January February March April May June July August September October November December Home	NSW Pelagic Statistics For The Month of January 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 January trips including 1999. DEFINITE Flesh-footed Shearwater 100% Wedge-tailed Shearwater 100% Short-tailed Shearwater 100% Fluttering Shearwater 100% Silver Gull 100% Kelp Gull (Wollongong only) 100% Crested Tern 100% Arctic Jaeger 100% Pomarine Jaeger 100% Australasian Pelican 100% PROBABLE Great-winged Petrel 89.5% Gould's Petrel 57.9% Sooty Shearwater 57.9% Buller's Shearwater 52.6% Australian Gannet 84.2% Long-tailed Jaeger 84.2% POSSIBLE Little Penguin 42.1% Shy Albatross 15.8% White-necked Petrel 47.4% Black-winged Petrel 15.8% Hutton's Shearwater 42.1% Wilson's Storm-Petrel 42.1% White-faced Storm Petrel 42.1% Common Tern 26.3% Sooty Tern 21.1% VAGRANT / UNLIKELY Wandering Albatross 2 Records Providence Petrel 2 Records Cook's Petrel 1 Record Mottled Petrel 1 Record Tahiti Petrel 2 Records Common Diving Petrel 1 Record Streaked Shearwater 2 Records Red-tailed Tropicbird 1 Record White-tailed Tropicbird 1 Record White-winged Black Tern 1 Record Grey Ternlet 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)