| Sun 19 | | BudgerigarRoss River Wetlands. Townsville, Queensland |
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| Budgerigar Multiple flocks (both large 600+, & small) seen Full list |
| BirdLife Townsville 20/5 #179792 |
| Sat 18 | | Northern ShovelerWestern Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria |
| Northern Shoveler male seen from Paradise road, south side closest to Gate 6 Full list |
| Simon Starr 18/5 #179601 |
| Sun 12 |  | Northern Shoveler, maleWestern Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria |
| First pond on right after Little River crossing. A bit flighty and moving between ponds with other shovelers. |
| Mark Stanley & Annette Hatten 12/5 #178843 |
| Wed 8 | | Gentoo PenguinFortescue Bay, Tasmania |
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| One Gentoo Penguin was seen by a walking club group about 100m from the campground. Was present from at least 2 to 4.30pm.
Only about six previous Australian records, all from Tasmania (I think). |
| Warwick Risby (submitted by Murray Lord) 10/5 #178648 |
| Tue 7 | | Freckled Duck, Cotton Pygmy-GooseBlackbraes Resources Reserve, Emu Swamp dam, , Queensland |
| Dam was fairly full with water, thousands of waterbirds present, numbers could only be estimated since we could only count about 1/2 of area with 60x scope.
Freckled Duck (441) this number actually definite, but probably at least 500, more than 2/3 were immature with little spotting, did not see a single bird with red on bill. Likely to be even more birds as we could not count far reaches of shore, most birds were on logs or on shore asleep
Cotton Pygmy-Goose (1000) conservative estimate. Full list |
| Kath Shurcliff & Dave Houghton 9/5 #178494 |
| | Spangled DrongoAkaroa, St Helens, Tasmania |
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| This beautiful bird has been chasing insects in our backyard all morning. Took us a while to identify it as we were looking in our Tassie bird book. Found it in our Aust one. |
| Dale & Lynette Smith 7/5 #178268 |
| | Forest WagtailAlice Springs, Northern Territory |
| Forest Wagtail still present. The site where the bird has been showing is still contactable through Nthaba Cottage B&B. Further information |
| Per Chris Watson 7/5 #178241 |
| Sun 5 | | Westland Petrel (3), Soft-plumaged Petrel (1)Eaglehawk Pelagic, Tasmania |
| Highlights from today's pelagic: three Westland Petrels that joined the boat at our first stop and stayed most of the day, often sitting together in the slick, and a Soft-plumaged Petrel that made several close passes. |
| Paul Brooks & all aboard the Pauletta 5/5 #177953 |
| Sat 4 | | Forest WagtailAlice Springs, Northern Territory |
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| Single bird found by residents on a private property in Alice Springs. A BARC submission is being prepared, but the bird has been well photographed and the ID is pretty much beyond doubt. This would represent a first record for mainland Australia, following a record on Christmas Island in 2009. Further information Full list |
| Christopher Watson 4/5 #177812 |