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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.
|  | Highlight |
June 2025
| Sun 29 | | White-throated Gerygone
Rocks Reserve, SE of Balaklava |
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| One juvenile White-throated Gerygone actively feeding in Broughton Willows. A rare bird in SA, especially in winter. |
| Paul Taylor 29/6 #272581 |
| Wed 4 | | Banded Lapwing
Warla |
| 14 present: 2 on rocky paddock where species was first found in 2020 and 12 on open fields with short stubble on east side of Warla Road. Local farmer said that there had been 'lots of plovers' around the last few days.
Interestingly, the 2 on the rocky ground were calm and settled at about 80m distance, whereas the ones on the open fields without rocks were much more skittish, flying and giving alarm calls, even at over 150m. eBird checklist |
| Kelvin Sparks 5/6 #272525 |
| Tue 3 | | Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Bald Hill Beach |
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| 2 Yellow-billed with 40+ Royal Spoonbills on the beach. YBS is rarely seen in saltwater habitat. |
| Paul Taylor 3/6 #272520 |
| | Greater Sand Plover
Bald Hill Beach |
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| One Greater Sand Plover this morning. Fairly rare here, especially overwintering. |
| Paul Taylor 3/6 #272519 |
| 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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