Huge numbers of commoner seabirds close inshore during the storm at all
Sydney and Central Coast headlands were the major highlights by observers in
New South Wales over the last week:
ROYAL ALBATROSS 1 Norah Head, Central Coast 8/8
COMMON DIVING PETREL 1 off Maroubra, Sydney 8/8
NORTHERN GIANT PETREL 1 Maroubra 8/8, 1 Norah Head 8/8
SOUTHERN GIANT PETREL 2 Maroubra 8/8
PROVIDENCE PETREL 90 Maroubra 8/8
FLUTTERING SHEARWATER 8000 in 8 hours off Maroubra 8/8
OSPREY 1 Narrabeen and Dee Why, Sydney all week
GREY GOSHAWK 1 Lady Carrington Drive, Audley 2/8, 1 Erina, Central Coast
30/7
BLACK FLACON 1 Mount Tanandra, Macquarie Marshes 31/7
CASPIAN TERN 9 The Entrance, Central Coast 8/8
WHITE-FRONTED TERN 102 The Entrance 8/8, 35 Maroubra 8/8
TOPKNOT PIGEON 60 Lady Carrington Drive, Audley 2/8
BAR-SHOULDERED DOVE 2 Ingleside, Sydney 27/7
BARN OWL 1 Marsden park, Sydney 2/8
YELLOW-TAILED BLACK COCKATOO 45 Centennial Park, Sydney 8/8
KING PARROT 20 Barradine 7/8 - west of normal range
SWIFT PARROT 20 Londonderry, Sydney 3/8
GROUND CUCKOO-SHRIKE 3 Mt. Tanandra 31/7, 3 10km north of Barradine 6/8
Chris Gladwin
Sydney, Australia
BIRDLINE NSW (02) 9290 1778 - sponsored by Birds Australia, NSW Field
Ornithologists Club, Cumberland Bird Observers Club, Hunter Bird Observers
Club and Illawarra Bird Observers Club
Please reply direct as I am unable to see "Birding-Aus"
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