Western Australia Bird Sightings

Western Australia Recent Bird Sightings (WABN 156)

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 156 (December 2015). 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
03-15/10/2015	Wes Bancroft	Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (1)	backyard (Kalamunda)
11/10/2015	Bruce Greatwich	Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (5)	Lesmurdie Falls carpark (Lesmurdie)
11/10/2015	Peter Taylor	Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (1)	Ellis Brook (Gosnells)
10/10/2015	Peter Taylor	Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (1+)	Victoria Reservoir (Canning Mills)
08/10/2015	Ken Glasson	White-winged Triller (3)	Gosnells Rd East (Orange Grove)
08/10/2015	Ray Turnbull & Margot Oorebeek	White-backed Swallow (2)	Pipidinny Rd (Eglinton)
04/10/2015	Craig Lester	Long-toed Stint (1)	Lake Walyungup (Walyungup)
03/10/2015	Matthew Pudovskis	White-necked Heron (1)	Lake Gwelup (Gwelup)
02/10/2015	Ken Glasson	Elegant Parrot (1)	Gosnells Rd East (Orange Grove)
01/10/2015	Ron Dibbens	Western Yellow Robin (pair)	Karnup NR (Baldivis)
30/09/2015	Ken Glasson	White-winged Triller (1)	Gosnells Reserve East (Gosnells)
28/09/2015	Nathan Piesse	Terek Sandpiper (1)	Pelican Point (Crawley)
28/09/2015	Craig Lester	Common Tern (2)	Mandurah Quay (Mandurah)
26/09/2015	Craig Lester	Gull-billed Tern (7 race macrotarsa)	Mandurah Quay (Mandurah)
25/09/2015	Mark Newman & Nick Brown	Chestnut Teal (1)	Len Howard Reserve (Erskine)
25/09/2015	Craig Lester	Gull-billed Tern (1) 'Commic' Tern (2)	Mandurah Quay (Mandurah)
25/09/2015	Mark Newman & Nick Brown	Stubble Quail (1 heard)	Nairns (Coodanup)
25/09/2015	Mark Newman & Nick Brown	Grey Plover (40+)	The Chimneys, Erskine Foreshore (Erskine)
25/09/2015	Frank O'Connor	Gull-billed Tern (9 breeding plumage, presumed macrotarsa)	Alfred Cove (Attadale)
23/09/2015	Mark Newman	Pallid Cuckoo (1)	coastal dunes (Golden Bay)
22/09/2015	Mark Newman	White-backed Swallow (2)	Coyle Rd (Oldbury)
21/09/2015	Ken Glasson	Pallid Cuckoo (1)	Iluka foreshore ()
20/09/2015	John Graff	Freckled Duck (1) Chestnut Teal (1 male)	Herdsman Lake (Herdsman)
19/09/2015	Margaret Owen	Red-capped Parrot (1)	cnr Stephenson Av & Rochdale Rd (Mt Claremont)
17/09/2015	Craig Lester	Greater Sand Plover (3)	Lake Walyungup (Walyungup)
13/09/2015	Craig Lester	Eastern Cattle Egret (7)	Pinjarra Rd (Ravenswood)
12/09/2015	via Craig Lester	Bush Stone-curlew (1)	central Fremantle (Fremantle)
09/09/2015	Mark Binns	Square-tailed Kite (2)	Victoria Reservoir (Canning Mills)
08/09/2015	Ruth Courts	White-necked Heron (4)	Yanchep NP (Yanchep)
06/09/2015	Bruce Ramsay	Eastern Cattle Egret (1, breeding plumage)	paddock along West Swan Rd (Guilford)
03/09/2015	Brendan Kinsella	Western Corella (6)	park (Currambine)
03/09/2015	Sue Abbotts	White-necked Heron (1)	Big Carine Swamp (Carine)
02/09/2015	Craig Lester	Eastern Curlew (5)	Erskine Foreshore (Erskine)
24/08/2015	Gary Tate	Mute Swan (1)	Milyu NR area (South Perth)
19/08/2015	Pam Smith	Little Eagle (1)	Herdsman Lake (Herdsman)
16/08/2015	Peter Jacoby	Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo (1)	Lightning Swamp (Noranda)
16/08/2015	Mark Stanley	Spotless Crake (1)	Perry Lakes (Floreat)
14/08/2015	Gary Meredith	Buff-banded Rail (1) Spotless Crake (2) Variegated Fairy-wren (4)	Baigup Reserve (Bayswater)
09/08/2015	Craig Lester	Light-mantled Sooty Albatross (1 beachwashed)	beach (San Remo)
07/08/2015	Malcolm Beeton	Peregrine Falcon (1)	cnr Gt Eastern Hwy & Tonkin Hwy (Redcliffe)
30/07/2015	Margaret Owens	Painted Button-quail (2) Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (30+)	Underwood Avenue bushland (Mount Claremont)
29/07/2015	Wendy Kenworthy	Mute Swan (1)	Milyu NR area (South Perth)
27/07/2015	Wendy Kenworthy	Mute Swan (1)	Milyu NR area (South Perth)
26/07/2015	Ruth Courts	Masked Lapwing (2)	Yanchep NP (Yanchep)
26/07/2015	Bruce Greatwich	Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (1)	backyard (High Wycombe)
26/07/2015	Ian Abbott	Grey Fantail (1) Little Grassbird (1)	Lake Vasto (East Perth)
24/07/2015	Ian Abbott	Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo (1)	bushland opposite Buckland Hill Park (Mosman Park)
21/07/2015	Darryl James	White-bellied Sea-Eagle (1)	Bibra Lake (Bibra Lake)
18/07/2015	Steve Reynolds	Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (1) Brown Skua (1)	5nm NW of Hillarys Boat Harbour (Hillarys)
16/07/2015	Paul Sellers	Chestnut-breasted Mannikin (5)	Lake Careniup (Gwelup)
15/07/2015	Jim Schultz	Grey Currawong (1)	Bibra Lake industrial area (Bibra Lake)
15/07/2015	Craig Lester	Freckled Duck (1)	Erskine Lakes (Erskine)
15/07/2015	Craig Lester	Black-tailed Godwit (1) Terek Sandpiper (1)	Erskine Foreshore (Erskine)
14/07/2015	Ian Abbott	Sacred Kingfisher (1)	offshore Peppermint Grove Beach (Peppermint Grove)
11/07/2015	Craig Lester	Eastern Curlew (1) Whimbrel (1)	Creery Wetlands (Mariners Cove)
10/07/2015	Paul Sellers	Chestnut-breasted Mannikin (5)	Lake Careniup (Gwelup)
10/07/2015	Nathan Yaschenko	Brown Skua (1)	Hillarys Boat Harbour (Hillarys)
03/07/2015	Ken Glasson	Red-capped Robin (1 female)	Anstey-Keane damplands (Forrestdale)

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

Date	Observers	Species	Location
12/10/2015	Greg Harewood	Peregrine Falcon (1)	Millbridge (Dardanup)
05/10/2015	Phil Lewis	Ground Cuckoo-shrike (pair)	cnr Uberin Rd & George Rd (Dowerin)
17/09/2015	Bill Russell	Greater Sand Plover (1) Common Sandpiper (1)	Lake Preston south (Myalup)
07/09/2015	Greg Marston	Red-eared Firetail (1)	Crossman Rd (Boddington)
30/08/2015	Bill Russell & Bob Paterson	Wood Sandpiper (17)	Nambeelup (Murray) [private site]
25/08/2015	Dan Mantle & Plaxy Barratt	Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (40+) Black-browed Albatross (1) Shy Albatross (20+) Giant-Petrel sp. (1) Soft-plumaged Petrel (200+) Hutton's Shearwater (1)	Cheynes Beach (Albany)
20/08/2015	Plaxy Barratt & Dan Mantle	Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (2) Giant-Petrel sp. (1) Soft-plumaged Petrel (1) Flesh-footed Shearwater (20) Hutton's Shearwater (5,000+)	Cape Leeuwin (Augusta-Margaret River) - 15 minute watch
20/08/2015	Plaxy Barratt & Dan Mantle	Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (5) Flesh-footed Shearwater (c. 70) Hutton's Shearwater (3,000+)	Cape Naturaliste (Busselton)
20/08/2015	Marco Groot	White-bellied Sea-Eagle (3 sub-adults)	Wilgarrup Lake (Manjimup)
16/08/2015	Bill Russell & Bob Paterson	Wood Sandpiper (3)	Nambeelup (Murray) [private site]
15/08/2015	Ross Jones	Pied Butcherbird (3)	Collins Rd (Beverley)
04/08/2015	Craig Lester	Double-banded Plover (1)	Lake Preston (Waroona)
27/07/2015	Craig Lester	Double-banded Plover (1)	Lake Preston (Waroona)
18/07/2015	Mark Newman	Pied Butcherbird (1)	Mills Road (Murray)
12/07/2015	David Secomb	Freckled Duck (6)	Corackin Swamp (Katanning)
16/06/2015	Tony & Sherry Watts	Brown Quail (c. 12)	Lewis Park Chalets, nr Dwellingup (Murray)

Arid Zone (Shires in parentheses)

Date	Observers	Species	Location
09/10/2015	Ross Jones	Black-necked Stork (1) Intermediate Egret (1)	Chinamans Pool, Marble Bar (East Pilbara)
08/10/2015	Ross Jones	Black-necked Stork (1) Eastern Cattle Egret (1)	DeGrey River crossing (Port Hedland)
08/10/2015	Les George	Australian Pratincole (3)	McNeill Claypan (Carnarvon)
07/10/2015	Ray Turnbull	Little Curlew (2) Motacilla sp. Wagtail (1)	cnr Second Av & MacGrath St, Onslow (Ashburton)
02/10/2015	Les George	Intermediate Egret (1) Little Curlew (20+)	McNeill Claypan (Carnarvon)
27/09/2015	Allan & Sandy Rose	Inland Dotterel (18) Orange Chat (2)	c.10km NE of Overlander Roadhouse (Shark Bay)
25/09/2015	Les George	Intermediate Egret (1) Little Curlew (1)	McNeill Claypan (Carnarvon)
25/09/2015	Rob Halls	Brolga (75) Little Curlew (7) Oriental Plover (35)	Pardoo Station (East Pilbara)
24/09/2015	John McMullan	Black Honeyeater (10+) Orange Chat (several)	Lake Austin (Cue)
21/09/2015	John McMullan	Black Honeyeater (5+)	Kirkalocka Station (Mount Magnet)
21/09/2015	John McMullan	Black Honeyeater (5+)	Goodline Rd, just off Gt Northern Hwy ()
14/09/2015	Gary Marsh	Brolga (14)	Lyndon River crossing (Carnarvon)
05/09/2015	Kathy Samulkiewicz	Budgerigar (c. 2,000)	small dam, North West Coastal Hwy c. 3-5 km N of the Tom Price turn-off (Ashburton)
31/08/2015	Ross Jones	Bourke's Parrot (3)	Kirkalocka Station (Mount Magnet)
30/08/2015	Ray Turnbull	Brolga (42) Flock Bronzewing (100+)	Urala Causeway on Ashburton River (Ashburton)
30/08/2015	Ross Jones	Bourke's Parrot (3) Black-eared Cuckoo (2) Pied Honeyeater (4+) Black Honeyeater (4+) Western Quail-thrush (4)	Kirkalocka Station (Mount Magnet)
29/08/2015	Ross Jones	Orange Chat (10+)	Lake Austin (Cue)
29/08/2015	Ross Jones	Bourke's Parrot (3) Banded Whiteface (3)	Austin Downs Station (Cue)
25/08/2015	Ray Turnbull	Flock Bronzewing (c. 200)	waterhole along Onslow Rd, c. 20km S of Onslow (Ashburton)
25/08/2015	Ray Turnbull	Pectoral Sandpiper (1)	waterhole along Onslow Rd, c. 20km S of Onslow (Ashburton)
25/08/2015	Bill Rutherford	Brolga (27 overflying)	Port Hedland saltworks (Port Hedland)
24/08/2015	Bill Rutherford	Black Falcon (1)	Port Hedland landfill (Port Hedland)
22/08/2015	Alison Gye	Malleefowl (1)	Gt Northern Hwy, just N of Kalbarri NP (Northampton)
20/08/2015	Greg Harewood	Orange Chat (1)	40km SSW of Lake Rason (Laverton)
18/08/2015	Greg Harewood	Black-breasted Buzzard (1)	25km SE of Yamarna Station (Laverton)
17-18/08/2015	Paul Sellers	Star Finch (50+)	Bibbawarra Bore (Carnarvon)
10/08/2015	Bill McRoberts & Wayne Zadow	Scarlet-chested Parrot (2 males, 1 female)	Wanjarri Conservation Park (Leonora)
08/08/2015	Bill McRoberts & Wayne Zadow	Scarlet-chested Parrot (2 males, 1 female)	Wanjarri Conservation Park (Leonora)
05/08/2015	Alan Pilkington et al. via Alma de Rebeira	Fiordland Penguin (1)	Kanidal Beach, Eyre Bird Observatory (Dundas)
30/07/2015	Greg Harewood	Western [Chestnut-breasted] Quail-thrush (4)	12km S of Lake Austin (Cue)
30/07/2015	Greg Harewood	Bourke's Parrot (2)	15km S of Lake Austin (Cue)
19/07/2015	Plaxy Barratt & Dan Mantle	Square-tailed Kite (1) Black-eared Cuckoo (3) Shy Heathwren (4 heard)	Mount Gibson area (Yalgoo)
18/07/2015	Plaxy Barratt & Dan Mantle	Black-eared Cuckoo (1)	Kirkalocka Station homestead (Mount Magnet)
18/07/2015	Plaxy Barratt & Dan Mantle	Banded Stilt (100s) Orange Chat (10+)	Lake Austin (Cue)
18/07/2015	Plaxy Barratt & Dan Mantle	Banded Whiteface (2)	entrance to Austin Downs Station, 1.5 km along Walga Rock Rd (Cue)
17/07/2015	Plaxy Barratt & Dan Mantle	Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (20+)	Maranalgo Rd (Yalgoo)
14/07/2015	Geoff Collis	Star Finch (5)	Halfway Clubhouse campsite, Tom Price (Ashburton)
10/07/2015	Steve Reynolds	Roseate Tern (22) Pied Honeyeater (100+)	Monkey Mia (Shark Bay)
10/07/2015	Geoff Collis	Pheasant Coucal (1)	Karijini NP (Ashburton)
08/07/2015	Geoff Collis	Black-breasted Buzzard (1)	South Gascgoyne River (?Upper Gascoyne)

Kimberley (Shires in parentheses)

Date	Observers	Species	Location
06/10/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (John Graff et al.)	Little Ringed Plover (1)	Taylors Lagoon (Broome)
06/10/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (John Graff et al.)	Swinhoe's Snipe (1)	Lake Eda (Broome)
05/10/2015	Mark Newman, Nick Brown et al.	Zitting Cisticola (1)	Ivanhoe Rd (Wyndham - East Kimberley)
05/10/2015	Mark Newman, Nick Brown et al.	Red-backed Button-quail (heard)	Mirima (Hidden Valley) NP (Wyndham - East Kimberley)
05/10/2015	Mark Newman, Nick Brown et al.	Cicadabird (3 female)	Lily Creek Lagoon (Wyndham - East Kimberley)
04/10/2015	Jane Taylor, George Swann et al.	Eastern Cattle Egret (1)	Broome sewage ponds (Broome)
03/10/2015	Mark Newman, Nick Brown et al.	Grey-headed Honeyeater (3+) Brown Songlark (1)	Halls Creek sewage ponds (Wyndham - East Kimberley)
01/10/2015	Broome Bird Observatory	Banded Stilt (1)	Roebuck Bay along Crab Creek Rd (Broome)
01/10/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett & John Graff)	Swinhoe's Snipe (1)	Lake Eda (Broome)
30/09/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett et al.)	Semipalmated Plover (1)	Broome sewage works (Broome)
29/09/2015	Mark Newman, Nick Brown et al.	EURASIAN CURLEW (1)	Roebuck Bay along Crab Creek Rd (Broome)
29/09/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett et al.)	Little Ringed Plover (1)	Taylors Lagoon (Broome)
29/09/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett et al.)	Black Falcon (1) Ruff (1)	Lake Campion (Broome)
29/09/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett et al.)	Swinhoe's Snipe (1)	Lake Eda (Broome)
25/09/2015	George Swann et al.	Swinhoe's Snipe (1)	Lake Eda (Broome)
11/09/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Jane Taylor et al.)	Banded Stilt (1)	Crab Creek mudflats (Broome)
08/09/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (John Graff et al.)	Little Ringed Plover (1)	Taylors Lagoon (Broome)
27/08/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett, Jane Taylor et al.)	Little Ringed Plover (1)	Taylors Lagoon (Broome)
21/08/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (John Graff et al.)	Little Ringed Plover (1)	Taylors Lagoon (Broome)
18/08/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel & Jaime Jackett et al.)	Little Ringed Plover (1 adult)	Taylors Lagoon (Broome)
16/08/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett et al.)	Flock Bronzewing (20)	Gt Northern Hwy, c. 10km S of Roebuck Roadhouse (Broome)
15/08/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett & John Graff)	Flock Bronzewing (22)	Gt Northern Hwy, c. 10km S of Roebuck Roadhouse (Broome)
15/08/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (John Graff et al.)	Common Redshank (2) Yellow Chat (4)	Crab Creek mudflats (Broome)
10/08/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (John Graff et al.)	Banded Stilt (1)	Crab Creek mudflats (Broome)
early 08/2015	Wayne Merritt et al.	Flock Bronzewing (20+)	Gt Northern Hwy, c. 10km S of Roebuck Roadhouse (Broome)
20-21/07/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (John Graff et al.)	Banded Stilt (1)	Duck Lake, Roebuck Plains Station (Broome)
17-18/07/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Nigel Jackett et al.)	Banded Lapwing (2)	Rat Poison Tank, Roebuck Plains Station (Broome)
mid 07/2015	Wayne Merritt	Zitting Cisticola (1)	Marglu Billabong, Parry Lagoons (Wyndham-East Kimberley)
17/07/2015	Broome Bird Observatory (Jane Taylor et al.)	Square-tailed Kite (1)	One Tree/Little Crab Creek (Broome)
15/07/2015	via Broome Bird Observatory	Square-tailed Kite (1)	One Tree/Little Crab Creek (Broome)

Australian Indian Ocean Territories

Ashmore Reef

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Christmas Island

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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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Last modified 15th October 2015