Western Australia Bird Sightings

Western Australia Unusual Bird Sightings (WABN 174)

Email John Graff (wasightings@birdlife.org.au) with details of your sightings.

The more unusual or rare sightings are highlighted in red and may be included in the WA Bird Notes Issue 174 (June 2020). These sightings may require some notes and/or photographs supporting the sightings to be published in WABN. Records highlighted in bold red are the most unusual sightings. Sightings of immediate interest to other birders can also be copied to the birdswa email list and the birding-aus email list. The taxonomy used on this webpage is based on the International Ornithological Congress (IOC) list. You are welcome to email JPG photographs of Western Australian birds to be identified. Click here for the previous sightings.

Please note: Although due care is taken to assess records for veracity before publication on this page, it is recommended that those wishing to cite records refer to the relevant edition of WA Bird Notes (WABN) or contact the records officer before citing.

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Perth & Mandurah (within UBD Street Directory)

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
PhD student Reece Pedler (from SA) is satellite tracking Banded Stilt and has recently banded nearly 950 stilt chicks with blue leg flags at a breeding colony on Lake Torrens SA. Reece would be most appreciative of any information regarding large flocks of stilts in WA and also any sightings of leg flagged birds.He can be contacted on: reece.pedler@deakin.edu.au or 0400 038 452

Perth & Mandurah (within UBD Street Directory) (Suburbs in parentheses)

Date	Observers	Species	Location
19/01/2020	BirdLife WA Excursion (Pete White et al.)	Oriental [Crested] Honey-Buzzard (1)	Lake Joondalup (Joondalup)
19/01/2020	Benjamin Hicks	Black-tailed Native-hen (1) Red-kneed Dotterel (5) Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo (1) Red-capped Robin (1) Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2)	Herdsman Lake (Herdsman)
18/01/2020	Geoff Collis	Eastern Osprey (1) Eastern Yellow Wagtail (1)	Herdsman Lake (Herdsman)
17/01/2020	Kirsty Heiner et al. via Facebook	Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2)	Herdsman Lake (Herdsman)
16/01/2020	John Graff, Nigel Jackett et al.	Black-tailed Native-hen (1) Red-kneed Dotterel (7) Brown Songlark (1) Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2)	Herdsman Lake (Herdsman)
16/01/2020	Darryl James	Oriental [Crested] Honey-Buzzard (1)	Bibra Lake (Bibra Lake)
15/01/2020	Nigel Jackett et al.	Eurasian Hobby (1)	North Lake (North Lake)
14/01/2020	Kirsty Heiner via Facebook	Brown Songlark (3)	Alfred Cove (Attadale)

South West (Murchison River to Esperance) (Shires in parentheses)

Date	Observers	Species	Location
20/01/2020	Stewart Ford & John Graff	Chestnut Teal (240)	Wellstead Estuary mouth (Jerramungup)
18/01/2020	John Graff & David Secomb	Black-tailed Godwit (21) Marsh Sandpiper (5) Wood Sandpiper (4) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (4,500+) Pectoral Sandpiper (9+) Curlew Sandpiper (350+) Red-necked Stint (1,500+) Little Stint (1) Long-toed Stint (59+) Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2)	Lake McLarty (Murray)
18/01/2020	Steve Elson via Linda Giblett	Pacific Golden Plover (4) Common Greenshank (76) Ruddy Turnstone (1) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (280) Pectoral Sandpiper (2) Curlew Sandpiper (106) Red-necked Stint (500) Whiskered Tern (64)	Wilson Inlet (Denmark)
15/01/2020	Ken Glasson & Peter Lowe	Pied Honeyeater (1) Black Honeyeater (2)	Wearne Rd, North Bannister (Wandering)
15/01/2020	Ken Glasson & Peter Lowe	Black Honeyeater (2)	Summer Track (Wandering)

Arid Zone (Shires in parentheses)

Date	Observers	Species	Location
14/11/2019	Allan Throne	White-fronted Chat (2)	Exmouth Sewage Treatment Plant (Exmouth)

Kimberley (Shires in parentheses)

Date	Observers	Species	Location

Australian Indian Ocean Territories

Ashmore Reef

Date	Observers	Species	Location

Christmas Island

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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Last Modified 22nd January 2020