Sandbank No 2 Caloundra ( 572 counts)
Common name Frequency % Abundance High count
Silver Gull 90.6 31.4 436
Bar-tailed Godwit 78.1 32.7 356
Australian Pelican 77.1 7.8 70
Far Eastern Curlew 73.1 5.3 61
Eurasian Whimbrel 72.4 9.0 95
Great Crested Tern 71.2 69.7 2750
Pacific Golden-Plover 62.1 13.8 139
Red-capped Plover 57.3 5.2 48
Pied Cormorant 54.4 9.0 500
Caspian Tern 49.1 2.0 382
Curlew Sandpiper 44.4 12.1 211
Greater Sand-Plover 42.3 4.6 91
White-faced Heron 42.0 1.8 42
Pied Oystercatcher 36.0 0.7 17
Little Black Cormorant 32.3 1.2 56
Australian Tern 26.6 1.3 42
Red-necked Stint 24.1 1.2 52
Black Swan 23.8 5.8 137
Australian Ibis 22.9 4.8 740
Gray-tailed Tattler 22.6 1.8 97
Siberian Sand-Plover 22.4 2.0 101
Little Tern 21.7 81.1 5000
Little Pied Cormorant 20.3 0.3 11
Great Egret 19.8 0.3 18
Osprey 18.0 0.2 4
Pied Stilt 17.8 1.2 45
Double-banded Plover 17.5 1.8 31
Little Egret 15.6 0.2 7
Common Tern 14.5 115.7 5984
Common Greenshank 13.5 0.2 4
Whistling Kite 12.4 0.1 3
Terek Sandpiper 11.0 0.2 12
Masked Lapwing 10.8 0.3 13
Great Knot 6.1 0.3 26
White-bellied Sea-Eagle 5.2 0.1 3
White-winged Tern 5.2 23.4 2072
Australasian Darter 4.7 0.1 4
Striated Heron 4.0 0.0 2
Brahminy Kite 2.4 0.0 2
Royal Spoonbill 2.1 0.0 6
Chestnut Teal 1.6 0.1 26
Medium Egret 1.4 0.1 21
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 0.9 0.1 27
Red Knot 0.7 0.0 9
Ruddy Turnstone 0.7 0.0 1
Great Cormorant 0.5 0.0 1
Pacific Black Duck 0.5 0.0 2
Beach Thick-knee 0.3 0.0 2
Lesser Crested Tern 0.3 0.0 6
Sooty Oystercatcher 0.3 0.0 6
Tringa sp. 0.3 0.0 9
Black-necked Stork 0.2 0.0 1
Gull-billed Tern 0.2 0.0 4
Marsh Sandpiper 0.2 0.0 1
Pacific Reef-Heron 0.2 0.0 1