Have a look at this photo – I’ve only had 2 mins to downlaod photos so far as i was dragged out by my wide for beers at a nrighbour when i walk in the door! Ahhhh!. I will circulate the best ones soon! http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=7
Rob Morris
Brisbane, Australia
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:08:21 -0700 From: cookilaria@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Southport Pelagic Today (18th June 2011) – Possibly/Probable New Zealand Storm Petrel! To: robert_p_morris@hotmail.com
Rob, Good stuff. Love to have a look.
Cheers Richard
From: robert morris
All we had a ‘New Zealand’ type storm-petrel off Southport today in view on and off for c. 90mins. I have to rush out now but if your interested in giving your opinion on the ID send me an email and I’ll circulate my best shots later tonight, thanks
Rob Morris
Brisbane, Australia
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Hi,
Thanks to Rob (thanks Rob), I’ve just put some images up on Bird-O. There are links to other resources and articles from last year if it helps to keep track of the finds.
http://bird-o.com/
Regards,
Simon.
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Just to clarify guys – the response below was made before seeing the latest set of Bob’s images. Great stuff Bob.
Very interesting comparison between all the shots so far – seems to suggest a wide range of variation in underwing and body striations?
Regards
Allan Richardson Morisset
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Hi Guys
Just had a look at the pics and I agree with Martin – it really doesn’t appear to be anything else on the strength of that pic. It seems to strongly rule out the Fregettas – nothing I’ve seen amongst the Fregetta variations yet, approaches belly markings like that – Black-bellied spreads from the belly mid-line out and White-bellied starts out dark on the flanks and heads toward the mid-line. Just on the pic you’ve given, the bird appears to approach the proportions of a Wilson’s (other wing images will perhaps make that clearer), which you would have noticed on the day, including its size in comparison. We had difficulty on the day picking our bird from the Wilson’s around the boat (it kept a good 50 m from the boat), which fits the jizz profile of NZSP.
In reference to your comment Nik regarding white underwing patch, I agree, I think we’ll need to look at more photos. I reckon the angle of the foreground wing in Bob’s pic gives the impression that the white patch is short like the Ulladulla bird, however if you look at the other wing it appears the white is just still fading just beyond the carpal joint – while the Ulladulla bird’s white patches in Raja’s excellent pics looks to fade well before the carpal joint. It’s possible therefore that the bird’s white wing patch may be intermediate between the two extremities we’ve seen previously. Look forward to seeing more pics.
All the same – that’s great news – hopefully we can all look forward to seeing this bird again in Australian waters – congratulations.
Regards
Allan Richardson Morisset
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Hi Rob, Paul W (& all on-board off Southport today)
From this image it looks like a certain NZSP to me – just like the 2 birds off Port Stephens & Wollongong last year !!
Fantastic stuff……
Cheers
Martin Cachard Cairns 0428 782 808
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