little penguin

["Val Ford" <>]

Hi Margaret
You wrote:
> a dead beach washed Little penguin today at Camerons Bight (Blairgowrie,
Mornington Peninsula). Appeared in v.good condition and no obvious cause of
death.

I mentioned to one of the rangers at Phillip Island  that I had seen quite a
few dead, beach washed little penguins on the ocean  beaches over the past
couple of months.  He said that at this time of the year there is a high
mortality rate of fledged little penguins.

Cheers
Val



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