Northern Giant-Petrel at Davies Reef
Channel: PlantBugBird
Date: 22/03/2023

This bird was well north of its expected range for some reason. The Northern Giant-Petrel (Macronectes halli) range typically reaches northern New South Wales.

This bird landed behind me while I was snorkelling. It repeatedly came close up to me, within 1m, which was quite imposing as it was a large bird. This bird hung around for the remaining three days we were at the reef. I guess the bird was hoping to get a feed.

This is also an iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19374352