WILSON'S STORM-PETREL

280            WILSON'S STORM-PETREL           Oceanites oceanicus

Australia       (250)

15-19 cm, span 38-42 cm. One of the world's most abundant and widespread birds. Migratory. Found off the coast except in north, and increasingly further offshore in northern Queensland.

Photographed on Kiama pelagic, June 2016

BLACK PETREL

279          BLACK PETREL             Procellaria parkinsoni

Australia       (249)

46 cm, span c. 1m. Summer visitor to off se shore, becoming more common visitor..

SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER

278            SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER          Puffinus tenuirostris

Australia          (248)

Also known as Slender-billed Shearwater, Bass Strait or Tasmanian Muttonbird. Breeds in tens of millions in islands from Recherche Arch (WA) east through SA, Vict, Ras, and Bass Strait, n. to Broughton Is. (NSW).Migrates to N. Pacific via n. of NZ and Japan, and returning via w. coast of N. America. 40-43 cm, span 90 cm.

Photographed on Kiama Pelagic, June 2016

WEDGE-TAILED SHEARWATER

277        WEDGE-TAILED SHEARWATER               Puffinus pacificus

Australia            (247)

Common 'mutton bird' of warmer coastal regions. Range off the shore of east and west coast,but not across north or south, or Tasmania. 38-46 cm, span about 1 m.

WANDERING ALBATROSS

276        WANDERING ALBATROSS          Diomedea exulans

Australia          (246)

Longest-winged ocean bird. Range around southern oceans from Fremantle (WA) to Whitsundays (Q). 1.1-1.35 m, wingspan 2.5-3.5 m.

Juvenile, photographed on Kiama pelagic, July 2016