Cairns Esplanade ( 452 counts)
Common name	Frequency %	Abundance	High count
Bar-tailed Godwit	95.4	38.2	183
Eurasian Whimbrel	94.2	21.7	728
Great Knot	89.6	114.1	350
Far Eastern Curlew	89.4	11.0	65
Gray-tailed Tattler	82.5	22.1	243
Red-necked Stint	68.6	61.7	603
Pied Oystercatcher	67.5	1.5	28
Silver Gull	66.4	71.5	598
Masked Lapwing	65.0	10.9	83
Terek Sandpiper	61.1	4.2	59
Curlew Sandpiper	58.8	14.4	168
Australian Pelican	58.6	7.7	71
Great Egret	56.4	4.5	67
Greater Sand-Plover	53.5	7.5	82
Siberian Sand-Plover	50.4	7.4	137
Little Egret	47.8	3.1	42
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	46.7	41.9	800
Red-capped Plover	44.9	2.9	90
Black-tailed Godwit	44.7	5.3	79
Australian Tern	44.5	12.5	145
Common Greenshank	44.0	2.0	174
Australian Ibis	39.6	3.3	66
Caspian Tern	37.8	1.6	23
Striated Heron	33.8	0.7	12
Red Knot	31.0	1.2	87
Little Tern	29.9	5.6	108
Black-fronted Dotterel	29.4	1.3	22
White-faced Heron	29.0	1.3	24
Royal Spoonbill	26.5	2.6	57
Great Crested Tern	25.2	0.7	19
Pied Stilt	24.1	2.5	51
Pacific Reef-Heron	19.2	0.2	3
Medium Egret	18.8	1.0	24
Pacific Golden-Plover	18.1	0.7	46
Osprey	13.9	0.2	2
Beach Thick-knee	9.7	0.2	3
Broad-billed Sandpiper	8.4	0.1	7
Nordmann's Greenshank	7.1	0.1	1
Black-necked Stork	5.1	0.1	3
Brahminy Kite	5.1	0.1	3
Straw-necked Ibis	4.9	0.4	66
White-bellied Sea-Eagle	4.9	0.1	3
Nankeen Night Heron	4.6	0.1	6
Marsh Sandpiper	4.0	0.1	12
Australasian Darter	3.1	0.0	2
Ruddy Turnstone	3.1	0.1	14
Laughing Gull	2.7	0.0	1
Red-kneed Dotterel	2.4	0.1	8
Black-bellied Plover	2.2	0.0	2
Buff-banded Rail	2.0	0.0	5
Common Tern	1.3	0.1	11
Gray Teal	1.3	0.1	9
Asian Dowitcher	1.1	0.0	2
Lesser Crested Tern	1.1	0.0	3
Pied Cormorant	0.9	0.0	2
Black Kite	0.7	0.0	1
Common Sandpiper	0.7	0.0	6
Pacific Black Duck	0.7	0.0	2
Peregrine Falcon	0.7	0.0	1
Tringa sp.	0.7	0.1	41
Whiskered Tern	0.7	0.0	2
Australian Hobby	0.4	0.0	1
Double-banded Plover	0.4	0.0	6
Dusky Moorhen	0.4	0.0	1
Maned Duck	0.4	0.0	2
Whistling Kite	0.4	0.0	3
White-winged Tern	0.4	0.0	15
Australasian Gannet	0.2	0.0	2
Australian Pratincole	0.2	0.0	1
Banded Stilt	0.2	0.0	2
Black Swan	0.2	0.1	34
Black-naped Tern	0.2	0.0	2
Black-shouldered Kite	0.2	0.0	1
Brown Honeyeater	0.2	0.0	1
Glossy Ibis	0.2	0.0	1
Gray Goshawk	0.2	0.0	1
Latham's Snipe	0.2	0.0	4
Little Black Cormorant	0.2	0.0	1
Little Curlew	0.2	0.0	2
Little Eagle	0.2	0.0	1
Magpie-lark	0.2	0.0	1
Mangrove Robin	0.2	0.0	2
Nankeen Kestrel	0.2	0.0	1
Oriental Plover	0.2	0.2	70
Red-necked Avocet	0.2	0.0	3
Rock Pigeon	0.2	0.0	1
Sanderling	0.2	0.0	1
Sooty Tern	0.2	0.0	1
Spotted Dove	0.2	0.0	1
Varied Honeyeater	0.2	0.0	1
Wandering Tattler	0.2	0.0	1