Short-tailed Shearwater, Muttonbird at Wallaga Lake, NSW
Identification history
| Unidentified | 28 Nov 2019 | JoyGeorgeson |
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User's notes
One of many dead sea birds washed up on Heywards Beach near Camel Rock after very windy weather.
3 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
29 Nov 2019
A shearwater (muttonbird) but I wouldn't want to try and take it any further than that. Large numbers of beach-washed dead shearwaters is a pretty common event when they are migrating down the coast to Bass Strait islands.
JackieMiles
wrote:
17 Dec 2019
On second thoughts, although hard to identify from similar Shearwaters just on appearance, given the timing during the Short-tailed Shearwater migration period it seems a pretty good bet that that's what it is.
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Location information
- Coordinates 150.079039-36.378330
- Places Wallaga Lake, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 27 Nov 2019 09:09 AM Recorded on
- JoyGeorgeson Recorded by
Species information
- Ardenna tenuirostris Scientific name
- Short-tailed Shearwater, Muttonbird Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Migratory
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 28.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Puffinus tenuirostris
