BIRDS SEEN IN SEPTEMBER OFF WOLLONGONG (up to and including 7.9.96.)
Compilations of sightings from previous 10 September trips.
VIRTUAL DEFINITES
Wandering Albatross (90%)
Black-browed Albatross (100%)
Yellow-nosed Albatross (90%)
Cape Petrel (90%)
Great-winged Petrel (90%)
Solander's Petrel (100%)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (100%)
Fluttering Shearwater (100%)
Australasian Gannet (100%)
Australasian Pelican (100%)
Silver Gull (100%)
Kelp Gull (100%)
Crested Tern (100%)
PROBABLES
Shy Albatross (70%)
Southern Giant Petrel (50%)
White-headed Petrel (80%)
Fairy Prion (70%)
Short-tailed Shearwater (70%)
Hutton's Shearwater (70%)
Flesh-footed Shearwater (50%)
White-faced Storm-Petrel (70%)
Southern Skua (50%)
White-fronted Tern (70%)
POSSIBLES
Little Penguin (20%)
Northern Giant Petrel (20%)
Sooty Shearwater (30%)
Wison's Storm-Petrel (10%)
Arctic Skua (10%)
Pomarine Skua (20%)
Long-tailed Skua (20%)
Common Tern (10%)
Arctic Tern (10%)
RARITIES
Royal Albatross - sandfordi (1)
Light-mantled Sooty Albatross (2)
Southern Fulmar (1)
Kerguelen Petrel (1)
White-necked Petrel (1)
Cook's Petrel (1)
Thin-billed Prion (1)
White-chinned Petrel (5)
Buller's Shearwater (1)
Little Shearwater (1)
Audubon's Shearwater (1)
Grey-backed Storm-Petrel (2)
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel (3)
White-bellied Storm-Petrel (2)
Not Bad Eh?
Cheers
Phil Hansbro
Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association
The next trips are on 14.9.96. from Sydney or 22.9.96. off Wollongong.
If you would like to go on any pelagic trips off NSW, contact me or Tony
Palliser as follows;
Email;
Ph; (h) 06-2498234, (w) 06-2493091.
Fax; 06-2494891.
For ALL other information check out Tony's pelagic home page at;
http://www.zip.com.au/~palliser
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