Burhinus grallarius
Bush Stone-curlew at Cairns City, QLD
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| Burhinus grallarius | 11 Jul 2025 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Dacelo novaeguineae | 11 Jul 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Burhinus grallarius | 11 Jul 2025 | Clarel |
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User's notes
These two are part of a bigger flock that live in the pier carpark. Within Cairns, I also saw them along the esplanade, in the cemetery and in the suburbs of Whitfield and Edge Hill.
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JasonPStewart
wrote:
11 Jul 2025
Yes.
Very frequent in the lowlands across this wet tropics bio-region from Townsville – Magnetic Island through to Cooktown .
Very frequent in the lowlands across this wet tropics bio-region from Townsville – Magnetic Island through to Cooktown .
Location information
- Coordinates 145.779067-16.920541
- Places Cairns City, QLD
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 8 Jun 2025 05:27 PM Recorded on
- Clarel Recorded by
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Species information
- Burhinus grallarius Scientific name
- Bush Stone-curlew Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- -1.92m to 721.2m Recorded at altitude
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