jitensha2021's Identifications

Sighting and photos (c) jdbbirder.
Habitat - Near an artificial water source
Additional comments? - Very distant and understand these poor images are not likely to be identifiable without any doubt, especially as this bird is likely a first sighting for australia! Not seen first or identified first by me. I just twitched it with about 20 others.
How many? - 1

The first Tufted Duck recorded in Australia, spotted earlier in the morning. by the time I arrived there were about 100 people looking at it and it became a birding celebrity for a few weeks with people coming from all over Australia to see it. Spotted again recently (October 2019).

A remote camera was in place in this location from 20/11/2012 to 28/8/2015 Foxes triggered the camera on 83 separate occasions. This is out of the 637 times the camera detected an identifiable species at this site.