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Migrating waders in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia
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Migrating to Australia for a warmer climate, he was briefly a prospector in the Victorian gold rush in 1852.
waders and Roebuck
Roebuck Bay is of international importance for the millions of migratory waders or shorebirds that use it seasonally on migration through the East Asian – Australasian Flyway from their breeding grounds in northern Asia.
The IBA also encompasses the low-lying, occasionally inundated, coastal grasslands to the east of the bay on Roebuck Plains Station, including Lake Eda, where many waders roost during very high tides.
waders and Bay
Sandwich lies at the southern end of Pegwell Bay which includes a large nature reserve, known for its migrating waders and wildfowl, with a complete series of seashore habitats including extensive mudflats and salt marsh.
It forms part of the Moreton Bay and Pumicestone Passage Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because it supports large numbers of migratory waders, or shorebirds.
Bridgwater Bay is a critical feeding ground for passage and over-wintering waders and wildfowl, with approximately 190 species recorded on the reserve.
Swan Bay, adjacent to Queenscliff is an important feeding ground for waterbirds and migratory waders.
The Bristol Channel is an important area for wildlife, in particular waders, and has protected areas, including National Nature Reserves such as Bridgwater Bay at the mouth of the River Parrett.
The island's bird life is particularly rich in waders such as curlew and redshank, found at The Ouse and Veantro Bay, and gull and tern colonies on the rockier shores and cliffs.
Next to the town is Lake Victoria a shallow saline lake that is part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve and an important site for the waterbirds and migratory waders that form part of the population using the Ramsar-listed Swan Bay wetland system.
waders and Western
One such location is the Western Isles of Scotland, where introduced hedgehogs eat the eggs of ground-nesting waders such as Common Snipe, Dunlin, Common Redshank and Northern Lapwing.
waders and Australia
These provide significant waterbird habitats at times of drought and for migrating waders which travel across inland Australia.
The use of colour-coded leg-flags is part of an international program, originated in Australia in 1990, by the countries of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway to identify important areas and routes used by migratory waders.
The wattlebirds, Callaeidae, are a family endemic to New Zealand, but many other New Zealand birds show clear affinities to Australia, including the New Zealand Pigeon and the New Zealand Falcon, as well as various parrots, rails, waders, owls, and seabirds ( albeit often with a New Zealand twist ).
The site is one of the most important migration staging, and non-breeding, areas for waders in Australia and within the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
Roebuck and Bay
In 1879, Charles Harper suggested that the pearling industry could be served by a port closer to the pearling grounds and that Roebuck Bay would be suitable.
On the eastern shore are the waters of Roebuck Bay extending from the main jetty at Port Drive to Sandy Point, west of Thangoo station.
The Broome Bird Observatory, sited in pindan woodland close to the northern shore of Roebuck Bay, was established by Birds Australia in 1988, and formally opened in 1990.
Sandpipers spending the non-breeding season in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia
* Roebuck Bay, Western Australia
Dampier then followed the coast northeast, reaching the Dampier Archipelago and then Lagrange Bay, just south of what is now called Roebuck Bay all the while recording and collecting specimens, including many shells.
Roebuck was located in Clarence Bay Ascension Island 2001 by a team from the Western Australian Museum.
He believed that they made kidnapping raids and ranged as far south as Roebuck Bay ( later Broome ) where ‘ quite a fleet ’ was seen around 1866.
Despite the accident, the expedition proceeded to the west coast, which was surveyed as far as Roebuck Bay.
Lake Argyle and other wetlands of the Ord and the Kimberley are important habitats while there are important populations of shorebirds in the Ord estuary, Eighty-mile Beach and Roebuck Bay, which has been described as " one of the most important stop-over areas for shorebirds in Australia and globally ".
* July 26-William Dampier's expedition to New Holland ( Australia ) in HMS Roebuck reaches Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.
That year, he also invested in the unsuccessful attempt to establish a pastoral settlement at Roebuck Bay.
The red sand beaches of northern Roebuck Bay
Roebuck Bay is a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Roebuck Bay is a 550 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 210 mi < sup > 2 </ sup >) tropical, marine embayment.
Roebuck Bay experiences a hot semi-arid climate ( Köppen, Bsh ).
Roebuck Bay lies in the traditional country of the Jukun and Yawuru Aboriginal peoples.
Waders in flight across Roebuck Bay
Waders roosting on Campsite Beach, Roebuck Bay
Eleven mangrove species are found in Roebuck Bay.
Broome is a major tourist destination, and Roebuck Bay is used for recreational and tourism activities such as fishing, sightseeing and birdwatching.
In the 1890s, Roebuck Bay was the terminus of a proposed but stillborn land grant railway from Angle Pole across the border in the Northern Territory.
Roebuck and Western
As with other chains at the time, such as Sears, Roebuck and Co., Montgomery Ward and J. C. Penney, Western Auto's firearms were sold under a proprietary brand.
In 1988, Sears Roebuck purchased Western Auto from Wesray Capital, which resulted in greater tire selections, and in Craftsman tools and DieHard batteries being sold at Western Auto stores.
Specifically in return, Sears Roebuck became " one of the largest shareholders " after obtaining a 40 % stake in Advance Auto Parts, and by merging their two store networks, which included Western Auto's wholesale and retail operations.
Roebuck and Australia
Although many papers were lost with the Roebuck, Dampier was able to save many new charts of coastlines, and his record of trade winds and currents in the seas around Australia and New Guinea.
Bedout (), or more specifically the Bedout High, is a geological and geophysical feature centered about 250 km off the northwestern coast of Australia in the Canning and overlying Roebuck basins.
It is named after HMS Roebuck, the ship captained by William Dampier when he explored the coast of north-western Australia in 1699.
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