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   <title><![CDATA[Birdline North Queensland]]></title> 
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   <description><![CDATA[Birdline North 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 area for the North Queensland site is from Bowen west to the Northern Territory border and north to the tip of Cape York and includes all the offshore islands. ]]></description> 
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   <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:56:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fork-tailed Swifts at Undara Experience to Mount Garnet reported by Chris Armstrong on 04-02-2012]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Numerous individuals and groups seen at Undara Experience (Undara Volcanic NP) just before sunset on Friday, 3 Feb, and then along the Highway driving north to Mount Garnet in the morning of Saturday, 4 Feb. Fri estimate of numbers across a 300m wide strip (poweline clearing)....20-40 birds per 5 sec seen for 25 minutes as they hawked westward just above the trees. Similar numbers seen again as I drive to Mount Garnet on Sat morning, mostly flying westward and most observations near the Forty Mile Scrub NP. There is a significant rain depression on the coast due east of here.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Eastern Reef Egret at Ross River Bush Gardens reported by Alexandra Canton on 03-02-2012]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Eastern Reef Egret (1) grey phase hunting from rocks on northern bank near the weir. This is10km upstream from the river mouth.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fork-tailed Swift, White-throated Needletail at Bruce Highway - Cape Cleveland Road to Cromarty Road reported by Len & Chris Ezzy and Janet Robino (et al) on 26-01-2012]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[10:35am Travelling south along the Bruce Highway beside the eastern foothills of Mount Elliot, we witnessed an amazing avian phenomenon.  For at least 8 kilometres along the Bruce Highway, from about the Cape Cleveland Road intersection past Cromarty Road to about the Emmet Creek bridge many thousands of Fork-tailled Swifts swarmed the skies around us as far as we could see.  At times, there was also a small percentage of White-throated Needletails amongst them (3 to 5 individuals).  We stopped at Cromarty Road for amazing views through binoculars.  1:30pm on our return journey there was still quite a mass of these birds that continued their aerial shows as we traversed Cape Cleveland Road, Carty Road and Goodsell Road and some were still present at Cungulla.  The airspace/block that these birds covered would have been at lease 45km².]]></description>
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