12-13 Nov, HC Raspberry Lookout, Gibraltar Range NP 3 Jul (GC); Birds Australia
surveys at Gloucester Tops & The Mountaineer located 12 birds at 65 sample sites on 6
Nov & 8 on 4 Dec , max 2 Glouceter Tops 13 Mar, 11 Sep & 10 Nov(HBR).
White -throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaeus A at nest with young in Grey
Mangrove Avicennia marina Newports Ck Coffs Harbour 8 Nov (GC), nest 2-3 m above
ground.
White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis Resident Binya SF in 6 out of 10
compartments, courtship feeding 19 Sep, N+IY 10 Oct, M carrying food at another site
16 Oct, M collecting nesting material at first site 30 Oct raising possiblity of 2″d brood
(KH), 4 on 4 Apr (JDu); 60 km S of Louth 22 Jun (MC); 4 Tarawi NR 23 Sep (RB) &
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2+ on 6 Oct (GLC), 2 Kajuligah NR Ivanhoe 14 Oct (DMa).
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April 2002Red-browed Treecreeper Climacteris etythrops Kangaroo Flat 25 Juan (ABi);
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Reported from 8 locations throughout the year in the Hunter Region (HBR), max 10+
Gloucester Tops 13 Mar (EV); Reported from Currowan SF, Italian Mine Rd & Broulee
on South Coast throughout the year (ENHS).
Brown Treecreeper C. picumnus Nearest coastal birds Mt Vincent 26 Jan &
Quorrobolong 31 Jul (HBR).
Red -backed Fairy -wren M. melanocephalus 3+ Pitlochy nr Gloucester 8 Oct (HBR),
near southern limit of range.
Splendid Fairy -wren ill splendens 4 Pulletop NR 25 Jan (JDu), 5 Loughnan NR 18 Jul
(NL), 3+ Byrock 14-17 Oct (GC), all at eastern limit of range.
Southern Emu -wren Stipiturus malachurus Small numbers in suitable habitat on Central
Coast including 4 Tuggerah Lagoon 6 Jun, 5 Tuggerah STW 10 Jun, 2 Carrack Res
Kincumber 7 Aug & 4+ Norahville heaths 22 Aug (CCBR); Magic Pt Maroubra 14 Mar
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(RG); 6 North Hazelbrook 14 Mar (MK); Reported from Surfside, Moruya & Dun -as in
Dec (ENHS).
Striated Grasswren Amytornis striatus N+3E Tarawi NR 23 Sep (BMc), first breeding
record this century?, 8+ on 22 Sep (RB).
Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus 100+ Capertee Valley 7 Apr (WS), a large
number.
Red-browed Pardalote Pardalotus rubricatus 10+ Fort Grey, Sturt NP 29 Aug (CP),
known site.
Eastern Bristlebird Dasyornis brachypterus 2, one with red band Barren Grounds NR
16 May (RT), radio -tracking of 22 birds in Jervis Bay NP & Booderee NP in 1999 showed
densities of between 1.5 & 2.1 birds per 5 ha, but the home range of each pair was c. 10
ha throughout the year thus overlapping other pairs (Baker 2001); 25 between Little
River and Howe Heaths, Nadgee NR 15 Jan (AF).
Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus 2 Minnamurra Falls 16 Feb (KC); 3 Jersey Springs RNP
18 Jun (HR); 2 Pierces Pass, BMNP 29 Apr (TQ), 2 Hassans Walls Lithgow 22 Sep
(MH), 2 Mt Wilson & Shipley Plateau 21 Nov (EV); Reported from Italian Mine Rd &
Murramurrang NP throughout the year (ENHS).
Rock Warbler Origma solitaria Resident near Laguna, nesting 29-31 Oct (HBR);
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 217Yellow -throated Scrubwren Sericornis citreogularis Milibank Aug & 2 Tanban SF 9
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Oct (KS), uncommon in Macleay Valley
Large -billed Scrubwren S. magnirostris Nesting in a used Yellow -throated Scrub –
wren’s nest Mangrove Mountain 22 Aug & 23 Nov (CCBR).
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrropygia 2 nr Waratah Trig, Gibraltar Range
NP 6 Feb (GC); 1 Old Bar 5 Aug & 2 Killingworth 22 Oct (HBR); 1 Maraylya 17 Mar
(KB), I Hornsby Heights 6 May, I Bobbin Head, KCNP 8 May (DMa), 1 Deep Ck
Narrabeen 29 May (PDb), West Head KCNP 15 Aug (HR), 1+ Lower Portland 28 Aug
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(KB), 4 Mitchell Park, Cattai 5 Sep, 1 on 16 Oct (AHo,EV); 1 Sawpit Gully, Appin 20
Jan, 1 Cudmirrah 3 Apr (KM), 2 Maddens Plains 26 Apr (GB), 2 Vincentia 17 Sep (JA);
3 White Box camp. Goulburn RNP 1-4 Oct (HBR), 2 Crown Station CK, Glen Davis
(RT), 2 Rockview HSD, Glen Davis 20 Nov (CG), 2 Binalong HSD, Glen Alice 28 Dec
(DG); 9kms SE lnverell 12 Apr (.1H); Bunberry Forest, Goobang NP 9 May (AO); 2
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Ingalba NR 22 Sep (MC).
Shy Heathwren H. cataa 2 Round Hill NR 7-8 Jan, 8 Mar, 17 Sep & on 27 Nov
(CPa,LJ,RB,SWh), 4+ Tarawi Nr 23 Sep (AM) & 6 Oct (GLC). Known sites.
Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus filliginosus 2 Little Forest Plateau 19 Sep (KM); 8
counted between Little River & Howe Heaths, Nadgee NR 15 Jan (AF). Few reports
received for this species.
Rufous Fieldwren C. campestris No reports in 1999.
Redthroat Pyrrholaemus brunneus Silver City Hwy, 100 km NE Broken Hill 28 Mar
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(BC); 2+ Whoey Tank, Round Hill NR Apr (JWa), well east of known range, although
reported from Hillston in 1986. A few birds seen Willow Point HSD Wentworth 28 Sep –
7 Oct (GLC).
Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittata Willi Willi Rd 15 Jan (KS), extension of
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range to the east in Macleay Valley; 20+ Howes Valley May, N+Y Burning Mountain
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NR 24 Jan (HBR); 2 Scheyville NP 17 Apr & 18 Sep (TWa), 6 Cobbity 18 Apr (TQ),
A+2Y St Albans Common 15 May (BDb), 2 Shanes Park 22 May (BC), 3 Cobbitty 14
Sep (BC); 4 Cocoparra NP 23-26 Jun (JDu), western edge of range. Good spread of
records for the Sydney Region.
Mangrove Gerygone Gerygone levigaster 2 in mangroves Brickwharf Rd Woy Woy 4
Oct (CCBR), unusual location; Homebush Bay 1-14 Aug (BD,DH), first record for this
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site?, 3 Careel Bay 31 Aug -22 Nov (BC).
218 April 2002Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca 2 Bulga 2 Jan (HBR), most easterly record for
Hunter Region; Bourbon Ck Capertee Valley 28 Aug (RT).
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White -throated Gerygone G. olivacea Departure: 1 Cobbity 11 Apr (DH). Arrival:
Mulgoa Valley 22 Aug (MH), 2 Terrey Hills 2 Sep (LH), Mangrove Mountain 4 Sep
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(CCBR), Faulconbridge 5 Sep (CM).
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Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla Feeding J Fan -tailed Cuckoo Kentlyn Jan (RT).
Yellow Thornbill A. ttana Feeding J Shining Bronze -Cuckoo Moorebank 12 Jan (RT).
Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis 2+ White Box Camp, GRNP May -Oct
(HBR), most easterly record for 1999.
Banded Whiteface A. nigricinta 40 km N of Wanaaring 27 Sep (AA), an extension of
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range eastwards for NSW.
Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata Nesting Jan, July -Dec on Central Coast
(CCBR).
Little Wattlebird Anthochaera chrysoptera Nesting Jan, Feb, Apr, May , Aug & Nov
on Central Coast (CCBR).
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis Capertee Valley 28 Aug (RT),
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east of usual range.
Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata Nesting around the southern shores of
Tuggerah Lakes Aug -Dec, often succesfully rearing 3 broods per season, and generally
in association with nesting Grey Butcherbirds (CCBR); Longneck Lagoon 14 Feb
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(DH), Mount Pleasant 25 Mar (KCo), last known Sydney sighting was 1984 (Hoskin
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1991).
Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus Absent from the Blue Mountains during autumn
& early winter returning Lapstone 25 Jul (RT), Woodford 27 Jul (MK) & Kings Tablelands
Aug (CP).
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Little Friarbird Philemon citrogularis 2+2Y Ridgelands Rd Bunnan 21 Nov (HBR);
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Tuggerah Lagoon 4 Apr & 1 Mangrove Mountain 1 Jun, 4th & 5th Central Coast records.
Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza pluygia 6+ Putty North 8 Jul (RH), 2 Widden Brook
Nov & 1 HC Jerrys Plains 4 Dec (HBR); 1 Rae Ave Toukley East 13 Nov (CCBR);
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 2193A+3J Yalwal SF Jan (SN), 2 Narrawallee 28 Jan (IF); Dalmeny 24 Jan, Corunna
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Lake 14 Jun (JV), 1 Tuross Heads 15-23 Aug (GRy); 4 35 km W of Armidale 3 Oct
(A M i); 3+ Narcooma HSD Wollar Jan -Apr (ET), max 2+1m Capertee Valley 10 Jan, on
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1 May (MT,RG), 40+ Capertee Valley, some nest buiding 3-6 Sep (DG), max 6+1m Glen
Davis 2 Jan -15 Feb, 2 on 14 Nov, 1+3J 18 Dec, 2 30 Dec (DG,DSm,JE,SMu,TQ), max 3
Burrendong Arboretum I May -17 Aug (JF,JHd), 25 Mt Buckeroo, Mudgee 11 Apr- 23
May (MRo), 3 Mudgee 11 Apr (MR), max 50 White Box camp, Goulburn RNP 23 May –
10 Aug (SH,LH), 1 feeding in Euc. leucoxylon Dunville Loop, Rylstone 27 Jun & 5 on 16
Aug (RT), 4 Wyaldra Common, Home Rule 8 Aug & 6+N on 1 Sep, max 4+N Ulan 13
Aug- 9 Sep (LHe), 15 Glenview HSD, Glen Alice 29-31 Aug , 8 Huntingdale HSD, Glen
Alice 29-31 Aug (DGe), 1 Glenloan Bridge, Glen Alice 29 Oct (TQ), 3 Glen Alice 24
Oct, 2 on 13 Nov (TQ), 3 on 4 Dec (DWa,EV), 2 Binalong HSD Glen Alice 28 Dec
(DG); 1 Gwydir Park TSR 11 Feb (BW), max 4 Barraba 20 Feb -4 Jun, 3 on 26-27 Sep
(AS,PS,RW), 1 Coonoor TSR Bundarra 8 Aug (AL), 2 I km N of Manilla 24 Sep (JT), 1
Oakhampton HSD, Manilla 24 Sep (RW); 2 Goonoo SF 30 Jun (DO); 11 Lavington-
Thurgoona Feb -Aug (per 1Da,10), 2 Corowa 8 Apr (VKI), 2 Jindalee SF 6 Sep (GB);
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Bullawa Creek 13 Apr (DWt); 2 Warrumbungle NP 15 Jul (GSt); 3 Burrendong
Arboreatum 1-17 Aug (JFo), 2N Dubbo 16 Aug (PCk), 2N 15 km SW Mendooran 13 Jul –
17 Aug (JHk), 2 N Goonoo St 12 Aug (JHk), 2+N Warrumbungles NP 5 Sep (DPa),
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Minore 10 Aug -11 Oct (ME); 2 Warialda mid Jul (per DGe). A good spread of records
across NSW.
Blue -faced Honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis Swallowreach, Ebenezer 7 Dec (KB);
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Mountain Lagoon 12 Feb & Bilpin 7 Nov (MCo), edge of range north of Sydney
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Region.
Yellow -faced Honeyeater Lichenostomus chrysops Max 2000+ per hr flying over
Katoomba northwards 12 Apr (CP).
Singing Honeyeater L. virescens 1 Wingen 24 Oct (HBR), unusual eastern record;
Mangrove Honeyeater L. fasciogularis HC Dart Is Clarence R 11 Feb (GC), 20 Iluka
23 Nov (MR), 2 Hickey Island, Yamba 28 Nov -4 Dec (GC,ML).
Yellow -tufted Honeyeater L. melanops Nesting Laguna 11-12 Sep & Glenrock SRA 7
Mar (HBR); Feeding J Pallid Cuckoo Kentlyn Jan (RT), N+2Y Mitchell Park, Cattai 29
Aug (SWh); 20 Woronora Valley 12 Sep (BE).
Grey -fronted Honeyeater L. plumulus I Popiltah Lake 27 Aug (CP); Max 10+ Tarawi
NR 23 Sep -6 Oct (RB,GLC); 2+ Round Hill Nr 27 Nov (SWh). Average year.
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April 2002Fuscous Honeyeater L. fuscus 4 Mangrove Mountain 27 Apr -20 May, first Central
Coast record in 3 years (CCBR); I Primbee 9 May (GB), unusual location.
White -plumed Honeyeater L. penicillatus 3 Shell Harbour Square 9 Jun (DG) & 5
North Wollongong 12 Jun (LWi) these confirm earlier records of this species taking up
residence in 3 carparks of Wollongong/Dapto /Shellharbour, where they are generally
absent from the Illawarra Region apart from the Wollondilly and Nowra areas (Chafer et
al 1999); Faulconbridge 1-15 Jul (CM), unusual location.
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Black -chinned Honeyeater Mehthreptus gularis HC at Camira Downs, Mororo SF,
Newbold Lookout & Born Born SF 4 Mar -22 Aug (GC); 2 Table Bay Ck, Widden Valley
12-16 Jun, 2+ Singleton Army Training area, Broke 31 Oct & 2 Wallingat NP 5 Dec
(HBR); Max 2 Castlereagh NR May & 5 Jul (DPo,TQ); 2 Capertee Valley 7 Apr -1 May
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(PDb,WS), max 4 Glenoin Bridge, Glen Alice 24 Oct & 4 Nov (EV), 2+ White Box
Camp, Goulburn RNP 21-23 May (HBR), 2 Munghorn Gap NR 18 Jul (PO), 4 Bina long
HSD, Glen Alice 28 Dec, 4 Numalta HSD Glen Alice 29 Dec, 2 Glen Davis 30 Dec (DG);
4+ Daruka Rd Tamworth Aug -Sep (JMy); 4+ Holy Camp, Weddin NP 6 May, 4+ southern
end Weddin NP 12 May (AO), 4 Jindallee SF 17 Jul (NL), 4 Ingalba NR 21-23 Oct
(MC). Good spread of records across the Tablelands & Slopes of NSW.
White-naped Honeyeater M. lunatus Small numbers on the Central Coast feeding in
flowering Scribbly Gum & Swamp Mahogany Apr -Sep (CCBR); Migration started
through Katoomba 12 Apr (CP).
Brown -headed Honeyeater M. brevirostris Widespread in Scribbly Gum & Spotted
Gum woodland on the Central Coast, nesting from Jul -Dec (CCBR).
Brown Honeyeater Lichmera indistincta 2 in street trees at Hurstville 17 May (JHd), 12
Bicentennial Park 5 Dec (HR); Bulli Pass 10 Jan (JB), first Illawarra record since one
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seen at Thirroul in 1965 (Chafer et al 1999); Warren 20 Sep (ME); 4 Coombie HSD
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Roto 20 Sep -6 Oct (JHo).
Painted Honeyeater Grantiella pieta 150 km W of Armidale 25 Sep (AMi); 3 Rockview
HSD, Glen Davis 30 Jan (BP) & max 4 on 4 Nov -19 Dec (AV,EV,DWa), 2 Capertee
Valley 15-18 Oct (JHI), A+J 25 km S of Cowra 14 Nov (Bounds 2000), 2 Huntingdale
East HSD, Glen Alice 31 Dec (DG); 2 Glanmire, near Bathurst 16 Oct (MA); Lake
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Cowal 3 Oct (PPe), 3 Weddin SF Grenfell 8 Oct (RM), 10+ Ingalba NR 21-23 Oct (MC);
2 Lanes Mill FR Kennebri 22 Sep (ABi); Present Binya SF 2 Sep -17 Dec when max 16
present, 2 N of Leeton in Boree Acacia pendula 15 Sep (KH), 6+ Euabalong West 12 Oct
(NS); 1 Byrock 17-20 Oct (DP1,GC); 2 Mossgiel 11 Oct (DMa), 1 Coombie HSD, Roto
23 Nov -4 Dec (1Ho). Present in NSW Jan, and 2 Sep -31 Dec, with more records reported
than usual.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 221Crescent Honeyeater Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera 2 Polblue Swamp, Barrington Tops
NP 3 Jan (AR), 2 Gloucester Tops 13 Mar (HBR); I Corn leroy Rd Colo 2 Dec (DP); 1
near Putty 20 Feb (PDb).
New Holland Honeyeater P. novaehollandiae 20+ Old Bar 4 Feb (HBR), further north
than usual; Nesting at Ogunbil, Tamworth Oct (BR), north-western edge of range in
NSW.
White-cheeked Honeyeater Phylidonyris nigra 4 Lake Conjola west 22 Sep (KM),
unusual so far south.
White -fronted Honeyeater P. albifions 4+ 40 km N of Wanaaring 27 Sep (AA);
Common, nesting John Hobbs Eremophila Patch, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC);
common Yathong NR 21-22 Sep (AR), Round Hill NR 19 Jul (NL), 5 Oct (CM) & 27
Nov (SWh).
Tawny -crowned Honeyeater P. melanops Reported in Yuraygir NP throughout the
year at Lake Arragan, Redcliff, Red Rock & Lake Hiawatha (GC); Reported from the
Munmorah SRA & Norahville heaths on Central Coast (CCBR).
Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris Winter visitor to Coutts Crossing,
arriving 20 Apr (GC).
Black Honeyeater Certhionyxniger 10+ betwen Trundle & Tullamore 4 Apr (NSWBA);
2 Stackpoole SF 28 Aug (SC), 1 Mt Brobenah I I Sep (HH), 5-6 prs Binya SF 12 Sep -late
Oct (KH), 2 McPherson Range, Narranderra 19 Sep (LH), 2A+N Taleeban Res 26 Sep
(SC), 2 Rankins Springs 26 Sep (GC); 2 Round Hill NR 17 Sep (RB), common + N+2E
21-23 Sep (AR), 10+ on 3-5 Oct (CM,ML), 35-40 Whoey Tank, Round Hill NR 27 Nov,
10+ Loughnan NR 28 Nov (SWh); 2+ Tongo HSD, Wanaaring 25 Jun (MC), 6 Nocholeche
NR 13 Sep (ABi); Common Coombie HSD, Roto Aug -Sep (JHo), common Yathong NP
21-22 Sep (AR), 10+ nesting John Hobbs Eremophila Patch, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct
(GLC), 6+ The Walls of China, Mungo NP 6 Oct (DAn). More records than usual with a
major influx into western NSW.
Pied Honeyeater C. variegatus I Taleeban Res 26 Sep (SC); I Urella East HSD,
Broken Hill 28 Jun (JM), 2 Milkparinka 29-30 Jun (KHa), 2+ Paroo R Wanaaring 22-23
Jul (MBr), 2 Olive Downs, Sturt NP 27 Jul -I Aug (NN,SW,PB), 5 Sturt NP 29 Mar &
10+ 1-13 Aug (DPo,RWe), Urella Downs HSD, Wanaaring 27 Jun (MC), 27-29 Oct
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(RJo), 4 Mootwingie NP 30-31 Oct (RJo); 4M,2F Coombie HSD, Roto 14 Sep (JHo), 2+
Mungo NP 14-17 Sep (LDe), 3-4 Oct (JCa,GBI), 2 Dareton 14 -Sep -15 Oct
(BMc,GCc,PBr), 3 Nulla HSD, Wentworth 23 Sep (AM), small numbers seen most days
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April 2002Willow Point HSD, Niallia Lake, Blue Lake, Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC.JH), 2 Round
Hill NR 27 Nov (SWh), 4+ Trentham HSD, Buronga 11 Dec (BMc). This is the most
records ever reported in NSW Bird Reports in one year. More records in Victoria than for
many years, at the same time.
Scarlet Honeyeater Myzomela sanguinolenta Present on Central Coast Mar -Dec, and
although present in small numbers the numbers of birds was down on previous years
(CCBR); 3 Angnes Banks NR 2 Aug (BC), 6 Mitchell Park, Cattai 29 Oct (SG); Present
on the South Coast all year in small numbers including 2 Wallaga Lake Oct (ENHS);
Reported at Faulconbridge 19 Sep (CM), 2 Glenioan, Glen Alice 30 Dec, Huntingdale
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East HSD, Glen Alice 31 Dec (DG); AM Ogunbil, Tamworth Oct (BR) & AM Dungowan
9 Nov (GMi), north-western edge of range in NSW, no previous records for this area.
Crimson Chat Epthianura tricolor Many between Parkes & Condobolin 11 Oct (NS);
4 Lake Cargelligo 7 Mar (CP), 2 Murrin Bridge 17 Sep (AM), 5 Binya SF 25 Sep & 4 on
3 Oct, many between Euabalong West & Parkes 13 Oct (NS), 11 N of Tu lys Hill 26 Sep
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(KH), 3+ Rankins Springs 26 Sep -28 Nov (GC,SWh), 100+ on the Hay-Goolgowie Rd
27 Sep (GC); 20+ Sturt NP 29 Aug (CP), 20+ 40 km N of Wanaaring 27 Sep (AA); Large
flocks Tarawi NR 23 Sep (AM), Lake Cargelligo 23 Sep (AR); Nr Willandra NP 18-20
Sep (AR) & at Willow Point HSD, Wentworth, nesting Lake Nialia 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC),
many Penarie Sep (AM,RB) and on 9 Oct (MC) .
Orange Chat E. aurifrons 2 Euabalong 2 Oct (JL), I Lake Cargelligo 2 Oct (ML), most
eastern reports received.
White -fronted Chat E. albifrons 10+ Lake Cathie 21 Mar (JH); Max 6+ Manning
Point/Old Bar 24 Oct -7 Dec (ABi), present all year Ash Island/Kooragang Is max 50+
Apr -May, 6 Hexham Swamp 15 May, 3+ Lemon Tree Passage 18 Sep & Salt Ash/Oyster
Cove 20 Nov (HBR); 5 Towra Point NR 24 Feb (RT); Max 100+ Lake Wollumboola 24
Jan -3 Apr (CC,EV)
Gibberbird Ashbyia lovensis 2 Sturt NP 29 Mar (BC), within known range.
Jacky Winter Microeca fascinans I Riverine Park, Arncliffe 5 Jun (RMo), unusual
record.
Scarlet Robin Petroica multicolor 6 Morisset Hospital 22 Aug (HBR), unsual location;
2 Mangrove Mountain 6 Jun -7 Aug only Central Coast record (CCBR); 2 Castlereagh 23
Jun, 2 North Sackville 29 Mar & 7 Aug (KB); Meringo 9 Aug, only South Coast record
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(ENHS); Lake Talbot, Narrandera 4 May (NJ).
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Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 223Red -capped Robin P. goodenovii Max 6 Bulga Jan -Aug, 1-2 Vacy May, Jerrys Plains
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29 May, 2 Westwood Rd Merriwa 5 Jul (HBR); 2 Agnes Banks NR 4 Jun (CSh), max 2
Castlereagh 23 Jun -25 Jul (DPo,KB); AF Goollooinboin HSD Glen Davis 29 Apr (TQ).
Small numbers continue to occur in suitable habitats in western Sydney and around Bulga
in the Hunter Valley.
Flame Robin P. phoenicea AF Mangrove Mountain 31 May (CCBR); Bushells Lagoon
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7 Aug (KB); Tuross Lakes 31 Jul (ENHS); 2 Mt Tomah 21 Nov (EV). Winter Records
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in South West Plains: M+2F Fivebough Swamp 8 May (MS), I Tharbogang 24 Jul
(AHu), numbers much fewer than in recent years.
Pink Robin P. rodinogaster AM Cattai NP 11 Apr (CL), referred to NSWORAC and
not accepted.
Rose Robin P.rosea Common in autumn -winter across the Central Coast woodland and
coastal areas (CCBR). Padstow 19 May (LA), unusual location.
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Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata Reported in the Hunter Valley at Howes Valley,
Jen-ys Plains, Wingen, Bulga & Vacy, including 2A+2Y Wingen 19 Sep (HBR), first
confirmed breeding for Hunter Region since 1988; near Cobbitty 6 Jan & 18 Apr
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(PB,TQ) & 18 Apr (TQ); 2 Murringo Gap 13 Jun (NLe); 4 Capertee Valley 15-18 Oct
(JHI), 2 Glen Davis Gorge 25 Apr (MH), resident Lake Burrendong 21 Jul -26 Nov (CD),
2 Huntingdale East, Glen Alice 31 Dec (DG); Weddin SF 10 May (SK), 2 Warraderry
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SF 12-13 Jun (AR), 2 Murringo Gap Young 13 Jun (NL), 2 36 km N of Booroowa 17 Jul
(FJ); 2 Pulletop NR 23-26 Jan (JDu); 2 Round Hill NR 19 Jul (NL), Willow Point HSD,
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Wentworth 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC).
Pale -yellow Robin Tregellasia capito Mt Seaview 2 Oct (CG), within known range.
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Southern Scrub -robin Drymodes brunneopygia Round Hill NR 7 Jan (LJ), 2 on 7
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Mar (CPa), max 4 21 Sep -3 Oct (A R,ML), max 6 Tarawi NR 23 Sep -6 Oct (AM,GLC).
Only reported from 2 sites.
Logrunner Orthonyx temminckii 2A+2Y nesting at Grassy Head Ecology Centre (KS),
where present all year, 2 Mt Seaview 2 Oct (CG); 4 Boarding House Dam, Wattagan NP
23 Jan & 14 Feb (HBR,PG), 2 Ferndale HSD, Dungog 30-31 Oct (EK), also reported
from Copeland FR & SF, Coopernook FP, Barrington Tops & Chichester Dam (HBR);
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Brothers Rd Jilliby 30 Nov (CCBR). A small population in the Watagan Mountains is
still present.
Hall’s Babbler P. halli No reports in 1999.
224 April 2002Chirruping Wedgebill Psophodes cristatus Large numbers evident near Tongo HSD,
Wanaaring (MC).
Spotted Quail -thrush Cinclosoma punctatum AM Raspberry Lookout Gibraltar Range
NP 3 Jul (GC), 3 Dooragan NP 27 Mar & 4 Aug (ABi); 2 Kurri Kurri 23 May, 2 Table
Bay Ck Widden Valley 12-16 Jun, 2 Howes Valley 7 Aug, max 4 Mount Vincent 14 Apr
& 26 Aug, 2 Wakefield 22 Oct, 2 Laguna 29-31 Oct (HBR); 2 Berecry Rd Mangrove
Mountain 16 Feb, 2 Kariong 24 Apr -May (CCBR); 2 Corn leroy Rd Colo 2 Dec (DP); W
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of Mt Kembla 8 Jan (CC); 2 Dalmeny Jan, 1 Belowra I Aug, A -1-J Maulbrooks Rd Moruya
21 Dec (ENHS); 2 Lake Burrendong 21 Jul (CD), 2 Pyramid Fire Trail Bathurst 16 Oct
(PDb), 3 McMahons Lookout, Wentworth Falls 2 Dec (CP); 2 Warrumbungles NP 20
May (POs).
Chestnut Quail -thrush C. castanotus 2 Pulletop NR 23-26 Jan (JDu); 2 Round Hill
NR 17 Sep & 3+ on 21-23 Sep (AR,RB); 2+ Tarawi NR 23 Sep -6 Oct (AM,G LC).
Cinnamon Quail- thrush C. cinnamomeum 5+ Sturt NP 29 Mar (DPo). Within known
range.
Crested Shrike -tit Falcunculus frontatus Small numbers present on Central Coast at
Wambina NR, Mangrove Mountain, Kincumba Reserve & Central Mangrove (CCBR); 2
Kikabel HSD, Holbrook 28 Apr (HJ); 2 Koala Res, Narrandera Common 4 May (NJ),
western limit of range.
Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea Gloucester Tops 13 Mar (DK) & 6 on 6 Nov
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(HBR); pr Tallanganda SF 6 Jun (EV). Known sites.
Red-lored Whistler P. rufogularis No records at Round Hill NR since Nov 1998 and
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no records for elsewhere in NSW.
Gilbert’s Whistler P. inornata 1 Back Yamma SF 20 Jul (NL); N+3E Tarawi NR 11
Sep (BMc), 6 on 23 Sep (AM) & 4+ on 6 Oct (GLC), 2 Round Hill NR 8 Mar (CPa), 4 on
21-23 Sep (AR). Only reported from 3 sites.
Rufous Whistler P. rufiventris Departure: Tuggerah Bay 25 Mar (CCBR), Katoomba
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8 Apr & Glenbrook 9 Apr (CP). Arrival: 2 Woodford 7 Sep (RHu).
Little Shrike -thrush C. megarhyncha Moonee Headland 17 Jul (GC), Grassy Head
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Ecology Centre 18 Dec (ARc), where a summer visitor.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 225Black -faced Monarch Monarcha melanopsis Departure: Mt Victoria 29 Mar (CM),
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1m at Woodford 5 Apr (MK). Arrival: 2 Mount Vincent 26 Aug (HBR), very early date,
South West Rocks 14 Sep (KS) & Forster (GC), Royal NP 16 Sep (DSi), Katandra
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Res 19 Sep (CCBR).
Spectacled Monarch M. trivirgatus 1 Mt Seaview 6 Oct (CG), I Copeland Tops 14 Mar
(EV) & 4 on 2-3 Oct (EV), some southern records include Telegherry 21 Feb, Woodville
30-31 Oct & Eccleston 6 Nov (HBR); Jilliby Cemetery bushland Dec, first Central
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Coast record since 1973 (CCBR).
White -eared Monarch M. leucotis 1 Woody Head 31 Jul, 1 Iluka NR 11 Apr & 31 Jul
(ABi,GC), I Woologoolga FR 29 Sep (BDb), 2 Mebbin NP nr Mt Warning 5 Nov, 1
Nightcap NP 6 Nov (MR). The July records are unusual.
Leaden Flycatcher Myiagra rubecula Caragabal Cemetery 24 Sep (AM), western
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edge of range and early arrival date; 2 Koondrook SF Barham 17 Dec (JN), western limit
of range. Departure: AF Sandon River 31 Mar (GC), Lake Heights 12 Apr (CC).
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Arrival: AM Evans Head 3 Sep (GC), Tamban SF 4 Sep (KS), Mangrove Mountain
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20 Sep (CCBR), 2 Mt Seaview NR 2 Oct (Bird line), Hazelbrook 5 Oct (JD).
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Satin Flycatcher M. cyanoleuca 1 French’s Forest 2 Feb (DPr), I Bilgola 22 Oct
(AMc), 2 Earlwood 25 Oct (DH), West Head, KCNP 14 Nov (MHa); AM Oaks Fire
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Trail, Woodford 27 Oct (CP), 2 Megalong Valley 21 Nov (EV); Pair Armidale Stock Res
mid Jan (JCe). Departure: I Woodford 8 Apr (MK). Arrival: I+ Copeland Tops 3-10
Oct (EV); 2M Mitchell Park, Cattai & M Glenorie 17 Oct (EV).
Restless Flycatcher M. inquieta No records for the Central Coast (CCBR); Bent’s
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Basin 1 Aug (AQ), I Mitchell Park Canal 18 Sep (TWa), rare in the Sydney Region.
Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons Departure: I Mangrove Mountain 3 Apr (CCBR),
1 Blackheath 7 May (GJ). Arrival: I Chatsworth Island 22 Sep (GC), 2 Copeland Tops
2 Oct (AR).
Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus Nesting Upper Wilsons Creek 27 Nov (ML);
Many birds present Belmont Swamp Jun -Aug, max 12 Belmont Swamp Jun (HBR); 9
together North Entrance 7 Jul (CCBR); Present in the illarra Region at 5 sites Mar -5 Aug,
with Primbee being the main location (IBR); 2 Rylstone Council Depot 6 May (MSt);
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Bora Res Upper Manilla 9 Mar (RWa). Southern records: Batemans Bay Mar (ENHS).
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Arrival: Halliday Point early Jan (HBR), 1 Sutton Res Bateau Bay 3 Feb (CCBR), I
Cattai NP 20 Feb (EV). Departure: I Bateau Bay 28 Sep (CCBR), I Green Point 7 Dec
(HBR).
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April 2002Yellow -eyed Cuckoo -shrike C. lineata 2 Upper Wislon’s Creek, Mullumbimby 26 Nov,
2 Wardell 27 Nov (ML), HC South West Rocks I Dec (KS).
White -bellied Cuckoo -shrike Coracina papuaensis Mitchell Park, Cattai 27 Jan (BC),
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Lapstone Dec (RT); Woodford 2 Mar (MK); 2 Tahmoor 14 Mar (CC); nesting
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Rockview HSD, Glen Davis 20 Nov (CG); Jindalee SF 16 Oct (NL).
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Cicada bi rd C. tenuirostris Nesting Laguna 2 Jan, first breeding record for Hunter Region
(HBR). Departure: HC Minnie Water 24 Feb (GC), 2 Mitchell Park, Cattai 5 May (TS).
Arrival: Murrumbung HSD Mardi 10 Oct (CCBR), Beranghi 16 Oct (KS), Cattai
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NP 17 Oct (MR), Gibraltar Range NP 18 Oct (GC), Bullaburra 20 Oct (CP).
Ground Cuckoo -shrike C. maxima Kelvin SF Apr, 2 Bendemeer Jul (JPe); 2 between
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Tullamore & Trundle 4 Apr (NSWBA); Lake Cargelligo 2 Oct (NLe); 6 Macquarie
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Marshes North 20 Sep (ME); 3 Euabalong 18 Jul (NL); Urel la Downs HSD, Wanaaring
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28 Jun, 2 Onepah HSD, Sturt NP 29 Jun (MC), 3 Dead Horse Gap & 3 Mt Wood, Sturt
NP 29 Aug (CP); 4 Round Hill NR 19 Jul (NL), 4 Coombie HSD Roto 10 May (JHo).
Good spread of records across the State but only for the period Apr -Oct.
White -winged Triller Lalarge sureurii Coastal records include: 7 records for the lower
Macleay Valley 8 Oct -5 Dec max 4 Rainbow Reach 13 Nov (KS); Lansdowne Res 7
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Jan, A+Y Denham Court 18 Jan (RT), A+2 Im Hexham Swamp NR 13 Feb, pair Pambalong
NR 18 Dec, Hands Lagoon 4 Oct, Bolwarra STW 29 Oct, Walka Water Works 23 Nov,
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& Myall Lakes NP 22 Dec (HBR); 1 Cobbitty 11 Apr (DH), 1 Cattai NP 17 Oct (MR);
Arrival: Wamoon 29 Aug (MS), 7M Binya SF 15 Sep (KH). More coastal records than
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usual.
Varied Triller L. leucomela F Armidale Rd Kempsey 6 Mar, Grassy Head Jul & 24
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Dec, HC Tamban SF 4 Sep (ARc,KS); Harrington 27 Feb & 6 May (HBR). Usual sites
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within known distribution.
Olive -backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus 30 present Wingen 13 May & 7 on 1 Jun (HBR);
Sometimes present all year Central Coast but in 1999 present only Jan -Apr, then first
return Ourimbah 12 Aug (CCBR); First return to Mitchell Park Cattai 15 Aug (CM);
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Griffith Golf Course 22 Jul (SC), western edge of range; W of Wanaaring 12 Sep (AB1),
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presumably in response to good conditions becaue it is outside of normal range.
Figbird Sphecotheres viridis 2 Milton 21 Sep (KM); 2 Tuross Heads Nov -Dec (ENHS),
6 Eden 27 Nov (GCI), the latter record is a considerable extension of range south.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 227White -breasted Woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus Southern Coastal records: 5
Deep Ck Narrabeen 27 Jan (BC) & 2 Cattai NP 22 Feb (EV). Departure: 2 Long Jetty
(CCBR) & 5 Palmers Island 3 May (GC). Arrival: I Picnic Pt The Entrance & 5 Clongra
Swamp 22 Aug (CCBR), 4 Forster 15 Sep (GC). Continuing to increase range south into
the County of Cumberland.
Masked Woodswallow Artamus personatus 50 Jamberoo Mountain 9 Sep (Rio); 2
Capertee Valley 21 Nov (CG); 6-7 in flock of 200+ White-browed Woodswallows Binya
SF 19 Sep (KH), 1000s feeding on locusts between Merriwagga & Rankin Springs (SWh).
Not many records for 1999.
White-browed Woodswallow A. superciliosus North Sackville 13 Mar (KB), 10
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Winmal lee 26 Oct (RT); 100+ Jamberoo Mountain 9 Sep (RJo), 5 Barren Grounds NR 14
Nov (EV,SWh); 100+ Glen Alice 24 Oct (EV); 40+ lngalba NR 27 Jan (MC): 2-300
feeding on Grey Mistletoe flowers Binya SF 19 Sep early in morning (KH); 1000s Between
Merriwagga & Rankin Springs feeding on locusts 28 Nov (S W11). Arrival: 10+ Charcoal
Tank NR 2 Sep (DGe), 30 Capertee Valley 15 Oct (CSh).
Black -faced Woodswallow A. cinereus 2 Woodstock 26 Nov (SWh), eastern edge of
range.
Dusky Woodswallow A. cyanopterus 5 Minnie Water 10 Jun (GC), unusual winter
coastal record; Present on the South Coast Jan -25 Apr, 22 Aug -Dec (ENHS).
Little Woodswallow A. minor 10 Mutawingie NP 13 Mar (DPo); 4 Yathong NR 21-22
Sep (AR), 6 Round Hill NR 5 Oct, actually roosting in the evening with White-browed &
Masked Woodswallows (CM), Tarawi NR 6 Oct (GLC).
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Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus Im attacked & killed an Eastern Yellow Robin
at Mangrove Mountain 11 Jun (CCBR).
Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis Brooks Ferry 10 Feb, North Sackville 25
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Mar (KB), a small intrusion into the County of Cumberland;
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen Raised 2 Channel -billed Cuckoo young at
Killara 15 Feb (DCa), not often recorded as hosts.
Pied Cu rrawong Strepera graculina 1 4 km N of Girilambone 8 Sep (CP), western edge
of range; Winter arrivals in south west NSW include Narrandera 25 Apr (NJ) & Yanco
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May (MS).
228 April 2002Grey Currawong S. versicolor 1 Cudmirrah 3 Apr (KM); 4 Wallaga Lake Sep (ENHS);
near Mallee Cliffs NP 18 Sep (AM), 2+ Tarawi NR 6 Oct (GLC), the latter two records
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are for the mallee sub -species.
Paradise Riflebird Paloris paradiseus HC Willi Willi NR 9 Jan (ABi).
Little Raven C. mellori 25 Tomalla & 17 Moonan Brook 25 Jan (HBR); 50+ Capertee
Valley 9 Jan & 12 Dec (RT).
Torresian Crow C. orru The southern -most records were 20+ Lemon Tree Passage 5
Jun & Pipers Bay 21 Aug (HBR), 2 Stroud 13 Mar (DPo).
White -winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos 5 Lawrence 23 Oct (GC), unusual
coastal record, 10 Drake Apr (JH) normal eastern limit of range; 4 Castle Cove Golf
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Course 28 Jun (A Mc), an unusual Sydney Region record; 5 Toolijoa 12 Jun (CP), indicating
a northward expansion up the lawarra Coastal Plain after being observed in Bomaderry
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only a few years ago.
Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea 8 Mount Druitt 28 Jun (RCv), resident group originally
escapees from Featherdale Farm; Group Caragabal Cemetery 24 Sep (AM), eastern edge
of current range?
Green Catbird Ailuroedus crassirostris Slacky Flat 18 Sep (GB), unusual location.
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Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus green bird Hunters Hill suburban garden
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23 May (TKa), not previously reported from this location.
Regent Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus sericulus AM below Middle Bend, Gibraltar Range
NP 3 Jul (GC); 1 Ferndale HSD, Dungog 30-31 Oct (EK); 1 Cattai NP 13-21 Sep, 17 Oct
(KB,MR).
Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata 3 Valley Heights 18-20 Jan (CP), a very
unusual location for which no explanation can be given as the location is at least 300 km
from the species normal range.
Singing Bushlark Mirafra javanica Richmond Turf Farms 5 Sep (EV); Nesting Lake
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Nialia 28 Sep -7 Oct (GLC)
Skylark Alauda arvensis 2 or 3 at Tilba Lake Feb -May, Nov -Dec (ENHS).
Yellow Wagtail M. (lava No reports for 1999.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 229Eurasian Tree -Sparrow Passer montanus No reports in 1999.
European Goldfinch Carduelis cardulelis Resident Kooragang Island & Shortland
(HBR); 2 Magic Pt Maroubra 11 May (RG); 20 Tilba Lake 16 Oct (ENHS); Katoomba
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11 May (CP), formerly more abundant at this site, 10+ Wentworth Falls 18 Jul (RMi),
unusual on the Upper Blue Mountains; 22 Fivebough Swamp 22 May (KH).
European Greenfinch C. ehloris Max 5 Magic Pt Maroubra Jul -14 Aug (BC,EV).
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Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata Coastal Records include: 20+ Lochinvar May &
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Coolamore 6 May (HBR); 6+ Glenbrook Jul (JBa), 10+ McGraths Hill STW 18 Sep
(TWa).
Double -barred Finch T bichenovii Reported only from 2 sites on the Central Coast at
Tuggerah STW & Mangrove Mountain, nesting at the latter locality (CCBR); Sydney
records include:1 Riverine Park, Arncliffe 8 Jan & up to 5 on 5 Jun -3 I Aug (RMo), 6+
Scheyville NP 17 Apr (TWa).
Plum -headed Finch Neochmia modesta 10+ Glen Davis Gorge 25 Apr (MH), 500+
Glen Alice 30 Aug- 3 Sep (DGe), max 12 Rockview HSD, Glen Davis 4-19 Dec (EV);
20+ Deenderrah HSD Upper Manilla 15 Mar JW), 10+ Moore Creek Caves Res Sep
(JCI), 15 km N of Warialda 22 Nov (JA); 10+ Gulargumbone Apr (CL). Fewer reports
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than usual.
Red-browed Finch N. temporalis 20+ Lake Talbot, Narrandera 26 Apr (IH,WEm),
western edge of range.
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata 2 Carters Creek, Bargo 27 Oct (GB), rarely
recorded in recent times in the Illawarra Region; 100+ Capertee Valley 14 Apr (WS)
where regularly reported in large numbers, 3 Megalong Valley 21 Nov (EV).
Beautiful Firetail S. bella 1 Belmont Swamp 1 Jun (RBa); 4 Royal NP at 2 locations 31
Oct (TQ); 1A+1 Im Budderoo NP 20 Feb, 1 Fitzroy Falls 21 Feb (ID), 10+ Cooks Nose,
Barren Grounds NR 2 Apr (RTu), 3+ Upper Avon Dam Apr (MR6), 2+ Porters Creek
Dam 3 Apr (EV), 2 Maddens Plains 26 Apr (GB), 2 Yerriyong Trig 14 Dec (KM); 1
Lawson 5 Apr, 5+ Kings Tablelands 25 Apr (TS), I Rockview HSD, Glen Davis 3 Jul
(AR), Mount Hay, Grose Valley 17 Jul (JRe) The Belmont bird may be an escapee.
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Nutmeg Mannikin Lonchura punctulata 25 McGraths Hill STW 18 Sep (TWa), 20
Mason park, Concord 19 Sep (CSh); 2 Lake Wyangan 23-26 Jan (JDu), not previously
reported from this location.
230 April 2002Chestnut -breasted Mannikin L. castaneothorax Present all year Macleay Valley, max
16, numbers down on previous years (KS), Crowdy bay NP 28 Feb & 2 Geneebeinga
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Wetlands 23 Dec (ABi), 50+ S of Southgate 23 Oct, 100+ Moonee Headland 7 Jul (GC);
A+J Harrington 26 Feb (ABi), 2+ Stockton/Kooragang Is 2 Feb, 2+ Shortland WC 10
Feb, 2+ Stockton Borehole Swamp & Myall Lakes Apr (HBR); Max 20+ Tuggerah STW
3 Feb -13 Aug, & 17 on 18 Dec (CCBR); 10+ McGraths Hill STW 18 Sep (TWa), 3
Bicentennial Park Homebush Bay 19 Jun -28 Oct (NH,PB).
White -backed Swallow Cheramoeca leucosternus Small numbers Capertee Valley 24
May -14 Aug including, 5 Crown Stn Rd Glen Davis 3 Jul (AR,RT,TQ).
Welcome Swallow l- irundo neoxena 21 nautical miles off Sydney Heads heading
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south 9 May (AP).
Tree Martin H. nigricans 1000+ Frederickton 30 Jan (KS); 100+ Salt Ash 6 Mar
(HBR); Small numbers on the Central Coast Jan -6 Jun and 30 Jul -Dec (CCBR); 50+
migrating over Blue Mountains at Kings Tableland 27 Mar (CP).
Fairy Martin H. aerial Overwintering at Woodford Island 22 May (GC); 7 Italian Mine
Road 6-16 Jun, early arrivals or over -wintering? (ENHS). Arrival: 22 Fivebough Swamp
22 May (KH), 15+ Popran Quarry 13 Jul (CCBR), 6 Bicentennial Park 30 Jul (TD), 10+
21 Aug (GC).
Red -whiskered Bulbul Pycnonnotusj ocosus 2 South West Rocks 6 Jun (PRa); 14 Lake
Wollumboola 3 Apr (APa), most southern limit; Lake George 13 Feb (Nix 1999), new
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location, Canberra beware !!
Clamorous Reedwarbler Acrocephalus stentoreus 2 Fivebough Swamp 22 Aug (KH),
early date.
Tawny Grassbird Megalurus timoriensis 11 Salt Ash 6 Mar & 14 on 20 Nov (HBR);
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North Tacoma 15 Aug, new Central Coast location (CCBR); Magic Pt Maroubra 14
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Mar -8 Sep (EV,RG), 1 Bushells Lagoon 5 Jul (BC), 1 Pitt Town Bottoms 18 Dec (KB),
2 Pipeclay Pt Narrabeen Lagoon 30 Nov -20 Dec (BC).
Rufous Songlark Cinclorhamphus mathewsi Cornwallis Rd Richmond 2 Oct (EV); 2
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Megalong Valley 21 Nov (EV), edge of range. Arrival: 1 Capertee Valley 14 Aug (PDb).
Brown Songlark C. cruralis 2 Cornwallis Rd Richmond 2 Oct (EV), the only coastal
record received.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 231Golden -headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis 50+ Broughton Is Jan (HBR); I Talbingo 4
Mar (IH,WEm).
Bassian Thrush Zoothera lunulata Resident across the Central Coast in suitable habitat,
reported from 5 sites during the period Apr -Nov (CCBR).
Russet -tailed Thrush Z. heinei I Nightcap NP early Feb (MA), HC Iluka NR 1 Aug
(GC), 1 Millbank 9 Aug (KS); 3 Copeland Tops & Copeland FR 13 Mar & 2-3 Oct (EV).
Common Blackbird Turdus nterula I Korrumgulla Swamp 16 Oct (RI), 2 Wollongong
Golf Course 16 Dec (MEs); 2 Mullimburra Jan -Jul, 1 Tilba Lake 10 Dec (ENHS); I in
garden at Gunnedah Nov (LBa); 2 Wongarbon 20 Sep (ABi).
Common Myna Acridotheres tristis Species has newly arrived in Macleay Valley and
was located during the year at Aldavilla, Crescent Head, Frederickton & Millbank (KS);
1+ Tamworth 26 Sep (AB1).
ADDENDUM AND CORRECTION TO 1997 REPORT
Rose -crowned Fruit -Dove Ptilinopus regina 2 Harrington 27-27 Dec (HBR).
ADDENDUM AND CORRECTION TO 1998 REPORT
Bush -hen Galhnula olivacea in gardens of Pacific Palms Resort, north Coffs Harbour
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18 Jul (PHi), most southerly known record, but subsequently found further south in 2000.
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua Immature injured on road near Manilla (Debus 2001).
Barking Owl Ninox connivens Reported from Grove Rd Tingha, at Etoo Creek & Cumbil
CK, Cumbil SF, and at Boorolong Ck, Arm idale (Debus 2001).
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae Reported from Baradine Ck, Merriwindi SF and
possible response from playback at Warrabadah NP (Debus 2000).
Pied Honeyeater Certhionyx variegatus Present at Lake Pinnaroo, Camerons Corner
Rd & Olive Downs, Sturt NP 24-28 Oct (SHo).
Red-lored Whistler Pachycephala rufogularis Reported at Round Hill Nature Reserve
on 9 Oct (SHa) and again on Nov (DTa), URRF’s submitted and accepted by Aust.
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Bird Atlas. No records for Round Hill since these dates.
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April 2002LORD HOWE ISLAND REPORT
Cape Petrel Daption capense seen on 9 Oct (DH), rare visitor.
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Great -winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera 10 around Balls Pyramid 3 Sep (RCe).
Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta 10 around Balls Pyramid 4 Feb (PMa), 30 (1
light morph, 2 intermediate morphs the remainder all dark) same place 3 Sep (RCe), 5
including light, intermediate & dark morphs between Ball’s Pyramid & the mainland 9
Oct & 4 on 27 Oct (DH,ML).
Black -winged Petrel Pterodroma nigripennis 3 Neds Beach 3 Nov, first summer record,
slightly earlier than given by Hutton (1991).
Little Shea rwater Puffinus affinis 3 around Balls Pyramid 3 Sep (RCe).
Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus 3 seen off Balls Pyramid 9 & 10 Oct (DH).
Short -tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris 30 off Balls Pyramid 9 Oct and 100+ on
10 Oct (DH).
Hutton’s Shearwater Puffinus huttoni Single bird seen on both 9 & 10 Oct near Balls
Pyramid (DH).
Wandering Alabtross Diomedea exulans gibsoni A stage 3 bird on 9 Oct, 6 n.m. E of
Mount Gower & seen from Blinkey Beach 30 Oct (DH,ML), first records since before
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1945 (Hutton 1991).
Black-browed Albatross D. m. melanophris Immature near Balls Pyramid 10 Oct &
another on 27 Oct (ML), not listed by Hutton (1991), although recently claimed by others,
no reports published 1990-1998 in NSW Bird Reports.
White -bellied Storm -Petrel Fregretta grallaria Max 8 on 4 Feb (PMa), 3 on 3 Sep
(RCe), 60+ seen between mainland and Balls Pyramid on 27 Oct (ML), including at least
one totally black -bellied bird (with a normal white rump), and a couple of intermediate
phase birds (which has a liitle bit of white on the belly and a less distinct white rump).
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo off Kings Beach 22 Nov (JG).
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Australasian Gannet Morus serrator Sub -adult close to shore near Little Island 5 Feb
(PM), Immature seen inside lagoon 10 Oct (DH), an uncommon visitor.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 233Intermediate Egret Egretta intermea’ia in breeding plumage Milky Way units 26 Nov
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(JG).
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra seen 8-15 Mar (IH), rare vagrant.
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Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres Flock of 80 at Old Settlement Beach 24 Nov
(JG).
Wandering Tattler Heteroscelus incana 2 Neds Beach 7 Oct (DH)
Grey -tailed Tattler H. brevipes Max 4 seen around Island 3-5 Feb (PMa).
Red Knot Callidris canutus 1 seen on beach at end of Airstrip 8 Oct (DH), rare visitor.
Double -banded Plover Charadrius bicincius Old Settlement Beach 23 Nov, North
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Bay 27-28 Nov, in non- breeding plumage (JG), late date.
Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius tnongolus on 8-15 Mar (11-1) & Blinkey Beach 28
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Nov (ML), rare visitor.
Little Tern Sterna albifrons Bird in winter plumage with band but the number could not
be read 7 Oct (DH), rare visitor.
White Tern Gygis alba Estimated 100 pairs around settlememt in 1999, cf 10 pairs in
1972 (Recher et al 1974).
Black Noddy Anous minutus 40 nests in trees behind North Bay Beach 29 Oct (ML), cf
1972 surveys when no breeding could be discerned (Recher et al 1974).
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae I responded to tape on golf course but not seen 4
Feb (PMa).
European Starling Sturna vulgaris Malabar Track Feb (PM), 2-4 seen around
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Settlement Beach 5-10 Oct (DH), only recorded at Milky Way units 21-28 Nov (JG).
First reported 1924, estimated to be about fifty birds 1990, but a gradual decline has a
been noted in recent times (Hutton 1991).
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Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 235APPENDIX I BM Bill Moller DMe D. Metford
List of Observers BMc B. McLean DMi David Millege
AA Annabel Ash BP Barry Pascoe DMo D. Moretto
AB Andrew Burton BPh B. Phillips DMp Derek McPherson
ABe Allan Benson BR Betty Reed DO Damon Oliver
ABg Arthug Biggs BT Bo Tottenham DOd D. O’Dell
ABi Tony Bischoff BW Beth Williams DP David Potter
AC Alan Cowan BWe Belinda Webster DPa David Page
AF Andrew Fay CA Craig Arms DPi D. Pirlo
AFa Anthony Fabro CB Chris Brand is DPI Dino Polianto
AH Tony Horwood CC Chris Chafer DPo Dean Portelli
AHo Andrew Holmes CCu C. Curson DPr David Price
AHu A. Hutchison CD Chris Davey DR David Rohweder
AL Andrew Ley CG Chris Gladwin DS David Sawyer
A Le Alan Leishman CH Clive Hudson DSe David Secomb
AM Alan Morris CHe Chris Herbert DSm David Seims
AMa A. McCashney CK Cilia Kinross DSt David Stuart
AMc Allan McBride CL Chris Lester DT David Turner
AMi A. Mitchell CM Clive Meadows DTh D. Thompson
AO Anthony Overs CMa Cathy Mardell DW David Webb
AP Tony Palliser CP Carol Proberts DWa D. Walker
APa Andrew Patrick CPa Chris Padley DWt David Waterhouse
APi Allan Piere CPe Chris Presland EA Eric Andrew
AQ Annie Quested CPk Carol Parkinson EAt E. Atkinson
AR Alan Richards CPr C. Preston EC E. Crawford
ARc A. Richardson CS Colin Scouler EFa E. Fair
ARo A.E.F. Rogers CSh Chris Shinton EH Ernie Hoskin
AS Alan Stuart DAn David Andrew EK Elisabeth Karplus
ASt Andrew Stafford DCa D. Cameron EM E. Mugford
AT A. Taylor DCo D. Colbourne ER Eric Rice
AV Anne Van Roekel DF D. Frew ERy Ellis Reynolds
BC Bruce Cox DGe David Geering ET E. Toombs
BCo Barry Collier DH Dion Hobcroft EV Edwin Vella
BD Brian Downer DJa David James EWa E. Waters
BDb Bill De Belin Din D. Johnston EWh Eric Whiting
BE Brian Everingham DJo David Johnson FC Frances Czwalina
BG Bill Glen DK David Koffel FJ Fiona Johnson
BH Barbara Hales DL Dariel Larkins FK Ford Kristo
BHI Brian Hole DLa David Latham GB Graham Barwell
BHo Barbara Howie DM Dick Mason GBI G. Belford
B1 Barbara Jones DMa David Martin GC Greg Clancy
DMc D. McKay GCc G. Cheers
236 April 2002GCI Grahame Clark JD J. Dark KL K. Lowrie
GCp C. Chapman JDa J. Davidson KM Kevin Mills
GG G. Gilmore JDu John Duranti KMo Keith Morris
GGa Gordon Garrod JDv J. Davidson KS Ken Shingleton
GJ Gillian Janus JDh John De Heume KV K.Voice
GLC GouldLeague Camp JE Jan England LA L. Archbold
GMi Geoff Mitchell JF Jim Francis LB Laurie Bartlett
GO Grahame Olde JFo Joe Forshaw LBa Louise Baker
GP Graham Pittar JG John Goldie LB1 Lorna Bloom
GRo Gwen Robinson JH June Harris LC Laurie Conole
G Rs Geoff Ross JHd J. Hardy LD Lynn Davis
GRy George Raynor JHk Judith Hoskin LDe L. Deighton
GSt Gillian Steward JH1 Jack Holland LG L. Goshing
GT Graham Turner JHo Janet Houghton LH Lauris Hopkins
HBR Hunter Bird Report JL John Leonard LHa Louise Harrison
HI Henry Hancock Lo Jesse Lomas LHe Lynne Heywood
HJ Hugh Jones JLw J. Laws LHu Linda Hutchins
HN Helen Newton 1M Jane Miller LJ Lorne Johnson
HPe Harvey Perkins JMc J. McLaren LM Larry Melican
HR H. Roberts JMe Julie McEnally LMc Laurie McEnally
HW Hans Wolnuth JMo John Monk LS Lindsey Smith
HWr Heather Wright JMy Joke Meyer LSp L. Spackwood
IB Ian Bailey JN J. Nankervis LT L. Tarrant
ID Irene Denton Jno Jenny Norton LW L. Ward
1Da Ian Davidson JP Joy Pegler LWi L. Williams
IDo I. Donaldson JPe Jack Peattie MA Marc Anderson
I Dw Ian Dowling JR Judith Russill MB M. Belshaw
IF Ian Fraser JRe John Reidy MBr M. Branch
IH Ian Harpley JS John Seale MBu Max Burrows
IJ Ian Johnson JSI June Sell MC Marjorie Cochrane
IL I. Lewis JSt Jan Strong MCa Mike Carter
10 Ian Otway IT J. Tucker MCo Miriam Cort
JA Joan Adams JTe Jim Tedder MD M. Doyle
JB Jenny Bounds JV J. Van der Heul ME Murray Ellis
JBa Jo Barrett JW Jenny Watts MEs Mary Eskdale
JBi John Bishop JWa John Walter MG Margaret Gough
JBI John Blomstedt JWi J. Wienke MH Michael Hunter
JBr John Brickhill JWk J. Wilkinson MHa M. Hamon
JC John Carpenter JZ Joan Zealy MHe Matthew Herring
JCa J. Chamberlain KB Keith Brandwood MHi M. Hicks
JCe J. Clifton -Everest KCo Keith Corbett MI M. Isbell
JO Jenny Clancy KHa K. Harris MJ Michael Jarman
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 237MK Mark Karla PCt Peter Christie RT R.J. Turner
ML Murray Lord PDb P.Drake-Brockman RTu Roger Truscott
MLe Mikla Lewis PDr Peter Draper RW R. Woodford
MLy Mark Ley PEk Peter Ekert RWa R. Watts
MMo Mike Morphett PF P. Fackender R We Rick Webster
MO M. O’Donovan PG Phil Green SAs Steve Anyon-Smith
MR Michael Ronan PH Phil Hansbro SB Sarah Breheny
MRb M. Robinson PHi Peter Higgins SBo Sandra Boxsell
MRo M. Rowe PHu Paul Huntley SBu S. Butler
MS Michael Schultz PL Phil Lamrock SC Sue Chittick
MSa M. Sanders PM Peter Milburn SCn S. Coens
MSt Mal Stokes PMa Phil Maher SE Steven Edwards
MSy M. Sykes PMc P. McDonald SEI S. Ellis
MT M. Turner PMo Pat Moller SF Stuart Fairbairn
MV Maret Vesk POs P. Osborn SFr Sophia Frew
MVBOMacleay V.BirdObs PPe Paul Peake SG S. Guiffre
NB Noel Brown PR Peter Roberts SH Sue Hamonet
NBr N. Brimington PRa Peter Ramm SHa S. Halliday
NC Nicholas Carlile PS Phillip Sankey SK Simon Kennedy
NCh Neil Cheshire PSt Phil Straw SRo Sue Romane
NCI Nicola Clark RB Robin Benson SW S. Wardell
NCn N. Clinton RBa Richard Baxter TD Tony Dymond
ND N. Day RBo Raoul Boughton TH T. Hyde
NDy Nancy Dryden RC Dick Cooper TKe Tom Kelsey
NH Nick Hodges RCe Rohan Clarke TN Ted Nixon
NJ Neville James RCI Reg Clarke TP T. Perri
NJo Noela Jones RCo R. Conroy TQ Trevor Quested
NK Norman Kurtz RD R. Dunn TS Tony Saunders
NKi N. Kirby RDu R. Duncan Wa Trevor Waller
NL N. Leseberg RG Rod Gardner Wy Tom Wylie
Mc N. McKendrick RGu Robin Gunning V V. Kinsler
NR Nerida Rice RH Roger Handy VKI Val Klima
NS Neville Schraeder RHu Rosemary Hunter VM Val Moon
NSm N. Smith RI Ron Imisides WEm Wilma Emerton
PAI P. Alstrom RJo Richard Jordan WM W. K. Martin
PAn P. Andrew RKa Rod Kavannagh WS Warren Sweeney
PB Philip Brook RM Ruth Milton WWi W. Wickes
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PBr P. Bright RMo Rob Morrow ZB Zona Brown
PBe Peter Beard RMu R. Mulholland
PBu P. Burcher RP Robert Payne
PC Pierre Charboneau RQ Rod Quinan
238 April 2002APPENDIX II Big Scrub NR Alstonville NC 28 38 153 20
Big Terrigal Ck,
Reported Location Region Co-ordinates Quambone CWP 30 54 147 42
Lat Long Binya SF SWP 34 13 146 15
Aberdeen li 32 10 150 52 Birdie Bch Nth MSRA CC 33 12 151 36
Akolele SC 36 22 150 10 Birmingham Gardens H 32 53 151 42
Albert CWP 32 23 147 32 Blackbutt Res, H 32 57 151 42
Albury SWS 36 36 146 55 Black Head, Gerroa 34 37 150 49
Allyn Rvr Forest Park H 33 07 151 25 Blackville NWS 31 39 I5015
App in 34 11 150 47 Blaxlands Creek NC 29 55 152 47
Ardlethan SWP 34 23 146 53 Blue Bay Reefs CC 33 21 151 30
Armidale NT 30 32 151 40 Blue Lake, Yuraygir NP NC 29 34 153 20
Arneliffe Riverine Park S 33 56 151 09 Bluegum Creek,
Arndilly NC 29 24 153 06 Wollombi 32 56 151 07
Ash Island H 32 52 151 43 Boatharbour NR Lismore NC 34 03 151 08
Athol Glen, Glenreagh NC 30 02 153 03 Boatharbour, Kurnell S 34 03 151 08
Avoca Beach CC 33 26 151 32 Bodalla SF SC 36 10 150 02
Avondale HSD, Cooyal CT 32 28 149 49 Bolaro SF, Batemans Bay SC 35 41 150 04
Awabakal NR H 33 01 151 41 Bolwarra H 32 43 151 33
Bald Hills HSD, liernani NC 30 21 152 28 Bondi S 33 54 151 16
Balgownie 1 34 23 150 53 Bonnievale RNP S 34 05 151 09
Balmoral HSD, Cooyal CT 32 24 149 48 Boondelbah Island 1-1 32 43 152 14
Balranald FSWP 34 28 143 33 Bootawah H 31 56 152 18
Baradine SF NWP 30 55 149 03 Boothbys Ck Southgate NC 29 37 153 05
Barham SWP 35 38 144 08 Booti Booti NP H 32 20 152 32
Barrangatol NR SC Bora Chnl,
Barren Grounds NR 1 34 38 150 40 Macquarie MNR CWP 30 45 147 30
Barrington Tops H 33 07 151 25 Bora TSR, Manilla NWS 30 26 150 35
Bass Point 1 34 36 150 54 Botany Bay S 34 00 151 10
Batemans Bay SC 35 43 150 11 Bourke FNWP 30 05 145 56
Battery Rocks, Merriwa H 32 12 150 27 Boydtown SC 37 05 149 52
Bayswater Colliery 32 26 151 02 Bretti H 31 57 151 56
Bective NWS 30 58 150 47 Brimen HSD, Widden V H 32 42 150 20
Bellambi Point 34 21 150 55 Brisbane Water CC 33 26 151 20
Bellbrook NC 30 51 152 35 Brobenah Hills SWP 34 29 146 21
Bellingen NC 30 27 152 55 Broke Rd Pokolbin 11 32 47 150 46
Belmont Swamp 33 02 151 40 Brooms Head, YNP NC 29 37 153 20
Belmore Swamp Brotherson Swamp NC 29 50 152 24
Kempsey NC 31 05 152 55 Brou Lake SC 36 08 150 06
Belmore R, Hat Head NP NC 31 07 152 56 Broughton Island 32 37 152 19
Belowla SC 35 33 150 23 Broulee SC 35 51 150 10
Ben Boyd NP SC 37 09 150 00 Buckenbowra SF SC 35 38 150 02
Benanderah SF SC 35 38 150 14 Budawang NP SC 35 25 150 04
Benerembah SWP 34 33 145 53 Budegwoi Lake CC 33 15 151 32
Bensville CC 33 30 151 12 Bulandelah NC 32 24 152 12
Beranghi NC 31 10 152 55 Bulgeraga Ck, QuamboneCWP 30 54 147 34
Berkeley Vale CC 33 21 151 27 Bulli Pass 1 34 19 150 55
Bermagui SC 36 25 150 03 Bulli Tops 34 17 150 53
Berrara I 35 12 150 33 Bundarra NWS 30 10 151 04
Berrys Bay, Syd Hbr S 33 50 151 10 Bundeena, Royal NP S 34 05 151 10
Bexhill NC 28 47 153 21 Bunganbil SWP 34 27 146 40
Bicentennial Park 33 50 151 05 Bungwahl 32 43 152 27
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 239Burragorang Valley I 33 57 150 25 Coledale 33 17 150 56
Burralow Ck Collaroy Plateau S 33 44 151 17
Kurrajong S 33 33 150 38 Colleambally SWP 34 49 145 51
Burrell Junction NWP 30 07 148 58 Collector ST 34 55 149 26
Burrewarra Point SC 35 50 150 13 Colongra Lake CC 33 11 151 32
Bushells Lagoon S 33 34 150 48 Colongra Swamp CC 33 12 151 33
Byron Bay SYW NC 38 28 153 38 Comboyne Plateau NC 31 37 152 17
C & A Dam, Mulbring H 32 53 151 31 Comerong island I 34 52 150 43
Callum Brae ACT ST Concord S 33 52 151 05
Cameray Golf Course S 33 50 151 13 Condobolin SWP 33 05 147 09
Campbells Swp,Griffith SWP 34 13 145 58 Congewai Valley H 32 59 151 18
Cams Wharf H33 07 151 37 Congo Point SC 35 58 150 09
Cape Solander BBNP S 34 01 151 14 Coomaditchie Lagoon I 34 29 150 54
Cape Byron NC 38 28 153 38 Coomba Park Road H 31 11 152 31
Cape Solander S 34 01 151 14 Coombie HSD, Roto FSWP 32 50 145 21
Capertee CT 33 09 149 59 Coonabarabran CWS 31 17 149 17
Capertee Valley CT 33 06 149 59 Coon Is. Swansea 33 04 151 38
Carcoar CT 33 37 149 08 Coopers Island SC 36 05 150 07
Careel Bay 33 37 151 19 Cooranbong 33 04 151 26
Carmel Lagoon. BaradineNWP 30 51 148 54 Cootamundra SWS 34 38 148 01
Carnham Bdge, Cooree Guide Camp,
Clarence R NC 29 30 152 32 Central Mangrove CC 33 17 151 13
Caroona NWS 31 25 150 26 Copeland 32 00 151 52
Carroll NWS 30 59 150 26 Copeland FR 31 59 151 49
Castle Cove 33 37 151 13 Copeland SF 31 58 151 47
Castlereagh NR 33 41 150 45 Copeland Tops NC 31 58 151 50
Cathederal Rock NI’ NC 30 20 152 15 Copeton Dam NWS 29 55 149 58
Cattai Ck, Maralya 33 36 150 57 Coramba NC 30 14 153 04
Caves Beach 33 07 151 39 Corindi NC 30 02 153 12
Cedar Hill Swamp 32 53 151 38 Cornwallis Rd 33 36 150 46
Centennial Park 33 54 151 14 Coutts Crossing NC 29 50 152 54
Central Colo 33 55 150 47 Cowans Pond Res
Central Mangrove CC 33 18 151 15 Grafton NC 29 43 152 55
Chaelundi NP NC 29 55 152 40 Cowra CT 33 50 148 41
Chaelundi SF NC 29 55 152 28 Coxs Valley, Burragorang
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Charcoal Tank SWS 33 53 147 02 Crescent Head NC 31 12 152 59
Cherry Tree Hill. nverell NWS 29 32 150 59 Crinolyn HSD, Moree NWP 29 15 149 08
Chichester Dam 32 14 151 40 Crown Stn Rd
Chichester SF 32 10 151 40 Glen Alice CT 33 09 150 08
Chickiba, Ballina NC 28 52 153 34 Crowdy Bay NP NC 31 44 152 47
Chittaway Bay CC 33 19 151 27 Crowdy Head NC 31 51 152 45
Chittaway Point CC 33 19 151 28 Crowsnest Swp Tucabia NC 29 42 153 06
Clarence River Estuary NC 29 26 153 09 Cudmirrah 1 35 13 150 32
Clarencetown 32 35 151 47 Culburra 34 56 150 46
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Clarenza NC 29 42 152 58 Cundletown 31 53 152 33
Clarrie Hall Dam, Uki NC 28 30 153 20 Cupitts Lane, Windsor 33 37 150 46
Cobark FP Curly Is Chittaway Pt CC 33 19 151 27
Gloucester Top 31 58 151 45 Curra Moors RNP 34 10 151 03
Cobbity 34 02 150 39 Currowan SF SC 35 35 150 05
Cocoparra NP SWP 34 08 146 14 Currs Rd Spirabo NC 29 19 152 08
Cockle Broatwater CC 33 29 151 22 Cut 11111 Rd Cobbitty S 33 59 150 40
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April 2002Daleys Point, Bouddi NP CC 33 31 151 21 Gara RiverTSR Armidale NT 30 35 151 48
Dampier SF SC 36 05 150 00 Geneebeinga Wetlands NC 28 51 153 03
Dart Island Yamba NC 29 25 152 18 Gibberagee SF Whiporie NC 29 15 153 07
Davistown CC 33 29 151 21 Gibraltar Range NP NC 29 28 152 20
Dee Why Lagoon S 33 46 151 18 Gilgandra CWS 31 43 148 40
Deua NP SC 35 54 149 50 Giliards Bch,
Devils Hole, Barrington If 32 02 151 27 Mimosa Rock SC 36 35 150 03
Devlins Ck Lane Cove S 33 48 151 08 Gingham Watercourse NWP 29 12 149 19
Dhruwalgha Mountain I 34 39 150 42 Ginghet HSD. Carinda CWP 30 28 147 23
Diggers Camp YNP NC 29 48 153 17 Glebe S 33 53 151 12
Dirnaseer SWS 34 28 147 42 Glen Alice CT 33 03 150 12
Dubbo CWS 32 15 148 45 Glenbrook S 33 45 150 36
Dunedoo CWS 32 01 149 23 Glenifer Brae 1 34 24 150 52
Dorroughby NC 29 40 153 20 Glenrock SRA H 32 58 151 44
Doughboy Hollow 11 32 38 151 10 Glen Davis CT 33 07 150 17
Dungog H 32 24 151 45 Glossodia S 33 32 150 48
Dungirr NI’ Bowraville NC 30 35 152 34 Gloucester H 32 01 151 58
Dunlop Park, Avalon S 33 28 151 20 Gol Gol FSWP 34 14 142 13
Dunmore I 34 36 150 56 Goolawah NC 31 14 152 57
Dunns Creek 11 32 38 151 38 Goulburn ST 34 45 149 43
Dunns Swamp, Gosford CC 33 26 151 02
Wollemi NP CT 32 50 150 13 Goura NR, Tilba SC 36 21 149 58
Durras Lake SC 35 38 150 16 Grafton North NC 29 32 153 06
East Corrimal 1 34 22 150 54 Grahamstown Reservoir H 32 45 151 48
East Maitland II 32 45 151 36 Grasslands HSD,
Eden SC 37 04 149 54 Mullumbimby NC 28 33 153 30
Edgeworth H 32 55 151 55 Green Patch, Jervis Bay 1 35 09 151 44
Elbow Swp,RobertsCreek NC Green Wattle Creek H 32 40 151 38
Eleebana H 32 59 151 38 Greenwich S 33 50 151 44
Ellalong Swamp H 32 55 151 18 Grenfell SWS 33 53 148 10
Emmaville NT 29 27 151 36 Grong Grong SWP 34 44 146 46
Emu Plains S 33 45 150 40 Griffith SWP 34 17 146 03
Ettalong Beach CC 33 12 151 20 Guerilla Bay SC 35 49 150 13
Eulindra HSD, Moree NWP 29 28 149 52 Gumin Gumin CWP 31 15 148 51
Euroley SWP 34 33 146 25 Gum Swamp. Forbes CWS 33 23 147 59
Fairfield HSD. Gunnedah NWS 30 59 150 15
Coonamble CWP 31 01 148 14 Gwynneville 1 34 25 150 53
Fairydell, Springwood CT 33 42 150 34 Gwydir Park TSR NT 3011 151 04
Fingal Bay H 32 45 152 09 Halfway Creek NC 29 56 153 03
Fivebough Swamp SWP 34 32 151 05 Hanging Rock Broadwater,
Five Islands NR 1 34 27 150 56 Mann R NC 29 28 152 28
Flat Rock, Ballina NC 28 53 153 36 Hanwood SWP 34 20 146 03
Flat Rock SF SC 35 24 150 18 Harwood Island NC 29 26 153 16
Floraville II 33 01 151 42 Harden SWS 34 33 148 53
Forbes SWS 33 22 148 02 Harrington H 31 53 152 41
Fords Bridge FNWP 29 45 145 27 Hastings Point NC 28 23 153 34
Forestland SF Spirabo NC 29 25 152 00 Hat Head NP NC 30 56 153 03
Forster H 32 10 152 32 Hay SWP 34 29 144 52
Fosterton H 32 30 151 45 Heaton Gap H 32 58 151 58
Frederickton NC 31 02 152 52 Hernani NC 30 58 152 24
Freemans Reach S 33 34 150 47 Herons Creek NC 31 36 152 44
Ganmain SF SWP 34 44 147 01 Hexham Swamp H 32 50 151 40
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 241Hickey Island, Yamba NC 29 26 153 21 Levenstrath NC 29 49 152 56
Hillston SWP 33 29 145 33 Lighthouse Beach.
Hiliville Darn ,Taree H 31 58 152 22 Port Macquarie NC 31 29 152 55
Hillytop Wagga SWS 35 08 147 21 Lilli Pilli, Bega SC 36 43 149 03
Hinton H 32 43 151 38 Lilydale Bdge,
Ilarwill NC 29 28 153 12 Copmanhurst NC 29 23 152 38
Iluka NC 29 25 153 22 Limeburners Creek NR NC 31 17 152 55
Iluka NR NC 29 24 153 22 Linton NR CT 30 27 150 52
Holbrook HSD, Widden 11 32 38 150 22 Lisarow CC 33 23 151 22
Kedumba Valley 34 06 150 20 LismoreLake CP NC 29 48 156 17
Kelvin SF NWS 30 49 150 21 Little Beach Bouddi NP CC 33 31 151 25
Kingston ACT ST 35 18 149 08 Little Gibber, MLNP H 32 31 151 22
Kookaburra NC 31 02 152 20 Londonderry S 33 39 150 44
Koona Bay, L Illawarra 1 34 34 150 47 Long Reef S 33 45 151 19
Kooragang Island H 32 53 151 47 Loughnan NR Hillston SWP 33 34 145 47
Koorawatha CT 34 02 148 33 Lower Portland S 33 26 150 53
Kulnura CC 33 13 151 13 Lugarno S 33 59 151 03
Kur-ringai Chase NP S 33 40 151 12 Lyndhurst CT 33 42 149 04
Kurmond S 33 34 150 42 Mackeral Bch. KCNP S 33 35 151 17
Kurrajong Heights CT 33 32 150 38 Macksville NC 30 42 152 56
Kurri Kurri 32 49 151 29 Maclean Lookout NC 29 27 158 13
Kyeemagh S 33 57 151 09 Macquarie Fields S 33 58 150 53
Kyinney Range, Roto FSWP 32 50 145 20 Macquarie Marshes NR CWP 30 40 147 35
Lady Carrington Dr RNP S 34 06 151 03 Macquarie River, CarindaCWP 30 25 148 34
Lake Arragan NC 29 34 153 20 Maianbar, Royal NP S 34 05 151 08
Lake Ballyrogan SW 33 30 145 58 Mallanganee NC 28 54 152 44
Lake Bathurst ST 35 04 149 43 Malua Bay SC 35 47 150 13
Lake Burragorang CT 34 10 150 20 Mandalong 33 07 151 27
Lake Cakora, Mangrove Mountain CC 33 18 151 11
Brooms Head NC 29 37 153 20 Manning Point Spit H 31 52 152 42
Lake Cargelligo STW SWP 33 18 146 22 Maralya, near Sackville S 33 36 150 53
Lake Conjola 1 35 15 150 27 Maria River Rd NC 31 13 152 55
Lake Cowal CWS 33 35 147 27 Maria River SF NC 31 09 152 51
Lake Heights 1 34 28 150 50 Market Swamp, Sandgate H 32 53 151 42
Lake Illawarra South 1 34 33 150 50 Marlyn HSD, Glen Alice CT 33 03 150 12
Lake Liddell H 32 24 151 00 Maroubra 33 57 151 15
Lake Munmorah, Maslams Ck Homebush S 33 50 151 03
township CC 33 11 151 34 Mason Pk, Concord S 33 56 151 05
Lake Plashett H 32 27 150 55 Matcham CC 33 25 151 26
Lake Russell NC 30 13 153 08 Matoni HSD, Bundarra NT 30 25 151 10
Lake Wyangan North SWP 34 13 146 01 McCoys Lkt Kookaburra NC 31 01 152 20
Lane Cove S 33 45 151 08 McGraths Hill STW CC 30 38 150 49
Lansdowne 11 31 47 152 32 McMahons Point 33 15 151 13
La Perouse S 33 59 151 14 McPhersons Crossing NC 29 49 152 55
Lapstone S 33 55 150 49 Megalong Valley CT 33 43 150 14
Lauriton NC 31 39 152 46 Menindee Lake FSWP 32 29 142 21
Lawrence NC 29 30 153 06 Merimbula Lake SC 36 54 149 54
Leeson SWP 34 33 146 24 Meringo SC 35 59 150 09
Lees Pinch GRNP H 32 18 150 04 Merriwa,
Lees Reserve Chittaway CC 33 19 151 25 (Westwood Rd) H 32 13 151 28
Lemon Tree Passage H 32 43 152 02 Merriwagga SWP 33 49 145 37
Lennox Head NC 28 47 153 35 Merriwee HSD, Manilla NWS 30 45 150 43
242 April 2002Merriwindi SF Bardine NWP 30 47 148 57 Narraweena S 33 45 151 16
MIA SF SWP 34 37 146 20 Narooma SC 36 15 150 07
Middle Boambee NC 30 21 153 04 Narran Lakes NR NWP 29 45 147 25
Millbank NC 30 52 152 37 Narrandera Common SWP 34 43 146 35
Mill Ck. Dharug NP CC 33 23 151 02 Narromine CWP 32 14 148 16
Mitchell Park. Cattai S 33 35 151 53 Nattai NP 34 10 150 25
Minchinbury 33 47 150 43 Nelligen SC 35 39 150 05
Minnie Water NC 29 46 153 18 Nelson Bay H 32 43 152 08
Mistral Pt, Coogee 33 56 151 15 Nemingha NC 31 07 150 59
Mittagong 1 34 27 150 27 Nerricon Swamp SWP 34 13 146 02
Mogo SF SC 35 47 150 08 Nerrigundah SC 36 12 149 50
Molongo Gorge,ACT ST 35 20 149 16 Nevertire CWP 31 51 147 42
Monga SF, Braidwood ST 35 26 149 55 Newcastle Baths H 32 56 151 47
Monia Gap SWP 33 36 145 58 Newcastle Heads 32 55 151 48
Mongo HSD, Wollar CT 32 15 149 55 Newcastle Water Res H 32 53 151 42
Monkeygar Ck. MMNR CWP 30 54 147 56 New Lambton Heights H 32 58 151 43
Moon Island 33 05 151 41 Newington wetlands S 33 50 151 03
Moonee Beach NC 30 12 153 19 Newtown S 33 54 151 1 I
Morisett 33 07 151 29 Norah Head CC 33 17 151 35
Mororo NC 29 20 153 14 Norahville CC 33 23 151 33
Morpeth STW 32 44 151 39 North Arm Cove H 32 40 152 02
Moruya SC 35 55 150 06 North Boambee NC 30 20 153 05
Mosman Bay 33 50 151 14 North Botany Bay 33 58 151 12
Mother -of Ducks Lake, North Ryde 33 45 151 06
Guyra NT 30 13 151 40 North Sydney 33 50 151 12
Mount Banks CT 33 33 150 22 North Tacoma CC 33 19 151 26
Mount Druitt RS 33 47 150 49 North Turramurra 33 43 151 08
Mount Neville NR NC 28 32 153 17 Norton’s Basin,Wallacia S 33 51 150 37
Mount Ousley 1 34 24 150 52 Nowra 1 34 52 150 36
Mount Seaview NC 31 24 152 15 Nullamulla, Inverell NWS 29 39 151 13
Mount Tomah CT 33 34 150 25 Nymboida NC 29 56 152 44
Mount Vincent 32 37 151 05 Old Bar 31 58 151 35
Mt Parry Rd Willowtree NWS 31 46 150 19 Old Buckiinguy HSD CWP 31 07 147 33
Mount Warning NP NC 28 25 153 15 Omaleah Ck Blackville CT 31 39 150 14
Muddenyeri. Fosterton H 32 20 151 45 Otford, Royal NP 34 12 151 00
Mulgoa 33 50 150 38 Ourimbah CC 33 23 151 03
Mulligans Flat NR ACT ST 35 10 149 08 Ourimbah Ck, Chittaway CC 33 20 151 25
Mullumbimby ti 28 35 153 30 Ourimbah SF CC 33 16 151 32
Mungerarie SF SC 35 55 150 01 Oyster Cove, Pt Stephens H 32 44 151 56
Munghorn Gap NR CT 32 23 149 50 Palm Beach S 33 36 151 20
Mungo Brush 32 43 152 18 Palmdale CC 33 19 151 22
Mungo NP FSWP 33 33 143 03 Parkes CWS 33 08 148 10
Munmorah Power Stn CC 33 12 151 33 Parramatta S 33 48 151 00
Murrah Beach SC 36 28 150 04 Parraweena HSD.
Murringo SWS 34 19 148 31 Willowtree NT 31 43 150 24
Murrumbung HSD, Mard CC 33 18 151 15 Patches Beach,
Muswellbrook 32 16 150 53 Sth Ballina NC 28 54 153 33
Myall River MLNP H 32 27 152 25 Pelican Is,
Nabiac 32 06 152 23 Sth West Rocks NC 30 55 153 02
Nambucca 1-l eads NC 30 39 153 00 Pelican Point CC 33 18 151 34
Narcooma HSD, Wollar CT 32 16 150 00 Pennant Hills G C S 33 45 151 03
Narravvallee 35 18 150 28 Penrith S 33 47 150 42
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 243Picnic Pt The Entrance CC 33 20 151 29 Sackville North 33 28 150 53
Pitchers Mt Wallarobba H 32 30 150 41 St Peters, on Cooks River S 33 54 151 10
Pillar Valley NC 29 46 153 07 Saltash 32 57 151 54
Pilliga West SF NWP 31 03 149 10 Saltwater, Harrington H 31 55 152 38
Pine Hill, Narrandera SWP 34 43 146 32 Saltwater Ck.
Pitt Town NR S 33 36 150 50 Ben Boyd NP SC 37 09 150 00
Pitt Town Bottoms S 33 37 150 50 Sandon Estuary NC 29 41 153 19
Point Wollstonecroft CC 33 06 151 35 Santa Barbara,Booti BNP H 32 20 152 32
Po!blue Swp, Scheyville NP S 33 38 150 54
BarringtonTops H 32 02 151 27 Scone H 32 03 150 52
Popran NP CC 33 22 151 12 Seaham Swamp NR NC 32 40 151 44
Port Macquarie NC 31 27 152 54 Seelands NC 29 36 152 55
Port Stephens Heads H 32 43 152 I I Shanes Park, Blacktown S 33 47 150 52
Powells Lgn, Shannondale NC 29 54 152 52
Richmond S 33 36 150 45 Shark Bay,
Primbee 34 30 150 52 Bundjulung NP NC 29 20 153 22
Prospect Reservoir S 33 49 150 53 Sharpes Ck.Gloucester T 32 04 151 41
Puckies Reserve 34 24 150 53 Sheepstation Ck.
Pulletop NR SWP 34 03 146 11 BorderRNP NC 28 25 153 04
Pungbougal Lagoon. Shell Pt, Botany Bay S 34 02 151 08
Boggabilla NWP 28 37 150 21 Sherwood NC 31 04 152 44
Purfleet 31 56 152 28 Shipley Plateau CT 33 40 150 15
Purgatory Ck. Jackadgery NC 29 28 152 38 Shoal Bay H 32 43 152 10
Quambone CWP 30 56 147 52 Shortland WC H 32 53 151 41
Rainbow Rch, Macleay RNC 30 54 153 00 Skinners Creek NC 29 53 152 50
Ramsay Is Soldiers Pt, Norah Head CC 33 17 151 33
Blackalls Bay CC 33 30 151 20 Somersby CC 33 22 151 17
Ramomie NC 29 39 152 48 Somersby Falls CC 33 24 151 16
Raymond Terrace 32 15 151 47 Southern Cross Uni,
Red Cliff, Yuraygir NP NC 29 34 153 20 Lismore NC 28 50 153 16
Redhead 32 57 151 44 South Brooman SF SC 35 31 150 15
Red Rock NC 29 59 153 14 South Grafton Water Res NC 29 44 152 54
Richmond 33 36 150 45 Speers Point 32 58 151 38
Richmond Turf farms S 33 35 150 45 Split Solitary Island NC 30 14 153 11
Robins Beach, Ballina NC 28 58 153 30 Spring Ck, Manilla NWS 30 45 150 43
Rockview HSD, Sportsmans Creek NC 29 30 153 03
Glen Davis CT 33 09 150 08 Stackpoole SF Goolgowi SWP 33 58 145 42
Rocky Creek Dam NC 28 37 153 20 Stanley HSD, Quambone CWP 30 54 147 38
Rocky Wtlioles Stanwell Ck, S.P. 34 13 150 58
Narrandera SWP 34 45 146 33 Station Ck Yuraygir NP NC 29 56 153 15
Rookhurst 31 54 151 53 Stockton H 32 53 151 47
Rosedale SC 35 49 150 13 Stratford H 32 07 151 52
Rose Valley 34 43 150 48 Strickland SF CC 33 22 151 19
Roto SWP 33 03 145 29 Store Ck, Leeton SWP 34 33 146 25
Rouse Hill RP 33 39 150 52 Stuarts Point NC 30 50 152 59
Rowe’s Lagoon, Stun NP FNWP 29 20 141 30
Collector ST 34 54 149 31 Summerland Point CC 33 08 151 33
Round Hill NR FSWP 33 00 146 10 Susan Island, Clarence R NC 30 42 152 53
Royal Bot Gardens S 33 52 151 13 Swan Lake 1 35 12 150 33
Royal NP Sutherland S 34 14 151 05 Swan Pool, Hat Head NP NC 31 04 153 00
Runnyford, Batemans BaySC 35 43 150 08 Talbingo ST 35 34 148 18
Ryans Cut, Crescent HeadNC 31 08 153 00 Taleeban Res, Weethalle SWP 33 55 146 27
244 April 2002Tallangandra SF SC 35 58 149 30 Ulladulla SC 35 22 150 29
Taloumbi NC 29 32 153 16 Ulmarra NC 29 37 153 03
Talywalka Ck, Wilcannia FNWP 31 36 141 24 Upper Main Arm NC 28 30 153 22
Tamworth Airport NWS 31 05 150 50 Urbenvillc NC 28 29 152 32
Tanilba Bay 33 43 152 02 Valla NC 30 36 153 01
Tarawi NR, Wentworth LSWP 33 26 141 10 Valley Heights S 33 42 150 35
Tea Gardens 32 40 152 09 Van Dahls Trail, BWNP CC 33 33 151 18
Telegraph Point NC 31 19 152 48 Vaucluse S 33 52 151 15
Temora SWS 34 27 147 31 Victoria Park NR NC 28 48 153 17
Terilbah Is The Entrance CC 33 20 151 30 Violet Hill Rd,
Termeil 1 35 29 150 21 MyallLakes NP H 32 28 152 19
Terania Creek NC 28 37 153 18 Wagga Wagga SWS 35 04 147 22
Terridgerie Lagoon NWP 30 53 148 49 Walka Water Works H 34 43 151 37
Thredbo ST 36 30 148 18 Wallaga Lake SC 36 22 150 04
The Alice HSD. Wallagoot Lake SC 36 47 149 56
Glen Davis CT 33 06 151 II Wallarobba. Dungog H 32 30 150 41
The Basin, Olney S1= H 33 05 151 14 Wallaroo SF H 32 39 151 50
The Entrance CC 33 21 151 30 Wallenbeen SWS 34 32 148 09
The Morass, Wallerawang CT 33 35 150 03
Lake Bathurst ST 35 03 149 41 Wallis Lake. Forster 1 32 15 152 30
The Rock SWS 35 17 147 07 Wallis Lake, Lithgow CT 33 31 150 04
Thirroul Beach 1 34 19 150 55 Wamberal Lagoon CC 33 26 151 26
Thule Creek SWP 35 39 144 24 Walsh Shed
ilba Lake SC 36 18 150 07 Colleambally SWP 34 47 145 58
Timor Rock, Wambina NR Matcham CC 33 24 151 26
WarrumbungleNP CWP 31 16 149 09 Wamoon SWP 34 32 146 19
Tingira Heights 33 01 151 38 Wandella SF SC 36 20 149 52
Tomago H 32 49 151 45 Wandera SF SC 35 48 150 01
Toolijooa 34 46 150 46 Wamervale S 33 15 151 28
Toorumbee NC 31 04 152 27 Warragamba Dam 33 53 150 56
Toowoon Bay CC 33 22 151 30 Warrah Trig BWNP CC 33 33 151 17
Toronto Wetland H 33 01 151 35 Warrana, Coonamble CWP 31 00 148 26
Torryburn NWS 30 27 151 13 Warriewood wetlands S 33 42 151 18
Tottenham Hospital CWP 32 14 147 21 Warrumbungle (Village) CWP 31 15 148 47
Toukley CC 33 16 151 32 Warrumbungle NP CWP 31 18 149 00
Towarrie NP,Scone H 31 52 150 38 Waterview Hgts, Grafton NC 29 41 152 53
Towra Point NR S 34 02 151 11 Wattamolla, RNP S 34 08 151 07
Trenayr Lagoon NC 29 37 152 57 Weddin SF SWS 33 56 148 00
Trunketabella SC 36 04 150 04 Weddin Mountains SWS 33 58 147 59
Tucabia NC 29 40 153 06 Wentworth FSWP 34 06 141 54
Tuckerbil Swamp SWP 34 27 146 21 Wentworth Falls CT 33 43 150 21
Tuggerah Bay CC 33 18 151 26 West Head,
Tuggerah Lakes CC 33 20 151 29 Ku-ringai CNP S 33 34 151 19
Tuggerah Dairy Swamp CC 33 17 151 25 West Kempsey NC 31 05 152 49
Tuggerah STW CC 33 18 151 26 West Pymble S 33 46 151 07
Tullys Hill, Narrandera SWP 34 28 146 29 West Wallsend H 32 55 151 35
Tuross SC 36 04 150 08 West Wyalong SWS 33 56 147 13
Tweed Heads NC 28 11 153 32 Westleigh S 33 43 151 04
Twofold Bay SC 37 07 149 55 Wheeler Heights S 33 44 151 15
Tyndale NC 29 31 153 13 Whian Whian SF NC 28 37 153 18
Ukerbarley HSD, White Box Camp,
Coonabarabran CWS 31 14 149 12 Goulbum R NP CT 32 17 150 03
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 245Whitton SWP 34 31 146 11 Woody Head,
W Wh hi it pto on rie P ump Res S NW C P 3 294 3 11 9 1 154 36 01 01 Yuraygir NP NC 29 22 153 22
W Wi ia dn dg ea nr e Ve a lley N H C 2 38 2 23 51 1 15 52 0 25 38 W Wo oo ol lg go oo ol lg ga a C FRre ek N NC C 3 300 0 07 7 1 15 53 3 011 9
Wildridge HSD, Woonona I 34 21 150 54
Worleys Ck Res CC 33 18 151 10
P Wa ip llp bi rn igba gr ir ea Swamp N SWC P 3 31 4 2 22 8 1 15 52 0 3 50 2 Worundi Ck Merriwa H 32 15 150 28
W Wi il l lI ii ea m Ht So Dw ,n Ww ae rt rla en n ds 1 C1 WP 3 32 0 4 59 4 1 15 41 7 4 299 W Wr ye bc uk n gB a Hy eJ ae dr .v i Ms SB Ray A NPI C C 3 35 3 11 10 11 55 10 4 370
Willurah HSD Conargo SWP 35 00 145 06 Wyee Point CC 33 07 151 31
Windang 34 32 150 52 Wyong Ck, Sth Tacoma CC 33 17 151 27
Wingecarribee Reservoir 1 34 33 150 30 Wyrrabalong Trig CC 33 24 151 28
Wingen H1 31 54 150 53 Yallah I 34 32 150 47
Wingham H 31 52 152 22 Ya!wal I 34 56 150 23
W W Wi i or ttr le la on nbS grF oa, nW S gF y a Blo un gag l die S CW WS P 3 333 41 5 0 22 5
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1 1 154 4 07 9 0 51 663 Y Y Ya aam rr rr aab ha b a im pib ni n i N S NWC C P 2 3 34 09 2 2 476 9 1 1 15 543 36 2 3 02 0 0
1 Yarrahappini Wetlands NC 30 54 152 59
Womboyne Lake SC 37 15 149 55 Yarrawa H 32 24 150 36
Woodberry H 34 48 151 41
Woodbury Pk Wyong CC 33 16 151 23 Yarrigan SF Bugaldie CWP 31 03 149 04
Woodenbong NC 28 24 152 37 Yango Ck Rd Laguna H 32 59 151 07
Woodford CT 33 44 150 29 Yarrowitch NP NT 31 16 151 57
Woodford Island NC 29 30 153 10 Yass ST 34 50 148 55
Woodville H 32 40 151 36 Young CT 34 19 148 18
RARE BIRDS IN NEW SOUTH WALES IN 1999
NINTH REPORT OF THE NSW ORNITHOLOGICAL RECORDS APPRAISAL
COMMITTEE
Keith Brandwood
562 Sackville Rd Sackville North NSW 2756
The ninth report of the NSWORAC details 18 submissions considered by the Committee
as well as two submission dealt with by the Birds Australia Records Committee (BARC)
relating to records in NSW. Together with the 245 cases already dealt with previously
(Brandwood 2001) this brings to 263 the total number of cases resolved. Of the 245 cases
considered, 164 have been accepted, 53 not accepted and 46 not confirmed. As at 31
December 2001, 324 submissions have been received.
The objective of the Committee is to provide an informed, discerning and impartial
appraisal of claimed records of birds rare in NSW and Lord Howe Island. The membership
of the Committee for 1999 was R. Cooper (Chairperson), K. Brandwood (Secretary), D.
Hobcroft, A. Lindsey, A. K. Morris, A. Palliser, R. Turner & A.E.F. Rogers.
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April 2002The Review List was adjusted from January 1999 to remove Black -winged Petrel &
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Common Noddy. These species were removed because in the ten years up to 1999, each
species was generally recorded annually often with multiple sightings. The current Review
List was re -published in the newsletters of the contributing bird groups in NSW during
the year 2001.
During the winter of 1999 there were some very cold ocean currents reported from the
NSW coast and these colder than usual seas attracted extraordinary numbers of Southern
Fulmars, Blue Petrels and other southern ocean seabirds.
The Committee continued to work closely with Birds Australia Rarities Committee
(BARC), and two submission relating to reports received in 1999 for species on their
Review List were referred directly. One determination was subsequently been received
and was accepted (The Antarctic Petrel, 1St record for the Australian Mainland) and the
other not accepted.
The quality of submissions continues to improve which is indeed encouraging. Many of
the difficulties faced by the Committee from submissions result from very brief notes
taken from memory. It is re -iterated that the recording of rarities such as those on the
Review List will require as a minimum one or more of the following:
Field notes as comprehensive as possible;
Photographs and or tape recordings;
Reports from multiple persons;
The completion of a RAC report form.
A full report of each decision of the NSWORAC is available from the Secretary.
The format ofthis report is similar to previous reports. Again those records “not accepted”
(NA), and those records “not confirmed” (NC) will be listed at the end of the Report.
Records “not confirmed” are those where two years or more have elapsed without a
submission being received even though invited by the Secretary. The Committee would
welcome further information on any record not accepted or not confirmed and is willing
to re -open to consider data additional to that already available.
Following the name of species accepted, there will be a set of three numerals. The first is
the number of confirmed records for the species in NSW, the second is the number of
confirmed records since 1970 (when the NSWFOC Annual Reports commenced), and
the third represents the number of that species recorded in 1999. English and scientific
names used in the text are in accordance with Christidis & Boles (1994).
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 247Those observers who record the first, second or third records for NSW are encouraged to
publish details in an appropriate journal.
Some people will feel disappointed at having their records not accepted but at the same
time do understand that it is a worthwhile exercise to have the same standard of review
applied to all records of rare or unusual species. Cases listed as “not confirmed” or “not
accepted” do not necessarily reflect mis-identification, rather that information to date is
inadequate to confirm identity beyond reasonable doubt. The support of all people in the
review system is appreciated.
REFERENCES
Brandwood. K. Rare Bird Report for New South Wales 1996 & 1997. Aust. Birds 32, 65-73.
Christidis L. & Boles. W.E. 1994, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories.
RAOU Monograph 2, Melbourne.
Herring. M 2000 “Pied Heron near Albury”. The Bird Obsv. 805, 29
Morris, A. K. 2002 “New South Wales Annual Bird Report for 1999”. Aust. Birds 32 (in press)
SYSTEMATIC LIST OF CASES ACCEPTED
Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides 33.31.13
During 1999 a minimum number of 13 Southern Fulmars were observed at 11 locations
along the coast of NSW, from Norah Head in the north to Eden in the south (Morris 2002)
Possibly 20-25 individual birds were seen between 24 June to 18 November. This irruption
was without precedent and was an extraordinary situation for a bird rarely reported in
NSW. From all these records three submissions were received however the same observers
were often involved in seeing other Southern Fulmars birds and the Committee did not
think it necessary to obtain more submissions when it was obvious that these birds were
being seen regularly. At the time there was a cold water current off the NSW coast and it
is believed that this is the reason for this and rare other species being present. The times
of occurrence are consistent with previous records June -December.
Case No 298 details the sighting of a Southern Fulmar off Wollongong on 10 July 1999.
This bird was caught and banded leaving no doubt as to the identity of the species and all
identifying features were noted. Notes taken at the time described the petrel -shaped bill,
pinkish coloured with black tip, silver grey upper wings with black primaries with white
flashes giving a white shaft effect (in actual fact the primaries are all white with black tips
leading onto the secondaries). There was a dark trailing edge to the wing. Primary coverts
were dark grey contrasting with the white bases of the primaries giving that distinctive
black and white finger effect on the upper wings seen when flying.
248 April 2002Case No 302 details the sighting of this species from land off Magic Point Maroubra on
31 July 1999. Seen at a distance of approx 2 km for 5-10 minutes by three observers, this
distinctively plumaged bird was not difficult to identify even at that distance and a good
description was provided.
Case No 325 details the sighting of this species 17 nautical miles east of Eden on 19
September 1999 at a distance of 10 metres for a period of 25 minutes by many observers,
the bird was photographed as well. During this time all the distinctive features of this
species were noted and can be seen in the photograph of the bird which appears on the b
cover of the Journal.
Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica 1.1.1
Case 327 was submitted to BARC as their case No 277. This bird was seen from land at
Mistral Point, Maroubra on 26 July 1999 by a lone observer who spends many hours each
day seawatching from this locality. The bird was described as similar in size to a Cape
Petrel Daption capensis, the dorsal surface was seen well, being pied, black (or blackish)
and white. The head, mantle and back all appeared blackish as did the forepart of the
upperwings. An obvious broad white stripe ran along the rear part of wings. The tail was
also white with a hint of a dark tip, underparts not clearly seen but appeared to be white
except for the head. The distinctive black and white plumage sets it apart from all other
species in Australian Waters. First record for the Australian mainland and 151 record for
NSW.
Soft -plumaged Petrel Pteradroma mollis 6.6.1
Case No 297 details the observation of this gadfly petrel species at sea 25 km east of
Wollongong on 10 July 1999 at a distance of 20-30 metres. The bird was seen on two
occasions for a total period of seven minutes giving excellent views to multiple observers.
Notes taken at that time of observation showed that the bird had grey upper parts, breast
band and underwing; the remainder of the underparts white, this combination separates
the species from all other gadfly petrels. 6511 confirmed record for NSW, the previous
records all July -October.
Blue Petrel Halobaena caerula 15.6.2 (11)
Case No 293 details the second live observation at sea of a Blue Petrel in NSW, and
which was seen off Sydney on 10 July 1999. The bird was observed by multiple observers
for 15 minutes at a distance as close as five metres. The observer supplied six slides,
sketches and brief notes detailing the conspicuous white tip to the end of the tail, the dark
hood and collar, a dark “M” mark across the pale blue grey upper wings on a prion size
bird, the white tail tip being diagnostic for the species. Subsequently 18 birds were seen
at five locations from Long Reef south to Batemans Bay from 9 July to 12 September,
being about 11 separate records. Consistent with previous records, all seen during July,
first records since 1995.
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 249Royal Albatross Diomedea epomophora 34.32.2
Case No 301 details a Royal Albatross of the race sandfordi, seen from land off Magic
Point Maroubra on 31 July 1999. The bird was seen at an approximate distance of one
kilometre for 5-10 minutes in sunny conditions. The observer provided a sketch and
notes which detailed the plumage and size, noting the important dark broad mark on the
carpal joint that identifies this race of the Royal Albatross.
Case No 294 describes another Southern Royal Albatross D.e. sandfordi seen off
Wollongong on 22 September 1999 at a distance of 20 m by multiple observers. Brief
notes and sketches were provided by the observer, photographic slides were taken at the
time but were not provided to the Committee as they had been given to another organisation.
The notes and sketches detailed the dark cutting edge of the bill, the all white upper body
and all dark upper wings which are the diagnostic features for this race of the Royal
Albatross. These records are consistent with the known occurrence from July -November.
Grey -headed Albatross D. chrysostoma 21.6.2
Case No 292 details the observation of a juvenile of this species off Wollongong on 27
June 1999, the bird being observed for 15-20 minutes by many experienced observers at
a distance of ten metres. The submission included 6 photographic slides, notes and sketches
detailing and showing the critical identifying features including the dark bill with a hint
of yellow on top and a very dark blackish tip. Obvious white cheek patches, a very dark
eye with a dark patch in front of the eye, greyish head, nape and mantle, that separates
this species from a juvenile Black-browed Albatross D. melanophris
Case No 323 reports on a sighting of this species in great detail, the observer providing a
series of slides confirming the identity. The bird was observed off Eden on 19 September
1999 at a distance of 20 m for a period of two minutes by multiple observers. The
description provided fits a First Year/Second Year bird. The only other mollymawk species
this could be confused with is the juvenile Black-browed Albatross and the notes and
photographs submitted eliminate this species. Both observations are consistent with know
occurrence being May -December with most records for July -August.
Sooty Albatross Phoebetriaf usca 16.12.1
Case No 296 details the observation at sea off Wollongong on 3 July 1999 at a distance of
50-100 m for two -three minutes of a Sooty Albatross. Notes taken at the time of the
observation together with a photograph, describe and show an all dark albatross with a
long tail, a slim streamlined body and long pointed wings. The bill was all dark with a
yellow sulcus, identifying the bird as a Sooty Albatross. There are very few records of
this species seen alive at sea in NSW, most records relate to beachcast specimens. This is
250 April 2002the first record accepted by the NSWORAC for this species and the first confirmed record
since 1985 (off Wollongong). The observation is consistent with known occurrence of
May -November with most records June -August.
Light -mantled Sooty Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata 13.13.1
Case No 295 details the sighting of this species off Wollongong on 27 June 1999 at a
distance of 20 m for a period of ten minutes. No notes were taken but six excellent
photographs were provided which were supplied with the submission. The photograph
shows the light coloured back on an otherwise dark (brown) plumaged albatross, a dark
bill with a blue sulcus, identifying this bird as a Light -mantled Sooty Albatross. This is
the first record since 1994 and is consistent with previous observations which have occurred
from June to October.
Black -bellied Storm -Petrel Fregetta tropica 11.11.2
Case No 299 details the sighting of this species off Wollongong on 10 July 1999 at a
distance of four metres, the bird leaving and returning to the boat on four occasions over
a period of about one hour giving good views to multiple observers. The observer supplied
notes on plumage and size, which mentioned the all black upper parts with white crescent
shaped rump The neck and breast down to upper belly, was the same dark colour as the
uppers. There was a black line running down the belly to where the legs attach, remainder
of underparts white. Typical description for the species, last reported 1996.
Case No 305 details the sighting of this species at sea off Sydney on 25 September 1999
at a distance of 50 m. There were 25 other people present who saw the bird and a number
of photographs were taken and submitted with the submission. The description included
details of a blotchy patchy black belly line, feet just trailing beyond the tail, white rump,
white flanks, blotchy white under the wing, otherwise black all over. Second confirmed
record since 1996, all consistent with known occurrence, most records September to
February.
Pied Heron Ardea pieta 2.2.1
Case No 321 was comprised of a report and photographs of this distinctive bird published
in The Bird Observer (Herring 2000). The bird, an adult, was observed on a large irrigation
dam at Ettamogha near A lbury on 17-18 August 1999 and all the distinctive features can
be seen. A photograph of this bird appears on the front cover of the Journal. The only
previous confirmed record was one at Lake Cowal in 1977.
Roseate Tern Sterna dougalii 4.4.1
Case No 306 details the sighting of this species on 24 January 1999 at Woody Head in
Bunjalung National Park. The bird was roosting with 250 Common Terns S. hirundo, 5
Little Terns S. albifrons, 1 juvenile White -winged Black -Tern Chilidonias leucopterus, 2
Australian Birds Vol 32 No 4 251Common Noddies Anous stolidus and 10 Silver Gulls Larus novaehollandiae giving plenty
of species for comparison. The bird was observed for 30 minutes at a distance of 25 m
and its rosy pink underparts, finer bill, different head shape and head markings giving the
bird a different facial expression and setting it apart from the Common Terns. This is the
first confirmed record since 1976 and one of the previous records was also in January.
CASES NOT ACCEPTED (NA) OR NOT CONFIRMED (NC) IN 1998
Kermadec Petrel Pteradroma neglecta One at sea off Wollongong 28 February 1999
(Morris 2002). NC.
Herald Petrel P. ardminjoniana One at sea off South West Rocks 31 December 1999
(Morris 2002). NC.
Soft -plumaged Petrel P. mollis 1 at sea off Wollongong on 27 June & another on 8
August 1999 (Morris 2002). NC.
White -chinned Petrel Procellaria aequinostialis at sea off Wollongong 11 September
1
& 11 December, 1 off Lake Wollumboola 5 December 1999 (Morris 2002). NC.
Light -mantled Sooty Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata at sea off Sydney 29 June
I
1999 (Morris 2002). NC.
Grey -backed Storm -Petrel Oceanites nereis 1 at sea off Wollongong 3 July, 14 August,
two off Eden 15 August 1999 (Morris 2002). NC.
Black -bellied Storm -Petrel Fregetta tropica at sea off Wollongong 20 October & 27
I
December 1999 (Morris 2000).NC.
Masked Booby Sula novaehollandiae 2 juveniles off Ballina Apr, off South West
1
Rocks 19 November & 16 December 1999 (Morris 2002). NC.
Red -footed Bobby Sula sula at Long Reef5 June 1999 (Morris 2002). NC.
1
Buff- breasted Sandpiper Tringites subruficollis I Lake Wollumboola 21 March 1999,
no submission made to BARC. (Morris 2002). NC.
South Polar Skua Catharacta maccormicki at sea off Wollongong 31 July 1999
1
(Morris 2002). NC.
Blue -winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii. Single bird reported from Sturt NP 10
September 1999 (Morris 2002). Case No 304. NC.
Glossy Swiftlet Collocalia esculenta. Two small swifts seen at Connells point, Sydney
145 March 1999 (Morris 2002). BARC Case No 261. NA.
Pink Robin Petrioca rodinogaster Single brown bird reported from Mitchell park, Cattai
11 April 1999 (Morris 2002). Case No 303. NA
252 April 2002Volume 33 No4. AUSTRALIAN BIRDS April 2002
CONTENTS
A. K. MORRIS New South Wales Annual Bird Report for 1999 173
K. BRANDWOOD Rare Bird Report for NSW 1999 246