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Common Diving Petrels

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Subject: Common Diving Petrels
From: "Vella" <>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:06:55 -0000
Paul Walbridge wrote:
 
There's a Southport pelagic on this weekend which holds some promise. Already this week comes a report of a beachwashed Common Diving Petrel from North Stradbroke Island ( I think), only the second such record. Cheers - Paul Walbridge.
 
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I think possibly, the recent southerly's may have pushed up a fair number of Common Diving Petrels up our eastern coast, judging by the number of sightings recently off Sydney and elsewhere. Has anybody any other explanations?
 
The 3 seperate individual Diving Petrels we saw last Monday from Magic Pt, Maroubra, were all heading down south. I think they breed on the Bass Strait Islands in winter. They are such marvelous little seabirds, especially by the way they fly.
 
cheers!
 
Edwin
 
 
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