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Eremaea Birdlines
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Interesting and unusual bird observations
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Birdline
South Australia
Birdline South Australia 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.
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Recent Sightings
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Reports published in the past 30 hours.
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April 2025
| Mon 21 | | Brown Skua
Bald Hill Beach |
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| One Brown Skua well offshore, the first one I’ve seen here. Also an Arctic Jaeger and about 20 Short-tailed Shearwaters, all unusually extending to northern Gulf St. Vincent with strong southerly wind. |
| Paul Taylor 21/4 #272461 |
| Thu 17 | | Spotted Nightjar
Near Bowmans, northern Adelaide Plains |
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| 2 Spotted Nightjars together (a pair?) in a mallee scrub. Uncommon here, but this is the most likely time of the year to find this species. |
| Paul Taylor 17/4 #272451 |
| Mon 14 | | Eastern Barn Owl
Corsair Close, Seaford Rise (GBS site) |
| Solitary large owl, with a pure white underbelly and underwings, no visible markings. Flew out from a tall eucalyptus tree within the backyard when opening the back door. Flew towards the trees along Martinique Drive. Silent flight. No vocalisations heard. Surprisingly enough, another sighting of this species was sighted at Aldinga Airfield earlier today. Not the most common visitor to the Onkaparinga region nowadays, so definitely a surprise sighting. Usual visitor to the backyard during the early-middle 2010s. eBird checklist |
| Sam Colgan 14/4 #272446 |
| Fri 11 | | Blue-winged Parrot
10 kms south of Bowmans |
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| 5 Blue-winged Parrots among about 15 Elegant Parrots in a mallee scrub. The earliest I’ve seen BWPs in this area. |
| Paul Taylor 12/4 #272436 |
| Tue 8 | | Kelp Gull
Point Danger (near Port MacDonnell), SE. |
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| A large flock of at least 110 Kelp Gulls roosting on the beach. |
| Paul Taylor 10/4 #272432 |
| | White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Chain of ponds |
| Observed immature sea eagle in chain of ponds area |
| Gary Williams 8/4 #272430 |
| | Black Kite
Southern Region Waste Resource (SRWRA Landfill) Rubbish Dump |
| Pair of birds passing overhead and soaring at a high altitude over the Southern Region Waste Resource (SRWRA Landfill) Rubbish Dump facility (McLaren Vale/Seaford; formerly known as the Pedler Creek Dump) for exactly 20 minutes before heading further out west across the road. Characteristic dark raptor with a forked tail and long wings. Highly unheard of or known to be sighted in the Onkaparinga area with only 5 eBird records for the region. eBird checklist |
| Sam Colgan 8/4 #272429 |
| Outside normal range |
| Early arrival; late departure |
| Interesting behaviour |
| Threatened |
| Hard to see |
| Unusual habitat |
| Uncommon in area |
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| Rare |
| Endangered |
| Vagrant |
| Irruption |
| Unusual numbers |
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