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Help with Mystery Shearwater

To: Peter Diegutis <>, "" <>
Subject: Help with Mystery Shearwater
From: Nikolas Haass <>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:25:26 -0800 (PST)
And here the reason for my ID:

Underwing pattern: Clearly puts this bird into the Little Shearwater group
Facial pattern: Dark cap reaching well under eye-line (pro Subantarctic 
[elegans]; contra 'normal' Little [assimilis, haurakiensis, kermadecensis, 
tunneyi]).
Upperparts: Overall colour blueish black with pale tips causing pale bars (pro 
Subantarctic; contra 'normal' Little).
Wings appear quite pointy and tail quite sharp-edged/diamond-shaped - not sure 
if this is useful as well for ID (I think both tail and wings should appear 
more roundish in 'normal' Little)

Nikolas
 
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Nikolas Haass

Brisbane, QLD


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From: Nikolas Haass <>
To: Peter Diegutis <>; "" 
<> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:14 AM
Subject: Help with Mystery Shearwater
 


Hi Peter,

It's a Subantarctic Little Shearwater Puffinus [assimilis] elegans.

Nikolas
 
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Nikolas Haass

Brisbane, QLD


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From: Peter Diegutis <>
To: "" <> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:06 AM
Subject: Help with Mystery Shearwater
 

Good Morning Seabird Aficionados

The unscrupulous list-ticker in me wants to call this a Little Shearwater and 
be done with it. But there's still enough honest sea-birder left for me to see 
problems with this call.

The Bird: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aikirock01/
Location: 100NM southwest of the Snares Islands, NZ. 
Time: About 3 weeks ago.

Your help is appreciated.

Cheers
Peter
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