Hi all,
It is interesting that David Mitford had 45 Great-winged Petrels at Magic
Point, Maroubra, Sydney, NSW, this past Friday (10 June 2011).
Almost exactly a year ago (6 June 2010) we had 40 Great-winged Petrels very
close inshore at Magic Point and then a few days later 4 at Hal Epstein's
Sydney Pelagic.
All birds were positively ID'd as GWPs (macroptera).
Regardless if Grey-faced Petrel (gouldii) is regarded a species or a
subspecies, they are still quite distinct taxa. They differ in flight style,
jizz, wing shape (e.g. longer in GWP - sic!) and plumage (e.g. usually more
grey on face and forehead of GFP - sic!).
http://www.adarman.com/Birds/Petrels-Shearwaters/Great-winged-Petrel/16226572_eiAEX#910874181_ZSSh5
GFP is a common spring/summer/autumn bird at the shelf break here.
Besides the above sightings of GWP in early June, I have seen a number of GWPs
on SOSSA's Ulladulla pelagic in July and a few late ones in October.
Is there a pattern that GWPs migrate along the Sydney coast in early June or is
that only coincidence?
Cheers,
Nikolas
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Nikolas Haass
Sydney, NSW
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