Portland Pelagic! - Great Ocean Road
In an Eggshell:
Big Zigzag bird species count: 597 (+7 this week)
Big Zigzag bird families count: 90 (+0 this week)
Big Zigzag Lifers: 153 (+3 this week: Flesh-footed Shearwater, Gray-faced Petrel, Great-winged Petrel)
Campsite Lifers 30 (+0 this week)
Big Zigzag New for Australia list: 207 (+5 this week), AU list now 637.
eBird AU year list: 453
eBird days of checklist streak: 467
Week’s special milestones: None
Bird(s) of the Week
Flesh-footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes), one of the three lifers on Portland Pelagic (with few of the dozens White-capped Albatrosses) . Many thanks to Chanith Wijeratne for organizing great ocean birding!
Great-winged Petrel (Pterodroma macroptera) one of the three lifers on Portland Pelagic.
Grey-faced Petrel (Pterodroma gouldi) one of the three lifers on Portland Pelagic.
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Southern Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) with “Fleshie” shadow
Indian Yellow-nosed (Albatross Thalassarche carteri)
Young Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) with White-capped (Shay) Albatross (Thalassarche cauta) behind.
Great Ocean Road star: Rufous Bristlebird (Dasyornis broadbenti). Seen in a few sites and probably got used to the tourism activity around so less secretive than expected.
Non-bird image(s)
The best non-bird photo from the plagic
A bit of Great Ocean Road (and Peregrine Falcon)
Kuala & son
Week's Key location(s)
Portland Pelagic–Offshore
Big Zigzag Travelled so far: 63100 km (this week 900 km)
eBird Checklists this week
