Alaskan Shorttailed Shearwaters

[BruceK]

These little birds fly from Alaska to Victoria State in Australia, in particular to an island in Port Fairy, on The Great Ocean Road.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01...rs-rally-after-climate-change-deaths/13029668
Quite a chunk out of their year to make the journey to Australia, to mate and breed, and to return to Alaska with their new fast grown up chick.
An amazing story of the life of these little migratory birds.

 

[AlaskaProf]

Thanks, Bruce, amazing story.

When we were offshore, enroute to Seward in '18, we noticed a number of dark pelagic birds which we assumed to be a shearwater, but I had no idea!
Bill