Hi all. Last saturday 5th in 5 hours 22.800 Northern Gannets flew westwards at Estaca de Bares (Galicia, NW Spain), almost 2/3 of them during the first two...
Hi, A Yelkouan Shearwater have been seen well today from Cap Gris-nez (France, 62). It was a seemingly black and white shearwater, with well marked black...
For info on seawatching off SW Norway and some interesting downloads check out http://www.naturalbornbirder.com/ Good seawatching Julian Bell [Non-text...
Dear all, For those interested I just want to inform you that two seawatching reports from N'Gor (Cap Vert), Senegal, now is available on the website...
Niklas Holmstrom
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Nov 28, 2005 11:01 pm
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Found this bird on the deck of my vessel off NW Australia. http://www.naturalbornbirder.com/gallery/wilsons.html Anyone know the status of this species off NW...
Has anyone out there seen Great Northern Diver doing a "head throw" / waving head up and down in flight in a similar way to Red.throated Diver? White-billed...
Hi everyone I've added a number of new pages to my Seabirding and Cetaceans website: http://hometown.aol.co.uk/tonypym/SeabirdingHomePage.html These include a...
Hi, on a seabird survey, 19.-21.04.06, at the Oderbank, ca. 40 km E of island Rügen/GER, we saw resting/on migration: Yellow-billed Diver 2 2Cy Dozens of...
Hi to all. some recent records of the Portuguese waters: 2 winter plum. Sabine's Gull on 19th April 1 Bulwer's Petrel on 6th April - a very scarce visitor to...
In the period 15-30 April there have been a total of 25 White-billed Diver, gavia adamsii, heading north - bringing the total this spring to 27. No skuas other...
Dear all, We saw a male Ferruginous Duck migrating north along Cap Gris-Nez (France, 62) on 28th April 2006. This respresents the first mention of this species...
Hello, some sightings from a seabird survey from 03.-05.05.06, Oderbank, Pommern bight, E Rügen, S Bornholm: Pomarine Skua 1 adult summer plumage, 03.05.06,...
Hi all, just return from an excellent trip to Gran Canaria. Here is the list of seabirds and marine life we saw off Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria between the 2nd...
Hi: Yesterday afternoon in front of the River Guadalhorce, Mälaga, Paco Rios and myself watched a Cory's Shearwater of the Atlantic race borealis at ranges of...
Hello: There appears to be a full colony of borealis in the Mediterranean. The data is still unpublished (as far as I know) but was offered in the last August ...
I need some background info for an idea I am working on and would very much appreicate some info from euroseawatchers. I need timed counts of Red-throated...
A strong westerly airflow appears to have brought a large movement of Storm Petrels into the English Channel on 19th May. Records have been posted from the...
Dear all, On Wednesday 17th May 2006 the marine biologist Manuel Pinguinhas detected a deviant seabird among a group of Great and Cory's Shearwaters, which...
Niklas Holmstrom
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May 21, 2006 9:11 pm
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This report from David Walker at Dungeness in Kent UK. This movement is similar to that of Oct 2000 when Storm Petrels were seen trying to track back west all...
Larkin, Paul ( Energy...
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May 22, 2006 7:20 am
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Once again today I noted a distinct difference in the timing of Pomarine and Arctic Skua passage at my local headland in SW Norway. There is a diagram which...
Hello, On a somewhat similar thread : Since 2001 I have spent some time in the last week or so of every August seawatching at the Bridges of Ross, Co. Clare. ...
Hi Chris, An inusual abundance of storm petrels (Hydrobates pelagicus) has been detected this week along north Spanish coast (Cantabrian Sea). At least a few...
Hi, This afflux has also reached the northern coast of France : 54 at Cap Gris Nez (23/05) !!! (Obs. Ludovic Scalabre) Let them coming ! Christophe ... From:...
Today I saw a dark phase arctic skua with much white on the leading edge of the wing - largely on the the lesser coverts but also appearing to extend slightly...
Hello Julian, Birds like that are ofcourse not common, but we at 'le Clipon' in northern France (www.leclipon.com) see almost every year one or two such bird's...
Hi Julian, Perhaps an individual in delayed moult? In spring passage I have rarely noticed such birds of Arctic and Pomarine Skua, mainly in Arctic Norway...
Niklas Holmstrom
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May 30, 2006 6:50 pm
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Hi Julian, That's a rather common phenomenon. In ca 150 hours/yr of seawatching in the Netherlands I've seen those leucistic individuals a couple of times, ...
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