Sydneysider Belinda Davidson posted photos of a number of birds she discovered had landed around the Tea Gardens Surf Club this week, asking members of the local community Facebook group for advice. The bodies are the natural consequence of the shearwaters' 15,000 kilometre annual migration from the North Pacific.Sydneysider Belinda Davidson posted photos of a number of birds she discovered had landed around the Tea Gardens Surf Club this week, asking members of the local community Facebook group for advice. The bodies are the natural consequence of the shearwaters' 15,000 kilometre annual migration from the North Pacific.
It's called a "wreck". That is the name given to the mass-perishing of sea birds along the east coast, when flocks of shearwaters, exhausted from the staggering 15,000 kilometre annual migration from the North Pacific, plummet down on the beaches of the Hunter, Central Coast and Great Lakes.
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