Big Zigzag BirdingWestern Australia

week 055 | South to Perth | trip list 575 – 576

Cape Naturaliste as key location

In an Eggshell:

Big Zigzag bird species count: 576  (+1 this week)
Big Zigzag bird families count: 90 (+0 this week)
Big Zigzag Lifers: 144 (+1 this week: Brown Skua)
Campsite Lifers 29 (+0 this week: )
Big Zigzag New for Australia list: 200 (+1 this week), AU list now 620.
eBird AU year list: 420 (14th  eBirder in Australia by species, 2025)
eBird days of checklist streak: 383
Week’s special milestones: 200 new for Australia in Big Zigzag!

Bird(s) of the Week

A windy day makes ocean’s shore birding unpleasant, but I was lucky to get my first Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) after a few minutes at Bunker Bay. That does not mean that I did not spent earlier about an hour in the same conditions on the whale watch platform near Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse without success. 

Pied Cormorant enjoying the sun one day earlier

Where to next? Young Pacific Gull can be RBA in so many places!

Non-bird image(s)

Bunker Bay

Cape Naturaliste

Week's Key location(s)

Big Zigzag Travelled so far: 49850 km (this week 1100 km)

eBird Checklists this week

1936. 02 Aug 2025 2:28 PM Blackwood River at Bridge St, Boyup Brook
1935. 02 Aug 2025 12:53 PM Bridgetown
1934. 01 Aug 2025 11:55 AM Bunker Bay, Busselton
1933. 01 Aug 2025 10:26 AM Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park–Cape Naturaliste
1932. 31 Jul 2025 2:35 PM Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park–Cape Naturaliste
1931. 31 Jul 2025 10:53 AM Busselton Jetty
1930. 30 Jul 2025 10:35 AM Lake Clifton Thrombolites, Mandurah
1929. 29 Jul 2025 7:00 AM Karrinyup Waters Caravan Park
1928. 28 Jul 2025 9:44 AM Memorial Park (Boddington)
1927. 27 Jul 2025 10:01 AM Cheynes Beach Caravan Park
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