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Help with Sea Bird ID off Mistral Pt, Maroubra, Sydney

To: "'Jeff Davies'" <>, "'Chris Gregory'" <>, "'birdingaus mailing list'" <>
Subject: Help with Sea Bird ID off Mistral Pt, Maroubra, Sydney
From: "Peter Crane" <>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 15:45:03 +1000
Good afternoon

I suggest Cape Petrel 

Peter Crane
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-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus <> On Behalf Of Jeff
Davies
Sent: Monday, 4 June 2018 2:31 PM
To: 'Chris Gregory' <>; 'birdingaus mailing list'
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Subject: Help with Sea Bird ID off Mistral Pt, Maroubra,
Sydney

Looks like a juvenile Gannet to me without the dark line of median
under-secondary coverts, possibly due to post juv moult.




-----Original Message-----
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Chris Gregory
Sent: Monday, 4 June 2018 2:20 PM
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Subject: Help with Sea Bird ID off Mistral Pt, Maroubra,
Sydney

My wife and I were out at Mistral Point yesterday to catch the action from
the strong southerlies that have been blowing hard for a few days. We are no
experts but together with my wife's scope and my long lens camera we usually
manage to ID most.

Anyway this one stumped me when I came to look through the photos. It's a
one off photo of a lone bird, obviously a fair way out and travelling south.
The shot is not great and even looking at the RAW image I can't really
improve on what appear to be fairly clear underwing diagnostic features with
blocks of dark grey on the carpel bar. The head is a similar grey with a
clear line to the chest. and there appears to be a dark tip to the tail.

Anyway I've been through the Guides and nothing seems to come close. It
looks like a Petrel of some kind. Any thoughts would be much appreciated?

Chris Gregory


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