Shellgrit Ck entrance ( 173 counts)
Common name Frequency % Abundance High count
Eurasian Whimbrel 90.2 67.2 300
Far Eastern Curlew 89.6 44.8 255
Pied Oystercatcher 87.9 4.9 45
Silver Gull 87.9 18.1 220
Caspian Tern 86.7 13.1 62
Red-capped Plover 86.1 40.9 288
Bar-tailed Godwit 85.5 111.8 2000
Red-necked Stint 73.4 108.3 886
Pacific Golden-Plover 71.7 55.9 468
Australian Tern 66.5 28.4 800
Gray-tailed Tattler 63.0 32.8 163
Siberian Sand-Plover 62.4 90.0 820
Great Crested Tern 60.1 6.8 221
Ruddy Turnstone 60.1 4.5 43
Great Knot 50.9 32.8 400
Greater Sand-Plover 47.4 34.3 600
Little Egret 33.5 0.7 6
Osprey 33.5 0.4 3
Curlew Sandpiper 31.8 4.7 197
Brahminy Kite 25.4 0.3 2
Sooty Oystercatcher 24.3 0.6 6
Double-banded Plover 23.1 5.7 62
Common Greenshank 20.8 1.6 27
Terek Sandpiper 17.9 0.8 25
Little Tern 16.8 7.3 232
Black-bellied Plover 14.5 0.7 18
Masked Lapwing 13.9 0.7 21
White-faced Heron 12.7 0.2 6
Australian Pelican 12.1 0.3 6
Little Black Cormorant 9.8 7.8 280
Little Pied Cormorant 9.8 0.1 2
White-bellied Sea-Eagle 9.8 0.1 2
Black Kite 9.2 0.2 3
Whistling Kite 8.1 0.1 8
Beach Thick-knee 7.5 0.1 2
Pied Cormorant 7.5 0.1 2
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 7.5 1.0 73
Sanderling 6.4 0.2 15
Common Tern 5.2 3.3 412
Great Egret 5.2 0.1 11
Medium Egret 5.2 0.1 2
Red Knot 4.0 0.1 5
Striated Heron 4.0 0.1 3
Australian Ibis 3.5 0.1 4
Pacific Reef-Heron 3.5 0.1 3
Australasian Darter 2.3 0.0 2
Pied Stilt 2.3 0.1 15
Black-shouldered Kite 1.7 0.0 1
Bush Thick-knee 1.7 0.0 2
Lesser Crested Tern 1.7 0.1 6
Straw-necked Ibis 1.7 0.0 2
Black-necked Stork 1.2 0.0 2
Black-tailed Godwit 1.2 0.0 3
Chestnut Teal 1.2 0.1 14
Marsh Sandpiper 1.2 0.0 4
Nankeen Kestrel 1.2 0.0 2
Pacific Black Duck 1.2 0.0 2
Broad-billed Sandpiper 0.6 0.0 3
Brown Booby 0.6 0.0 1
Common Sandpiper 0.6 0.0 1
Gray Teal 0.6 0.0 3
Great Cormorant 0.6 0.0 1
Nankeen Night Heron 0.6 0.0 1
Pacific Baza 0.6 0.0 2
Red-kneed Dotterel 0.6 0.0 2
Royal Spoonbill 0.6 0.0 1
Wandering Tattler 0.6 0.0 3
Whiskered Tern 0.6 0.0 1
White-winged Tern 0.6 0.1 15