RED-NECKED ADVOCET

Photographed Central NSW coast, at Tuggerah Water Treatment Plant and Chittaway, October 2014.

266             RED-NECKED AVOCET             Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

Australia        241

40-48 cm. Found in estuaries, tidal mudflats, brackish and salt swamps and lakes, sewerage ponds. Range across bottom two-thirds of mainland Australia except driest parts and se corner NSW/ne corner Victoria.