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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Birding in Australia
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Date: 20 Aug 90 13:20:09 GMT
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In article <1790@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> rim@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Bob McKay) writes:
>
> If you're visiting Adelaide, you mustn't miss Lake Alexandrina and the Coorong 
>- large wetland areas around 100m SE of Adelaide. Other than that, I don't know
>Adelaide well, and have no specific recommendations. 

In my opinion, the *BEST* birding around Adelaide is the ponds of the
St. Kilda saltworks, just a few miles north of Adelaide.  Both kinds
of stilts, and in July large numbers of northern shorebirds, plus lots
of the other local waterbirds.

And, if you have time, you must drive east to Berri and Renmark, along the 
Murray, near the New South Wales border, for a good taste of the malee.
Or a little south, in Victoria, but still quite accessible from Adelaide
by car, Wyperfeld National Park.


David Mark
dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu