Australian Owlet-nightjar & mangroves

[Lloyd Nielsen <>]

Nick, In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I spent a fair amount of time 
in southern Moreton Bay (from the Hope Island area north to the mouth of 
the Logan River) mostly plotting Osprey territories. Australian 
Owlet-nightjars were not uncommon in the mangroves and in two separate 
instances, birds flushed from low hollows and I was able to see nest and 
eggs. They seem to exploit a number of habitats - from deserts to 
rainforest. I lived on Tamborine Mountain for many years and though I 
did not record them in the rainforest there, they were not uncommon in 
rainforest in Lamington NP at a higher altitude. Tree Martins nested 
commonly in the mangroves as well - nests often being as low as a metre 
or two above the mud.
Lloyd Nielsen,
Mt Molloy, Nth Qld

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