NORTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN

 

Photographed in Tasmania, February 2024

1338                     NORTHERN ROCKHOPPER PENGUIN.                 Eudyptes moseleyi

AUSTRALIA                 813

The northern rockhopper penguin, Moseley's rockhopper penguin, or Moseley's penguin is a penguin species native to the southern Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Breeds on Tristan da Cunha group and Amsterdam Islands. Believed to be between 100,000 and 500,00 birds left. It is very rare for the bird to make landfall on the Australian continent, but in 2006, a northern rockhopper was sighted at Robe, South Australia, and in July 2023 a very underweight northern rockhopper was found at Goolwa beach in South Australia.

NANKEEN NIGHT HERON

 

Photographed at Upokongaro, North Island, New Zealand, February 2024

(*198)                 NANKEEN NIGHT HERON                 Nycticorax caledonicus

NEW ZEALAND                    135

Very rare native. Found on the margins of freshwater wetlands or tidal lagoons. Vagrant until it started breeding on Whangaanui River in 1990s. Breeds October to March.

GLOSSY IBIS

 

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.

COOK'S PETREL

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.

WILSON'S STORM-PETREL

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.

WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL

 

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.

FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER

 

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.

BULLER'S SHEARWATER

 

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.

BLACK PETREL

 

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.

HUTTON'S SHEARWATER

 

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.

RUFOUS SHRIKE-THRUSH

 

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.

SWINHOE'S SNIPE

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.

NORTHERN SHRIKETIT

 

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.

COMMON RINGED PLOVER

 

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.