2016 Waterbird Survey Map
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| 16/11/2016 | Day 26, The Macquarie Marshes |
Observer: Richard Kingsford An early start again on our last day of surveying. Today it was all focused on the Macquarie Marshes, about forty…
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| 15/11/2016 | Day 25, Moree to the Yantabulla Swamp |
Observer: Richard Kingsford We headed west again to count some of the Gwydir wetlands for the second time. We survey all of the major wetlands in…
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| 14/11/2016 | Day 24, Sydney to Moree |
Observer: Richard Kingsford The next few days will be the last of the survey for the year. I will be glad to be out of the plane, even though it has…
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| 10/11/2016 | Day 23, Parkes to Sydney |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Yesterday evening we flew over our first wetland that we needed to survey today – Bogandillon Swamp, part of the Lachlan…
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| 9/11/2016 | Day 22, Swan Hill to Parkes |
Observer: Richard Kingsford We spent a beautiful crisp morning surveying the large Victorian lakes of the Murray-Darling Basin, gently bouncing…
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| 07/11/2016 | Day 21, Sydney to Swan Hill |
Observer: Richard Kingsford We headed for the Lachlan River and its floods, via Griffith to refuel and have lunch. It was slow going heading west…
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| 04/11/2016 | Day 20, Murray Mouth to Sydney |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Today was our last day surveying the River Murray. The Lower Lakes, the Coorong and the Murray Mouth is a very special…
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| 03/11/2016 | Day 19, the Coorong to Lake Albert |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Today was delightful for aerial survey but disappointing for the waterbirds. We experienced the best conditions for…
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| 02/11/2016 | Day 18, River Murray to Lake Alexandrina |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Today was a great day for ‘water sights’. Low wind and a cool day were ideal conditions for flying, starting with where…
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| 01/11/2016 | Day 17, Sydney to the Hattah Lakes |
Observer: Richard Kingsford We left early to get to Albury and start surveying the River Murray. On the way, we flew past Lake George again, not one…
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| 26/10/2016 | Day 16, Wangaratta to Sydney |
Observer: Richard Kingsford We got away just before daybreak. It was smooth to begin with as we surveyed the King and then the Ovens Rivers, south…
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| 25/10/2016 | Day 15, Warrnambool to Wangaratta |
25/10/16 Observer - Richard Kingsford We left early on a crisp morning, flying over the crater lake, Tower Hill Nature Reserve, near Warrnambool on…
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| 24/10/2016 | Day 14, Sydney to Warrnambool |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Day 14 of our survey was a beautiful one. Not a cloud in the sky and just a breath of wind when we took off from Sydney…
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| 22/10/2016 | Day 13, Griffith to Sydney |
Observer: Terry Korn After an overnight stay in the Walter Burley Griffin designed Riverina town of Griffith, we woke to five degrees outside and…
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| 21/10/2016 | Day 12, Broken Hill to Griffith |
Observer: Terry Korn Forecast rain and threats of 100km/hr. winds worried us as we departed south from Broken Hill for Renmark on the banks of the…
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| 20/10/2016 | Day 11, Sydney to Broken Hill |
Observer: Terry Korn Cloud shrouded mountains were caressed by our Cessna 206 as we crossed the Blue mountains on a path which would ultimately have…
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| 14/10/2016 | Day 10, Bourke to the Macquarie Marshes |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Today is the last leg of our northern surveys. The amount of water everywhere is the standout ‘take home’ message from…
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| 13/10/2016 | Day 9, William Creek to Bourke |
Observer: Richard Kingsford We decided on an early start today to capitalise on the cool conditions. Plane is loaded and ready to go at dawn at…
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| 12/10/2016 | Day 8, Cunnamulla to William Creek |
Observer: Richard Kingsford It was cold in Cunnamulla early this morning when we left – jumper weather. We even had to put the heater on in the…
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| 11/10/2016 | Day 7, Charleville to Cunnamulla |
Observer: Richard Kingsford A welcome cold morning at 150 C. Cool is ideal when we are surveying the outback. On hot days, the plane bounces as it…
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| 10/10/2016 | Day 6, Windorah to Charleville |
Observer: Richard Kingsford This is another of our long days, particularly because there is so much water around. We have to head west along Band 8…
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| 9/10/2016 | Day 5, Rockhampton to Windorah |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Today we head west to the channel country where we will stop for the night. From Rockhampton, we go south over the Mt…
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| 7/10/2016 | Day 4, Mt Isa to Rockhampton |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Today’s survey from Mt Isa to Rockhampton is a long day. We start early in the relative cool, hoping that we wont have a…
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| 06/10/2016 | Day 3, Airlie Beach to Mt Isa |
Observer: Richard Kingsford West today to Mt Isa – surveying all of the wetlands and rivers for their waterbirds, along our most northerly survey…
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| 05/10/2016 | Day 2, Maroochydore to Airlie Beach |
Observer - Richard Kingsford One of my favourite days of survey – flying along the Queensland coastline, up to the Whitsunday Islands. First on our…
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| 04/10/2016 | Day 1, Sydney to Maroochydore |
Observer: Richard Kingsford Once again it seems, we can say the 2016 aerial survey of waterbirds across eastern Australia is going to be different…
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