Noosa River mouth sandbanks ( 356 counts)
Common name	Frequency %	Abundance	High count
Great Crested Tern	99.4	672.9	8600
Silver Gull	98.6	47.6	319
Red-capped Plover	77.0	16.6	51
Eurasian Whimbrel	70.8	12.0	45
Pied Cormorant	70.8	9.2	67
Pacific Golden-Plover	69.1	21.3	95
Bar-tailed Godwit	68.8	19.2	201
Australian Pelican	63.8	7.2	82
White-bellied Sea-Eagle	58.7	0.8	3
Whistling Kite	57.9	0.9	4
Little Black Cormorant	56.2	32.4	494
Pied Oystercatcher	53.9	1.2	6
White-faced Heron	52.0	0.9	10
Little Egret	51.7	1.4	20
Brahminy Kite	47.8	0.6	4
Caspian Tern	44.7	2.4	42
Beach Thick-knee	39.6	0.8	3
Osprey	38.8	0.5	4
Australian Tern	38.5	2.1	27
Red-necked Stint	38.5	3.6	73
Common Tern	36.5	175.5	6300
Far Eastern Curlew	32.6	1.1	15
Gray-tailed Tattler	30.9	1.3	21
Little Tern	27.8	23.5	595
Double-banded Plover	25.3	2.8	34
Pacific Black Duck	25.0	0.7	13
Australian Ibis	24.2	0.9	20
Common Greenshank	22.5	0.6	19
Great Egret	19.9	0.3	5
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	16.3	2.6	70
White-winged Tern	14.3	11.2	1150
Masked Lapwing	13.8	0.3	7
Little Pied Cormorant	12.9	0.2	6
Striated Heron	12.4	0.2	3
Greater Sand-Plover	9.8	0.2	6
Curlew Sandpiper	8.7	0.2	24
Pied Stilt	8.7	0.2	7
Ruddy Turnstone	7.9	0.1	3
Great Cormorant	6.7	0.1	3
Siberian Sand-Plover	6.5	0.1	8
Australasian Darter	5.1	0.1	2
Great Knot	3.9	0.1	10
Medium Egret	3.7	0.1	5
Sanderling	2.8	0.0	2
Terek Sandpiper	2.5	0.0	1
Hooded Plover	1.7	0.0	1
Red Knot	1.7	0.1	11
Black-necked Stork	1.4	0.0	1
Pacific Reef-Heron	1.4	0.0	1
Australasian Gannet	1.1	0.0	3
Black Kite	1.1	0.0	5
Black Swan	0.8	0.1	15
Brown Noddy	0.8	0.0	1
Great Frigatebird	0.8	0.1	10
Kentish Plover	0.8	0.0	1
Whiskered Tern	0.8	0.0	3
Banded Lapwing	0.6	0.0	2
Black-shouldered Kite	0.6	0.0	2
Arctic Tern	0.3	0.0	1
Australian Pratincole	0.3	0.0	1
Brown Goshawk	0.3	0.0	1
Chestnut Teal	0.3	0.0	4
Lesser Crested Tern	0.3	0.0	1
Lesser Frigatebird	0.3	0.0	1
Peregrine Falcon	0.3	0.0	1
Red-necked Avocet	0.3	0.0	1
Royal Spoonbill	0.3	0.0	2
Sooty Tern	0.3	0.0	1
White-fronted Tern	0.3	0.0	5