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...
Hi... Have the following Madeiran Petrels ever been submitted to the French rarities committee? If so what was the outcome? Cheers, Hugh Harrop ... ...
Hi! to my knowledge, and according to the last reports from the french rarities committee, these Madeiran Petrels have never been submitted...and we are still...
Hi Benoit: I rather suspect that the same applies to seabirds seen within Spanish territorial waters off the ships which go from Santader and BIlbao to the...
... Also, rather suspect that many of the records of, say, Wilson's Stormie and Little/Macronesian Shearwater will not stand up to any sort of examination as...
Interesting discussion. Its certainly true that Wilson's storm petrel and little shearwater are misidentified from ferries in the Bay of Biscay. I, like Hugh...
Hi Matthew, yes, your record of Black-browed Albatros was accepted by the French RC. The record was published in Ornithos 11-2 (March-April 2004) in "Les...
European Seawatching !Though I wouldn't be as rich, I'd also have a few quid from hardcore birders who have categorically stated (having never been on the...
Dear all, I have follow the discussion the last days with interest! In my opinion it is not very diffcult to separate a Wilson from another recalling "stormie"...
Niklas Holmstrom
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Aug 27, 2006 2:00 am
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Thanks for the comments Niklas. I can only speak from my own experience. I have seen very few Wilson's petrels and the few I have seen have been fairly...
Hi all, as the former bird recorder for ORCA,I sent a number of records to both the Spanish and French Committees over the last few years, which I think were ...
A RFI. Does anyone out there know if there was a skua movement on the east coast of the UK, in particular on the Norfolk/Wash/Lincs area on 22/09/02? Any info...
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Aug 30, 2006 2:41 pm
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Hi Paul, There was obviously a very large sea passage on that date. A quick search on Birdguides gives a few random seawatch extracts as follows: Filey, N...
Hi All I was on the crossing over the last weekend and was stood next to some birders who claimed a flock of Sooty Shearwaters following a trawler. In fact...
Hi all. Strong Manx Shearwater passage at Galicia (NW Spain) this week: August 27th, Estaca de Bares (A Coruna Province): 209 birds/hour. (Obs: A. Sandoval) ...
Dear all, Last week I have got reports (and about 50 excellent photos) of Great Shearwaters passing southwards along the Irish west coast. As usual these birds...
Niklas Holmstrom
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Sep 1, 2006 10:11 pm
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Dear all, Just a short message: Within two hours of seawatching this morning the Swedes Per Eriksson and Ulf Carlsson counted 6600 Great Shearwaters passing...
Niklas Holmstrom
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Sep 2, 2006 1:06 pm
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Hi all, looking at the recent Biscay sightings( on the Company of Whales website and BDRP website), I see some description species have been seen from the ...
Hi David, Long-tailed Skua is no longer submitted to the French R.C. since 1st January 2006 ( I was fortunate enough to see 2 birds – one ad. and probable...
As far as I am aware, Long-tailed Skua is still on the Spanish RC (CR-SEO) list. Ernest Garcia [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Sep 3, 2006 10:12 pm
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Hi all This last weekend there was a strong passage of Long-tailed skua at Estaca de Bares cape (Galicia, NW Spain): Friday: 4 adults. Saturday: 43 birds...
Dear all, The last two weeks heavy passage of Great Shearwaters (Puffinus gravis) seem not to have an end. Yesterday, Monday 11th September, the Italian birder...
Niklas Holmstrom
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Sep 12, 2006 11:10 pm
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Hello all, The following question was asked on another mailing group. I have never heard of this, anyone worked closely with gannets? ...
Don't know anything myself about gannets but http://www.shearwater.nl/seabird-osteology/ssg_introduction.htm states that they have 'no visible nostrils' but...
Hi, Gannets breathe with a closed bill by 'secondary nares' that are located at the angle of the gape. This is also the case in other pelecaniform birds. ...
Yesterday, Reno Lottmann and I saw during a seven hour seawatch on Wangerooge/Niedersachsen/Germany an Oceanodroma-Petrel, which caused us a lot of headaches....
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Oct 30, 2006 7:29 pm
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Very good seawatch yesterday in north of france at Cap gris-nez with 37 184 seabirds !!! Important numbers for few species : 16 360 Gannet 188 Great skua 3 930...
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Nov 2, 2006 4:43 pm
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Hi all, the weather forecast had let us hope for another great day of seawatching on sunday 12th...and even convinced us that twitching the Long-billed...
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