Broome 2017 _ Wave The Waders Goodbye _ Day 01

Well, not permanently. Until next spring. Broome Bird Observatory does a 5-day course in late March/early April when waders gather in Roebuck Bay and set off to their northern hemisphere breeding destinations.

You live on base. The cuisine is themed for the seven world-wide migratory flyways. You do a tour each day, have some lectures/talks and spend the last few hours of each day observing gathering birds on the bay and watching them head off. Usually. Bar-Tailed Godwits and Great Knots are migratory. The others are Aussie residents.

Day 01

Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica

Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris

Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus

Eastern Reef Egret Egretta sacra grey morph

Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis

Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonians juvenile