New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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SEABIRDS SEEN IN THE NORTHERN TASMAN SEA IN WINTER

C. P. SUMMERHAYES*

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington

Abstract The distribution of birds in the northern Tasman Sea was observed during August and September 1967 from r.v. Argo. Subantarctic species (Diomedea exulans, D. melanophris and Daption capensis) ranged further north in the western than in the eastern Tasman Sea, probably because western waters have a higher phosphate content and hence contain more food. New northernmost sightings were recorded for Pachyptila sp., Pterodroma macroptera, Pelecanoides sp. and Procellaria cinereus.

*Present address: Geology Department, Imperial College, London S.W. 7. N.Z. Jl mar. Freshwat. Res. 3: 560-70
(Received for publication 20 September 1968)

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