Some fruitful traditional sites along Queensland shore
In an eggshell
- Big Zigzag bird species count: 164 (+42 this week)
- Big Zigzag bird families count: 62 (+11 this week)
- Big Zigzag Lifers: 10 (+5 this week: Glossy Black-Cockatoo, Eungella Honeyeater, White-browed Crake, Little Bronze-Cuckoo, White-browed Robin)
- Campsite Lifers: 4 (+3 this week: White-browed Crake, Little Bronze-Cuckoo, White-browed Robin )
- Big Zigzag New for Australia list: 17 (+9 this week)
- Week’s special milestone: My 4500 lifer!
Bird(s) of the week
Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami), Vulnerable, finally ticked at Mount Archer National Park, QLD, Australia after 3 fails last weeks at Greenmount Ct, Mt Samson (roadside birding), and no success as well on 2013. Member of family #106 Cockatoos (Cacatuidae).
Eungella Honeyeater (Bolemoreus hindwoodi), seen obviously in Eungella National Park, classified as Near Threatened, with limit range on higher elevations behind Mackay in central Queensland.
7th lifer on Big Zigzag, member of Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae), #132 on Bird Families of the World.
Two white browed birds bring me to lifer #4500 and 10th lifer on the Big Zigzag: On this photo, White-browed Crake (Poliolimnas cinereus), member of Rails, Gallinules, and Coots (Rallidae), #032 on Bird Families of the World, and White-browed Robin (waiting for better photographing opportunity).
Both from Tyto Wetlands, Ingham
Little Bronze-Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx minutillus), wasn’t one of the targets in Tyto Wetlands, but I was expecting it while heading north along Queensland shore. A welcome lifer #9 of the Big Zigzag.
Member of Cuckoos (Cuculidae), #021 on Bird Families of the World.
Non-bird image
Pioneer Valley, from Sky Window Lookout, Eungulla National Park
Week's Key location(s)
Big Zigzag Travelled so far: 3350 km (this week 1480 km)
eBird Checklists this week
- 1314. 10 Aug 2024 253 Wallaman Falls Road, Lannercost, Queensland, AU (-18.631, 146.007)Hinchinbrook
- 1313. 10 Aug 2024 Tyto Wetlands (Ingham) Hinchinbrook
- 1312. 09 Aug 2024 Tyto Wetlands (Ingham) Hinchinbrook
- 1311. 09 Aug 2024 Bushland Beach Townsville
- 1310. 09 Aug 2024 Bowling Green Bay National Park–Alligator Creek Campground, Townsville
- 1309. 09 Aug 2024 Home Hill, Burdekin
- 1308. 08 Aug 2024 Bowen Golf Club, Whitsunday
- 1307. 08 Aug 2024 Airlie Beach, Whitsunday
- 1306. 08 Aug 2024 60 Yakapari Seaforth Road, The Leap, Queensland, AU (-21.064, 149.011), Mackay
- 1305. 08 Aug 2024 The Leap, Mackay
- 1304. 07 Aug 2024 Eungella National Park–Diggings Rd, Mackay
- 1303. 07 Aug 2024 Eungella National Park–Diggings Rd, Mackay
- 1302. 07 Aug 2024 1 Dalrymple Street, Pinnacle, Queensland, AU (-21.147, 148.714) ,Mackay
- 1301. 06 Aug 2024 Flaggy Rock, Isaac
- 1300. 05 Aug 2024 Milman Road, Milman, Queensland, AU (-23.138, 150.408), Rockhampton
- 1299. 05 Aug 2024 Rockhampton
- 1298. 05 Aug 2024 Mount Archer National Park. Rockhampton
- 1297. 05 Aug 2024 Thangool, Banana
- 1296. 04 Aug 2024 Cania Gorge Caravan and Tourist Park, North Burnett
