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Gumoo Woojabuddee Section Fact sheets: Shorebirds
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Title: | Gumoo Woojabuddee Section Fact sheets: Shorebirds |
Authors: | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
ASFA Subjects: | Marine birds |
APAIS Subject: | Birds Conservation (Natural resources) |
Category: | Animals Defence |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Publisher: | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
Series/Report no.: | Gumoo Woojabuddee Section Fact sheets |
Abstract: | Recent surveys of the intertidal areas of the Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area (SWBTA) indicate that Port Clinton is a highly significant feeding and roosting area for migratory shorebirds overwintering from their high latitude feeding grounds in the northern hemisphere. A survey conducted in December 1995, timed to coincide with the summer peak for populations of migratory species over-wintering in the area, recorded 6985 shorebirds in Port Clinton. These were made up of 16 species of migratory waders and four species of resident waders. Bar-tailed godwits, whimbrels and eastern curlews were the most numerous with over a thousand individuals recorded for each species. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11017/935 |
Type of document: | Brochure |
Appears in Collections: | Community |
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