WHITE-FRONTED HONEYEATER

Photographed at the Arid Garden, Port Augusta, South Australia March 2015

539       WHITE-FRONTED HONEYEATER             Phylidonyris albifrons

Australia          (380)

16-18 cm. Found in drier inland and coastal scrubs, heaths; mulga, mallee, blossoming shrubs, timber on watercourses, eucalypt woodlands. Range widespread on mainland w. of Divide and s. of tropical n. Aust. Resident coastal WA; Broome-Perth and s. coast Albany (WA)-Coorong (SA); moves tp coastal s. Aust in summer; n. to Kimberley and n. coast in winter.

RED KNOT

Photographed at Thompson's Beach, South Australia March 2015

538        RED KNOT           Calidris canutus

Australia          (379)

Ranges around entire coast of Australia mainland and Tasmania; Breeds in Arctic Circle; birds from n.-c and ne. Siberia and n. Alaska migrate regularly to Australia. Found on tidal mudflats, sandblast, beaches, salt marshes, flooded pastures and ploughed land. 23-26 cm.

SANDERLING

537          SANDERLING              Calidris alba

Australia          (378)

19-21 cm. Found on broad beaches of firm sand 'where waves ebb and flow', depositing strands and heaps of seaweed; often near river mouths, also inlets, tidal mudflats, coastal lagoons. Breeds around Arctic from Spitsbergen e. to Iceland, migrates to coasts of s. continents. Regular summer visitor to Australian coasts.