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Eremaea Birdlines
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Interesting and unusual bird observations
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Birdline
Tasmania
Birdline Tasmania 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 2019
| Mon 17 | | Eastern Curlew
Robbins Island |
| Overwintering bird seen/heard at Wallaby Is, Five Islets, Knot Pt and Bird Pt in sequence suggesting single specimen. |
| Richard Ashby, Hazel Britton, Alastair Richardson, Col Meyers, Michael Hyland. 18/6 #239664 |
| Sat 8 | | Pink-eared Duck
Dam on Barilla Rivulet (private land) |
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| At least 21 birds with Australasian Shoveler, Wood Duck and Pacific Black Duck. |
| Alastair Richardson 8/6 #239618 |
| Tue 4 | | Pink-eared Duck
Smithton Sewage Ponds |
| 27 birds, biggest flock here so far. Eight sp. of duck including reasonable numbers of Blue-billed and Musk Duck. |
| Richard Ashby, Hazel Britton 4/6 #239597 |
May 2019
| Thu 30 | | Pink-eared Duck
Stanley Sewage Ponds |
| Four birds, possibly more but difficult viewing conditions. First for this site for me but sp., seen frequently in recent years in nearby Smithton. |
| Richard Ashby 30/5 #239566 |
| Wed 29 | | Little Corella
3 km south of Railton |
| At 5.20 pm a flock of approx 100 Little Corellas circled around my property for around ten minutes calling constantly. Flock flew off to the NE before circling around and ended up flying west over Redwater Creek in the general direction of Sheffield. Never seen corellas in the 17 years I have been here. |
| Reid McLachlan 29/5 #239561 |
| Mon 27 | | Royal Spoonbill
Tamar Island Wetlands |
| Not an exact number, but upwards of ten Royal spoonbill visible from the wetlands car park. They were standing in the shallows calmly preening themselves. |
| Greg Hume 27/5 #239552 |
| Sat 25 | | Pink Robin
McPartlan Canal, Lake Pedder |
| Single female with small flock of Superb Fairywrens, in middle of road (but dense scrub nearby) all making one metre leaps into the air to catch tiny insects. Not used to seeing this sp. fully in the open. |
| Richard Ashby 27/5 #239549 |
| | Nankeen Night Heron
Lagoon, Narawntapu NP |
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| Bird in juvenile plumage perched beside the bird hide. |
| Ian Jury 26/5 #239546 |
| Fri 24 | | Spotless Crake
Tasmanian Arboretum |
| Very good view of bird as it flew between clumps of reed mace in Platypus Lake, about 3 meters in front of us. |
| Ian Jury 26/5 #239547 |
| 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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