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| OCEAN INFORMATION |
| April |
| Australia Wide |
| Wading birds are flocking to migrate; Double-banded plovers return to New Zealand; around our bays and estuaries thousands of curlews, green shags, sandpipers, plovers, knots and stints are gathering in pre-migration flocks; the red-capped plover and the black-fronted dotterel are starting to form their own over-wintering flocks |
| North |
| Beaches: sleeping dugongs float in the channels; green turtles return to northern coast; box jellyfish migrate up creeks to spawn. |
| South |
| Beach; flame robins feed on seaweed insects & crustaceans before heading north; sea snakes appear along southern coast; baby cowfish in rockpools; baby squids wash up; many swamp harriers cross strait from Tasmania |
| March |
| Australia Wide |
| Spinifex sends out new runners ; mangrove seeds are sprouting |
| North |
| Beach: crisp tasty sea almonds on dunes |
| South |
| Beach: baby pipefish & cowfish in rockpools; octopus eggs wash up attached to sea nymph grass; double-banded plovers arrive from NZ; sea hares laying egg strings in rockpools; baby cunjevois wash up attached to sea nymphs grass; |