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Little Terns breeding near Broome

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There are Little Terns that breed across the north of Australia, Little Terns that breed on the coast of eastern and south-eastern Australia and another population that visit at this time of year from Asia. The population of Little Tern that visit from Asia breed in Asia and visit Australia in their non-breeding months.

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The Siberian Rubythroat

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The Siberian Rubythroat seems to somewhat lack a proper inbuilt GPS system – while it breeds as far west as the Ural Mountains and winters as far est as Central India, it does not migrate through central Asia in large numbers (even though this would be the shortest way). So better not let a rubythroat bite you. .

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A Little Tern flagged in Taiwan visits Australia

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We also did some inland birding to the Pilbara in November, but I will return to some news on the shorebirds along our coast for this week. This is mainly due to the fact that we found a rather special bird recently on Cable Beach in Broome. This indicated that the Little Tern had been captured in Taiwan.

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Three Amazing Things

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Birds have been migrating earlier. The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. If you know a lot about birds, this might be entirely expected. The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. ” GannetCam. .

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Red-necked Stint with a Japanese flag

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They have been here for several months and are currently changing into their breeding plumage and fattening up. It won’t be long and we will watch them fly off into the sunset as they make their journey north to breed. It changes into its breeding plumage and heads off, but has never been seen back in Hong Kong!

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A Terek Sandpiper flagged in Japan visits Australia

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I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! The Little Tern was also blue and white flags, but it was a white flag above a blue flag on the left tarsus and that indicates it has been flagged in Taiwan.

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