WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER

Photographed Culburra Beach, March, 2015

520          WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER             Calidris fuscicollis

Australia        (361)

17-19 cm. Found in shallow, muddy parts of freshwater and tidal wetlands. Breeds in Arctic Alaska and Canada; migrates to s. S America. Vagrant in Europe and elsewhere, summer records se. and sw. Aust. Vagrant.    Note: This is only the seventh time recorded in Australia, and the first record since 1988.

POMARINE JAEGER

Photographed on pelagic trip out of Wollongong, February 2015.

519             POMARINE JAEGER             Stercorarius pomarinus

Australia           (360)

Also known as Pomarine Skua. 46-52 cm, wingspan 1.25-1.4 m. Breeds from Finland to e. Siberia; Arctic Alaska, Canada, Greenland. Migrates to oceans, offshore waters of s. continents. Arrives in Aust. offshore waters Oct-Nov. departs April-May. Uncommon.

FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER

Photographed on pelagic trip out of Wollongong, February 2015.

518           FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER            Puffinus carneipes

Australia            (359)

Also known as Lord Howe Island Muttonbird. 40-46 cm, span c. 1.3 m. Breeds on Lord Howe Island and in s. WA in in Recherche Arch. and islands w. to C. Hamelin. Common Nov.-April from c. Bunbury (WA) to coastal SA; autumn-spring migrant on w. coast n. to c. Carnarvon (WA); in e. Aust. common n. NSW to se. Q in summer; in Q, offshore autumn-spring passage migrant. Rare Vic., Bass Strait and Tas. pacific birds migrate to n. and ne. Pacific, WA birds probably to n. Indian Ocean. Also breeds NZ and S. Atlantic.