Are there any Gannet Experts on line? i.e. Would anyone care to help Ned
identify this interesting Gannet?
>
>I thought I would write and ask you a question concerning at gannet observed
>a year ago off the coast of North Carolina (two photographs posted at
>ttp://www.sterling-inn.com/gannetpage.html; the page takes about 15 seconds
>to load). The bird resembled, in wing pattern (dark secondaries, primaries,
>and alula, with white tertials) and possibly tail pattern (two central
>rectrices black) an Australasian/Tasman Gannet, but of course there are only
>about 30 records of this species from the South Atlantic and none from the
>North, so our sense is that this must be a Northern Gannet yet to lose its
>dark secondaries. I suppose then the question becomes: would this bird
stand
>out to you amongst your local gannets as something unusual? It is an odd
way
>to pose the question, but weâ??ve tried to look at this from as many
angles as
>possible, with one possibility being that we canâ??t or shouldnâ??t with
100%
>certainty identify this bird to species.
>
>Thanks in advance for any thoughts you might spare on this bird,
>
>Ned Brinkley
>
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