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| Photographed at Pipiroa, North Island, New Zealand, February 2024 |
(*511) GLOSSY IBIS Plegadis falcinellus
NEW ZEALAND 134
Rae Australian vagrant. Found in the margins of freshwater lakes and swamps, and damp pastures. Occasionally irruptions into New Zealand. A pair bred at Wainono Lagoon, South Canterbury in 2014/15.
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| Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024 |
1337 COOK'S PETREL Pterodroma cookii
NEW ZEALAND 133
Breeds Little Barrier, Great Barrier and Codfish Islands. Migrates to eastern Pacific, from California to Chile. Breeds October to May.
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| Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024 |
(*280) WILSON'S STORM-PETREL Oceanites oceanicus
NEW ZEALAND 132
Breeds subantarctic and Antartica, including several colonies in the Ross Sea sector. Migrates to Northern Hemisphere but occasionally seen in New Zealand waters mainly November to December and May to March. Breeding is December to April.
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| Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024 |
(*797). WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL. Pelagodroma marina
NEW ZEALAND 131
Maori name: Takahikare-moana. Breeds temperate and subtropical Atlantic and around Australia and New Zealand; main New Zealand colonies in Hauraki Gulf, Bay of Plenty, Motunau Island, around Stewart and Auckland Islands and Chathams. Disperse widely after breeding and rarely seen in New Zealand coastal waters. Breeding October to March.
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| Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024 |
(*518) FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER Puffinus carneipes
NEW ZEALAND. 130
Breeds in western Indian Ocean, southern Australia, Lord Howe Island, northern New Zealand, and in Cook Strait. Main New Zealand colonies at Hen and Chickens, Mercury Group, and Trio and Titi Islands. Ranges through coastal waters of North Island occasionally south to Foveaux Strait in the west and Banks Peninsula to the Chathams in the east. Migrates to North Pacific. Breeding November to May.
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| Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024 |
(*1234) BULLER'S SHEARWATER Ardenna bulleri
NEW ZEALAND 129
Breeds on on Poor Knights Islands. Ranges widely around New Zealand coast and migrates to northern and eastern Pacific. Breeding from November to May.
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| Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024 |
(*279) BLACK PETREL Procellaria parkinsoni
NEW ZEALAND 128
c1750 pairs breed only on Great Barrier and Little Barrier Islands; formerly on inland ranges of the mainland.In breeding season, seen mainly around North Island and west to Australia. Migrates to eastern tropical Pacific, July-October. Breeding November to July.
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| Photographed on pelagic off Tauranga, New Zealand, February 2024 |
(*521) HUTTON'S SHEARWATER Puffinus huttoni
NEW ZEALAND 127
Breeds only in Seaward Kaikoura Range. In NZ waters mainly off the east coast South Island and in Cook Strait but migrates to Australian waters in winter. Breeding October to April.
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| Photographed on the Rainforest walk, Iluka, NSW, January 2024 |
1336 RUFOUS SHRIKE-THRUSH Colluricincla rufogaster
AUSTRALIA 812
Formerly conspecific member of Little Shrike-thrush complex. Found in New Guinea and Australia. It is found in New Guinea and Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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| Photographed at Katherine, Northern Territory, January 2024 |
1335 SWINHOE'S SNIPE Gallinago megala
AUSTRALIA 811
Also known as Forest Snipe or Chinese Snipe. It breeds mainly in central and southern Siberia and Mongolia. The entire population migrates and spends the non-breeding season principally in eastern and southern India, Sri Lanka, south-eastern China, South-East Asia and New Guinea. It has been recorded on migration in eastern China and occasionally in Japan. Records in Australia are mainly from the Top End of the Northern Territory and from north-western Western Australia. Breeding habitat: forest glades and meadows. Non-breeding habitat: shallow freshwater wetlands of various kinds including paddy fields and sewage farms, with bare mud or shallow water for feeding, with nearby vegetation cover.
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| Photographed near Katherine, Northern Territory, January 2024. |
1334 NORTERN SHRIKETIT Falcunculus whitei
AUSTRALIA 810
It is found in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia and the Top End of the Northern Territory. Endemic to Australia where they inhabit open eucalypt forest and woodland. One for three species of the genus Falcunculus.
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| Photographed at Roebuck Bay, Broome, December 2023 |
1333 COMMON RINGED PLOVER Charadrius hiaticula
AUSTRALIA 809
Also known as Ringed Plover. Breeds across much of northern Eurasia, as well as Greenland. Common ringed plovers are migratory and winter in coastal areas south to Africa. In Norway, geolocators have revealed that adult breeding birds migrate to West Africa.[3] Many birds in Great Britain and northern France are resident throughout the year.Rare but regular vagrant to Australia with widespread sightings.
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| Photographed at Roebuck Bay, Broome, December 2023 |
1332 AMERICAN GLODEN PLOVER Pluvialis dominica
AUSTRALIA 808
The breeding habitat of American golden plover is Arctic tundra from northern Canada and Alaska. They nest on the ground in a dry open area. They are migratory and winter in southern South America. They follow an elliptical migration path. The bird has one of the longest known migratory routes of over 40,000 km (25,000 mi). Of this, 3,900 km (2,400 mi) is over open ocean where it cannot stop to feed or drink. It does this from body fat stores that it stocks up on prior to the flight. It is a regular vagrant to western Europe.
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| Photographed on Christmas Island, December 2023 |
(*328) CITRINE WAGTAIL Motacilla citreola
AUSTRALIA 807
Also known as Yellow-headed Wagtail. 15.5-17 cm. Range across Asia but expanding into western Europe. Found in wet meadows and tundra.
