Mercer Rd rail SA

Survey Point Mercer Rd rail SA
Latitude-32.7730600 (32° 46′ 23″ S)
Longitude139.2941700 (139° 17′ 39″ E)

On the Barrier Hwy about 33km SW of Yunta, what looks like a track into a farm has a branch that leads to the railway line and beyond. There is not much quality habitat here with a few low shrubs.

Camp rating 3 the road is quiet but this is a main railway line. There is no established camp here.

Surveys done 4

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  • Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes 2 (50.00%)
  • Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax 1 (25.00%)
  • Galah Eolophus roseicapilla 1 (25.00%)
  • Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster 1 (25.00%)
  • Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius 1 (25.00%)
  • White-winged Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus 3 (75.00%)
  • Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis 2 (50.00%)
  • Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens 1 (25.00%)
  • Southern Whiteface Aphelocephala leucopsis 1 (25.00%)
  • Chestnut-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus ruficeps 1 (25.00%)
  • Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 1 (25.00%)
  • Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus 2 (50.00%)
  • Australian Raven Corvus coronoides 1 (25.00%)
  • Australasian Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae 1 (25.00%)
2019
2023 where’s Ollie?
Chestnut-crowned Babbler