Site Report: Bloomfield Track

Gray-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes)

Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)

Light-blue Soldier Crab (Mictyris longicarpus)

Gray-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes)

Horned Ghost Crab (Ocypode ceratophthalmus)

Siberian Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus)

Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii

A famous "4X4" road that I wouldn't think twice about driving in my 1979 Toyota Corolla Station Wagon.

2012-11-10: Our next part of the journey was to tackle the famous "Bloomfield Track" which is supposed to be this rugged 4X4 track. Maybe there is something to that during the rainy season, but other than a lot of dust, there was little to stop a careful driver from driving the road in their front wheel drive economy rental car... Anyway, Mike was in a hurry to get somewhere, and we passed up all the canned tourist destinations on the way to Cape Tribulation. We did stop for a bit on a sandy mangrove fringed area which was pretty cool. The whole "4X4" part of the road lasted for about 30 minutes before we arrived on the paved portion of the highway.

Kingdom: Animals (17 records)

Phylum: Arthropods (2 records)

Class: Malacostracans (2 records)

Order: Crabs (2 records)
- Family: Ghost Crabs
- Horned Ghost Crab (Ocypode ceratophthalmus)
- Family: Soldier Crab
- Light-blue Soldier Crab (Mictyris longicarpus)

Phylum: Chordates (15 records)

Class: Birds (15 records)

Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (2 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle (Icthyophaga leucogaster)

Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Order: Parrots (2 records)
- Family: Cockatoos
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Double-eyed Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma)

Order: Pelicans (5 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)
- Family: Herons
- Pacific Reef-Heron (Egretta sacra)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
- Gray-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes)

Order: Perching Birds (2 records)
- Family: Old World Orioles
- Green Oriole (Oriolus flavocinctus)
- Australasian Figbird (Sphecotheres vieilloti)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (2 records)
- Family: Plovers
- Greater Sand-Plover (Anarhynchus leschenaultii)
- Siberian Sand-Plover (Anarhynchus mongolus)

Order: Turkey-like birds (1 record)
- Family: Megapodes
- Australian Brush-turkey (Alectura lathami)