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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds.

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A March New York Pelagic Trip Out Of Freeport

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Sure, we got a couple of young Iceland Gulls that didn’t stay with the boat for long and, yes, a couple of nice Lesser Black-backed Gulls were cool, but no Black-legged Kittiwakes , no Glaucous Gulls , and nothing else other than Great Black-backed Gulls , Herring Gulls , and a few Bonaparte’s Gulls. Common Murre Uria aalge.

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Missing Mojo

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Perhaps the biggest event of this winter has been the late winter occurrence of hundreds of ‘white-winged gulls’ from Shetland to Dover and seemingly at all points in between we, in Britain & Ireland, have been inundated with Iceland Gulls and Glaucous Gulls in recent weeks. for a drake Baer’s Pochard.

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If We Can Rock Together, We Can Flock Together

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ALWAYS assume there is some other bird species in there that you have not found yet. Here is a flock of endangered species. The same massive gull flock that would bring tears of joy to the eyes of some birders (indeed, this flock contained both Iceland and Slaty-backed Gulls ) strikes fear into the hearts of others.

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

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The 7th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America covers 1,023 species that reside, migrate, or have been documented as accidentals or exotics in North America. So, yes, Thayer’s Gull is in the book, but the reader is cautioned that the gull with be lumped with Iceland Gull “in the near future.”

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Collaborative List – March 2018

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During March, 11 beats shared 122 checklists to accumulate 680 species from 8 countries; USA, Costa Rica, Serbia, India, Australia, New Zealand, UK and Japan. Gray-headed Albatross – Thalassarche chrysostoma. Buller’s Albatross – Thalassarche bulleri. Black-browed Albatross – Thalassarche melanophris.

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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They found 673 species and advanced the yearly total to 1019. White-capped Albatross – Thalassarche cauta. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Salvin’s Albatross – Thalassarche salvini. Kaikoura–Albatross Encounter pelagic. Royal Albatross – Diomedea epomophora.

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