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...
Dear all, The recent run of depressions coming in off the Atlantic have produced a westward displacement of seabirds on to the west coast of Britain. The main...
Larkin, Paul ( Energy...
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Dec 8, 2006 2:26 pm
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A Leaches Petrel was picked up in Seaton Devon on the first day of the wreck that subsequently died. Interestingly its inner primaries were in moult which...
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Want to Migrate to France, Spain, Germany or New Zealand?? Australia, NZ and Canada accept hundreds of thousands of foreign migrants every year to meet their...
Hi, Today the thirst rush of BT.Diver with 125 birds (most in summer plumage .... what a wonderful bird !) usual good numbers recorded between 20 april - 15...
Hi, A very important movement today at cap gris-nez with 15 000 birds & 73 species. Détails on http://seawatchcgn.free.fr (datas avaible in english ...
The White-billed Diver season has begun at Skogsøy in SW Norway. At least 7 adults passed today (29-04-07). I'm not doing daily counts as per 2006 but aim to...
Hi all, today, 29.04.07, 3:22 p.m. , one 2nd cy White-billed Diver migr. E, Kap Arkona, Rügen island , SW-Baltic Sea, Germany. Best regards, Christoph -- ... ...
There have been more WB Diver seen in the four days 29.04 - 02.05 (total of at least 52!) than were seen in the entire 2006 season. I believe that this is more...
Hi, This mid-day, a incredible group of 14 Dotterel in migration at cap-gris nez ! Document is on line on our web pages. http://seawatchcgn.free.fr All the...
Hi seawatchers! Apologies that this is not a seabird news piece, but as many of you are also interested in cetaceans I thought this might also be of ...
## British Birds, 2007, 100 (7) : http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/ WYNN R. B., YÉSOU P., 2007. The changing status of Balearic Shearwater in northwest European...
Hi, Some usefull updates on the website of cap gris-nez are now avaible : - Phenology - Details to find the new spot http://seawatchcgn.free.fr Regards Ludovic...
Hi there...and apologies for cross postings! I am currently trying to track down a record of a Yellow-nosed Albatross which is listed as occurring in Biscay as...
Chaps, A recent edition of British Birds has an article on the ID of black and white Atlantic Petrels. This seems to be aimed mainly at ship-based observers...