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Eremaea Birdlines
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Interesting and unusual bird observations
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Birdline
Central & Southern Queensland
Birdline Central & Southern Queensland 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. The BSCQ region covers a large area from south of Ayr to the New South Wales Border and west to the Northern Territory border.
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11/10/2017
The Moderators have adopted a 2 tier sightings system. All legitimate reports will be published,with some sightings which the Moderators consider to be unusual for rarity, distribution or timing being published as 'Highlights' on this page. The following link will appear after sighting submissions which contains information about the species of interest plus the Unusual Record Report Form to be completed and submitted for relevant sightings: http://www.tonypalliser.com/barc.
Reports that do not meet the reporting criteria will not be published and we encourage all individuals to submit lists to ensure their sightings are included. We encourage any one with a long list of species to enter them into eBird Australia.
The Atlas and list entry components of Eremaea Birds moved to a new site called eBird Australia on 1st February 2014. Birdlines will remain here. In the meantime for entering all your lists register with eBird at www.ebird.org.
Recent Sightings
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Reports published in the past 30 hours.
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February 2026
| Tue 24 | | Black Bittern
Sandy Camp wetlands |
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| Walked onto the board walk and spotted the bittern straight away sitting on a paperback branch. Flew across to next pond and landed on bank then flew into grass land. New lifer for us. |
| Bernie and Linda Mcivor and Wilma Staines 25/2 #273014 |
| Sun 22 | | Painted Button Quail
Stony creek road..Woodford. |
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| Driving and saw them emerge from afar.. got a out of window shot slowed to a stop, got one bad pic, would have got better but dirtbike drove past at a rate of knots and they ran back into grass. Waited but they never came back out. |
| Bernie and Linda Mcivor and Wilma Staines 24/2 #273013 |
| Fri 20 | | Black neck stork
Distant paddock on Pumicestone road into toorbul. |
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| Caught sight of her driving along pumicestone road way off, could be the same bird that was at Dholes bird hide a couple of days ago.was just standing in the shade. Not a good shot lots of heat haze. |
| Bernie and Linda Mcivor and Wilma Staines 20/2 #273011 |
| Thu 19 | | Latham snipes and Marsh sandpipers and whimbrel.
Dholes rocks hide and foreshore. |
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| Snipe was out feeding with sandpiper.
Long way off but recognisabe.
Seen previously a couple of days ago. |
| Bernie and Linda Mcivor and Wilma Staines 19/2 #273009 |
| Sun 15 | | Painted Snipes
Vernor Road Turf Farm, Wivenhoe Pocket |
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| Best sightings so far.
5 birds in all. While sitting quietly having lunch a pair emerged from the grass by the fence and proceeded to walk about and then feed in the water. |
| Bernie and Linda Mcivor and Wilma Staines 16/2 #273002 |
| 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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| Rare vagrant |
| Rare migrant |
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