Winter Visitors (Birds)

 Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus)

These are Double-banded plovers (Charadrius bicinctus). In New Zealand they are known as the Banded Dotterel.  While many birds migrate north and south, these are unusual in that many of them migrate east and west. They bread in New Zealand but, in the cooler months, fly west to Australia, including here in Tasmania. Others make there way to such places as New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.  The plovers in the video come to the same local site each year. They usually gather on the rocks at high tide but on particularly high tides they come on onto the grass and gravel of this little roadside lay-by.

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Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)

The Eastern Great  (Ardea modesta) is considered by some to be a subspecies of the Great Egret (Ardea alba). Here in Tasmania they are more prevalent during the cooler months. In the video you can see it hunting for fish which are its primary food source.

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