Duck On Pine Traditional Cache

Take a leisurely paddle along one of the Pine's waterways... NOTE: The river at the cache location is bordered by private property so any attempt at accessing GZ on foot will be trespassing and may compromise the longevity of this hide. So please take a watercraft of some ilk. You can launch from Leis Park at Lawnton.

The Moreton Bay Marine Park into which the Pine River is connected is listed as a Wetland of International Importance. Migratory shorebirds feed on the food-rich mud flats and roost in the salt marshes and mangroves along the shore. Each spring they fly to Moreton Bay from countries as far away as Siberia, China, Japan, Mongolia and Alaska. The bay is also an important refuge for the vulnerable dugong and green and loggerhead turtles that are a threatened species worldwide. Birds to see include:

• Collared kingfishers, mangrove honeyeaters, striated herons and mangrove gerygones
• Sea-eagles and brahminy kites
• Great egrets and pied cormorants
• Eastern curlews, sharp-tailed sandpipers and whimbrels
• Avocets, royal spoonbills, pacific herons and australian white ibis
• Pale-headed rosellas, rufous whistlers and brown honeyeaters
• Brown quails and golden-headed cisticola in the grasslands
• Cormorants

You won’t see all of those species this far upstream but keep an eagle eye out you will see a nice collection of birds.

Once you reach GZ those of you will find the newly discovered Yellow Pine Duck.

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