# The writer reports that Australian Gannets frequent the bay off St Kilda and Williamstown in autumn.

> Cite as: PLOT record c/1JF6-K4 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1894), reported by source

- **Address:** c/1JF6-K4, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/1JF6-K4)
- **Value:** the one most familiar to us being S. serrator, Banks, Australian Gannet, which voyages from about the central portion of the east coast, along the southern, and up to the same parallel of the western, not venturing to stay in tropical regions. During autumn they frequent our bay off St. Kilda and Williamstown. (Historical passage)
- **About:** Williamstown
- **Kind:** Reported by source
- **Who said it:** Reported by community
- **Period:** 1894
- **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person.
- **Open questions:** None open
- **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.11, 1894-1895 (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 42, victoriannatural11fiel, leaf 52, printed page 42 <https://archive.org/details/victoriannatural11fiel>
- **The snippet in PLOT:** <https://www.plot.eco/s/FYKB-EH?snippet=b87483f7-32fa-46cd-92f4-8c914ee79f9e>
- **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural11fiel, leaf 52, printed page 42
- **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- **Editions:** october-26th-release
- **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
  - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural11fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
  - Screening: include (meets criteria): Australian Gannets frequent the bay off Williamstown in autumn.

## History
- Version 1 (this version): first published version

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Cite as: PLOT record c/1JF6-K4 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1894), reported by source