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Beachcast Seabirds in NSW

To: "tim morris" <>, <>
Subject: Beachcast Seabirds in NSW
From: "Alan Morris" <>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:16:12 +1100
Hi Birders,
On Thursday I was encouraging people to check for seabirds beachcast and or blown inland due to the strong easterly winds currently buffeting NSW. Well I can report that Sydney and Central Coast have received their share of such birds. On Friday, single junvenile Sooty Terns were blown ashore at Norah Head, Soldiers Point and Bateau Bay; on Friday evening just where the water flows out from Tuggerah Lakes into the sea at The Entrance there was 5 adult Sooty Terns and 4 dark juveniles feeding over the sea with Common Terns, Little Terns, Crested Terns and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters.
On Saturday 3 February, at Towra Point, within Botany Bay, Keith Egan reports an adult and a juvenile Sooty Tern flying past the Little Tern colony, while an adult and a juvenile Sooty Tern were taken into care because they were trying to catch a train near the Hawkesbury River Railway Station, which is some kilometres up stream of Broken Bay, and another was beachcast at Forresters Beach. Finally on Sunday Afternoon at Birdie Beach North, Munmorah SRA, there was a freshly dead adult Red-tailed Tropic-bird beachcast.
 
I would still be interested in hearing of any more seabird strays!
 
Alan Morris
Records Officer, NSWFOC
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