Sydney month-by-month bird guide
Key |
No records for this month |
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Very rare (1 record for all trips) |
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Rare (1 record in 20 trips) |
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Infrequent (1-2 records in 10 trips) |
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Frequent (3-5 records in 10 trips) |
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Common (6-8 records in 10 trips) |
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Very common (9-10 records in 10 trips) |
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This guide has been updated as at June 2013. It represents Sydney pelagic trip sighting from 2006 to June 2013. It is based upon recorded sightings and could be subject to error. The data for some months may not be a true indication of the expected sightings as there may have been limited trips in that month. For example, January's data is based on 1 trip. Where this has been the case, the months sightings may have been modified to reflect the expected sightings.
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Number of trips
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7 |
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Dec |
Little penguin |
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Common diving petrel |
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Southern giant petrel |
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Northern giant petrel |
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Cape Petrel (southern)
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Cape petrel (Australasian) |
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Great-winged petrel |
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Grey-faced (great-winged) petrel |
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White-headed petrel |
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Providence (Solander's) petrel |
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Tahiti petrel |
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Kermadec petrel |
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Herald petrel |
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Soft-plumaged petrel |
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Mottled petrel |
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Barau’s petrel |
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White-necked petrel |
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Black-winged petrel |
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Cook's petrel |
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Gould's petrel |
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Blue petrel |
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Broad-billed prion |
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Salvin's prion |
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Antarctic prion |
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Slender-billed prion |
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Fairy prion |
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Fulmar prion |
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White-chinned petrel |
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Westland black petrel |
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Black petrel |
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Streaked shearwater |
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Wedge-tailed shearwater |
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Buller's shearwater |
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Flesh-footed Shearwater |
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Sooty Shearwater
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Short-tailed Shearwater
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Fluttering shearwater |
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Hutton's shearwater |
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Great shearwater |
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Little shearwater |
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Wandering (snowy) albatross |
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Amsterdam albatross |
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Antipodean albatross |
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Gibson's albatross |
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Tristan albatross |
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Northern royal albatross |
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Southern royal albatross |
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Black-browed albatross |
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Campbell albatross |
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Buller’s albatross |
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Pacific albatross |
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Shy albatross |
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White-capped albatross |
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Salvin’s albatross |
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Chatham albatross |
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Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross |
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Indian yellow-nosed albatross |
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Grey-headed albatross |
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Sooty albatross |
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Light-mantled sooty albatross |
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Wilson’s storm-petrel |
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Grey-backed storm-petrel |
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White-faced storm-petrel |
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Black-bellied storm-petrel |
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White-bellied storm-petrel |
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Red-tailed Tropicbird |
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White-tailed Tropicbird |
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Australasian Gannet |
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Brown Booby |
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Red-footed Booby |
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Masked Booby |
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Little Pied Cormorant |
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Pied Cormorant |
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Little black Cormorant |
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Great Cormorant |
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Australian Pelican |
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Lesser Frigatebird |
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Brown Skua |
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Antarctic Skua |
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South Polar Skua |
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Pomarine Jaeger |
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Arctic Jaeger |
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Long-tailed Jaeger |
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Pacific Gull |
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Kelp Gull |
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Silver Gull |
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Caspian Tern |
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Crested Tern |
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White-fronted Tern |
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Common Tern |
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Arctic Tern |
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Little Tern |
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Bridled Tern |
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Sooty Tern |
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White-winged Black Tern
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Whiskered Tern |
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Common Noddy |
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Black Noddy |
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Grey Ternlet |
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White Tern |
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Key |
No records for this month |
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Very rare (1 record for all trips) |
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Rare (1 record in 20 trips) |
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Infrequent (1-2 records in 10 trips) |
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Frequent (3-5 records in 10 trips) |
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Common (6-8 records in 10 trips) |
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Very common (9-10 records in 10 trips) |
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