Thursday, November 14, 2019

STREAKED SHEARWATER

Photographed off Broome, Western Australia, November 2019

1300                  STREAKED SHEARWATER                      Calonectris leucomelas

AUSTRALIA.                783

Mostly over offshore waters and continental shelf slope, occasionally inshore waters. May show some interest in fishing vessels; occasionally observed from land. Often joins other species of shearwaters, noddies, terns feeding.Regular non-breeding migrant to tropical Aust. waters from breeding islands off Japan and Korean Peninsula. Generally uncommon.




1 comment:

  1. no 1300 has got to have earned a treat of some sort and a celebration - congratulations

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