Buckley's Hole Additions -
August 2009
The booklet "Buckley's Hole - Birds of Buckley's Hole
Conservation Park" was published in January 2004 and included a systematic
list of 250 bird species recorded there during 1986-2003. Presented below is a
list of additional species, identifying both newly submitted historical records
and recent records, bringing the overall total to 273. All of these additional
records have been accepted by the Buckley's Hole Rarities Committee. Note that
there have also been additional records of several previously recorded and
noteworthy species, but these are not included in this update.
The comments are intentionally brief as this is just a
temporary update. Hopefully, a revised edition of the booklet will be published
in 2011, covering the first twenty-five years of bird observations. There are
still several species that must surely have occurred, but which have not yet
been recorded.
Emu:
One near Red Beach on 25/12/93.
Southern Giant Petrel:
One offshore from Buckley's Hole on 2/6/09.
Spotted Harrier:
One over the lagoon on 25/4/05.
Red-backed Button-quail:
Four near Red Beach on 26/10/94, and one behind the lagoon on 16/10/08.
Painted Button-quail:
One near Red Beach on 30/4/05.
Australian Spotted Crake:
One in the lagoon on 3/11/06.
Wandering Tattler:
Two on the sand spit on 24/8/04.
Pectoral
Sandpiper:
One in the lagoon on 2/10/04, and one there from 21/11/06 to 29/11/06.
Arctic
Tern:
One on the sand spit on 17/10/07.
Barbary Dove:
One in suburbia adjacent to the lagoon on 8/1/04.
Emerald
Dove:
One on two occasions in 1990, one on 25/10/92, one on 21/4/04, two on
24/4/06, and one on 3/3/08. All at or near Red Beach.
Wompoo Fruit Dove:
One near the steps to the hide on 25/4/09.
Superb Fruit Dove:
One at Red Beach on 8/5/05, with two there on 11/5/05.
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo:
Four at Red Beach on 16/2/92.
White-throated Nightjar:
Two by the lagoon on 5/6/05, with single birds there on 2/8/05 and
9/9/07.
Weebill: Two at Red Beach on 3/10/05.
Brown Gerygone: One
near Red Beach on 23/5/06, and one there on 13/6/08.
Fairy
Gerygone: Up to four individuals
present at Red Beach from 3/4/05 to 21/5/05, having first been suspected on
9/1/05, and one again on 4/10/05.
Eastern Spinebill:
One around the mangroves and casuarinas behind the lagoon on 1/6/07.
Red Wattlebird:
One near Red Beach on 22/8/93, with five there from 30/8/93 to 31/8/93.
Masked
Woodswallow:
Seen over the lagoon on 15/9/94, in smaller numbers than the White-browed
Woodswallows (see below).
White-browed Woodswallow:
100+ over the lagoon on 15/9/94.
Barred Cuckoo-shrike:
Three or four at Red Beach on 28/10/06, with just one there on 30/10/06.
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