Lord Howe Island
Getting There
GPS Coordinates 31°32.622′S, 159°4.776′E
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A bird in the hand
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Enjoying the afternoon sun
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Aerial flights amazing
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Finished the day with a g...
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Ian Hutton With Flesh-Foo...
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Glorious View From Trans...
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Lord Howe Island Woodhen
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Snorkelling On Old Settle...
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Brown Noddy Over Neds Beach
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Phasmid & Friend
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Neds Beach
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Flesh-Footed Shearwater C...
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Red-Tailed Tropicbird In ...
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Green Turtle Habitat
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White-Faced Heron
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Mt Lidgbird
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Balls Pyramid
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White Baby Tern
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Sea Cucumber & Joe
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Juvenile Sooty Tern
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Look At That!
Wildlife
| Mammals | 1 species | |
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| Black Rat (Rattus rattus) | 1 | Superabundant |
| Seabirds | 21 species | |
| Providence Petrel (Pterodroma solandri) | 1001 | so many flying in around the mountains late in the day; Big numbers now returning |
| Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) | 941 | Most still on eggs - but a few hatching; with eggs and chicks; chicks running everywhere now |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) | 471 | we watched hundreds fly in at dusk; very hungry birds always come in first |
| Black Noddy (Anous minutus) | 402 | on eggs and making nests; first chicks hatching |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) | 294 | flying over Mount Eliza; courtship flights off cliffs |
| Blue Noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) | 205 | flying around close then sitting on cliff 2m away; feeding off Ball's Pyramd |
| Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) | 61 | on nests in Old gulch cliffs; feeding around Grey ternlets |
| White Tern (Gygis alba) | 55 | courting or on eggs; nesting along behind the Lagoon beach in high trees; on eggs at North Bay |
| Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra) | 28 | flying over Malabar cliffs; mostly juvenile birds |
| Black-winged Petrel (Pterodroma nigripennis) | 24 | first ones back for summer breeding; even landing on the berley; performing fast courtship flights over us |
| White-bellied Storm Petrel (Fregetta grallaria) | 20 | had 10 or 20 around the boat for 20 minutes on berley |
| Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) | 19 | a secretive bird, takes a little searching at night |
| Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) | 9 | in swamp Mosely Park; Also sunning on the rocky reef at North Bay |
| Kermadec Petrel (Pterodroma neglecta) | 9 | a bit shy coming in close |
| Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) | 4 | adult bird; circling for half an hour; landed right next to our boat for 15 minutes |
| White-necked Petrel (Pterodroma cervicalis) | 2 | circled boat 10 minutes |
| Little Pied Cormorant (Microcarbo melanoleucos) | 2 | been here 3 weeks now |
| Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) | 2 | |
| White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) | 1 | |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) | 1 | |
| Australian Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius) | 1 | On the rocks sunning at North Bay. |
| Land Birds | 30 species | |
| Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) | 23 | just returned from northern hemisphere breeding; One of our more noticeable waders to visit over summer.; beautiful as they change into breeding plumage |
| Lord Howe Woodhen (Gallirallus sylvestris) | 22 | 1 adult feeding 2 chicks 4 weeks old; breeding season - lots of chicks; Adult and juvenile foraging around our feet |
| Rock Dove (Columba livia) | 21 | Flying around the base of the cliffs, Yuck! |
| Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina) | 13 | came in to check us out on Transit Hill |
| Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena) | 9 | |
| Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) | 7 | One of the most numerous of our waders at Lord Howe Island. |
| Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) | 6 | Commonly seen on sandy flats at low tide. |
| Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) | 4 | foraging on reef flats |
| Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) | 4 | foraging on reef at low tide |
| Australian Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis) | 4 | one very close |
| Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles) | 3 | in pasture near Mosely Park swamp |
| Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) | 3 | foraging in the muddy edge at Mosely Park swamp |
| Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae) | 3 | a rare vagrant to Lord Howe Island; vagrant still here; swimming on the water at Mosely Park swamp |
| Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides) | 3 | |
| Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) | 2 | Two immatures that have stayed after the breeding adults headed off in August... Seen at Mosely Park swamp |
| Australian Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) | 2 | |
| White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae) | 2 | enjoying the warmth on the boulder beach |
| Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) | 1 | Quietly but hurriedly froraging around the waters edge at Mosely Park swamp |
| Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) | 1 | |
| Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa) | 1 | |
| Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca) | 1 | |
| Common Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps indica) | 1 | |
| Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) | 1 | On the grassy area adjacent to Mosely Park swamp |
| Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) | 1 | |
| Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) | 1 | |
| Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) | 1 | |
| Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) | 1 | a rare sighting at Lord Howe Island. |
| Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum) | 1 | at Moseley Park swamp |
| Little Curlew (Numenius minutus) | 1 | vagrant |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) | 1 | at Mosely Parks swamp quite close looks at these over a week. |
| Terrestrial Reptiles | 2 species | |
| Lord Howe Island Gecko (Christinus guentheri) | 1 | |
| Lord Howe Island Skink (Oligosoma lichenigera) | 1 |
