Coorong Birds. 31 Counting birds in the Coorong 6 32 Counting birds in the Lower Lakes 7 33 Behavioural surveys of waterbirds 7 34 Data analysis 7 35 Assessing changes in the food resources for birds in the Coorong 8 4 Results and Preliminary Discussion 10 41 Abundances of birds in the Coorong in January 2017 and relative to other years 10. Migratory wader birds of the Coorong and Lower Lakes.
Wear clothes that blend in with the surrounds and be quiet particularly if birds are nesting. Integral to the protection of these birds are the many freshwater soaks islands and land spits which provide both refuge and habitat. The Coorong is ideal for birdwatching and photography with its distinctive landscape in an important breeding area for the Australian pelican and is a refuge for ducks swans cormorants terns grebes and around 230 migratory birds that travel annually from Siberia Alaska Japan and China.
It has supported the chestnut teal Australian shelduck sharp-tailed sandpiper red-necked stint banded stilt red-necked avocet pied oystercatcher and red-capped plover.
Australasian bitterns have been recorded. Wear clothes that blend in with the surrounds and be quiet particularly if birds are nesting. Filamentous algae is choking the Coorong. It has supported the chestnut teal Australian shelduck sharp-tailed sandpiper red-necked stint banded stilt red-necked avocet pied oystercatcher and red-capped plover.