BIRDS SEEN IN AUGUST OFF WOLLONGONG (up to but not including Aug 96)
Compilations of sightings from previous 13 August trips.
VIRTUAL DEFINATES
Wandering Albatross (100%)
Black-browed Albatross (100%)
Yellow-nosed Albatross (100%)
Shy Albatross (100%)
Solander's Petrel (100%)
Fairy Prion (100%)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (100%)
Fluttering Shearwater (100%)
Australasian Gannet (100%)
Australasian Pelican (100%)
Silver Gull (100%)
Kelp Gull (100%)
Crested Tern (100%)
PROBABLES
Southern Giant Petrel (85%)
Cape Petrel (85%)
Great-winged Petrel (62%)
White-headed Petrel (77%)
Hutton's Shearwater (77%)
White-faced Storm-Petrel (85%)
Southern Skua (62%)
White-fronted Tern (77%)
POSSIBLES
Little Penguin (15%)
Northern Giant Petrel (15%)
Sooty Shearwater (8%)
Short-tailed Shearwater (8%)
Wison's Storm-Petrel (15%)
Arctic Tern (15%)
RARITIES
Royal Albatross (1)
Buller's Albatross (1)
Yellow-nosed Albatross subspecies - chlororhynchos (1)
Southern Fulmar (1)
Herald Petrel (1)
Soft-plumaged Petrel (1)
Juan Fernandez Petrel (1)
Antarctic Prion (7)
Thin-billed Prion (4)
Little Shearwater (1)
Audubon's Shearwater (1)
White-bellied Storm-Petrel (1)
Not Bad Eh?
Cheers
Phil Hansbro
Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association
The next Wollongong boat trip is on Sunday the 25th of August 1996.
If you would like to go on any pelagic trips off NSW, contact me as follows;
Email;
Ph; (h) 06-2498234, (w) 06-2493091.
Fax; 06-2494891.
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