HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL

Photographed at Toora, Victoria, November 2012

1314                  HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL                    Numenius hudsonicus       

AUSTRALIAN BIRDS                    799

Also known as the American Whimbrel. Migratory bird, wintering on the coasts in southern North America and South America. Roosts in mangroves. Feeds on small invertebrates and crabs in the soft tidal mud; feeds on berries before migration.

NOTE:   This would be a first record for Australia.

 

WHIMBREL

Photographed in Singapore (Sungei Buloh Wetlands) November 2016

(see   133)                WHIMBREL             Numinous phaeopus

SINGAPORE               (84)

Common migrant to coastal mudflats, sandy beaches, reefs and tidal pools; large numbers over-winter annually. 44 cm. Distribution: breeds in Arctic tundra across N Eurasia and N America; winters on the coast of SW Europe, Africa, Middle East and Indian sub-continent, eat to Australia and the Pacific.

WHIMBREL

Photographed in Senur, Bali October 2016 

(see   133)                WHIMBREL             Numinous phaepus

INDONESIA (Bali)         (32)        

Widespread and numerous shorebird. Found onmudflats, mangroves and estuaries, as well as sandy shores and coral reefs; occasionally in freshwater marshes and fields behind the coast. 43 cm. Range: Worldwide: breeds in temperate northern hemisphere winters in the south; common passage and winter visitor throughout Indonesia.

LITTLE CURLEW

Photographed at Broome (WA), September 2016

808             LITTLE CURLEW        Numinous minutus

Australia         (652)

Also known as Little Whimbrel. 30-36 cm. Found on dry grasslands, floodplains, margins of drying swamps; tidal flats, airfields, playing fields crops, commercial salt fields, sewerage ponds. Breeds Arctic Siberia: migrates from s. China to s. PNG and n. Aust in Sept., returning by April. Very large numbers disperse over grasslands of n. WA, NT and nw Q in wet season; singles or small parties casual to c., e. and se Aust. in summer; vagrant to Tas.

WHIMBREL

133             WHIMBREL          Numenius phaeopus

Australia       (133)

Range includes the coast of all Australia. The whimbrel breeds in Siberia and visits here during our summer where it is found wading along the coast, in estuaries, mangroves, tidal flats. 38-43 cm.

Darwin January 2024