PROCELLARIIFORMES: Procellariidae
Ardenna tenuirostris
Short-tailed Shearwater (or Tasmanian Muttonbird) chick. The parents abandon their young at the breeding colony in early April and migrate several thousand kilometres to plankton-rich waters in the northern Pacific Ocean (as far as the Bering Sea). The youngsters follow on two or three weeks later. They return to Tasmania and the other southern Australian States around September.