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Ardenna tenuirostris

Short-tailed Shearwater, Muttonbird at Tathra, NSW

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Identification history

	Ardenna tenuirostris	8 Jun 2020	AndrewMcCutcheon
	Eudyptula minor	8 Jun 2020	AndrewMcCutcheon

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A huge number of Short-tailed Shearwaters were migrating south at the same time as the Humpback Whales to their breeding areas in Tasmania and Victoria. 2013 was a particularly bad year for these birds, as a very high proportion were exhausted from the lack of food somewhere along their long route back from the northern Pacific, as was this bird desperately foraging for food just a metre away from Tathra Wharf. It could barely take off and fly away. Many did not make it, and perished along the NSW south coast.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.988705 -36.725036
Places Tathra, NSW

Sighting information

1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
12 Oct 2013 04:41 PM Recorded on
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Species information

Ardenna tenuirostris Scientific name
Short-tailed Shearwater, Muttonbird Common name
Not Sensitive
Migratory
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 48.6m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Puffinus tenuirostris

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