Mutton Birds

The Short tail Shearwater is a bird in Australia commonly know as a 'Mutton Bird'. They are known as mutton birds because they were eaten in huge numbers by early settlers, and are said to taste like mutton (lamb!).

The birds migrate annually, non-stop, from Russia to the rookeries in Victoria and South Australia- about 15,000 kms. Every migration Bermagui gets a an influx of dead mutton birds washed up on the beach- so close to their destination, hundreds die of exhaustion and starvation. 

I took some photos on the beach.... I want to use them in my BFA show but they were developed unevenly so I have some work in photo shop to try to even out the development error.....