Some sightings from Sunshine Coast and Toorbul

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

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Wes & Norma Sturdee
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Some sightings from Sunshine Coast and Toorbul

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Here are some sightings from our recent March trip to Sunshine Coast and Toorbul:-

Caloundra
Australian Brush-Turkeu
Pied Cormorant
Australian Pelican
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Little Egret
Eastern Reef Egret (dark morph)
White-faced Heron
Striated Heron
Australian White Ibis
Osprey
Brahminy Kite
Whistling Kite
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Eastern Curlew
Wandering Tattler (seen on rocks near King's Beach and confirmed by local birdo, Clive Allen)
Black-winged Stilt
Masked Lapwing
Silver Gull
Crested Tern
Common Tern
Crested Pigeon
Spotted Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
Little Corella
Galah
Rainbow Lorikeet
Fork-tailed Swift
Little Wattlebird
Noisy Friarbird
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Brown Honeyeater
Lewins Honeyeater
Eastern Yellow Robin
Eastern Whipbird
Grey Shrike-Thrush
Willie Wagtail
Magpie-lark
Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
Figbird
Grey Butcherbird
Pied Butcherbird
Magpie
Torresian Crow
Welcome Swallow
House Sparrow
Pied Currawong

A colony of Little Terns was observed at Cotton Tree Caravan Park

Additional birds seen at Toorbul

Caspian Tern
Red-necked Stint
Red-capped Plover
Pied Oystercatcher
Sooty Oystercatcher
Great Knot
Rainbow Bee-eater
Laughing Kookaburra
Mangrove Honeyeater
Common Myna
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