GREAT-WINGED PETREL

Photographed on Port Fairy pelagic, August 2016

800            GREAT-WINGED PETREL           Pterodroma macroptera

Australia             (644)

With other birds it is also referred to as Muttonbird, also by NZ name oi. Recently split from Grey-faced Petrel. 42-45 cm. Breeds in southern hemisphere between 30 and 50 degrees south, including coast of southern Aust.

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.

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