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 The data is still unpublished (as far as I know) but was offered in the last August ...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, ...
Steve Geelhoed
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May 30, 2006 9:43 pm
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Julian, I have seen small numbers of these birds off the Bridges of Ross every year I have been there...About half a dozen or so noted each August. Saw one...
Hi. These birds are also observed at Estaca de Bares (Galicia, NW Spain) in small numbers every autumn. Regards Antonio Sandoval ... From: SCALABRE Ludovic To:...
Dear all, According to the replies of Julian's original message of a strange coloured Arctic Skua of dark morph/phase off the mid Norway coast, which he...
Niklas Holmstrom
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Jun 1, 2006 5:44 pm
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Hi Niklas e.a., Interesting idea. But, offcourse a but ;-) Outside the breeding season I can't rule out an effect of moult in the migrating birds I've seen ,...
Steve Geelhoed
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Jun 1, 2006 9:12 pm
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Hi Steve, Niklas and all! Having also seen myself a few of this abnormaly colored Arctic Skuas, I believe that in this case, both the 'albinism' and moult...
Dear all, As most of you members probably remember I sent a inquire message about flight photos of juvenile skuas (of the three smaller species) about a year...
Niklas Holmstrom
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Jun 4, 2006 1:58 pm
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A pdf file giving an overview of the spring migration at Skogsøy in SW Norway is available here: ...
Seawatch nightmare #2 is well worth a look. A couple more things that can go wrong with seawatching have also been added. Again, I'd love to hear from anyone...
Dear colleagues and collaborators, RAM (Red de Aves Marinas) is a Spanish Seabird Monitoring Network based on the north and northwest Spanish coast. The...
I hope to persuade the local authorities to build a seawatching lookout - this got me thinking about design and hides / shelters in general. To help with...
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