This must be a typo!! Surely it should be Shearwaters and not albatrosses.
I have been on hundreds of pelagics off NSW & still haven't seen a single
Sooty Albatross in NSW.
Cheers
Phil.
> Hi Birders, I refer to Edwin Vella's query about Sooty Albatross's
>off Sydney in 1983. The note by Ern Hoskin in "The Birds of Sydney"
>relates to an item in the NSWFOC Newsletter Nos 69, 72 & 77 whereby Alan
>McBride, well known seabird expert recorded that he saw Sooty Albatrosses
>at sea off the edge of the Continental Shelf in Jan, May and Sep-Oct, max
>75 on 26 November and minimum of 1 on 26 Feb and 22 Oct 1983. It must
>have been a good year for Sooty Albatross because they have been
>recorded only rarely, at sea off the continental shelf or not, since that
>time. Alan Morris Records officer NSWFOC
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