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Eremaea Birdlines
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Interesting and unusual bird observations
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Birdline
Australian Capital Territory
Birdline ACT is a site for the reporting of rare or unusual birds outside their normal range, unusually high or low numbers, early or late arrivals or departures for migrant species and interesting behaviour or unusual habitat usage. Observations interesting to you can also be reported, but please provide justification.
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4/9/2014
Silver Gull Project
Mark Carey is researching the seasonal movements and urbanisation of Silver Gulls in south-eastern Australia. He has a number of colour-banded Silver Gulls around Lake Burley Griffin. Please report all sightings of gulls with alphanumeric bands to silvergullproject@hotmail.com or Twitter @silvergullproj
Recent Sightings
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Reports published in the past 30 hours.
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February 2015
| Thu 5 | | Red-capped Robin
Pine Island South |
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| A female red-capped robin at far end of picnic area of Pine Island South - on the fence on river side of grassed area, doing her perch-and-pounce thing. Plenty of yellow thornbills in casuarinas on river bank. |
| sandra henderson 5/2 #222119 |
| Wed 4 | | Musk Lorikeet
Shackell Pl, Wanniassa |
| 2 Musk Lorikeets in top of old red gum in my back garden. I have heard them occasionally over last few days among the Rainbow Lorikeets - but this was first sighting of the Musks. Stayed about 15 minutes. |
| Sandra Henderson 4/2 #222109 |
| Mon 2 | | Painted Button-quail
Bendora Rd |
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| Seen on the road between Warks Rd and Mount Franklin Rd, at about 3:10pm. Very poor photo attached. eBird checklist |
| Steve Wallace, Lyndon and Christine D. 2/2 #222083 |
January 2015
| Sat 31 | | Australian Owlet-nightjar
Mt Ainslie Nature Reserve--Campbell Park |
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| Four Owlet-nightjars seen in three separate trees within about 100-200m of each other. One heard calling. The two together were rather more shy than the other two. Poor photo attached. eBird checklist |
| Christine D 1/2 #222056 |
| Outside normal range |
| Early arrival; late departure |
| Interesting behaviour |
| Threatened |
| Hard to see |
| Unusual habitat |
| Uncommon in area |
| Interesting to you as observer (must be justified) |
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| Rare |
| Endangered |
| Vagrant |
| Irruption |
| Unusual numbers |
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