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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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January 2021
| Fri 22 | | Little Button-quail
Hampel Rd, Wilmington |
| One Little Button-quail flushed from side of road. White of belly clearly seen as small quail flew away and dropped tail first into grass. With the good winter this year, flushed two coveys of Stubble Quail in the last few days around Wilmington. |
| Gary Wright 22/1 #259609 |
| Sun 10 | | Little Eagle (dark morph)
Near Balaklava |
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| One Little Eagle flying over paddocks. Dark morphs are fairly rare on Adelaide Plains. |
| Paul Taylor 10/1 #259533 |
| Fri 8 | | Pacific Golden Plover
Tolderol Game Reserve |
| 11 Pacific Golden Plover in Pond 4 at about 10 am |
| Elizabeth Macilwain & Bronwyn Mart 8/1 #259520 |
| Wed 6 | | Common Gull-billed Tern
Clinton CP |
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| 17 Common Gull-billed Terns roosting at high tide, a large number for this fairly rare bird in SA. |
| Paul Taylor and Graham Moore 6/1 #259509 |
| Tue 5 | | Terek Sandpiper, Common Gull-billed Tern
Head of Gulf St. Vincent, Clinton CP. |
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| 8 Tereks roosting on a dead mangrove at high tide. A good number for this rare shorebird in SA. Also here were 5 Common Gull-billed Terns. |
| Paul Taylor and Mike Potter 5/1 #259505 |
December 2020
| Tue 29 | | Probable Australian White Ibis X Straw-necked Ibis hybrid
Near Port Wakefield |
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| One juvenile probable hybrid with about 160 White Ibis. Ibis hybridisation rarely occurs, but a small number of cases have been recorded on Bird Island near Outer Harbour. (An adult seen a few years ago closely resembled the markings of this bird). |
| Paul Taylor 2/1 #259487 |
| 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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