January February March April May June July August September October November December Home	NSW Pelagic Statistics For The Month of February 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 19 February trips including 1999. (Definite = 90-100% , Probable = 50-90% , Possible = 10-50% ) DEFINITE Great-winged Petrel 100% Flesh-footed Shearwater 100% Wedge-tailed Shearwater 100% Short-tailed Shearwater 100% Silver Gull 100% Kelp Gull (Wollongong only) 100% Crested Tern 100% Arctic Jaeger 94.7% Pomarine Jaeger 100% Australasian Pelican 100% PROBABLE Sooty Shearwater 57.9% Fluttering Shearwater 84.2% Hutton's Shearwater 63.2% Australian Gannet 78.9% Long-tailed Jaeger 63.2% POSSIBLE Little Penguin 47.4% Wandering Albatross 15.8% Gould's Petrel 42.1% White-necked Petrel 26.3% Tahiti Petrel 21.1% Black Petrel 21.1% Streaked Shearwater 21.1% Buller's Shearwater 36.8% White-faced Storm Petrel 15.8% Common Tern 15.8% Sooty Tern 15.8% Grey Ternlet 36.8% VAGRANT / UNLIKELY Yellow-nosed Albatross 1 Record Black-browed Albatross 2 Records Providence Petrel . 1 Record White-headed Petrel 1 Record Black-winged Petrel 1 Record Cook's Petrel 1 Record Kermadec Petrel 1 Record Audubon's Shearwater 1 Record Wilson's Storm-Petrel 2 Records Black-bellied Storm Petrel 1 Record White-winged Black Tern 1 Record White Tern 2 Records Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 Record White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Records (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)