PELAGICS - AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
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New South Wales
Pete Milburn & Tony Palliser
(02) 99001678 or (02) 94115272
www.zip.com.au/~palliser
palliser@zip.com.au
Trips from Wollongong Harbour once per month. Price AU$50. Birds; Over 75 species recorded - about 1/3 of world's seabirds.
Pete Milburn & Tony Palliser
(02) 99001678 or (02) 94115272
www.zip.com.au/~palliser
palliser@zip.com.au
Trips from Rose Bay Public Ferry at Sydney once per month. Price is AU$75. Birds; similar numbers to the trips from Wollongong.
Far South Coast Birdwatchers Inc., attn. Barbara Jones
02 6495 7390
Trips aboard Connemara depart Eden Wharf, Eden once per month. Price $50. Birds; similar numbers to the trips from Wollongong.
ILLAWARRA BOAT CHARTER. (SOSSA)
Vessel: Sandra K.
Captain Carl Loves. PO. Box 148, Fairy Meadow, NSW Australia 2519.
Mobile: 61 18 423 555.
E-mail: fishing@wollongong.starway.net.au
SOSSA.
Lindsay or Janice. PO Box 142, Unanderra, NSW. Australia 2526
Phone 61 2 4271 6004
Fax: 61 2 4272 4626
website: www.sossa-international.org/
E-mail: sossa@ozemail.com.au
Queensland
Paul Walbridge
(07) 33918839
Trips every 4 weeks with SeaWorld or by special arrangement from Southport. Price AU $65
List of birds that have been seen on these trips include; Southern & Northern Giant Petrels, Tahiti Petrels in summer months, Cape, Great-winged, Providence, Kermadec, Herald, Soft-plumaged, Mottled, Gould's, White chinned, Black and shearwaters
The area we cover ranges from Fraser Island to the north (25º S) down to the QLD/NSW border (28º 10_S) and out to sea to about 155º E, although we do tend to cover northern NSW waters as well at times. This is a sub-tropical zone influenced primarily by the warm north/south flowing East Australian Current but in the winter months more southerly species range up with the cooler water pushing the weaker flowing warm current wider.
The Tahiti Petrel is probably our bread & butter bird and has been sighted in 11 months of the year July excepted (from Southport & Brisbane), in fact it is the second most prolific species of petrel locally. Up until April 1995 we ran our trips out from Brisbane but since then have conducted our trips out of Sea World on the Gold Coast (south of Brisbane).
Click here for the Bird List from the Brisbane Seabird Group
Victoria
PORTLAND PELAGICS
Organizer: Mike Carter.(SOSSA) 30 Canadian Bay Road, Mount Eliza, Vic. Australia. 3930.
PH. (H) 61 3 9787 7136
Trips once per month from Portland. Price about $70. (2/3 of trips are cancelled due to weather).
Western Australia
PERTH PELAGICS
Contact: Frank O'Connor. (SOSSA) 8c Hardy Road, Nedlands, W.A. Australia. 6009.
PH. (H) 61 8 9386 5694 =20
(W) 61 8 9167 1445
E-mail: foconnor@iinet.net.au
BUSSLETON INFORMATION. Land based platform.
Contact: Ross Payton (SOSSA)
PO Box 410,
Dunsborough,
W.A.
Australia. 6281
PH (H) 61 8 9755 3263
TASMANIA
NEW ZEALAND
Hauraki Gulf & Far North New Zealand Pelagics; Kermadecs, NZ Circumnavigation & Chathams
PTERODROMA PELAGICS is an Auckland-based ecotourism company specialising in New Zealand pelagics (seabird tours). We offer regular trips to: Hauraki Gulf (Auckland), the North Island's Far North (North Cape) and Stewart Island. Great itineraries for ship-based dedicated New Zealand Seabird Expeditions - Kermadecs, Three Kings, Circumnavigation of NZ, and Chathams (with Bounties & Antipodes).
New Zealand is a two thousand kilometre long mountainous island chain set in the vastness of the Great Southern and Pacific Oceans providing an essential breeding base for millions of seabirds. It is the most diverse seabird community in the world with 84 breeding species in the NZ region of which nearly 50% are endemic. Many other sea birds visit NZ waters throughout the year. New Zealand gained international attention recently with the rediscovery of New Zealand Storm Petrel - thought to be extinct for over 100 years! We have seen this bird over 50 times on our trips (including multiple sightings) from Nov 2003-March 2005. Contact us at info@nzseabirds.com; or go to our website www.nzseabirds.com
Oceanwings, 58 West End, Kaikoura, New Zealand
+64 (3) 319 6777 or in NZ (800) 733 365
e-mail info@oceanwings.co.nz web www.oceanwings.co.nz
Regular pelagics from one of the best sea bird area in NZ. Visit web site for further details on prices and bird list.
New Zealand Land and Pelagic Bird Tours
Pelagic and land trips to Chatham and Pitt Islands. Contact Ross Silcock, P.O. Box 57, Tabor, IA 51653 e-mail silcock@rosssilcock.com web www.rosssilcock.com/
Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ - New Zealand pelagic trips
New Zealand is quite rightly known as the seabird capital of the World. We organise and run pelagic trips out of a number of New Zealand ports to take advantage of this. The supposedly extinct New Zealand storm-petrel was rediscovered by us on one of these trips, you never know what you might see! Contact Brent or Sav or visit our website www.wrybill-tours.com email info AT wrybill-tours.com
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