Variable in Coorong; marked decline in estuary/present. Lower • • • Lakes: severe decline 2005–2009 to rare in 2009. Great crested Recorded Lock 1 to Bird grebe Podiceps cristatus Wellington/present. Breed LC r Polytelis Recorded Lock 1 to • Bird Regent parrot anthopeplus Wellington/present. Breed VU LC v Hoary-headed Popiocephalus • • • Bird grebe poliocephalus Breed LC Porphyeario • • • Bird Purple swamphen porphyeario Breed LC Australian spotted • • • Bird crake Porzana fluminea Breed LC Lower Lakes: rare • • • Recorded Lock 1 to Bird Spotless crake Porzana tabuensis Wellington/present. Breed LC r Red-necked Recurvirostra • • • Bird avocet novaehollandiae Breed LC Australian painted Recorded Lock 1 to • Bird snipe Rostratula australis Wellington/present. Breed VU X EN v Coorong: rarely recorded/present. Rarely • • recorded in Lake Alex, not recorded in Lake Albert NB Bird Common tern Sterna hirundo 2003–2009/present. Migrant m X X X LC r • • • Bird Gull-billed tern Sterna nilotica m LC Coorong: not recorded Breed: Sternula (Sterna) since 2000/present. Lower Coorong • • Bird Little tern albifrons Lakes: not recorded Islands m X X X LC e
Bird Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus Variable in Coorong; marked decline in estuary/present. Lower Lakes: severe decline 2005–2009 to rare in 2009. Recorded Lock 1 to Wellington/present. Breed • • • LC r Bird Regent parrot Polytelis anthopeplus Recorded Lock 1 to Wellington/present. Breed • VU LC v Bird Hoary-headed grebe Popiocephalus poliocephalus Breed • • • LC Bird Purple swamphen Porphyeario porphyeario Breed • • • LC Bird Australian spotted crake Porzana fluminea Breed • • • LC Bird Spotless crake Porzana tabuensis Lower Lakes: rare Recorded Lock 1 to Wellington/present. Breed • • • LC r Bird Red-necked avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae Breed • • • LC Bird Australian painted snipe Rostratula australis Recorded Lock 1 to Wellington/present. Breed • VU X EN v Bird Common tern Sterna hirundo Coorong: rarely recorded/present. Rarely recorded in Lake Alex, not recorded in Lake Albert 2003–2009/present. NB Migrant • • m X X X LC r Bird Gull-billed tern Sterna nilotica • • • m LC Bird Little tern Sternula (Sterna) albifrons Coorong: not recorded since 2000/present. Lower Lakes: not recorded Breed: Coorong Islands • • m X X X LC e
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