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November Blitz Around the Sunshine Coast
Eastern Grass Owl at Yandina Creek Wetlands - Picture by Hendrik Ferreira A highly productive one-and-a-half days and an evening of birding around the Sunshine Coast with Hendrik Ferreira and Anton...
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Feathered Friends hit by Heat Wave and Drought in South-East Queensland
Spangled DrongoThe G20 meeting of world leaders down the road in Brisbane this weekend is under way in near-record temperatures for November in south-east Queensland. Citizens have evacuated the city...
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Broad-billed Sandpiper, Lewin's Rail at Yandina Creek Wetlands
Broad-billed SsndpiperThe Yandina Creek Wetlands continue to surprise, with Broad-billed Sandpiper and Baillon's Crake added to the growing list of interesting species found here today, and Lewin's...
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Little Bittern Back at Parklakes; Asian Dowitcher Still at Toorbull
Australian Little BitternA male Australian Little Bittern has returned to the Parklakes wetlands at Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast. A pair were in residence here last summer (see here) when they...
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Grey Goshawk Nesting Again; More From Yandina Creek Wetlands
Grey Goshawk NestlingA pair of Grey Goshawks nested successfully this time last year in a tall creekside eucalypt in vine scrub near Cooroy (see here). I checked the nest out earlier this season but...
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Sunshine Coast Pelagic Trip December 2014
Black PetrelA Black Petrel and good numbers of Tahiti Petrel were the highlights of a pelagic trip off Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday December 6, 2014. Conditions were calm as we departed...
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Yandina Creek Wetlands: The Case for Conservation
YANDINA CREEK WETLANDS - A CONSERVATION CASEAustralian Painted-Snipe: Endangered SpeciesINTRODUCTIONThe Yandina Creek Wetlands, a short distance inland from Coolum Beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast,...
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Coxen's Fig-Parrot: Does It Live?
Coxen's Fig-ParrotDoes the coxeni race of the Double-eyed Fig-Parrot - quite possibly a distinct species - still exist, or is it extinct? An intriguing sighting of a group of small, green parrots in...
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Sunshine Coast Daily: Yandina Creek Wetlands Coverege
Yandina Creek Wetlands.Article in sunshine coast daily regarding yandina creek wetlands.letter from federal environment minister greg huntWetlands battle heating upScott Sawyer | 1st Jan 2015 7:22...
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Sooty Owl, Little Bittern, Marbled Frogmouth, Rainforest Frogs on a Warm...
Sooty OwlSooty Owl, Marbled Frogmouth and some delightful rainforest frogs were the highlights of an evening in Mapleton National Park in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.Australian Little BitternEarlier,...
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Cruising the Pacific from Oz to New Zealand: Pycroft's Petrel and Other Seabirds
Wandering AlbatrossNice seabirds seen during a two-week cruise from Brisbane to New Zealand and back included Pycroft's Petrel (the highlight); White-bellied  and White-faced Storm-Petrels; Black and...
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On Fiordland, Kakapos and the Fine Art of Cruising Around New Zealand
Dusky Sound, FiordlandYou might have been pondering the merits of indulging in an ocean cruise but never quitetaken the plunge? Well, there are worse ways to spend your time and money. I had been to...
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Black Bittern, Shoveler, White-winged Tern added to Yandina Creek Wetlands List
Australian PelicanBlack Bittern, Australasian Shoveler and White-winged Tern have been added to an increasingly impressive bird list for the Yandina Creek Wetlands on the Sunshine Coast.Black-necked...
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Hervey Bay: Wood Sandpiper, Shining Flycatcher, Brown Songlark & Bats Galore
Sooty OystercatcherWood Sandpiper, Brown Songlark, Shining Flycatcher, Black Bittern and a huge colony of Little Red Flying-Foxws were the highlights of a 4-day campout at Hervey Bay. We camped at the...
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A Birder's Tribute to Trevor Quested
I was having a beer with Trevor Quested and friends at the Yandina Hotel, near our Sunshine Coast home, sometime in November 2011. Trevor mentioned that he had been feeling oddly unwell at times - as...
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Feral Cat Kills Night Parrot
Night ParrotIn an alarming development, an endangered Night Parrot in a small, recently discovered population of the endangered species in western Queensland has been killed by a feral cat. Â The...
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Sunshine Coast Pelagic Trip March 2015
Streaked ShearwaterStreaked Shearwater, White-tailed Tropicbird, Long-tailed Jaeger and Red-footed Booby were the highlights of the pelagic trip of Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday March 7....
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Important News Regarding Night Parrots
Night Parrot feathers from south-west Queensland - Pic by Steve MurphyThe immediate threat of feral cats to the recently discovered population of Night Parrots in south-west Queensland has been...
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Around Oz Part 39 - Kings Plains National Park NSW: Heath-wrens and twin flat...
Chesnut-rumped Heath-wrenWe departed the western plains of NSW (see previous post), heading east to the pretty town of Bingara, where we overnighted in a caravan park and dined at the RSL Club. Then it...
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Rock Warblers & Lyrebirds: South West Rocks to Woy Woy
Rock WarblerExcellent encounters with Rock Warbler, Superb Lyrebird and Glossy Black Cockatoo were the highlights of a just completed trip to coastal NSW. We kicked the sojourn off with a three-night...
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