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South coast notes (5)

To: "'Alan Cowan'" <>
Subject: South coast notes (5)
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:41:57 +1100

Thanks Alan.  Barbara mentioned that there were over 200 along “the first km of Bengello Beach, south of the Broulee Surf Club, last Friday”.  I suppose someone checks them for bands.   g

 

From: Alan Cowan [
Sent: Monday, 25 October 2010 8:45 PM
To: Geoffrey Dabb
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] South coast notes (5)

 

 

 

We saw a very juvenile-plumaged Sea Eagle take a Short-Tailed Shearwater from the sea 10 days ago at Broulee Beach. We have visited Broulee for many years and I have examined hundreds of beach-wrecked carcases. They have all been Short-Tailed Shearwaters except for one Fluttering SW and one White-Faced Storm-Petrel. Sooty SW tend to forage a lot further south: they are essentially NZ breeders and I have seen them foraging in Antarctic waters. Simpson & Day have good bill diagrams. The day we saw the incident above we observed dozens of S-T SWs close inshore and we found several carcases. We also found one carcase  4 weeks earlier. 

Alan Cowan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

At Green Cape last week, a young sea-eagle flying shorewards from somewhere well out to sea.  The main point of interest was the cargo, which was certainly bird rather than fish.  I suppose the most likely object was a dead or exhausted shearwater plucked from the surface.  In their emaciated condition more than one of these would be needed for a meal for a hungry sea-eagle, but there is no shortage according to recent reports.  

 

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