Cedar Lake Bird Monitoring Results
by David Braithwaite (Bander-in Charge).
Assistants: Stephen MacDonald, Rainer Ebel, Miriam Braithwaite, and Rochelle Stevens.
Number of Nets: 11.
February 10, 2016
Email: Sent to Rich and Judy Edmunds , classicholidays.com.au
http://classicholidays.com.au/resort/cedar-lake-country-resort/
Cedar Lake Country Resorts, 555 Nerang/Murwillumbah Rd, Advancetown Gold Coast Hinterland, QLD
Cedar Lake Country Resorts, 555 Nerang/Murwillumbah Rd, Advancetown Gold Coast Hinterland, QLD
This morning’s bird monitoring was quite a bit more successful than last month with a total of 27 birds captured.
We trialed a few nets on the top section around the Equestrian Centre grounds. This proved quite productive as a number of small flocks were feeding on the grass seeds there.
Of the 27 birds captured, 15 were already banded from last years efforts. This is quite a high recapture rate which is what we were hoping for as it provides good data on individual birds.
The breakdown of numbers and species is as follows:
- 16 Red-browed Finches (11 recaptures)
- 2 Eastern Whipbirds (both recaptures, photo)
- 2 Striated Pardalotes (photo)
- 2 Lewin’s Honeyeaters (1 recapture)
- 1 White-browed Scrubwren (recapture)
- 1 Eastern Yellow Robin
- 1 White-throated Treecreeper
- 1 Bar-shouldered Dove (photo)
- 1 Peaceful Dove
We certainly hope to utilise the Equestrian Centre area in future field trips.
Attached are a couple of photos of some of the birds as well as an updated Species List for your Resort.
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| Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus stiatus). Four species of pardalotes exist in Australia and Queensland is home to three species. The fourth occurs on the islands of the east shore of Tasmania and locally in Hobart. It is endangered while the others are not. The Striated has four races that are relatively distinct geographically and in the hand. I can not recall its age , sexes are similar. |
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| Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaccus). occurs along the eastern coastline and east of the Divided from the Cooktown area south to Melbourne. It is easily identified by the males's long explosive whip crack instantly answered by female with a witch-a-wee. This bird was a recapture previously banded (DB/SM) and undergoing a very heavy moult. Age was 2+ sex unknown. There is a Western Whipbird which looks very different. |
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| Bar-shouldered Dove (Geopolis humeralis) is a larger version of the Peace Dove (See an earlier Blog). It occurs east and northern coastal Australia south to the southern New South Wales. This beauty is aged 2+, and Sex unknown. The species commonly encountered and when one realized the diversity of doves and pigeons found in Australia one begins to appreciate this group; even Rock Dove is looked at differently. |
| CEDAR LAKE COUNTRY RESORT SPECIES LIST | |||||||
| 2015 | 2015 | 2015 | 2015 | 2016 | 2016 | ||
| SPECIES | TOTAL | 16-Sep | 06-Oct | 11-Nov | 16-Dec | 13-Jan | 08-Feb |
| Bee-eater, Rainbow | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bronze-Cuckoo, Little | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Brush-turkey, Australian | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Butcherbird, Grey | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Butcherbird, Pied | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Cicadabird | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cockatoo, Sulphur-crested | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Coot, Eurasian | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Corella, Little | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cormorant, Little Black | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Crow, Torresian | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cuckoo, Brush | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cuckoo, Channel-billed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cuckoo, Fan-tailed | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Cuckoo-dove, Brown | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Cuckoo-shrike, Black-faced | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Currawong, Pied | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Darter, Australasian | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Dove, Bar-shouldered | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dove, Peaceful | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dove, Spotted | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Drongo, Spangled | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Duck, Australian Wood | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Duck, Pacific Black | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Duck, Plumed Whistling | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Egret, Intermediate | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Fairy-wren, Red-backed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Fairy-wren, Superb | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Fairy-wren, Variegated | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Figbird, Australasian | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Finch, Double-barred | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Finch, Red-browed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Flycatcher, Leaden | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Friarbird, Little | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Friarbird, Noisy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Galah | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Gerygone, White-throated | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Grebe, Australsian | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Hardhead | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Honeyeater, Blue-faced | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Honeyeater, Brown | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Honeyeater, Lewin’s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Honeyeater, Scarlet | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Honeyeater, White-throated | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Honeyeater, Yellow-faced | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Ibis, Australian White | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| King-parrot, Australian | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Kingfisher, Sacred | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Koel, Eastern | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Kookaburra, Laughing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lapwing, Masked | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lorikeet, Rainbow | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Magpie | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Magpie Lark | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Miner, Noisy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistletoebird | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Moorhen, Dusky | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Myna, Common | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Night-Heron, Nankeen | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Oriole, Olive-backed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Pardalote, Striated | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Pigeon, Crested | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Pigeon, White-headed | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Quail, Brown | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Rail, Buff-banded | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Robin, Eastern Yellow | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Rosella, Eastern | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Scrubwren, Large-billed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Scrubwren, White-browed | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Shrike-thrush, Grey | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Silvereye | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Swallow, Welcome | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Swamphen, Purple | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Teal, Chestnut | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Treecreeper, White-throated | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Wagtail, Willie | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Warbler, Speckled | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Whipbird, Eastern | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Whistler, Golden | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Whistler, Rufous | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| TOTAL | 80 | 51 | 54 | 55 | 48 | 43 | 47 |
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