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.
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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