January February March April May June July August September October November December Home	NSW Pelagic Statistics For The Month of December The information for this page represents the results of over 10 years of pelagic bird watching trips from either Sydney or Wollongong, NSW Australia, being a compilation of 10 December trips including 1998. (Definite = 90-100% , Probable = 50-90% , Possible = 10-50% ) DEFINITE Great-winged Petrel 100% Flesh-footed Shearwater 100% Wedge-tailed Shearwater 100% Sooty Shearwater 100% Short-tailed Shearwater 100% Silver Gull 100% Kelp Gull (Wollongong only) 100% Crested Tern 100% Arctic Jaeger 100% Pomarine Jaeger 100% Long-tailed Jaeger 90% Australasian Pelican 100% PROBABLE Wandering Albatross 50% Fluttering Shearwater 70% White-faced Storm Petrel 60% Wilson's Storm-Petrel 50% Common Tern 60% POSSIBLE Little Penguin 40% Black-browed Albatross 40% Gould's Petrel 40% Providence Petrel 30% Buller's Shearwater 40% Hutton's Shearwater 40% Australian Gannet 40% Sooty Tern 40% VAGRANT / UNLIKELY Shy Albatross 1 Record White-necked Petrel 1 Record Black-winged Petrel 1 Record Mottled Petrel 1 Record Kermadec Petrel 1 Record Tahiti Petrel 1 Record Black Petrel 1 Record Black-bellied Storm Petrel 1 Record Little Shearwater 1 Record Brown Booby 2 Records White-winged Black Tern 1 Record Black Noddy 1 Record (Records on this page have not been authenticated and should not be used in publication without further research. Species in bold are those that may require a submission to a local or national rarities committee if sighted.) (Tony Palliser)