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I have been helping with identification of dead oiled sea birds for the last 2 days. This included birds recovered on 11-13 October up to mid afternoon. Note that this was not a straightforward task in the many cases where no plumage coloration was discernible. The first 801 birds identified were: Mallard/hybrid duck 2 Little penguin 20 Antipodean wandering albatross 1 White-capped mollymawk 1 Northern giant petrel 2 Cape petrel 4 Grey-faced petrel 1 Mottled petrel 1 Antarctic prion 3 Fairy prion 12 Blue petrel 13 (perhaps the most surprising species to be affected at all, let alone 13 of them) Buller’s shearwater 92 Flesh-footed shearwater 3 Sooty shearwater 13 Fluttering shearwater 198 Little shearwater 15 Common diving petrel 358 White-faced storm petrel 38 Australasian gannet 7 Pied shag 4 Little black shag 1 Spotted shag 2 Pukeko 1 Bar-tailed godwit 1 Variable oystercatcher 1 Rock pigeon 3 Tui 1 Australian magpie 1 Blackbird 1 Starling 2 No banded birds were noticed. Karen Baird, Sandy Bartle and Alan Tennyson between them will split the seabird identification over the next 5 days, after which I may assist again if required. Regards Colin Miskelly [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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