January February March April May June July August September October November December Home	NSW Pelagic Statistics For The Month of March 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 18 March 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% Fluttering Shearwater 94.4% Australasian Gannet 100% Australasian Pelican 100% Silver Gull 100% Kelp Gull 100% Crested Tern 100% Arctic Skua 100% Pomarine Skua 100% PROBABLE Providence Petrel 77.8% Sooty Shearwater 55.6% Wilson's Storm-Petrel 66.7% Long-tailed Skua 55.6% POSSIBLE Little Penguin 38.9% Kermadec Petrel 16.7% Gould's Petrel 33.3% Streaked Shearwater 27.8% Buller's Shearwater 22.2% Hutton's Shearwater 44.4% Common Tern 22.2% VAGRANT / UNLIKELY Wandering Albatross 2 Records Black-browed Albatross 2 Records White-headed Petrel 2 Records Tahiti Petrel 1 Record Pink-footed Shearwater 1 Record Audubon's Shearwater 1 Record White-faced Storm Petrel 1 Record Brown Booby 1 Record Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 Record White-tailed Tropicbird 2 Records Sabine's Gull 1 Record South Polar Skua 1 Record Great Skua 2 Records Caspian Tern 1 Record Arctic Tern 1 Record White-fronted Tern 2 Records Sooty Tern 1 Record Common Noddy 1 Record Grey Ternlet 2 Records White Tern 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)