Hidde Bruinsma
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Another Melanesian rarity found again. Read all about it (and see the first ever photograph) on: www.birdlife.org/news/news/2006/06/becks_petrel.html
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Beck's Petrel rediscovered (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Hidde Bruinsma
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Papuan birder
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Great news!
Now they only have to locate some of the breeding localities, I guess the Solomon and Vanuatu Islands would be the best places to search.
Now they only have to locate some of the breeding localities, I guess the Solomon and Vanuatu Islands would be the best places to search.
cuckooroller
Registered User
I missed this item some how. Good news!
Hidde Bruinsma
Well-known member
It has been rediscovered again. Most definitely this time.
http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2008/03/becks_petrel_rediscovery_ns.html
http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2008/03/becks_petrel_rediscovery_ns.html
Twite
Well-known member
Vectis Birder
Itchy feet
It's fantastic news. In a time where a lot of wildlife news is negative it is always cheering to read of stuff newly discovered, doing well or, as is the case here, re-found after being thought extinct.
Papuan birder
- Lost in the Pacific -
You wonder why that would be a good thing?
Well, thats easy, its much easier to monitore and safeguard the breeding colonies if you know where they are, and if they face any threats its easier to try and do something about it.
Aim also curious to know on what you base that the assumption that they have "done just fine". I also wonder if you have been to the Bismarck Archipelago yourself? if so you would now that rats and other introduced animals are spreading like a fire in this region. There is not many breeding colonies of sea-birds left in the Bismarck Archipelago, most is long gone and the remaning face all sorts of threat as none of them recieve any serious protection.
The fact that it took about 80 years before the bird was rediscovered strongly suggest thats its not a common species, a species that reproduce in a few sites at most and needs to be protected.
Twite
Well-known member
Which is it?
Better rush off and tick it before it becomes extinct. :C
Twite.
Papuan birder
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its much easier to monitore and safeguard the breeding colonies if you know where they are: There is no known breeding localites of the Becks Petrel, if anyone would find one this species would be easier to protect, and monitor its numbers
There is not many breeding colonies of sea-birds left in the Bismarck Archipelago, most is long gone and the remaning face all sorts of threat as none of them recieve any serious protectionBecks Petrel is not the only sea-bird in this region, there is several atolls were species such as frigate birds, boobies, terns etc nest and these is severly threatend. Some of these Islands may support a breeding colony of Becks Petrel, and conservation measures implied to protect Becks Petrel would benefit other sea-birds in closeby areas.
You are missing the point completely, the reason why I think it would be good to find a breeding colony is to find out whatever it is threatend in any way, not so that people know were to go to most easily "tick it off".
rockfowl
Mark Andrews
FYI,
As of 18/19th April - At sea past Bougainville towards New Ireland, Papua New Guinea members of the WildWings group on the Western Pacific Odyssey aboard the Professor Khromov have recorded 11 Beck's Petrels - the sightings with some new observations will be written up and published later.
As of 18/19th April - At sea past Bougainville towards New Ireland, Papua New Guinea members of the WildWings group on the Western Pacific Odyssey aboard the Professor Khromov have recorded 11 Beck's Petrels - the sightings with some new observations will be written up and published later.
rockfowl
Mark Andrews
Richard Klim
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BirdLife: Beck’s pulls in at the petrel station.
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