Lota Foreshore
Common name Frequency % Days seen Abundance High count
Australian Ibis 75.5 179 4.5 60
Masked Lapwing 64.3 154 2.2 53
Bar-tailed Godwit 57.4 132 27.1 800
Far Eastern Curlew 54.6 127 4.7 51
Silver Gull 50.2 119 2.3 30
Eurasian Whimbrel 49.0 115 3.1 50
Australian Tern 38.6 94 1.1 14
Gray-tailed Tattler 33.7 80 19.1 600
Great Egret 32.9 80 0.6 5
Pied Oystercatcher 28.1 68 1.2 29
Australian Pelican 26.5 65 0.5 10
Pied Stilt 26.1 63 1.9 30
Terek Sandpiper 26.1 62 5.0 178
Royal Spoonbill 25.3 60 0.7 10
Pacific Golden-Plover 23.7 57 1.7 52
Red-capped Plover 22.1 51 1.2 25
Red-necked Stint 20.1 48 2.7 100
Caspian Tern 17.7 44 0.3 4
Curlew Sandpiper 17.3 41 2.3 150
Great Knot 16.1 39 3.8 109
Brahminy Kite 15.3 35 0.2 3
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 15.3 36 1.6 80
Little Tern 14.1 32 0.8 41
White-bellied Sea-Eagle 14.1 34 0.2 4
Osprey 12.9 30 0.1 3
Little Pied Cormorant 12.0 30 0.2 7
Siberian Sand-Plover 12.0 26 0.7 40
Greater Sand-Plover 8.0 18 0.3 20
Great Crested Tern 7.2 18 0.1 10
Plumed Egret 6.8 17 0.1 4
Common Greenshank 5.6 14 0.1 6
Pied Cormorant 4.8 12 0.1 2
Little Black Cormorant 4.0 10 0.6 95
Red Knot 4.0 10 0.6 113
Ruddy Turnstone 4.0 10 0.1 3
Black-tailed Godwit 2.8 7 0.1 5
Australasian Darter 2.4 4 0.0 1
Marsh Sandpiper 2.4 6 0.0 3
Pacific Black Duck 2.4 6 0.1 4
Broad-billed Sandpiper 2.0 5 0.0 7
Maned Duck 1.6 4 0.1 10
Ruff 1.6 2 0.0 1
Whistling Kite 1.2 3 0.0 2
Double-banded Plover 0.8 2 0.0 2
Nankeen Night Heron 0.8 2 0.0 1
Brown Goshawk 0.4 1 0.0 1
Buff-banded Rail 0.4 1 0.0 NA
Common Sandpiper 0.4 1 0.0 NA
Common Tern 0.4 1 0.0 1
Dusky Moorhen 0.4 1 0.0 NA
Pacific Baza 0.4 1 0.0 1
Pacific Heron 0.4 1 0.0 2
Pacific Reef-Heron 0.4 1 0.0 4
Sooty Oystercatcher 0.4 1 0.0 1
Straw-necked Ibis 0.4 1 0.0 2
Whiskered Tern 0.4 1 0.0 5