Hi Birders,
It is not for me to write up a report of the Newcastle pelagic held on
10/4/05. However in the light of what Roger McGovern said about Kermadec
Petrels on the Sydney pelagic on 9/4/05, it is of interest to note that at a
distance of 42 nautical miles, ESE of Newcastle on the pelagic, we saw three
seperate individual Kermadec Petrels (identified by their differeht
plumages). One bird was a pale morph, one an interemediate morph and the
other was somewhere between!
Up to 2002 there had been only 15 confirmed records for NSW. There have been
a few more since, and subsequentlky the NSW Records Appaisal Committee have
removed them from the Review List from 2005. Thank goodness!
We did not encounter any Soft-plumaged Petrels (lucky chaps!) but we did get
a White-necked Petrel, 2+ Black-bellied Storm-Petrels and a very young,
brown Wandering Albatross amongst the other seabirds seen.
Alan Morris
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