Sea Bird : Mediterranean (1 Viewer)

[LKB-28]

Hello all;

Grateful for your help again please...

Seen offshore in the Bay of Naples in September...

Many thanks in advance...

Cheers...

 

[KenM]

Clearly a Cory's/Scopoli's Shearwater type...as to a more specific taxon......

cheers

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

Should be Scopoli's on range

 

[phil baber]

Agree with Jan-Paul it should be Scopoli's on range. Without a view of the hand on the underwing, and the extent of white there, it's not possible from the photo to assign specifically. Having just returned from 11 days on Menorca, I noted them all down as Scopoli's, purely on range. I'd do the same for this bird...

 

[LKB-28]

Many thanks for the input...

I'm confused! Is 'Scopoli's Shearwater' an updated name of 'Mediterranean Shearwater' or are they different birds, and is this bird a sub-species of Cory's?

Thanks again...

 

[OlaB]

Hi!

No Mediterranean is the old name for Balearic (Puffinus mauretanicus) and Yelkouan (Puffinus yelkouan) Shearwater before they were split into two species.

Scopolis is indeed a ssp of Cory's but is also about to be split (already been by some I think).

 

[LKB-28]

Hi!

No Mediterranean is the old name for Balearic (Puffinus mauretanicus) and Yelkouan (Puffinus yelkouan) Shearwater before they were split into two species.

Scopolis is indeed a ssp of Cory's but is also about to be split (already been by some I think).

Hello Ola; MANY thanks...

Lee