This is a report on the latest birdwatching trip on the R.V. Munida went
out on the 17 May. We were only guests on a trip dedicated to oceanography
so we could not use chum. There was a 20 knots westerly wind and a 4 m
swell. We reached a maximum water depth of 126 m, about 12 miles from the
coast.
Yellow-eyed Penguin 11
Little Blue Penguin 8
Northern Royal Albatross 1 + 8 in colony
Shy Mollymawk 19
Buller's Mollymawk 167
Northern Giant Petrel 1 +1 spec
Cape Pigeon 169
Short-tailed Shearwater 12 +9 Sooty/Short-tailed
Sooty Shearwater 5
Red-billed Gull lots inshore
Spotted Shag ca. 3000 in one big raft close to the coast
Stewart Island Shag 3 + lots inshore
Australasian Gannet 1 juv.
Southern Black-backed Gull lots inshore
White-fronted Tern lots inshore
Black-fronted Tern 37
Goldfinch 5 (about 8 miles offshore!)
Dusky Dolphin 14
Fur Seal 4
A trip planed for the 26 May had to be cancled due to bad weather. The
next trip is scheduled for June 29.
Martin
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Martin Renner email:
Department of Zoology fax: ++64-3-479 7584
University of Otago phone: 03-479 7665 (work)
P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand 03-455 7511 (home)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
-- Isaac Asimov
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