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Renaming of Ben Boyd NP

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Subject: Renaming of Ben Boyd NP
From: Con <>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 07:00:04 +0000

As a distantly related item...

We have just walked around half of Seven Mile Beach south from Gerroa. I checked carefully. Not a single dead seabird.

Con Boekel


On 10/25/2022 5:18 PM, Martin Butterfield via Canberrabirds wrote:
When we were at the lighthouse 12 days ago I guesstimated they were passing at least 10,000 birds an hour.  A friend spent a week out there a few days earlier and gave a similar estimate.  I’ll leave it others to do the maths to estimate the total number of birds involved.  And I agree that it is a spectacle 

On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 12:58, sandra henderson via Canberrabirds <> wrote:
Ben Boyd National Park, within which Green Cape is located, has been renamed (30 Sept) Beowa National Park. Beowa is the local indigenous name for killer whale.
eBird is renaming all affected hotspots to reflect the name change.  
(Boyd was involved in “blackbirding” - bringing South Sea islanders to New South Wales as cheap labour.)
A trip report and photos from COG’s recent trip to Green Cape lighthouse will appear in December Gang-gang. Those who were on the trip were treated to the amazing spectacle of many thousands of shearwaters in and over the water below the lighthouse, good looks at Southern Emuwrens and Striated Fieldwrens, among many special moments.

Sandra H


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