Some from northern NSW

Sightings anywhere within a 250 km radius of Toowoomba, but excluding the local survey area (see above), for the period 1 Jun - 31 Aug 2009.

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Some from northern NSW

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Australian Brush-turkey 22/06/2009 Cape Byron
Australian Gannet 22/06/2009 Lennox Head
Australian Pelican 22/06/2009 Ballina
Australian Pied Oystercatcher 22/06/2009 Ballina
Bar-tailed Godwit 22/06/2009 Ballina
Beach Stone-curlew 22/06/2009 Ballina
Brahminy Kite 22/06/2009 Tweed
Brown Thornbill 22/06/2009 Cape Byron
Crimson Rosella 22/06/2009 Coorabell
Eastern Osprey 22/06/2009 Ballina
Eastern Rosella 22/06/2009 Coorabell
Eastern Whipbird 22/06/2009 Coorabell
Eastern Yellow Robin 22/06/2009 Lennox Head
Grey Goshawk 22/06/2009 Brunswick Hds Pacific Hwy
Lewin's Honeyeater 22/06/2009 Ballina
Little Wattlebird 22/06/2009 Cape Byron
Olive-backed Oriole 22/06/2009 Lennox Head
Pheasant Coucal 22/06/2009 Coorabell
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo 22/06/2009 Lennox Head
Silver Gull 22/06/2009 Ballina
Silvereye 22/06/2009 Lennox Head
Spangled Drongo 22/06/2009 Cape Byron
White-browed Scrubwren 22/06/2009 Cape Byron
White-headed Pigeon 22/06/2009 Federal
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Tweed Heads sightings

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There's a lovely transition of habitats on the walk to the Tweed Heads historic bora ring site, from mangroves, to sedgelands, to lowland rainforest. Thanks to Jenny and Nicholas Matheson for introducing me to this great birding spot. A good time of year to visit too, as there were no mossies.

We picked up the following species on Tuesday 23/6/09. (Those asterisked would be new for the Winter 2009 Beyond list.):

Australian Brush-turkey
Australian Wood Duck
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Egret
* Striated Heron
Royal Spoonbill
Brahminy Kite
* Buff-banded Rail
Purple Swamphen
Silver Gull
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
* Azure Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
* Rainbow Bee-eater
Variegated Fairy-wren
White-browed Scrubwren
* Large-billed Scrubwren
Brown Thornbill
Noisy Miner
Lewin's Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Scarlet Honeyeater
Eastern Yellow Robin
Eastern Whipbird
Golden Whistler
* Little Shrike-thrush
Grey Shrike-thrush
Grey Fantail
Spangled Drongo
* Varied Triller
Olive-backed Oriole
Figbird
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Mistletoebird
Silvereye

South Tweed Heads
*Spotted Dove
*Crested Tern
Michael Atzeni
7 Woden St, Murphys Creek 4352
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