Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania – Pelagic Reports 3&4 Sept 2011 – photos

Thanks Nikolas. Yes, I’ve been fooled in similar circumstances checking for these birds before! I was looking for the dark patch below the eye but it was hard to tell from the photo without having been there.

Cheers

Andrew

On 09/09/2011, at 1:35 PM, Nikolas Haass wrote:

> Hi Andrew, > > We only had a total of 9 Yellow-nosed Albatross combined on both trips. We had a close look at all of them. We are certain they all were Indian YNA. I think that the pearl-grey color is a trick of light. The bird on image 9490 also doesn’t show the upside-down black triangle around the eye that a typical Atlantic YNA should show. Obviously, from this angle you cannot say much about the shape of the yellow at the base of the bill, but we did not see any “blunt-based” ones. > > Cheers, > > Nikolas > > —————- > Nikolas Haass > nhaass@yahoo.com > Sydney, NSW > From: Andrew Stafford > To: nhaass@yahoo.com; danmantle@hotmail.com > Cc: “birding-aus@vicnet. net. au” > Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 12:43 PM > Subject: Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania – Pelagic Reports 3&4 Sept 2011 – photos > > Hi Nikolas, > > Some cracking photos there. Image number 9490 (#39 of #83 in the sequence) caught my eye; the light may be playing tricks on me due to the bird’s head-on approach under cloudy skies, but the head looks pearl-grey, and as such it appears a possible contender for Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross. I don’t think I could claim it on the strength of the photo, but was it considered on the day? > > Cheers > > Andrew >

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