Hello all,
Below are the final/combined figures for our 3 week trip. From a
birding perspective this was an amazing trip with many high lights. Some of
these included:
1. All six Australian cookilarias seen.
2. Large migrating flocks of Arctic Jaegers.
3. The constant passing of Mottled Petrels of their southern journey..
4. Thousands of migrating Short-tailed S/Ws.
5. An afternoon with 32 Tahiti Petrels with many circling the boat.
6. Australia’s second Collared Petrel.
7. Australia’s second Pycroft’s Petrel.
8. A day spent on Phillip Island photographing nesting Kermadec Petrels.
9. Large numbers of Black & White-bellied Storm Petrels following the boat
for days, with many still with us near Newcastle.
10. Close views of a large Westland Petrel.
11. 246 Little Shearwater.
12. 50 species seen at sea.
Total species numbers seen:
Red-tailed Tropicbird - 16
White-tailed Tropicbird - 5
Wilson’s Storm Petrel - 65
White-faced Storm Petrel – 2
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel - 17
White-bellied Storm-Petrel - 137
Wandering Albatross - 94
Black-browed Albatross - 3
Shy Albatross - 7
Yellow-nosed Albatross - 3
Northern Giant-Petrel - 3
Cape Petrel - 65
White-chinned Petrel - 3
Westland Petrel - 1
Black Petrel - 8
Wedge-tailed Shearwater – 203
Buller’s Shearwater - 2
Flesh-footed Shearwater – 532+
Sooty Shearwater - 41
Short-tailed Shearwater – 3740+
Fluttering Shearwater - 2
Hutton's Shearwater - 3
Little Shearwater – 246
Kermadec Petrel – 5
Tahiti Petrel - 32
White-headed Petrel - 2
Great-winged Petrel – 743+
Solander’s Petrel – 166
Gould’s Petrel - 2
Cook's Petrel - 9
Pycroft’s Petrel – 4
Mottled Petrel - 55
Collared Petrel - 1
Unidentified Cookilaria (Cook’s/Pycroft’s types) – 20+
Black-winged Petrel- 4
Australasian Gannet- 50
Masked Booby - 27
Brown Skua – 5
Pomerine Jaeger - 2
Arctic Jaeger - 360
Long-tailed Jaeger - 7
Common Noddy - 61
Black Noddy - 211
White Tern - 105
Grey Ternlet - 37
Sooty Tern - 564
Roseate Tern - 3
White-fronted Tern - 1
Crested Tern - 20
Silver Gull - 6
Others:
Aust Fur Seal – 1
Common Dolphin – 56
Humpback Whale – 1
Flying Fish – 30+
Blue Whale – 2
Short-fined Pilot Whale – 6
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin - 4
Ruddy Turnstone - 2
Regards
Richard Baxter
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