Survey Point | Austin Rd lagoons Vic |
Latitude | -38.0441700 (38° 2′ 39″ S) |
Longitude | 144.5091700 (144° 30′ 33″ E) |
A key is needed to access this area at the Werribee Sewerage Farm. Access is from Twentynine Mile Rd also known as the Point Wilson Rd. There are 6 lagoons here with varying depths of water. The eastern one are hotspots for waders at high tide especially.
No camping here.
Surveys done 6
Blogs, see main page archives:
- Cape Barren Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae 3 (50.00%)
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus 6 (100.00%) (B)
- Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides 5 (83.33%)
- Hardhead Aythya australis 2 (33.33%)
- Australasian Shoveler Spatula rhynchotis 5 (83.33%)
- Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa 5 (83.33%) (B)
- Grey Teal Anas gracilis 5 (83.33%)
- Chestnut Teal Anas castanea 4 (66.67%)
- Musk Duck Biziura lobata 3 (50.00%)
- Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata 1 (16.67%)
- Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis 1 (16.67%)
- Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae 1 (16.67%)
- Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus 4 (66.67%)
- Rock Dove Columba livia 1 (16.67%)
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis 1 (16.67%)
- Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes 1 (16.67%)
- Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Chalcites basalis 2 (33.33%)
- Australian Spotted Crake Porzana fluminea 2 (33.33%)
- Baillon’s Crake Zapornia pusilla 1 (16.67%)
- Spotless Crake Zapornia tabuensis 1 (16.67%)
- Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio 4 (66.67%)
- Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa 2 (33.33%)
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra 3 (50.00%)
- Brolga Grus rubicunda 1 (16.67%)
- Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus 3 (50.00%)
- Red-necked Avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae 4 (66.67%)
- Pied Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus 3 (50.00%)
- Red-capped Plover Charadrius ruficapillus 5 (83.33%)
- Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops 1 (16.67%)
- Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor 2 (33.33%)
- Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles 6 (100.00%)
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica 1 (16.67%)
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa 1 (16.67%)
- Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris 1 (16.67%)
- Red Knot Calidris canutus 2 (33.33%)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata 4 (66.67%)
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea 3 (50.00%)
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis 5 (83.33%)
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia 6 (100.00%)
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola 1 (16.67%)
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis 3 (50.00%)
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus 1 (16.67%)
- Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae 2 (33.33%)
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida 3 (50.00%)
- White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus 1 (16.67%)
- Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus 5 (83.33%)
- White-necked Heron Ardea pacifica 1 (16.67%)
- Great Egret Ardea alba 2 (33.33%)
- White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae 6 (100.00%)
- Australian White Ibis Threskiornis moluccus 5 (83.33%)
- Straw-necked Ibis Threskiornis spinicollis 5 (83.33%)
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes 4 (66.67%)
- Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia 4 (66.67%)
- Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus 1 (16.67%)
- Little Pied Cormorant Microcarbo melanoleucos 2 (33.33%)
- Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris 3 (50.00%)
- Great Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius 1 (16.67%)
- Swamp Harrier Circus approximans 5 (83.33%)
- Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus 3 (50.00%)
- Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides 1 (16.67%)
- Australian Hobby Falco longipennis 1 (16.67%)
- Brown Falcon Falco berigora 2 (33.33%)
- Black Falcon Falco subniger 2 (33.33%)
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus 1 (16.67%)
- Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus 6 (100.00%)
- White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons 6 (100.00%)
- Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus 2 (33.33%)
- White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis 1 (16.67%)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa 1 (16.67%)
- Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla 1 (16.67%)
- Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 6 (100.00%)
- Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys 3 (50.00%)
- Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa 1 (16.67%)
- Little Raven Corvus mellori 5 (83.33%)
- Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca 4 (66.67%)
- Zebra Finch Taeniopygia castanotis 1 (16.67%)
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus 3 (50.00%)
- Australasian Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae 2 (33.33%)
- Common Greenfinch Chloris chloris 2 (33.33%)
- European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis 3 (50.00%)
- Horsfield’s Bushlark Mirafra javanica 1 (16.67%)
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis 4 (66.67%)
- Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis 6 (100.00%)
- Brown Songlark Cincloramphus cruralis 1 (16.67%)
- Little Grassbird Poodytes gramineus 6 (100.00%)
- Australian Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus australis 4 (66.67%)
- Fairy Martin Petrochelidon ariel 5 (83.33%)
- Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena 6 (100.00%)
- Silvereye Zosterops lateralis 2 (33.33%)
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris 5 (83.33%)
- Common Blackbird Turdus merula 1 (16.67%)