G'day Chris,
What they are saying is that the previously thought extinct tasmani and the
recently named fullagari are the same thing, something I suspected during
production of HANZAB when we described fullagari. This DNA tells us there
has only ever been a single taxa breeding in the Tasman Sea on Lord Howe,
Norfolk and Kermadec, it has dark eyes and as a consequence of this study
now takes on the prior ssp tasmani tag. No yellow eyed birds ssp personata
breed there, they are found in the Coral Sea to the north and as far as I
know they don't interbreed. Another yellow-eyed ssp bedouti inhabits our
Indian Ocean region territories, so there is no issue to sort out from an ID
point of view, everything is as it was before except for name change.
Cheers Jeff.
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On Behalf Of Chris Sanderson
Sent: Friday, 14 August 2009 1:23 PM
To: Richard Baxter
Cc: birding-aus
Subject: Tasman Booby = Masked Booby
Hi Richard,
The way I read it, the two species occur side-by-side in Lord Howe/Norfolk
Is. Will have to wait for more reliable info on how to ID the birds.
Regards,
Chris
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Richard Baxter
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> I'd heard rumours that this one might be coming. I guess I'll be able to
> add Tasman Booby to my OZ list sometime in the future.
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> For those that now need to see Masked Booby, I think the only places would
> be Ashmore Reef, the Lacepedes or Cocos.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
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