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Hi all
Jeez it makes a difference looking on a big screen! It seems to be undoubtedly a Fairy Prion. I can make out the black tail band, the blue bill, legs now. I think the greyish looking underparts and underwing really threw me too, it should be white, but it has
a greyish look about it, especially looking at my phone. I can see some white there & Fairy Prions can have lots of grey on the flanks and vent. The angles of the photography and the lighting as well as the bird being quite dirty still all make it difficult
to identify. However I am now confident it is now a Fairy Prion. I don't have time to go into too much detail at the moment, but I can when I get the time if you need further explanation.
Kevin Bartram.
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From: martin cachard <>
Sent: Monday, 25 February 2019 3:45 PM
To: Kev Lobotomi; 'Geoff Shannon'; ; Philip Veerman
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Help please, seabird
I was just about to mention the obvious lack of blue feet for CDP's myself Kev...
cheers,
martin cachard
trinity beach, cairns, fnq
From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of Kev Lobotomi <>
Sent: Monday, 25 February 2019 12:54 PM
To: 'Geoff Shannon'; ; Philip Veerman
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Help please, seabird
Obviously you don't know Common DPs very well then. They are dark grey above, white below (not at all light grey) with a Grey underwing, which has sometimes mostly white, but usually motley coverts. They also have blue feet. Obviously this is not a CDP. The
wings are bent, so not a good indication of wingspan. It is small, perhaps an early juvenile, I have found small juveniles every so often and they can be tiny sometimes. Kevin Bartram
From: Philip Veerman <>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 10:36:01 AM
To: 'Kev Lobotomi'; 'Geoff Shannon';
Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Help please, seabird
Really? HANZAB and field guide drawings match colour (or shade) for Common Diving Petrel as dark grey above and pale grey below. Not “black & white”, although at sea I guess they
could look black & white. I have only ever seen Common Diving Petrel on one day and not recently but they are not that much different in colour above & below as is this bird, although rather more pale than this photo shows. I have like most of us, seen hundreds
of dead Short-tailed Shearwaters and thousands of live ones. The shape looks wrong to me for a Short-tailed Shearwater (wings not narrow enough) and why would someone ask about Short-tailed Shearwater? Surely they are found dead in large numbers. Using HANZAB:
Weight of Short-tailed Shearwater given as 480 to 800 grams and Common Diving Petrel given as 110 to 150 grams. Weight of this specimen given as 77 g. I suggest that being underweight is consistent with being dead, but not by that much to match a recently
dead shearwater. HANZAB: Wing span of Short-tailed Shearwater given as 95 to 100 cm and Common Diving Petrel given as 33 to 38 cm. Look at the (hopefully) 30 cm ruler, if this is a shearwater, the wing span should be equal to about 3, 30 cm rulers. The wing
span of this specimen is mid 30 to 40 cm, nowhere near big enough to match the shearwater.
Philip.
From: Kev Lobotomi [
Sent: Monday, 25 February, 2019 7:51 AM To: Philip Veerman; 'Geoff Shannon';
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Help please,seabird
Short-tailed Shearwater. Diving Petrels are black and white.-Kevin Bartram
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From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of Philip Veerman
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Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2019 4:29 PM
To: 'Geoff Shannon';
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Help please,seabird
I will make a suggestion of Common Diving Petrel.
Philip
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On Behalf Of Geoff Shannon
Sent: Sunday, 24 February, 2019 2:15 PM
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Help please,seabird
On evening 5/2/2019 I picked up a small seabird dead less than 24 hours but beginning to smell.
Rubicon Estuary beach, Hawley Beach , just 10 km east of Devonport NW Tasmania .
Weight 77g , damp but no fat at all,
Wing length 160 mm and tail 60 mm bill length 27 m , skull may have been bit squashed .
I have no idea so any suggestions gratefully received
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