Short-tailed Shearwaters

Short-tailed Shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris aka Muttonbirds) have been reported dead on Port Phillip Bay beaches over the past week. I found five at Point Gellibrand today. Large numbers of dead seabirds prompts concern that they may have suffered from pollution or some other unnatural threat. But in this case it seems to be a cyclical [...]