Seabird blown ashore in Vic

["Tim Dolby" <>]

Hi Sea-birders,



On a similar vain to the seabirds being blown ashore in sunny NSW, a
white morph Southern Giant-Petrel was found (21 June 2007) on
Melbourne's Brighton Beach in Victoria. Regrettably the bird later died.
A picture of the bird is on Birdline Victoria. See
http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Culture=en-AU&Birdli
ne=1&Path=8.



The week before (10 June 2007) a juvenile Northern Giant-Petrel was seen
floating near Griffiths Island Lighthouse at Port Fairy.
<http://www.eremaea.com/sightingphotos%5C3579.JPG>

Cheers,

Tim Dolby

_

Hi Alan et al,

I believe there was a Northern Giant Petrel found in the Newcastle
Knights stadium, a Black-browed Albatross somewhere about 10km inland
and an Australasian Gannet in town. A Prion also ended up in Sydney but
it later died.

I don't know who coordinated the rescue of these birds locally.  I do
know they somehow made it to Taronga. The fate of all of them except the
Giant Petrel (which I think was released yesterday) is not known.

Cheers,

Inger

From:  "alan morris" <>
        To:  <>
        CC:  Almarosa <>
        Subject:  [Birding-Aus] Seabirds blown ashore at Newcastle NSW
Date:  Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:20:33 +1000
        >Hi Birders,
        >
        >My wife told me that there was a brief report on the local TV
        >station NBN 3 last night about some seabirds being blown ashore
in
        >the recent storms at newcastle, taken into care by Taronga Zoo
(?)
        >and then released at sea off Newcastle. She thought that they
were
        >an Albatross and a Petrel. Did anyone see the segmert and know
which
        >species were being released?
        >Alan Morris

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