Welcome to the Australian Pelagic Home Page: A page dedicated to those with an interest in pelagic bird watching, photography and whale-watching. Offering some interesting information on what can be seen around oceans of Australia. Pelagic trips have been departing from a number of ports around Australia for many years now, providing a considerable amount of information on the birds and mammals likely to be encountered.

The Wollongong and Sydney trips are now world famous, although there are pelagics operating from other ports around Australia and New Zealand, for information on these take a look at the Pelagic Directory. Almost all of them are operated on a non profit basis and provide much valuable information about our little known seabirds.
 

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- Invitation for keen seabird enthusiasts and photographers -

Hadoram Shirihai and Dick Watling are organizing one week-long (to maximum 9 days) of mass chumming expedition for trying to attract and photo the least known Fiji Petrel, Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi, off Fiji. They are already have a suitable boat and two ton chum in preparation for the voyage. It will be from the 17 July 2008.

Three main goals to the voyage:

1. To learn about the at sea identification of the Fiji Petrel and perhaps to observe its behavior, and hopefully get a light about possible number of birds in the area.

2. To try to obtain photos at sea of the Fiji Petrel, for the use in both scientific publications and for the use in conservation and education actions for protection Fijian native birds.

3. To survey other species of petrels in the area of which only limited information is available.

They will take only maximum two or three additional participants that will be willing to share (equally) the costs of the boat. It will cost for each of the participants about 5000 USD (the final price will depend on how many people will be sharing the costs).

For further information please contact Hadoram Shirihai, at albatross_shirihai@hotmail.com

[Dick rediscovered the Fiji Petrel (1984) and is the author of the 'A Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia', and Hadoram responsible for the rediscovery the Beck's Petrel (2003-7) and is the author of forthcoming 'Shirihai, H. & Bretagnolle, V. In prep. Albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters of the world: a handbook to their taxonomy, identification, ecology and conservation. Christopher Helm, London.']